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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
7.50-8.0 Weather, information and news for your area

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jack de Manio
Introduced By:
John Timpson

Michael Foot , MP presents a selection of prose and music which has influenced his life and his political thought: before an invited audience at Broadcasting House, London.
Reader SEAN BARRETT
Produced by RICHARD KEEN

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Foot
Reader:
Sean Barrett
Produced By:
Richard Keen

presenting Bill McCue in Its a Fine Thins to Sing with his guest SHEENA HOUSTON BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA leader IAN TYRE conductor IAIN SUTHERLAND
Produced by EDDIE FRASER

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill McCue
Leader:
Ian Tyre
Conductor:
Iain Sutherland
Produced By:
Eddie Fraser

by STEWART FARRAR with Simon Lack
When MacKenzie got his car back from the garage in Corinth, nothing appeared different about it. Nothing anyone would have noticed, anyway. Dugald MacKenzie. ..SIMON LACK Paula LORNA ROSSLYN Bill Thornby. ANTHONY BROTHERS Pierre Lamotte .... JOHN BENTLEY Loukia MARGARET WOLFIT Cafe Proprietor.......HECTOR ROSS Produced by DAVID GEARY

Contributors

Unknown:
Stewart Farrar
Unknown:
Simon Lack
Unknown:
When MacKenzie
Unknown:
Dugald MacKenzie.
Unknown:
Paula Lorna Rosslyn
Unknown:
Bill Thornby.
Unknown:
Pierre Lamotte
Unknown:
John Bentley
Unknown:
Loukia Margaret Wolfit
Unknown:
Hector Ross
Produced By:
David Geary

WALTER TAPLIN introduces 25 minutes devoted to listeners' own views on current issues Please write to Listening Post. BBC, Broadcasting House. London W1A 1AA. Or telephone [number removed].
South West VHF: see Variations, col

Contributors

Introduces:
Walter Taplin

A panel game controlled (?) by Nicholas Parsons in which
Kenneth Williams , Derek Nimmo Clement Freud , Sheila Hancock try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER
Produced by DAVID HATCH †
(Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pm) (Derek Nimmo is in ' Charlie Girl ' at the Adelphi Theatre, London)
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Sheila Hancock
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Produced By:
David Hatch
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo

by H. F. Rubinstein
A series of four inventions based on well-known themes of literature or history.
In "Shylock's End" the author speculates on the life of Shakespeare's characters some time after the end of the play we know.
(Repeated: Friday, 7.30 pm)
(Leonard Fenton is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Co)

Contributors

Writer:
H. F. Rubinstein
Lutenist:
David Channon
Produced By:
Charles Lefeaux
The Juggler:
Andrew Sachs
Antonio:
Hector Ross
Lorenzo:
Malcolm Hayes
Jessica:
Valerie Kirkeright
Tubal:
Leonard Fenton
Nerissa:
Kathleen Helme
Gratiano:
Clifford Norgate
Shylock:
John Gabriel
Portia:
Margaret Wolfit

with Patrick Allen as Chief Inspector Roger West
Sarah Lawson as his wife Janet While West is investigating the Lobo crimes. Janet is suffering mental agony at the hands of the mysterious woman. 2: Knife in the Dark

Contributors

Unknown:
Patrick Allen
Unknown:
Roger West
Unknown:
Sarah Lawson
Unknown:
Janet While West

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 bv
William Hardcastle and Derek Cooper
5.50-6.0 Weather, information and news for your area

Contributors

Unknown:
William Hardcastle
Unknown:
Derek Cooper

starring Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler in A Bird in the Hand with NORMA RONALD
RONALD BADDILEY , JOHN GRAHAM Written by EDWARD TAYLOR and JOHN GRAHAM
Produced by EDWARD TAYLOR

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Murdoch
Unknown:
Deryck Guyler
Unknown:
Norma Ronald
Unknown:
Ronald Baddiley
Unknown:
John Graham
Written By:
Edward Taylor
Written By:
John Graham
Produced By:
Edward Taylor

The story of the Pilgrim Fathers, their voyage in the Mayflower in 1620, and their beginnings in the New World. played by members of the BBC DRAMA REPERTORY COMPANY
Psalms from the Ainsworth Psalter (1612) recorded by THE NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY ALUMNI CHORUS
Written by FRANCIS DILLON Produced by JACK AMOS

Contributors

Written By:
Francis Dillon
Produced By:
Jack Amos

An examination of student response to contemporary America
'Compiled by DILIP HIRO from personal accounts - recorded at Columbia, Barnard, Wellesley, Harvard, and Massachusetts Universities-of the experience that triggered participation in the National Students' Strike of May 1970 in which 450 Universities and Colleges took part. I began thinking - well maybe Capitalism isn'so hot, though I still have the same gut reaction against socialism ... Produced bv CHARLES PARKER (from Birmingham!
(' No one need be surprised ' - Alan Rudrum talking to Robert MacNeil : Thursday, 9.0 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Rudrum
Unknown:
Robert MacNeil

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