Programme Index

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The News
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

Marsh/
2: In the Tretyakov Gallery Written by VAUGHAN JAMES (Third-year Russian)
10.45 Der unmogliche Raubtiberfall. Written by CARL DUERING (Intermediate German)
11.0 Movement and Music 1 by PENNY WHITTAM
(Repeated: Thurs, 9.55 am)
11.20 Music Power presented by GARY TAYLOR (Music Club)
11.40 Statement of Belief
2: MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE. A short statement followed by a conversation with LESLIE SMITH
(Sixth Form series: Religion in its Contemporary Context)

Contributors

Written By:
Vaughan James
Written By:
Carl Duering
Presented By:
Gary Taylor
Unknown:
Malcolm Muggeridge.
Unknown:
Leslie Smith

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

The Marathon
Written by JEREMY NICKLIN Produced by DUNCAN TAYLOR (World History) S.20 Music Session
The Music of Africa: 2
Script by JENYTH WORSLEY
2.40 Germany: Autobahns and the Landscape by PAUL BORSTRUP (Geography)

Contributors

Written By:
Jeremy Nicklin
Produced By:
Duncan Taylor
Script By:
Jenyth Worsley

by ANTONIA RIDGE from a short story by ALPHONSE DAUDET
This play, which won the Writers' Guild of Great Britain award as 'Best Radio Play ' of 1969, is set in 1871 and tells of a little French clock which has a profound effect on the lives of certain of the inhabitants of Munich.
Produced by RAY MILES
Last of a series of four inventions based on well-known themes of literature or history (Repeated: Friday, 7.30 pm)

Contributors

Story By:
Alphonse Daudet
Produced By:
Ray Miles
Narrator:
Michael Menaugh
Augustus Kahn:
Peter Pratt
Herr Professor Dr von Schwan thaler:
Francis de Wolff
Frau von Schwanthaler:
Noel Hood
Anna Schwanthaler:
Lisa Harrow
Mina Schwanthaler:
Gretta Gouriet
Fraiilein Roth:
Bilda Kriseman
Charlotte:
Jan Edwards
Fraiilein Hasanclever:
Dorothy Edwards
Majordomo:
Godfrey Kenton
Herr Professor Schmidt:
Alaric Cotter
Planist:
Anna Berenska

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

starring Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler in Bill Stickers is innocent With NORMA RONALD
RONALD BADDILEY
JO MANNING WILSON
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:
Jo Manning Wilson
Written By:
Edward Taylor
Written By:
John Graham
Produced By:
Edward Taylor

In the decade since Harold Macmillan warned South Africa of the wind of change blowing through Africa, that continent has gone through paroxysms of independence, revolution, and war.
With the voices of Africa's leaders, this programme traces the history of the past ten years and looks at the prospects for the future.
Written and presented by JIM BIDDULPH
(The changing face of Africa: page 9)

Contributors

Unknown:
Harold MacMillan
Presented By:
Jim Biddulph

recalls moments and personalities in his life from days at school to his present position as Director of the National Theatre.
IAGO 38 66
RICHARD 111 49 ARCHIE RICE 60
He discusses a variety of roles on stage and in films in conversation with JOHN DYAS.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Dyas.

The song of a herd of whales is one of the most electrifying sounds in nature: and those recorded by Dr Roger Payne , a specialist in biological acoustics at Rockefeller University, are singing for their lives.
In a dramatically illustrated interview with LAURIE JOHN , DR PAYNE describes mankind's love-hate relationship w-ith this, the largest of all living beings.
Produced by LAURIE JOHN

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Roger Payne
Unknown:
Laurie John
Produced By:
Laurie John

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