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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

Time and Tune. 4: How the Nutcracker was broken
Presented by JOHN CAMBURN Written by JOHN EDWARDS
11.20 Survival on Dry Land by MARGERY MORRIS
Narrated by BARRY FOSTER (Man series)
11.40 Cotswolds - Wotton-under-Edge: 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
9.30 for 12.0?: a report by JUNE ROSE on delays in out-patient departments.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
South West VHF : see Variations, cot 1

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

Contributors

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

Orpheus by KENNETH CAVANDER Produced by JOAN Griffiths (Living Language series)
2.20 Poetry Corner
Let's Hear It Again: a second hearing of favourite poems
2.30 Unos minutos nada mds 4:Excursion a la playa
Written by HARRY LAWSON
(For secondary school pupils in their third year of Spanish)
2.40 Learning about Life 4: I'm Emotional
Introduced by JOHN STOCKBRIDGE

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Cavander
Produced By:
Joan Griffiths
Written By:
Harry Lawson
Introduced By:
John Stockbridge

The History of Mr Polly by H. G. WELLS : abridged in ten parts by HOWARD JONES Read by DAVID DAVIS 3: Mr Polly an Orphan
Mr Polly is not an outstanding success as a Gents' Outfitter. Then suddenly his father dies, leaving him 1350.

Contributors

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

The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts of! 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

Repeated: Friday, 1.30 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Edward J. Mason
Daniel Archer:
Edgar Harrison
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Jack Archer:
Denis Folwell
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Roger v:
Jeremy Mason
Lilian Nicholson:
Elizabeth Marlowe
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Polly Perks:
Hilary Newcombe
Nora Salt:
Julia Mark
Gregory Salt:
Gerald Turner
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Nelson Gabriel:
Jack May
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville
Jack Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Dr McLaren:
Duncan McIntyre

A radio biography written and narrated by Brian Connell

Twenty-six years ago, perhaps to the day, lain Macleod announced, under aerial bombardment on a Dutch farm-stead, that he was going into politics.

Tonight's programme tells the remarkable story of this self-styled 'Tory Radical,' who died as Chancellor of the Exchequer on 20 July of this year. Those whose voices are heard include H.E. Dr. H. Kumuzu Banda, Lord Butler of Saffron Walden, C.H., Rt. Hon. James Callaghan, MP, Rt. Hon. Robert Carr, MP, Nigel Fisher, MP, Sir Michael Fraser, CBE, Mrs. Eve Macleod, Sir William Urton, MBE, TD

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Connell
Unknown:
Dr H. Kumuzu Banda
Unknown:
James Callaghan
Unknown:
Robert Carr
Unknown:
Nigel Fisher
Unknown:
Sir Michael Fraser
Unknown:
Mrs Eve MacLeod
Producer:
Bernard Tate

A series of programmes about love and the way people experience it in their lives. 2:It Hurts to Love
A young coloured man tells LESLIE SMITH of a search for identity and of how he found a truth beyond himself.
Produced by RALPH ROLLS

Contributors

Unknown:
Leslie Smith
Produced By:
Ralph Rolls

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

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