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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

An Act of Worship
Introduced by RALPH ROLLS
S.25 Education 1870-1970
Question 1: The Happiest Years?
First of three programmes compiled by BARRY CARMAN Editor JOHN KERRY
(This programme should be tape-recorded)
9.45 Music Workshop 1 The Chockerbox by JOHN SCADDING and PETER SPALDING Music arranged by MICHAEL JESSETT
Written and produced by DOUGLAS COOMBES

Contributors

Introduced By:
Ralph Rolls
Unknown:
Barry Carman
Editor:
John Kerry
Unknown:
John Scadding
Unknown:
Peter Spalding
Arranged By:
Michael Jessett
Produced By:
Douglas Coombes

Voix de France
1: Jeunes cineastes
Compiled and presented by GEOFFREY BRAITHWAITE (Sixth-form French)
10.50 .4 Corner for Music bV ALBERT CHATTERLEY
1: Starting and Stopping
(This programme should be tape-recorded)

Contributors

Presented By:
Geoffrey Braithwaite

Power: a short story by JACK COPE about a boy's efforts to save a trapped bird
(Listening and Writing)
11.40 Prospect
2000 ad: It's up to you
Sixth-formers talk to TONY GIBSON about the sort of world they want.
12.0 Announcements

Contributors

Story By:
Jack Cope
Unknown:
Tony Gibson

A selection of items from the many broadcasts on BBC radio and television during the past seven days.
Introduced bv JOHN ELLISON Script by JEAN STROUD
Produced by RICHARD BURWOOD
(Extended version: Sunday,
4.0 pm)
South West VHF: see Variations, col 5
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area

Contributors

Script By:
Jean Stroud
Produced By:
Richard Burwood

The Three Billy Goats Gruff
The traditional tale retold for five- and six-year-olds (Let's Join In)
2.20 Chagall
Selections from My Life by Marc Chagall , translated by DOROTHY WILLIAMS
Produced by JOAN GRIFFITHS (Art and Design: radiovision)
2.40 The Boy and the Wizard
A Danish folk tale, adapted for radio by ALAN Boucher
Produced by ELIZABETH ORNBO (Stories and Rhymes)

Contributors

Unknown:
Marc Chagall
Translated By:
Dorothy Williams
Produced By:
Joan Griffiths
Unknown:
Alan Boucher
Produced By:
Elizabeth Ornbo

A Christmas Trifle Piskot
A Black Comedy by LUDVIK ASKENAZY translated from the Czech by VERA BLACKWELL with Dorothy Tutin and Patrick Troughton
'I dreamt I was frying the trout and suddenly it began to sing - straight out of the pan - soprano.'
The action takes place in Czechoslovakia during the last war.
Music composed by STEPAN LUCKY
Tenor EDWARD DARLING Soprano ELLEN DALES
Produced by JOSEF CERVINKA
A selection of the best 60-minute plays broadcast during the last decade.

Contributors

Comedy By:
Ludvik Askenazy
Unknown:
Vera Blackwell
Unknown:
Dorothy Tutin
Unknown:
Patrick Troughton
Composed By:
Stepan Lucky
Tenor:
Edward Darling
Soprano:
Ellen Dales
Produced By:
Josef Cervinka
RoskOt:
Patrick Troughton
Albert:
Hector Ross
Klima:
Haydn Jones
Commandant's wife:
Dorothy Tutin

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 David Jessel and Derek Cooper
5.50-6.0 Weather, information and news for your area

Contributors

Presented By:
David Jessel
Presented By:
Derek Cooper

Adapted and dramatised by A.R. Rawlinson from The Diary of Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys is elected to the position of 'Virtuoso' in the new Royal Society. But 1664 is a troubled year: he has to deal with the Dutch sailing up the Medway, and the Plague. A series of four inventions based on well-known themes of literature or history.

Contributors

Author:
Samuel Pepys
Dramatised by:
A.R. Rawlinson

A spontaneous discussion by BARONESS STOCKS
SIR EDWIN LEATHER
LORD FOOT FRANK GILLARD
Chairman DAVID JACOBS
Produced by MICHAEL BOWEN from The Winter Gardens, Droitwich. Worcestershire
(Repeated: Saturday, 1.15 pm) Listeners' views for use in Any Answersf to Any Answers?,
BBC, Bristol, BS8 2LR

Contributors

Unknown:
Baroness Stocks
Unknown:
Sir Edwin Leather
Unknown:
Lord Foot Frank Gillard
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Produced By:
Michael Bowen

Times Present
The Times is not what it was. There are people inside and outside Printing House Square who regard that as no bad thing. There are others who think that one more national institution is well down the slippery slope.
With change in the air once more, Analysis takes a critical look at Britain's greatest newspaper.
Introduced by IAN MCINTYRE Produced by GEORGE Fischer
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Introduced By:
Ian McIntyre
Produced By:
George Fischer

This summer 45,000 students, armed with their ne\; degrees, have left the shelter of Britain's Universities. Wh;:problems are they having in finding their first job?
NIGEL REES discusses this search from both the students' and the employers' points of view.
5: The World Owes Me a Living

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