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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
Deputy editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Editor MARSHALL STEWART
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
Editor:
Alastair Osborne
Editor:
Marshall Stewart

and more of Today
(including Today in the South and West introduced this week by DEREK JONES , and Regional Extra for the Midlands and E Anglia). E Anglia VHF: see Variations below
8.40 Today's Papers

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Jones

French for Beginners
Lesson 2: Le petit déjeuner Written by Raymond ESCOFFEY (Radiovision)
10.45 Interlude
10.47 Nous voici!
2: Le siege commence (Third-year French)
11.1 Singing Together introduced by JOHN HUW DAVIES
11.20 Springboard: the mouse as pet and wild animal
Script by JENYTH WORSLEY
11.40 Drama Workshop 2: Need. Written by CHARLES SAVAGE and ALAN PENN Presented by PETER PACEY

Contributors

Written By:
Raymond Escoffey
Introduced By:
John Huw Davies
Script By:
Jenyth Worsley
Written By:
Charles Savage
Unknown:
Alan Penn
Presented By:
Peter Pacey

The Earth is Blue
2: Around the World Alone SIR FRANCIS CHICHESTER
2.20 The Music Box by GORDON REYNOLDS
2.30 Yourself and Others
Including a poem by Stephen Spender and an excerpt from Sprightly Running by John Wain. (Speak)
2.40 Movement, Mime, and Music 2: by GLYN HARRIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Francis Chichester
Unknown:
Gordon Reynolds
Unknown:
Stephen Spender
Unknown:
John Wain.
Music By:
Glyn Harris

or The Adventures of a Lady in Search of a Good Servant by One Who Has been almost worried to death '
A Victorian novel by THE BROTHERS MAYHEW abridged in six parts by BRIAN MORRIS Reader Daphne Oxenford
Music composed and played by TREVOR HOLROYD Part 2
Produced by ALAN AYCKBOURN

Contributors

Reader:
Brian Morris
Reader:
Daphne Oxenford
Played By:
Trevor Holroyd
Produced By:
Alan Ayckbourn

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 Nicholas Woolley and Derek Cooper
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS
Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50-6.0 Weather, information and news for your area

Contributors

Presented By:
Nicholas Woolley
Presented By:
Derek Cooper
Editor:
Derek Lewis
Editor:
Andrew Boyle

Written by ERIC MERRIMAN Knee-to-nose comedy starring Ronnie Corbett supported by HUGH PADDICK
JOSEPHINE TEWSON , DOUG FISHER
(Ronnie Corbett : laughing at a little man walking tall: p 8)

Contributors

Written By:
Eric Merriman
Unknown:
Ronnie Corbett
Unknown:
Hugh Paddick
Unknown:
Josephine Tewson
Unknown:
Doug Fisher
Unknown:
Ronnie Corbett

from the novel
Inspector West Cries Wolf by JOHN CREASEY dramatised as a serial in six parts by MAURICE TRAVERS
Janet West turns the tables on Helen Wolf with a phone call that really stirs things up. 5: Hunt the Wolf
Produced by JOHN BROWELL (Repeated: Tuesday, 3.30 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Creasey
Unknown:
Maurice Travers
Unknown:
Janet West
Unknown:
Helen Wolf
Produced By:
John Browell
with Chief Inspector Roger West:
Patrick Allen
his wife Janet:
Sarah Lawson
Mark Lessing:
Edward de Souza
Helen Wolf:
Hilda Braid
Det-Insp Peel:
Andrew Jack
Mr Paterson:
Gordon Faith
Dr Sorenson:
Patrick Tull

The best of the Cambridge Footlights Revues 1969-70 with ROBERT BUCKMAN , ADRIAN EDWARDS BILL GUTTERIDGE , NEIL ROSE and MAGGIE SCOTT
MUSiC by THE MAX HARRIS GROUP Additional material by BARRY BROWN , DAI DAVIES and CLIVE JAMES
Associate musical director ROBERT ORLEDGE
Musical director MAX HARRIS Produced by JOHN DYAS

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Buckman
Unknown:
Adrian Edwards
Unknown:
Bill Gutteridge
Unknown:
Maggie Scott
Unknown:
Barry Brown
Unknown:
Clive James
Director:
Robert Orledge
Director:
Max Harris
Produced By:
John Dyas

by ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN translated and adapted for radio by NICHOLAS BETHELL set in Central Siberia in 1950 Produced by JOHN GIBSON
This adaptation from the novel by one of the world's greatest living writers, widely forecast as this year's choice for the Nobel Prize for Literature, was first broadcast in 1967 in the Third Programme.
A feature on Solzhenitsyn and his expulsion from the Soviet Writers' Union will be broadcast later in the autumn.
(Stalin's labour camps from the inside: page 9. The trial of Sinvavsky and Daniel: BBC1, Friday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Unknown:
Nicholas Bethell
Produced By:
John Gibson
with Ivan Denisovich Shukhov:
Nigel Stock
Buinovsky:
Lockwood West
Tiurin:
John Hollis
Caesar:
Basil Jones
Alyosha:
Emrys James
Fetyukov:
Leroy Lingwood
Kolya:
Ronald Herdman
Der:
Douglas Hankin
Tartar Guard:
Michael Graham Cox
Second Guard:
Nigel Clayton
Third Guard:
David Brierley
Searcher:
Ronald Herdman
Radio Announcer:
Gudrun Ure

A series of six programmes (to be broadcast on Mondays at four-weekly intervals) surveying different aspects of the many changes taking place in the British Theatre. 1: The Effect of Radio and Television
Martin Esslin talks to JOHN RUSSELL TAYLOR
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX

Contributors

Unknown:
John Russell Taylor
Produced By:
Charles Lefeaux

Wilfred De'Ath. surfacing from his exploration of the English Underground, examines ways in which young people become involved in the community through voluntary service. Tonight he talks to
DOUGLAS WHITING , Director of Voluntary Service Overseas

Contributors

Unknown:
Douglas Whiting

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