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The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anywhere on earth introduced by Jack de Manio and John Timpson
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50 Weather; programme news
7.55 South-East News

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jack de Manio
Introduced By:
John Timpson

3: Recording bird sounds Presented by ERIC SIMMS with TERRY GOMPERTZ JOHN BORWICK and PATRICK SELLAR
Produced by ROSEMARY JELLIS
For an information sheet send a large stamped addressed envelope to Bird Sounds, [address removed]

Contributors

Presented By:
Eric Simms
Unknown:
Terry Gompertz
Unknown:
John Borwick
Unknown:
Patrick Sellar
Produced By:
Rosemary Jellis

A Corner for Music by ALBERT CHATTERLEY
23: Dreaming and Dancing (2) (This programme should be tape-recorded)
11.0 Put it in the Oven
PADDY FEENY looks at pottery and cooking
Special guest ZENA SKINNER
Produced by JENYTH WORSLEY (Springboard)
11.20 The Rainbow Bird A story by VANCE PALMER
Poems: 'The Birdcatcher's Boy ' by Thomas Hardy , and ' How to Paint the Portrait of a Bird ' by Jacques Prevert. (Listening and Writing)
11.40 Prospect
Man changes Man
3: Genetic engineering
Compiled by TONY GIBSON
Produced by TOM BUTCHER
12.0 Announcements

Contributors

Music By:
Albert Chatterley
Unknown:
Zena Skinner
Produced By:
Jenyth Worsley
Story By:
Vance Palmer
Unknown:
Thomas Hardy
Unknown:
Jacques Prevert.
Unknown:
Tony Gibson
Produced By:
Tom Butcher

A selection of items from the many broadcasts on BBC radio and television during the past seven days
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON Script by JEAN STROUD
Produced by JOHN HASLAM
(Extended version: Sunday,
4.0 pm)
12.55 Weather; programmenews

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Ellison
Script By:
Jean Stroud
Produced By:
John Haslam

A series in which you meet interesting and unusual people from all walks of life
Like Father, Like
Son Ben Ashurst , of Leigh in Lancashire, runs a thriving maggot farm and is one of the most famous and revered match anglers in Britain. Now his son Kevin is taking over where Dad leaves off.
KEITH MACKLIN talks to a great angling partnership

Contributors

Unknown:
Son Ben Ashurst
Talks:
Keith MacKlin

From the Sixties:
Miss Anya by JOAN O'CONNOR based on a story by ANTON CHEKHOV with Penelope Lee
At 23 Anya came back from Moscow to her beloved steppe -the Russian countryside she had not seen since she was a girl of 13. But 10 years can see many changes ...
Pianist FREDERICK STONE
Guitar played by GEORGE ELLIOTT Produced by BETTY DAVIES

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan O'Connor
Story By:
Anton Chekhov
Unknown:
Penelope Lee
Pianist:
Frederick Stone
Played By:
George Elliott
Produced By:
Betty Davies
Anya:
Penelope Lee
Kostya, the porter:
Wilfrid Carter
Sergei:
David Spenser
Grandfather Vorodin:
Norman Shelley
Aunt Dasha:
Hester Paton-Brown
Polinka:
Patricia Leventon
Lisaveta:
Margaret Wolfit
Doctor Osnipov:
Gordon Faith

A radio correspondence column in which listeners add their comments to some of the views expressed in last Friday's Any Questions' from Madeley College of Education, Staffordshire
Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Produced by MICHAEL BOWEN

Contributors

Introduced By:
David Jacobs
Produced By:
Michael Bowen

True stories of courage, determination, ingenuity - and luck by MARGARET POTTER
2: Flight from Gwalior
In January 1857 a young English bride settled in central India where her husband was Chaplain to the military forces. Within the year Mrs Coopland was a widow, having escaped massacre during the Indian Mutiny. with Marah Stohl as Mrs Coopland
Narrative and other characters by GEOFFREY BANKS
Produced by TREVOR HILL

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Potter
Unknown:
Mrs Coopland
Unknown:
Marah Stohl
Unknown:
Mrs Coopland
Produced By:
Trevor Hill

The news magazine that sums up your day-and starts off your evening
Including the latest news, the evening press, what's on tonight, the City, and the people and talking points of the day. Presented by William Hardcastle and Steve Race
5.50 Weather; programme news
5.55 South-East News

Contributors

Presented By:
William Hardcastle
Presented By:
Steve Race

A spontaneous discussion by THE RT HON EMANUEL SHIN WELL, MP ESMOND WRIGHT , MP LUDOVIC KENNEDY
JACQUELINE MACKENZIE
Chairman DAVID JACOBS
Produced by MICHAEL BOWEN from The Ballerup Hall, East Kilbride, Lanarkshire

Contributors

Unknown:
Esmond Wright
Unknown:
Ludovic Kennedy
Unknown:
Jacqueline MacKenzie
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Produced By:
Michael Bowen

6: Wilfred Owen
1893-1918
Another in the series of portraits of some brilliantly gifted people who died young
Ronald Pickup as Wilfred Owen with Written and narrated by PATRIC DICKINSON
Produced by HALLAM TENNYSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Wilfred Owen
Unknown:
Ronald Pickup
Unknown:
Wilfred Owen
Unknown:
Patric Dickinson
Produced By:
Hallam Tennyson
Harold Owen:
Wilfrid Carter
Edmund Blunden:
Godfrey Kenton
Osbert Sitwell:
Peter Pratt

Just over a year has passed since General de Gaulle ceased to be President of France.
IAN MCINTYRE has been visiting France for Analysis. In tonight's programme he sets the de Gaulle era in perspective and examines some of the changes of style and substance that have taken place there since Georges Pompidou stepped into the biggest pair of political shoes in Europe. Produced by EDITH TEMPLE-ROBERTS
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Georges Pompidou
Produced By:
Edith Temple-Roberts

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