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The News
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

Up the Airy Mountain by KON FRASER ,
Third of four morning plays about people and their illusions 'They'llcatch you -those little men And they'll hurl you down the mountain, like an old boulder in the path of a volcanic eruption....'
With JOHN GABRIEL
DEBORAH DALLAS, BRIAN HEWLETT Produced by GERRY JONES

Contributors

Unknown:
Airy Mountain
Unknown:
John Gabriel
Produced By:
Gerry Jones
Sidney Flitch:
Harold Kasket
Bervl Flitch:
Anne Jameson
Mark Tarragon:
Sean Arnold
Jim:
Ronald Herdman

A medical magazine introduced by JOAN YORKE and including:
Medicine in Europe - 1: RICHARD JOKEL describes the Dutch health services
Off to a good start: DONALD NORFOLK explains why he thinks cold baths are a tonic Specialist in the Studio: a GP answers listeners' questions Produced by THENA HESHEL †

Contributors

Introduced By:
Joan Yorke
Unknown:
Richard Jokel
Produced By:
Thena Heshel

for the Feast of Corpus Christi from Belmont Abbey, Hereford Principal Celebrant and Preacher DOM ROBERT RICHARDSON Abbot of Belmont
Readings: Exodus 24, vv 3-8; Hebrews 9, vv 11-15; St Mark 14. vv 12-16, and 22-26 Gloria, Sanctus: English Unison Mass (Gregory Murray ) Agnus Dei (Plainsong)
Ecce Panis Angelorum (Plainsong)
Where is love and loving kindness (Alan Rees )
Music directed by DOM ALAN REES and BERIC WILLIAMS
The action of the Mass described by FR JOHN STAPLETON

Contributors

Unknown:
Dom Robert Richardson
Unknown:
Gregory Murray
Unknown:
Alan Rees
Directed By:
Dom Alan Rees
Directed By:
Beric Williams
Unknown:
Fr John Stapleton

by ANNE BRONTË: abridged in 10 instalments by NAN MACDONALD Reader David Mahlowe
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is almost two novels in one. It's a story within a story, with two entirely different sets of characters. The link between them is the tenant herself, the mysterious Mrs Graham. In the main story a young gentleman farmer, Gilbert Markham , describes events in letters to his sister's husband.
Part 1: Which Introduces Gilbert Markham , his Family, and Neighbours
Produced by TREVOR HILL
(Emily Bronte -Whom the Gods Loved- Friday, 8.45 pm)

Contributors

Reader:
David Mahlowe
Unknown:
Wildfell Hall
Unknown:
Mrs Graham.
Unknown:
Gilbert Markham
Unknown:
Gilbert Markham
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 Derek Cooper
5.50 Weather; programme news
5.55 South-East News

Contributors

Presented By:
William Hardcastle
Presented By:
Derek Cooper

(Repeated: Friday, 1.30 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Edward J. Mason
Daniel Archer:
Edgar Harrison
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Jack Archer:
Denis Folwell
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Lilian:
Elizabeth Marlowe
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Paul Johnson:
Leslie Dunn
Christine:
Lesley Saweard
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Carol Tregorran:
Anne Cullen
John Tregorran:
Philip Morant
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Polly Perks:
Hilary Newcombe
Jack Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Fred Barratt:
Tommy Duggan

to appreciate the special ironic quality of Jewish humour because it's now so universal that it doesn'look Jewish any more. And that surely is the most ironic Jewish joke of them all ....
A programme written and narrated by TONY ASPLER With MIRIAM MARGOLYES
HAROLD KASKET , JOHN GABRIEL JEFFREY SEGAL
Diner: Waiter, this lobster you've brought me has only got one claw.'
Waiter: ' So maybe it was in a fight.'
Diner: ' So maybe you'll bring me the winnerT '
Produced by PAUL STEPHENSON
(Sold on Jewish jokes: p 16)

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Aspler
Unknown:
Miriam Margolyes
Unknown:
Harold Kasket
Unknown:
John Gabriel
Unknown:
Jeffrey Segal
Produced By:
Paul Stephenson

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

Discoveries, inventions, and news from the world of science and technology.
Each week PAUL VAUGHAN brings you the people whose achievements are changing your way of life
Producer STEPHEN HEDGES
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Unknown:
Stephen Hedges

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