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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 Sports Desk including the latest news and comment from Mexico on last night's matches in the World Cup Quarter-finals
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50 Weather; programme news
7.55 South-East News
8.0 The News and more of Today
8.49 Today's Papers

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jack de Manio

Ken Sykora , Zena Skinner Gordon Clyde , George Luce and who knows who take a lively look round and meet some of the people for whom this is a special week. Produced by SUSAN ERLBECK DENNIS LOWER and JACK SINGLETON

Contributors

Unknown:
Ken Sykora
Unknown:
Zena Skinner
Unknown:
Gordon Clyde
Unknown:
George Luce
Produced By:
Susan Erlbeck
Unknown:
Jack Singleton

Allons-y!
27: En route!
Written by EMILE HARVEN
(An audiovisual programme)
10.45 Interlude
10.47 Nous Voici !
27: Planète 217, part 3
K9 + Dupuis = Rayon O? Written by MICHEL FAURE (Third-year French)
11.1 Singing Together
Introduced by WILLIAM APPLEBY

Contributors

Written By:
Emile Harven
Unknown:
Nous Voici
Written By:
Michel Faure
Introduced By:
William Appleby

by RAY GOSLING 3: Leicester
' think if I had to show an American in one day what England was all about I'd take him or her to Leicester. It has all of old England, our heritage, well kept and cared for but without the olde charm of a Canterbury .... '

Contributors

Unknown:
Ray Gosling

Thewell-known man-about-town and connoisseur of the fine arts indulges his eccentric taste for detection
10: The Piscatorial Farce of the Stolen Stomach read by JOHN STANDING adapted by NEVILLE TELLER from the stories Of DOROTHY L. SAYERS
Produced by MARGARET ETALL

Contributors

Read By:
John Standing
Adapted By:
Neville Teller
Stories Of:
Dorothy L. Sayers
Produced By:
Margaret Etall

Around Our Shore 3: Goonhilly Down
JOHNNY morris visits Goonhilly Down Communications Centre and makes a phone call to Tokyo.
(Exploration Earth: radiovision)
2.29 The Music Box by GORDON REYNOLDS Singer mari GRIFFITH
2.30 Getting a Job
' A Real Good Smile short story by bill NAUGHTON (Speak)
2.40 Movement, Mime, and Music 2 by GLYN HARRIS for the 9-11-year-olds

Contributors

Unknown:
Johnny Morris
Singer:
Gordon Reynolds
Music By:
Glyn Harris

John Halifax, Gentleman by MRS CRAIK : adapted for radio in 10 parts by RAY HANDY 5: Another Brush ivith Squire Brithwood - and a joyful birth and its tragic sequel
Read by JOHN BADDELEY
Produced by PAUL HUMPHREYS

Contributors

Unknown:
Mrs Craik
Read By:
John Baddeley
Produced By:
Paul Humphreys

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 David Jessel and Steve Race

Contributors

Presented By:
David Jessel

by CHRISTOPHER BIDMEAD with Angela Pleasence Dinsdale Landen and Rolf Lefebvre 3: Zeus
In which Hilary meets an agent who is not what he seems, and together they climb a bridge to rob a computer.
Produced by JOHN TYDEMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Bidmead
Unknown:
Angela Pleasence
Unknown:
Dinsdale Landen
Unknown:
Rolf Lefebvre
Produced By:
John Tydeman
Hilary:
Angela Pleasence
Beresford:
Rolf Lefebvre
Jean:
Hilda Kriseman
Mortimer:
Dinsdale Landen

The game that turns the pages of show-biz history with ROY HUDD , DIANE HART
GRAHAM STARK, ALAN DELL
Chairman Jack Watson
This is a nostalgic programme recalling voices, songs, and music from the past with the emphasis on comedy. Jack Watson , as a change from his tough roles, presides over a changing panel of personalities (and a mystery guest). Programme devised and compiled by DENIS GIFFORD Produced by JOHN DYAS

Contributors

Unknown:
Roy Hudd
Unknown:
Diane Hart
Unknown:
Jack Watson
Unknown:
Jack Watson
Unknown:
Denis Gifford
Produced By:
John Dyas

by ERNA J. VATCHAGHANDY with Zohra Segal , Usha Joshi Saeed Jaffrey , Roshan Seth
The generation gap is a familiar theme in English drama. But this contemporary Indian play - the first to be written in English by an Indian woman - voices a new consciousness of the conflict of modern values with tradition in the richly cosmopolitan society of Bombay, where its staging by the Theatre Group in 1966 drew record crowds.
It is set in the family home of a proud Gujarati mother whose fiercely possessive love of her son and grandson and hostility towards her unstable daughter's longings for a different life lead to tragedy. Three of Michael's friends:
Adapted and produced by MARGARET ETALL
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Erna J. Vatchaghandy
Unknown:
Zohra Segal
Unknown:
Usha Joshi
Unknown:
Saeed Jaffrey
Unknown:
Roshan Seth
Produced By:
Margaret Etall
Shanti Shah:
Zohra Segal
Gita Dyer, her daughter:
Usha Joshi
Dr Suresh Shah, her son:
Roshan Seth
Michael Dyer, Gita's husband:
Saeed Jaffrey
Nurse Betty Marsh, engaged to Suresh:
Sonia Fraser
Janey:
Jo Manning Wilson
Joe:
George Little
Dot:
Heather Emmanuel
Keshav, an old family servant:
Mohan Singh
Vijay, Gita's son:
Jo Manning Wilson

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