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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

Time and Tune
1: Come to the Party
Presented by JOHN CAMBURN Written by JOHN EDWARDS Edited and produced by DOUGLAS COOMBES
11.20 Beginnings by MARGERY MORRIS
Narrated by BARRY FOSTER Produced by DAVID LYTTLE (Man)
11.40 Fenlands: Bedford Level by ROBIN BURTON
First of ten weekly programmes on The Landscape of Britain
Series produced and edited by ALEX HUNTER. (Geography)

Contributors

Presented By:
John Camburn
Written By:
John Edwards
Produced By:
Douglas Coombes
Unknown:
Margery Morris
Produced By:
David Lyttle
Unknown:
Robin Burton
Edited By:
Alex Hunter.

The Tailor and the Bogle: a folk tale retold by LEILA DAVIES (Living Language)
2.20 Poetry Corner
Left, Right, Left, Right
With JEAN ROGERS , MALCOLM TIERNEY , and JON ROLLASON
Produced by DICKON REED
2.30 Unos minutos nada mds 1: Asesinato en la granja
Written by HARRY LAWSON
(For secondary school pupils in their third year of Spanish)
2.40 Learning about Life 1: Who Am I?
Introduced by JOHN STOCKBRIDGE

Contributors

Unknown:
Leila Davies
Unknown:
Jean Rogers
Unknown:
Malcolm Tierney
Unknown:
Jon Rollason
Produced By:
Dickon Reed
Written By:
Harry Lawson
Introduced By:
John Stockbridge

by D. K. BROSTER : abridged in eight parts by IAN WISHART Reader DAVID STEUART 8: Constant as Steel
Ewen goes before the Duke of Argyll to plead for the life of his cousin Archie Cameron. But this last appeal is of no avail. Produced by GORDON EMSLIE

Contributors

Unknown:
D. K. Broster
Reader:
Ian Wishart
Reader:
David Steuart
Unknown:
Archie 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 bv David Jessel and Derek Cooper
5.50-6.' Weather, information and news for your area

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jessel
Unknown:
Derek Cooper

Sir Alan Herbert - author, wit, librettist. Independent Member -talks to DEREK PARKER about his life in the study, the theatre, at Westminster, and afloat.
The conversation is illustrated with recordings made by his collaborators and colleagues over the years, and songs from his shows.
Produced by DENYS GUEROULT (A. P. Herbert : 80 years of witty indignation: page 10)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Alan Herbert
Unknown:
Derek Parker
Produced By:
Denys Gueroult
Unknown:
P. Herbert

Jonathan Miller , with the help of recordings from the BBC Sound Archives, looks at the changes that have taken place in the styles of humour over the last 40 years.
This week, in the first of two programmes, he pays special attention to slapstick. Research by ANN MEO
Produced by DAVID ALLAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Miller
Produced By:
David Allan

Discoveries, inventions and news from the world of science and technology.
Each week PAUL VAUGHAN brings you the people whose achievements are changing your way of life.
Produced by DAVID PATERSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Produced By:
David Paterson

This summer 45,000 students, armed with their new degrees. have left- the shelter of Britain's Universities. What problems are they having in finding their first job ?
NIGEL REES discusses this search from both the students' and the employers' points of view. 4: Women Need Not Apply

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