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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 Regional news, weather and programme news

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jack de Manio
Introduced By:
John Timpson

Marsh!
3: A Trip to Klin
Written by VAUGHAN JAMES (Third-year Russian)
10.45 Das Geheimnis der alten Scheune
Written by CARL DUERING
(Intermediate German)
11.0 Movement and Music 1 by PENNY WHITTAM
11.20 Sounds and Effects Presented by GARY TAYLOR (Music Club)
11.40 Eat your Sweet Ape
A play about man's need for his fellow human beings by R. E. T. LAMB
Produced by RICHARD WORTLEY
(Sixth Form Series: Religion in its Contemporary Context)
Radiovision for Schools: To follow certain broadcasts described as a ' radiovision ' programme it is necessary to have the accompanying film strip.

Contributors

Written By:
Vaughan James
Written By:
Carl Duering
Music By:
Penny Whittam
Presented By:
Gary Taylor
Unknown:
R. E. T. Lamb
Produced By:
Richard Wortley

Joan Yorke presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature:
Your Home and Family
Children have been back at school for a month now. What was the change-over like from primary to secondary school? Could it have been better prepared? LESLIE smith reports.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
(Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA; or [number removed], and record your letter)
South West VHF: see Variations, col 5

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan Yorke
Unknown:
Leslie Smith

A panel game controlled (?) by Nicholas Parsons in which
Kenneth Williams , Derek Nimmo Clement Freud , Denise Coffey 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:
Denise Coffey
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Produced By:
David Hatch
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo

The Murder of Caesar: written by KATHLEEN HOUNSELL-ROBERTS (World History)
2.20 Music Session
The Music of Africa: 3
Script by JENYTH WORSLEY
2.40 West Germany: Rhine-River of Europe by DAVID SINCLAIR (Geography)

Contributors

Written By:
Kathleen Hounsell-Roberts
Script By:
Jenyth Worsley
Unknown:
David Sinclair

A serial for radio in 12 parts based on the novels of L. P. HARTLEY and adapted by ARCHIE CAMPBELL
The place: Anchorstone, a small seaside resort in East Anglia. Time: the early 1900s. Eustace and Hilda live with their widowed father and Aunt Sarah in a house called ' Cambo.' Even as children playing on the seashore it is always Hilda, the devoted elder sister, who proves the stronger character.
1: The Shrimp and the Anemone
Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL

Contributors

Unknown:
L. P. Hartley
Adapted By:
Archie Campbell
Adapted By:
Aunt Sarah
Produced By:
Archie Campbell
Eustace (9):
Simon Turner
Hilda (12):
Lynette McMorrough
Nancy Steptoe (12):
Lisa Gunther
Gerald Steptoe (11):
Gerald Davies
Postman:
Brian Hewlett
Minney:
Betty Baskcomb
Mr Cherrington:
Seymour Green
Miss Cherrington (Aunt Sarah):
Marjorie Westbury
Craddock:
Charles Lamb
Major Steptoe:
John Bentley
Mrs Steptoe:
Margaret Wolfit
Narrator:
David Davis

Visitors to Russia
A weekly series of seven first-hand accounts, from the 16th century to the 20th, edited by FRANCESCA M. WILSON
7: George Hume (1857-1893) Reader RONALD FORFAR
Produced by TERENCE TILLER

Contributors

Edited By:
Francesca M. Wilson
Reader:
George Hume
Produced By:
Terence Tiller

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 Regional news, weather and programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
David Jessel
Presented By:
Derek Cooper

A radio happening with Jimmy Edwards , Ted Ray
Tommy Trinder , Cyril Fletcher In the chair MCDONALD HOBLEY Special guest
Eleanor Summerfield from an idea by JIMMY EDWARDS Produced by EDWARD TAYLOR

Contributors

Unknown:
Jimmy Edwards
Unknown:
Ted Ray
Unknown:
Tommy Trinder
Unknown:
Cyril Fletcher
Unknown:
Eleanor Summerfield
Unknown:
Jimmy Edwards
Produced By:
Edward Taylor

On 6 June Arthur Askey was 70 and he talked of his life and times to ROY PLOMLEY
Joining in the celebrations ANTHEA ASKEY ,WILLIAM BIRD
GRACIE FIELDS , STANLEY HOLLOWAY RICHARD MURDOCH , CLIFF RICHARD JIMMY TARBUCK TERRY-THOMAS , TOMMY TRINDER , JACK WARNER Produced by JOHN BROWELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Askey
Unknown:
Roy Plomley
Unknown:
Anthea Askey
Unknown:
William Bird
Unknown:
Gracie Fields
Unknown:
Stanley Holloway
Unknown:
Richard Murdoch
Unknown:
Cliff Richard
Unknown:
Jimmy Tarbuck Terry-Thomas
Unknown:
Tommy Trinder
Unknown:
Jack Warner
Produced By:
John Browell

A portrait in words and music Written by MICHAEL KENNEDY
Composer of such well-known works as Peter and the Wolf, The Love of Three Oranges. and the Classical Symphony, Prokofiev was born in Tsarist Russia in 1891 and died in Moscow in 1953 on the same day as Stalin.
His career is a fascinating study of the artist's struggle to reconcile his artistic integrity with the demands made on him by a totalitarian regime. Narrator DAVID MAHLOWE ALAN MOORE as Prokofiev Other parts RONALD HARVI PAUL WEBSTER and CHRISTOPHER WILKINSON Produced by STANLEY WILLIAMSON

Contributors

Written By:
Michael Kennedy
Narrator:
David Mahlowe
Narrator:
Alan Moore
Unknown:
Ronald Harvi
Unknown:
Paul Webster
Unknown:
Christopher Wilkinson
Produced By:
Stanley Williamson

The dreadful epidemic which has been causing such ravages in Calcutta and the southern provinces has broken out in camp. It is a species of cholera morbus. There is an opinion that the water in the tanks, the only water we have at this place, may be unwholesome and add to the disease (Major-General Lord Hastings, 1877)
Cholera has Been in the headlines this year, but is unlikely ever again to attack mankind with the ferocity of the great pandemics of the last century. Written by ARTHUR SWINSON Narrator DAVID MAHLOWE Other parts ANTONY BODEN
RONALD HARVI , WILFRED HARRISON CYNTHIA MICHAELIS Produced by STANLEY WILLIAMSON

Contributors

Written By:
Arthur Swinson
Narrator:
David Mahlowe
Unknown:
Antony Boden
Unknown:
Ronald Harvi
Unknown:
Wilfred Harrison
Unknown:
Cynthia Michaelis
Produced By:
Stanley Williamson

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