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The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anywhere on earth introduced by Jack de Manio
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50 9.0 Weather. information and news for your area

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jack de Manio

The Way Our Fathers Lived
A visit to the new Weald and Downland Open Air Museum. West Dean, Chichester where reassembled traditional buildings show how country-dwellers used to live and work. Introduced by DEREK JONES Produced by DILYS BREESE (from Bristol)

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Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Produced By:
Dilys Breese

7.0-10.30
A new shoe-string musical about an experiment in permissiveness which has somewhat surprising consequences for all concerned.
Written by ELIZABETH HOWARD with music composed and played by TREVOR HOLROYD
Produced by ALAN AYCKBOURN (from Manchester)

Contributors

Written By:
Elizabeth Howard
Played By:
Trevor Holroyd
Produced By:
Alan Ayckbourn

by Joan O'Connor
with George Coulouris, Martin Jarvis and Marian Diamond as Katie

Mr Carson thinks that a woman's place is in the home, and that her only duty is to her husband. Katie, his daughter, wants something more from life and is ready to fight for it.

Contributors

Writer:
Joan O'Connor
Producer:
Jane Graham
Katie:
Marian Diamond
Herbert Carson:
George Coulouris
Millie Carson:
Cecile Chevreau
Nannie:
Margot Boyd
Jenkins:
Barrie Shore
Police Constable:
Ronald Forfar
Enid McClellan:
Jo Manning Wilson
Hughie Sterndale:
Nigel Lambert
Mr McClellan:
Charles Simon
Tom Edgeworth:
Martin Jarvis
Mrs Hackshaw:
Madi Hedd
Emmie:
Anne Woodward
Fred:
Edward Kelsey

From location shots in Tangier to the trial recording on the studio floor in London, COLIN NICOL traces the progress of this forthcoming TV series on BBC1, starring Kieron Moore with Cyril Luckham , Ursula Howells , and Susan Sheers.
He talks to key members of the production team, the actors, and the technicians, and takes you behind the scenes of this series which begins on BBC1 on Monday, 14 September. Produced by ALEC REID

Contributors

Unknown:
Colin Nicol
Unknown:
Kieron Moore
Unknown:
Cyril Luckham
Unknown:
Ursula Howells
Unknown:
Susan Sheers.
Produced By:
Alec Reid

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
5.50-6.0 Weather, information and news for your area

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Presented By:
William Hardcastle
Presented By:
Steve Race

Jimmy Clitheroe in Taken to the Cleaners with PETER SINCLAIR
PATRICIA BURKE , DANNY ROSS DIANA DAY, TONY MELODY COLIN EDWYNN
Written by JAMES CASEY and FRANK ROSCOE
Produced by JAMES CASEY
(Sundays broadcast: Radio 2)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jimmy Clitheroe
Unknown:
Peter Sinclair
Unknown:
Patricia Burke
Unknown:
Danny Ross
Written By:
James Casey
Written By:
Frank Roscoe
Produced By:
James Casey

(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Brian Hayles
Daniel Archer:
Edgar Harrison
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Lilian Nicholson:
Elizabeth Marlowe
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
John Tregorran:
Philip Morant
Jack Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville
Lady Isabel Lander:
Mary Wimbush
Hugo Barnaby:
Michael McClain
Ralph Bellamy:
Jack Holloway
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux

by BRUCE BEEBY with Mark Edwards , Reg Lye
' We were walking home from school engaged in a highly intellectual conversation about two smashing sheilas in the third year when we saw this yeller dog sprawled in my gateway, looking as if he owned it '
Produced by BETTY DAVIES
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.0 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Bruce Beeby
Unknown:
Mark Edwards
Unknown:
Reg Lye
Produced By:
Betty Davies
Lou:
Mark Edwards
Freddie:
R Miller
Mother:
Madi Hedd
Bill:
Reg Lye
Actor:
Woe-Eye Brucebeeby
Porky:
Kerry Francis

With JULIAN MITCHELL This week:
Alexander the Great In the light of Mary Renault's latest novel Fire from Heaven and an illustrated biography by Peter Green
The Recovery of Europe (1945 to the year 2000) by Richard Mayne
Geoffrey Grigson 's Notes from an Odd Country, a celebration of his second home in a French village (published tomorrow)
Farewell to the King, a strange novel by Pierre Schoendoerffer , set in Borneo
Produced by JOCELYN FERGUSON (Repeated: Thursday, 3.45 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Julian Mitchell
Unknown:
Peter Green
Unknown:
Richard Mayne
Unknown:
Geoffrey Grigson
Novel By:
Pierre Schoendoerffer
Produced By:
Jocelyn Ferguson

Conducting isn'something that depends on the precision of certain muscles - it depends on the exercise of the whole person Colin Davis , who takes over as joint artistic director of Covent Garden next year, talks to Bernard Levin about his career as a conductor and about the factors that have helped to make him a ' whole person.' Produced by ANNE DUNCAN -JONES
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Colin Davis
Unknown:
Bernard Levin
Produced By:
Anne Duncan

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