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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

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, col 5
8.40 Today's Papers

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones

Marsh!
6: In the Restaurant
Written by Vaughan James
(Third-year Russian)

10.45 Nicht jeder Stern glitzert
Written by Milo Sperber
(Intermediate German)

11.0 Movement and Music 1
(Repeated: Thurs, 9.55 am)

11.20 Bells
Presented by Gary Taylor
(Music Club)

11.49 Encounter with Hinduism
(Radiovision)
(Sixth Form series: Religion in its Contemporary Context)

Contributors

Written By:
Vaughan James
Written By:
Milo Sperber
Presented By:
Gary Taylor

Derek Cooper presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature: your home and family. Emotional blackmail: how do you react when your child says 'But Mum, everybody else does. why can't I?' Tim Matthews talks to children, parents. and experts concerned. 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 phone [number removed], and record your letter)
South West VHF: see Variations, col 5

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Cooper
Talksto:
Tim Matthews

A panel game controlled (1) by Nicholas Parsons
In which Kenneth Williams
Derek Nimmo , Clement Freud and AndrSe Melly try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER
Produced by SIMON BRETT
(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:
Andrse Melly
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Produced By:
Simon Brett
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo

The Shepherds' Play
A story of medieval York Written by MARY COCKETT (World History)
2.29 Music Session
Music of Benjamin Britten Noye's Fluddc: part 1 Script by DAVID LORD
2.40 France - aluminium and the Savoie landscape by NORMAN TURNER
. Series produced and edited by ALEX HUNTER. (Geography)

Contributors

Written By:
Mary Cockett
Unknown:
Benjamin Britten
Script By:
David Lord
Unknown:
Norman Turner
Edited By:
Alex Hunter.

A serial for radio in 12 parts based on the hovels of L. P. HARTLEY and adapted by ARCHIE CAMPBELL with Paul Gregory as Eustace Penelope Lee as Hilda and Kenneth Fortescue as Stephen Hilliard
Time: the early 1920s.
Fourteen years have passed. Eustace, now a young man of 24 and, thanks to Miss Fothergill's legacy, of comfortable means, is enjoying life as an undergraduate at Oxford - in the years immediately following the Great War.
5: Concerto for Two Violins
Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL

Contributors

Unknown:
L. P. Hartley
Adapted By:
Archie Campbell
Unknown:
Paul Gregory
Unknown:
Eustace Penelope Lee
Unknown:
Kenneth Fortescue
Unknown:
Stephen Hilliard
Produced By:
Archie Campbell
Aunt Sarah:
Marjorie Westbury
Dr Gregory:
George Howe
Barbara:
Jan Edwards
Annie:
Jo Manning Wilson
Jimmy Crankshaw:
Carl Forgione
Undergraduates:
Peter Bartlett
Undergraduates:
John Atterbury
Narrator:
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 4: The Marksman
Produced by PETER TITHERADGE

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Barr
Unknown:
Jim Nicholson
Unknown:
Edward de Souza
Unknown:
John Graham
Produced By:
Peter Titheradge
Jim Nicholson:
Edward de Souza
Miller:
John Graham
Commander Blair:
Richard Caldicot
Betty Conlow:
Colette O'Neil
The Breton:
Roy Spencer

Twelve programmes featuring some of the less famous, but certainly not less interesting characters from Dickens.
Compiled by BARRY CAMPBELL 4: Sairey Gamp taken from Martin Chuzzlewit with Lynn Carson and Anthony Jacobs
Produced by R. D. SMITH

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Campbell
Unknown:
Sairey Gamp
Unknown:
Martin Chuzzlewit
Unknown:
Lynn Carson
Unknown:
Anthony Jacobs
Produced By:
R. D. Smith
Narrator:
Anthony Jacobs
Sairey Gamp:
Lynn Carson
Voice:
Ian Thompson
Mr Pecksniff:
Geoffrey Wincott
Betsy Prig:
Anne Jameson
Maid:
Diana Robson
Patient:
Ian Thompson

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 Derek Cooper
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
William Hardcastle
Presented By:
Derek Cooper

A radio happening with Jimmy Edwards , Ted Ray Arthur Askey , Rey Hudd In the chair PETER HAIGH
Special guest Jackie Pallo from an idea by JIMMY EDWARDS Produced by EDWARD TAYLOR

Contributors

Unknown:
Jimmy Edwards
Unknown:
Ted Ray
Unknown:
Arthur Askey
Unknown:
Rey Hudd
Unknown:
Peter Haigh
Unknown:
Jackie Pallo
Unknown:
Jimmy Edwards
Produced By:
Edward Taylor

Ring Robin Day on [number removed] to put your question in person to Mark Bonham Carter, Chairman of the Race Relations Board, Member of the Board of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Member of the Council of the Consumers Association, and former Liberal MP
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:
Mark Bonham Carter
Produced By:
Walter Wallich

Jill Bennett reads the girlhood recollections of Princess Wilhelmina, Margravine of Bayreuth. and sister of Frederick the Great of Prussia.
Selected and introduced by FRED UHLMAN With
Produced bv
HALLAM TENNYSON
These extraordinary memoirs of a brilliant, spirited girl imprisoned in the barbaric Prussian court were published on 29 October under the title of The Misfortunate Margravine

Contributors

Unknown:
Jill Bennett
Unknown:
Misfortunate Margravine
Narrator:
Cormac Rigby

On 26 February this year 3.000 students at Manchester University marched into the university's administrative building to begin a 15-day sit-in. Brian MORRIS traces the course of their occupation and introduces recordings made soon afterwards with students and staff.
Produced by GILLIAN HUSH

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Morris
Produced By:
Gillian Hush

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