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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

2: The Battered Baby and his parents
What sort of parent uses violence on a baby? Can it be predicted which parent will become a ' batterer '?
DR HENRY KEMPE , Professor Of Paediatrics in the University of Colorado, who first used the phrase ' battered baby,' discusses his work with a Consultant Paediatrician and three mothers.
Produced by BARBARA CROWTHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Henry Kempe
Produced By:
Barbara Crowther

LONDON STUDIO STRINGS led by MORRIS TAYLOR conducted by JOHN BARKER and JAMES HUGHES and HAROLD RICH (harmonica and piano)
Introduced by JON CURLE

Contributors

Unknown:
Morris Taylor
Conducted By:
John Barker
Conducted By:
James Hughes
Conducted By:
Harold Rich
Introduced By:
Jon Curle

Five mountaineering stories adapted by keith hindell 4: The Eim-rwatid by HEINRJëH UARRER
Reader mai.coi.m HAYES
The first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger: Harrer and his three companions climb the most dangerous cliff in Europe

Contributors

Adapted By:
Keith Hindell

Nearly half a million Irish people live in London. MONTY MODLYN investigates the life of the Irish community.
He reports from the Irish Centre, Irish pubs in Camden Town, the Irish Girls' Hostel. The Gaelic Games, and the largest Roman Catholic Church in Kilburn.
Produced by RICHARD GILBERT

Contributors

Produced By:
Richard Gilbert

by D. K. BROSTER abridged for radio in eight parts by ian WISHART Reader David Steuart
1: The Broken Claymore
The year is 1752. Ewen Cameron of Ardroy has returned to Scotland with his wife and two sons from exile in France, following the disaster at Culloden. He is living quietly on his estate when a visitor arrives.
Produced by GORDON EMSLIE (from Scotland)

Contributors

Unknown:
D. K. Broster
Reader:
David Steuart
Unknown:
Ewen Cameron
Produced By:
Gordon Emslie

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
5.56 Weather; programme news
5.55 South-East News

Contributors

Presented By:
William Hardcastle
Presented By:
Steve Race

by HENRY CECIL adapted for radio from the TV series by RICHARD WARING starring Richard Briers 9: With Use of Bath by MYLES RUDGE
This week's guest stars
Deryck Guyler as Butler Nicholas Phipps as the Judge

Contributors

Unknown:
Henry Cecil
Unknown:
Richard Briers
Unknown:
Myles Rudge
Unknown:
Deryck Guyler
Unknown:
Butler Nicholas Phipps

A contemporary review puncturing the pundits and deflating the diehards
Shots fired by PETER REEVES abetted by ELIZABETH MORGAN BARRY CRYER. BILL WALLIS
With THE MAX HARRIS GROUP Script by PETER REEVES and TERRANCE DICKS
Produced by JOHN DYAS

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Reeves
Unknown:
Elizabeth Morgan
Unknown:
Barry Cryer.
Script By:
Peter Reeves
Script By:
Terrance Dicks
Produced By:
John Dyas

Look how the world is made

The second of an occasional series about people who fought for a revolution in sexual morality.
The strangely institutionalised legal persecution of homosexuals might still be fully operative but for such hesitant pioneer work as was done by people like Havelock Ellis.
Your class of clerk, attorney. writer, literary executor and adviser, poison pen, counsel, publisher, and doctor, played by some of the above and Anthony Brothers with a short conclusion by H. Montgomery Hyde.

Contributors

Writer:
Arthur Calder-Marshall
Producer:
R. D. Smith
Narrator:
Anthony Jacobs
John Addington Symonds:
Raf de la Torre
Henry Labouchere:
Antony Viccars
Havelock Ellis:
John Richmond
John Sweeney:
Kevin Flood
Edith Ellis:
Nicolette Bernard
Bernard Shaw:
Denys Hawthorne
Matthews:
Ian Lubbock
Sir Charles Hall:
Geoffrey Wincott
Inspector Arrow:
John Dearth

by VACLAV HAVEL translated from the Czech by VERA BLACKWELL with Maurice Denham as Vavak and John Gabriel as Machon
A Czech author opens his door to what appears to be a travelling salesman, who becomes more and more menacing until he reveals his true identity.
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX

Contributors

Unknown:
Vaclav Havel
Unknown:
Vera Blackwell
Unknown:
Maurice Denham
Unknown:
John Gabriel
Produced By:
Charles Lefeaux

Discoveries, inventions, and news from the world of science and technology.
Each week New Worlds brings you the people whose achievements are changing your way of life
Produced by LAURIE JOHN
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Produced By:
Laurie John

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