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The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anywhere on earth introduced by John Timpson Deputy editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE Editor MARSHALL STEWART
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
8.40 Today's Papers

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Alastair Osborne
Unknown:
Editor Marshall Stewart

and George Luce
Ken Sykora , Zena Skinner Gordon Clyde 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 , JACK SINGLETON and ELIZABETH SMITH

Contributors

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

BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE BRETT conducted by HANS-HUBERT SCHONZELER and ROSEMARY BRETT DAVIES and MARIE COOPER (two pianos)
Introduced by JON CURLE

Contributors

Leader:
Maurice Brett
Conducted By:
Hans-Hubert Schonzeler
Conducted By:
Rosemary Brett Davies
Conducted By:
Marie Cooper
Introduced By:
Jon Curle

A series of eleven programmes in which great short stories (sometimes abridged) are read by leading artists. 2: A Stolen Letter by WILKIE COLLINS
Read by Norman Shelley
Produced by TERENCE TILLER

Contributors

Unknown:
Wilkie Collins
Read By:
Norman Shelley
Produced By:
Terence Tiller

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 Hafdcastle and Steve Race
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50 Weather; programmenews
5.55 South-East News

Contributors

Presented By:
William Hafdcastle
Unknown:
Derek Lewis
Unknown:
Andrew Boyle

A light-hearted look at life in which Al airs the views of the silent majority on the subject of Law and Order
Vocal reflections by JULIE ROGERS
Musical illustrations by MAX HARRIS AND HIS
AMAZING DANCING BAND

Contributors

Unknown:
Julie Rogers
Illustrations By:
Max Harris

from the novel
A Beauty for Inspector West by JOHN CREASEY a serial in sevendramatised parts by MAURICE TRAVERS
Animosity between Roger West and Turnbull is not Jielping to trap the killer of a local beauty queen.
2: Killer- -with a Question Mark
Produced by JOHN BROWELL

Contributors

Unknown:
John Creasey
Unknown:
Maurice Travers
Produced By:
John Browell
Chief Inspector Roger West:
Patrick Allen
his wife Janet:
Sarah Lawson
Sir Guy Chatworth:
Maurice Hedley
Det-Insp Turnbull:
Patrick Westwood
Sgt Dalb:
George Layton
The Rev Charles Millsom:
John Gabriel

The game that turns the pages of show biz history with TESSIE OSHEA. CARBEW ROBINSON DAVID JACOBS. MAX HARRIS Chairman JACK WATSON
Programme devised and compiled by DENIS GIFFORD Produced by JOHN DYAS

Contributors

Unknown:
Tessie Oshea.
Unknown:
Carbew Robinson
Unknown:
David Jacobs.
Unknown:
Max Harris
Unknown:
Chairman Jack Watson
Unknown:
Denis Gifford
Produced By:
John Dyas

or A Tragedy Rehearsed by RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN with Derek Godfrey , Frank Wylie Nigel Lambert , Penelope Lee Deryck Guyler. John Justin
OUT author offers, in these motley scenes,
A slight remonstrance to the drama's queens
(from the prologue to the original production: 1779)
Special sound by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Produced by ROBERT CUSHMAN (Graham Crowden is appearing at the Mermaid Theatre; Frank Wvlie is in Who Killed Santa Claus ' at the Piccadilly Theatre, London)
(' The Critic ' - ' The wittiest play in English ': page 9) S.58 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Unknown:
Derek Godfrey
Unknown:
Frank Wylie
Unknown:
Nigel Lambert
Unknown:
Penelope Lee
Unknown:
Deryck Guyler.
Unknown:
John Justin
Produced By:
Robert Cushman
Sir Fretful Plagiary:
Graham Crowden
Puff:
Derek Godfrey
Dangle:
Nigel Lambert
Sneer:
Frank Wylie
Under Prompter:
Christopher Bidmead
Mrs Dangle:
Jo Manning Wilson
Characters in the Tragedy:Lord Burleigh:
Clifford Norgate
Governor of Tilbury Fort:
Deryck Guyler
Earl of Leicester:
John Rye
Sir Walter Raleigh:
Geoffrey Collins
Sir Christopher Hatton:
Clifford Norgate
Master of the Horse:
Ronald Herdman
Don Ferolo Whiskerandos:
John Justin
Beefeater:
Sean Arnold
Justice:
Ronald Herdman
Son:
Kerry Francis
Constable:
Peter Yapp
Thames:
John Rye
Tilburina:
Penelope Lee
Confidant:
Marcia Warren
Justice's Lady:
Marcia Warren
First Niece:
Jo Manning Wilson
Second Niece:
Deborah Dallas

by CONRAD VOSS BARK abridged by NEVILLE TELLER Read by Richard Bebb
' The most concentrated drug ever produced. Only a pound or so in London's water supply would affect eight million people.'
'And a factory in Libya is producing this stuff? ' Morrison asked. I take it there's no doubt about it? '
None If Shepherd said they're producing it, they're producing it.'
Produced by JOHN CARDY
(First of 15 instalments)

Contributors

Unknown:
Conrad Voss Bark
Abridged By:
Neville Teller
Read By:
Richard Bebb
Produced By:
John Cardy

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