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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
Deputy editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Editor MARSHALL STEWART
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
Editor:
Alastair Osborne
Editor:
Marshall Stewart

and more of Today
(including, in the Midlands and E Anglia, Regional Extra: and Today in the South and West introduced by DEREK JONES )
E Anglia VHF: see Variations, cot 5
8.40 Today's Papers

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones

French for Beginners Lesson 7: Le dejeuner
Written by RAYMOND ESCOFFET (Radiovision)
10.45 Interlude
10.47 Nous voici!
6: Le nouveau
Pierre Written by MICHEL DE LANTIVY (Third-year French)
11.1 Singing Together
Introduced by JOHN HUW DAVIES
11.20 Springboard
The story of Pippa, a cheetah, from the book The Spotted Sphinx by JOY ADAMSON Script by zoB BAILEY
11.40 Drama Workshop 6: Socialisation
Presented by PETER PACEY

Contributors

Written By:
Raymond Escoffet
Unknown:
Pierre Written
Introduced By:
John Huw Davies
Script By:
Zob Bailey
Presented By:
Peter Pacey

Derek Cooper presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you Today's main feature:
Your Money - earning, saving, and spending it
Premium Savings Bonds: is ' Ernie ' really random? What are the odds against winning a prize? ROBERT WILLIAMS finds out.
South West VHF: see Variations, col 5

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Cooper
Unknown:
Robert Williams

The Earth is Green
3: Forests of Finland Script by W. R. MEAD
(Exploration Earth)
2.20 The Music Box by GORDON REYNOLDS
2.30 Rough Justice
Azdak's Judgment: a scene from The Caucasian Chalk Circle by BERTOLT BRECHT (Speak)
2.40 Movement, Mime, and Music 2 for the 9-11-year-olds by GLYN HARRIS

Contributors

Script By:
W. R. Mead
Unknown:
Gordon Reynolds
Unknown:
Bertolt Brecht
Unknown:
Glyn Harris

Tales of Paris
Three novelettes by HONORE DE BALZAC
The first novelette: Colonel Chabert
Episode 1: Who is this walking, living ghost from theNapoleonic past, who returns to post-Waterloo Paris after having ' died ' for his Emperor in Russia? Is he an impostor? The first of three episodes read by DUNCAN CARSE Adapted and produced by BRIAN MILLER (from Bristol)

Contributors

Read By:
Duncan Carse
Produced By:
Brian Miller

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
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS
Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
David Jessel
Presented By:
Derek Cooper
Editor:
Derek Lewis
Editor:
Andrew Boyle

Written by ERIC MERRIMAN Knee-to-nose comedy starring Ronnie Corbett supported by HUGH PADDICK
JOSEPHINE TEWSON , GORDON CLYDE On the musical side: THE PATTERSONS and KEN MOULE AND HIS ORCHESTRA Produced by JOHN BROWELL

Contributors

Written By:
Eric Merriman
Unknown:
Ronnie Corbett
Unknown:
Hugh Paddick
Unknown:
Josephine Tewson
Unknown:
Gordon Clyde
Unknown:
Ken Moule
Produced By:
John Browell

A panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
DILYS POWELL and FRANK MUIR challenge ANNE SCOTT-JAMES and JOHN WELLS
In the chair JACK LONGLAND

Contributors

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

A weekly quiz on music and general knowledge Resident Panel
NAN WINTON , TED MOULT NEIL DURDEN-SMITH v a team representing Eastbourne
Question-master ALUN WILLIAMS Questions set and programme produced by MICHAEL TUKE-HASTINGS from the Floral Hall, Winter Garden, Eastbourne

Contributors

Unknown:
Nan Winton
Question-Master:
Alun Williams
Produced By:
Michael Tuke-Hastings

by ALAN GOSLING with Rolf Lefebvre
David Spenser , Brian Hewlett and Elizabeth Proud
This play is concerned with the attitude towards insanity of a small rural community in a Suffolk village at the beginning of the 1700s. It is based on a set of parish accounts of the period.
Produced by JOHN TYDEMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Gosling
Unknown:
Rolf Lefebvre
Unknown:
David Spenser
Unknown:
Brian Hewlett
Produced By:
John Tydeman
Goody Timpson:
Margot Boyd
Prudence Timpson:
Elizabeth Proud
Ed Bishop:
Brian Hewlett
Brudbanke:
David Spenser
Parson:
Rolf Lefebvre
Bezant:
Peter Tuddenham
Kemp:
Ronald Forfar
Hayward:
Ronald Herdman
Burton:
James Thomason
Lane:
Clifford Norgate
Bickers:
Nigel Lambert
Walnoe:
John Gabriel
Actor:
Churchwarden! J0hngabriel
Churchwarden:
John Gabriel
Archdeacon:
Nigel Lambert

by Robert Neill, adapted in 15 instalments by Bertha Lonsdale
Read by Ronald Harvi

'She began to see, from each rise of the road, a great broad-backed hill which ran across the sky before them. There was something odd about this hill, something not to be defined, something she could almost fancy to be disturbing...'
(from Leeds)

Contributors

Author:
Robert Neill
Adapted by:
Bertha Lonsdale
Reader:
Ronald Harvi
Producer:
Florence Akst

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