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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
Unknown:
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
8: Sur le pont d'Avignon
Written by RAYMOND ESCOFFEY (Radiavision)
10.45 Interlude
10.47 Nous void! 7: Pierre I'Italien
Written by GEOFFREY BRAITHWAITE and MICHEL DE LANTIVY (Third-year French)
11.1 Singing Together
Introduced by JOHN huw DAVIES
11.20 On the Farm
The year of a lamb born on a Yorkshire farm
Script by WILLIAM MAYNE (Springboard)
11.40 Drama Workshop 7: Exploration (i)
Quest for Knowledge
Written by CHARLES SAVAGE and ALAN PENN
Presented by PETER PACEY

Contributors

Written By:
Raymond Escoffey
Written By:
Geoffrey Braithwaite
Written By:
Michel de Lantivy
Introduced By:
John Huw Davies
Script By:
William Mayne
Written By:
Charles Savage
Unknown:
Alan Penn
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
Wage Differentials: Should they be narrowed or widened? DEREK COOPER talks tO IAN COULTER , Assistant Editor of the Economist, and GEOFFREY GOODMAN , Industrial Editor of the Daily Mirror.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
South West VHF: see Variations, col 5

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Cooper
Talks:
Derek Cooper
Unknown:
Ian Coulter
Unknown:
Geoffrey Goodman

The Earth is Deserted 1: Man in the Sahara
Script by JAMES WELLARD (Exploration Earth)
2.20 The Music Box by GORDON REYNOLDS
2.30 Playing a Part
Role-playing in improvised drama. 2: Thinking and feeling (Speak)
2.40 Movement, Mime, and Music 2 for the 9-11-year-olds by GLYN HARRIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Gordon Reynolds
Unknown:
Glyn Harris

Three novelettes by HONORE DE BALZAC
The first novelette: Colonel Chabert
Episode 2: Colonel Chabert convinces the lawyer Derville of his true identity; but the greatest' fight ' of his life is to begin: to win back his inheritance legally.
The second of three episodes read by DUNCAN CARSE Adapted and produced by BRIAN MILLER (from Bristol)

Contributors

Unknown:
Honore de Balzac
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 Steve Race
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50-6.9 Regional news, weather and programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
David Jessel
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

Contributors

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

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 Resident
Panel Nan Winton, Ted Moult, Neil Durden-Smith
v a team from Weymouth
Question-master Alun Williams
Produced by Michael Tuke-Hastings
from The Pavilion Theatre, Weymouth

Contributors

Unknown:
Nan Winton
Unknown:
Ted Moult
Unknown:
Neil Durden-Smith
Question-Master:
Alun Williams
Produced By:
Michael Tuke-Hastings

A new play for radio by IAN RODGER with David March , Simon Lack and Hannah Gordon
This play was specially commissioned to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the arrival of the Mayflower at Provincetown. Massachusetts, on 21 November 1620.
Produced by JOHN TYDEMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Rodger
Unknown:
David March
Unknown:
Simon Lack
Unknown:
Hannah Gordon
Produced By:
John Tydeman
Smithy:
Ronald Forfar
Resolved White:
David Howe
Captain Jones:
Kerry Francis
Susannah White:
Hannah Gordon
William White:
Malcolm Hayes
Edward Winslow:
Simon Lack
Miles Standish:
David March
Mr Carver:
Godfrey Kenton
John:
Peter Duncan
Samuel:
Rufus Frampton
Sally:
Lynette McMorrough
Sailor:
Nigel Lambert
Mr Bradford:
James Thomason
Mate:
Patrick Tull
Johnny:
Sean Barrett
Billy:
Patrick Tull

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