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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
7.50-8.8 Regional news, weather and programme news

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jack de Manio
Introduced By:
John Timpson

Time and Tune
3: Toys and Games
Presented by JOHN CAMBURN Written by JOHN EDWARDS
11.20 Life on the Land by MARGERY MORRIS
Narrated by BARRY FOSTER (Man series)
11.40 North Downs - Pilgrim's Way
Compiled by PHILIP HOLLAND (Geography)

Contributors

Presented By:
John Camburn
Written By:
John Edwards
Unknown:
Margery Morris
Unknown:
Philip Holland

Joan Yorke presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature:
Your Health and Welfare
The Pangs of Parting: two doctors discuss mothers' reactions to children leaving home.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
South West VHF: see Variations, col 2

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan Yorke

A panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
DILYS POWELL and FRANK MUIR challenge ANNE SCOTT-JAMES and DENIS NORDEN
In the chair JACK LONGLAND
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
Edward J. Mason
Unknown:
Dilys Powell
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Unknown:
Jack Longland

Drummer Delaney's Sixpence by Keith Dewhurst
2.20 Poetry Corner Lets Pretend
2.30 Unos minutos nada mds
3.00 El senor Robinson, turista extraordinario
(For secondary school pupils in their third year of Spanish)
2.40 Learning about Life 3: Your Parents

Contributors

Story writer:
Keith Dewhurst
Producer:
Richard Wortley
Writer:
Robert P. Clarke
Presenter:
John Stockbridge

by H. G. WELLS abridged in ten parts by HOWARD JONES
Read by DAVID DAVIS
2: The Dismissal of Parsons Parsons - one of Mr Polly 's bosom companions at the Port Burdock Drapery Bazaar, where Mr Polly labours as an apprentice in Gents' Outfitting - suddenly gets himself dismissed under circumstances of peculiar violence.

Contributors

Unknown:
H. G. Wells
Read By:
David Davis
Unknown:
Parsons Parsons
Unknown:
Mr Polly
Unknown:
Mr Polly

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 correspondence column in which listeners add their comments to views expressed in last Friday's Any Questions! Introduced by DAVID JACOBS
Produced by MICHAEL BOWEN (Repeated: Friday, 4.0 pm)
Write to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Introduced By:
David Jacobs
Produced By:
Michael Bowen

At the start of the academic year the spectre of violence and illiberalism hangs over our universities. In other parts of the world the situation is worse: the question is not whether universities can function as places of freedom and enlightenment, but whether they can function at all.
Robert McKenzie , himself a Professor at the London School of Economics, discusses the world-wide threat to academic freedom, and the implications for Britain, with university administrators in the United States and Western Europe. Produced by MARTIN cox

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert McKenzie
Produced By:
Martin Cox

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 LAURIE JOHN
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Produced By:
Laurie John

BBC Radio 4 FM

About BBC Radio 4

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More