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 Regional news, weather and programme news

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jack de Manio
Introduced By:
John Timpson

Marsh!
4: A Komsomol Meeting
Written by VAUGHAN JAMES (Third-year Russian)
10.45 Auf der Suche nach einem Abenteuer: written by HILDE-MARIA KRAUS
(Intermediate German)
11.0 Movement and Music 1 by PENNY WHITTAM
(Repeated: Thurs, 9.55 am)
11.20 Pick It Up and Play It: Jew's harps
Presented by GARY TAYLOR (Music Club)
11.40 The Good Life (O
LESLIE SMITH looks at the idea of the good life and how some people try to live it - with and without religion.
Produced by RALPH ROLLS
(Sixth Form series: Religion in its Contemporary Context)

Contributors

Written By:
Vaughan James
Presented By:
Gary Taylor
Unknown:
Leslie Smith
Produced By:
Ralph Rolls

Joan Yorke presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature: Your Home and Family
Parents as Partners: Do you prefer to ' do as the Doctor says ' and ask him no questions? Do you think we are all given too much advice these days? A Consultant Paediatrician explains his attitude when dealing with the parents of his young patients.
Other topical items, too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
South West VHF: see Variations, col 1

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan Yorke

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

Androcles and the Lion
A story from the reign of Tiberius (AD 14-37): written by KATHLEEN HOUNSELL-ROBERTS Music by PAMELA KENWAY (World History)
2.20 Music Session
The Music of Africa: 4
Script by JENYTH WORSLEY
2.41 Netherlands - The Delta Scheme by ALEX HUNTER
(Geography: radiovision)

Contributors

Written By:
Kathleen Hounsell-Roberts
Music By:
Pamela Kenway
Script By:
Jenyth Worsley

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. Of all the grown-up inhabitants of Anchorstone it was only old Miss Fothergill with her ugly face, her witch's hands, and her creaking bath-chair who really held terror for the Cherrington children. Then one day ...
2:The Lion in.the Path
Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL

Contributors

Unknown:
L. P. Hartley
Adapted By:
Archie Campbell
Produced By:
Archie Campbell
Eustace:
Simon Turner
Hilda:
Lynette McMorrough
Nancy Steptoe:
Llsa Gunther
Mr Cherrington:
Seymour Green
Miss Cherrington (Aunt Sarah):
Marjorie Westbury
Miss Fothergill:
Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Miss Grimshaw:
Margo John
Miss Wauchope:
Madi Hedd
Minney _:
Betty Baskcomb
Pianist:
David Davis

by ROBERT BARR
A sequel to The Dark Island, in six parts, wherein Jim Nicholson follows a new trail of espionage and adventure from Whitehall to the lonely Cornish coast. starring Edward de Souza John Graham and Richard Caldicot
1; Nicholson Comes South
Produced by PETER TITHERADGE

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Barr
Unknown:
Jim Nicholson
Unknown:
Edward de Souza
Unknown:
John Graham
Unknown:
Richard Caldicot
Produced By:
Peter Titheradge
Jim Nicholson:
Edward de Souza
Miller:
John Graham
Cmdr Blair:
Richard Caldicot
Betty Conlow:
Colette O'Neil
Waitress:
Shirley Dixon

Twelve programmes featuring some of the less famous, but certainly not less interesting, characters from Dickens.
Compiled by BARRY CAMPBELL
1: Mr Bumble , the Parish Beadle, from Oliver Twist with Felix Felton and Anthony Jacobs
Produced by R. D. SMITH

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Campbell
Unknown:
Mr Bumble
Unknown:
Oliver Twist
Unknown:
Felix Felton
Unknown:
Anthony Jacobs
Produced By:
R. D. Smith
Bumbie:
Felix Felton
Narrator:
Anthony Jacobs
Mr Sowerberry:
John Gabriel
Mrs Mann:
Eva Stuart
Mrs Corney:
Ella Milne
Noah Claypole:
Robert Cushman

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 William Hardcastle and Steve Race
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
William Hardcastle
Presented By:
Steve Race

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

Contributors

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

Ring Robin Day on [number removed] to put your question in person to Hugh Scanlon , President of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering and Foundry Workers, member of the Tuc General Council, and one of Britain's most influential union leaders.
To promote a maximum flow of questions, [number removed](12 lines) will take them from 6.30 pm onward as well as all the time the programme is on the air.
Produced by WALTER WALLICH

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh Scanlon
Produced By:
Walter Wallich

by Field-Marshal
Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
KG, GCB, DSO
His relations with God. and his relations with men; how for a time after the First World War he lost his faith, and how, with the aid of a particular book, he recovered it; how he learned the importance of the human factor in leadership, and the need for better understanding of it in our national affairs today: these are the themes of Field-Marshal Montgomery's broadcast.

Contributors

Unknown:
Viscount Montgomery

Studs Terkel, the American journalist, describes the American Depression through recorded interviews with people who lived through it and with some of the younger generation to whom it is only legend. The programme is based on his recent book Hard Times. Produced by VIRGINIA BROWNE-WILKINSOM
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Produced By:
Virginia Browne-Wilkinsom

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