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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
7.41 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
8.40 Today's Papers

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jack de Manio
Introduced By:
John Timpson

Foreign Correspondent
A BBC Correspondent talks on a topic of interest and importance in the immediate past, present, or future
11.0 Helping Things Move - 11 by HARRY ARMSTRONG (Junior Science)
11.2* Movement and Music 1 by PENNY WHITTAM
The story of Noah with music by Scarlatti, arranged by PAMELA KENWAY
Repeated: Thursday, 9.55 am)
11.41 Contemporary History
7: The Civil Rights Movement in the USA
Written by JEREMY GIBSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Armstrong
Arranged By:
Pamela Kenway
Written By:
Jeremy Gibson

Music Workshop 2
Written by WILLIAM MURPHY
2.20 Poetry and Jazz Certainties
VERNON SCANNELL introduces some poems to music by the MICHAEL GARRICK TRIO with diana OLSSON and STEPHEN THORNE
(Books, Plays, Poems)
2.45 Hedgehogs by CLIO MATHESON. (Nature)

Contributors

Written By:
William Murphy
Introduces:
Vernon Scannell
Unknown:
Diana Olsson
Unknown:
Stephen Thorne

Hominy and Lemonade by JAMES BARRY
A Jamaican village boy starts to rebel against the conservatism and the overpowering affection of the grandmother who has brought him up.
GEORGE WEBB , VALERIE MURRAY NIK ZARAN , SIOBHAN QUINLAN
Produced by ELWYN EVANS

Contributors

Unknown:
James Barry
Unknown:
George Webb
Unknown:
Valerie Murray
Unknown:
Nik Zaran
Unknown:
Siobhan Quinlan
Produced By:
Elwyn Evans
Cranny Joe:
Carmen Munroe
Sonny:
Elizabeth Morgan
BOUgSl e:
Thomas Baptiste
RiCO:
John Hamilton

1: The Rodgers and Hart Partnership with Richard Rodgers himself, members of bis family, and PHILIP LEAViTT , the friend who introduced him to Lorenz Hart.
Narrator JOHN DUNN
Written by GEOFFROY MILLAIS Produced, with gramophone records, by MICHAEL BELL
(From operettas to Hair - the Rodgers and Hart Partnership: see page 13. Part 2, The Rodgers and Hammerstein Partnership: 1 July)

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Rodgers
Unknown:
Philip Leavitt
Narrator:
Lorenz Hart.
Narrator:
John Dunn
Written By:
Geoffroy Millais
Unknown:
Michael Bell

The thriller by KEITH ROBERTS abridged in six parts by NEVILLE TELLER read by FRANK DUNCAN 5: Visa."t'r
Living rough, waging constant guerrilla warfare against the Furies, Bill and his companions know they are walking a tightrope ...

Contributors

Unknown:
Keith Roberts
Unknown:
Neville Teller
Read By:
Frank Duncan

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

(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)

Contributors

Written by:
Bruno Milna
Daniel Archer:
Edgar Harrison
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Jack Archer:
Denis Folwell
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Lilian Nicholson:
Elizabeth Marlowe
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Christine Johnson:
Lesley Saweard
Laura Archer:
Gwenda Wilson
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Carol Tregorran:
Anne Cullen
John Tregorran:
Philip Morant
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Jack Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville
Harry Cobb:
Charles Leno
Lady Isabel Lander:
Mary Wimbush
Nora Salt:
Julia Mark
Zebedee Tring:
Graham Rigby
Hugo Barnaby:
Michael McClain

A Matter of Life or Else by REX HI KNITS
Late at night Dr John Newton was called out to attend an accident case. A life hung in the balance - but whose?
Produced bv BETTY DAVIES
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.0 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr John Newton
Unknown:
Betty Davies
Dr John Newton:
George Hagan
Dave Stevens:
Bruce Beeby
Beppo Vicenti:
Andrew Sachs
Frank:
John Rye
Larry:
Kerry Francis
Joe:
Clifford Nokgate
Mrs Vine, Newton's house-keeper:
Margot Boyd
Mr Webb:
Nigel Lambert
Mrs Webb:
Patricia Gallimorc
The Vicar:
Clifford Norgate

A weekly programme about books and writers introduced by KENNETH ALLSOP kellow CHESNEY talks about his new book The Victorian Underworld
FREDERIC RAPHAEL On John O Ham who died earlier this year and whose last novel Lovey Childs is published this week irving WARDLE reviews Volume One (Ploys Pleasant and Plays Vnpleasantt in the new collected edition of Bernard Shaw and other new books including Allie Darling by Bill Naughton , a further instalment in the life of the Cockney Don Juan
Produced by ALAN haydock
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.45 pm)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Kenneth Allsop
Unknown:
Frederic Raphael
Unknown:
John O Ham
Unknown:
Lovey Childs
Unknown:
Bernard Shaw
Unknown:
Allie Darling
Unknown:
Bill Naughton
Unknown:
Don Juan
Produced By:
Alan Haydock

A weekly look at the present plight and the future shape of town and country
Compiled and introduced by NICHOLAS TAYLOR
The Test and the Solent: will water-based industry drive out water-based recreationt
Britain's finest trout stream, the Hampshire Test, is threatened by plans for water extraction. The Solent. Britain's favourite yacht harbour, is threatened by plans for a major new city. How can waterways which attract such conflicting interests survive to satisfy all of them,
The programme includes GERALD SMART, County Planning Officer of Hampshire, SIDNEY vowles , refinery manager for Esso at Fawley. ALLAN MCCULLOCH Of Colin Buchanan and Partners, who produced the first plan for the new city. and MARTIN muncaster , newsreader and fisherman. in conversation with residents of the Test Valley. Produced by LEONIE COHN
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Introduced By:
Nicholas Taylor
Unknown:
Sidney Vowles
Unknown:
Colin Buchanan
Unknown:
Martin Muncaster
Produced By:
Leonie Cohn

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