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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 Todays 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, below
8.40 Today's Papers

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones

Mar.vh.'
7: Travels
Written by VAUGHAN JAMES (Third-year Russian)
10.45 In der Sprechstunde Written by HEINRICH MINDEN (Intermediate German)
11.0 Movement and Music 1 bv PENNY WHITTAM
(Repeated: Thurs, 9.55 am)
11.20 Tubas
Presented by GARY TAYLOR (Music Club)
11.40 Encounter with Buddhism (Radiovision)
(Sixth Form series: Religion in its Contemporary Context)

Contributors

Written By:
Vaughan James
Written By:
Heinrich Minden
Unknown:
Penny Whittam
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. Relatives to live with you? MADGE HART has been finding out how some people have made what can be a tricky situation workable.
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 WIA 1AA; or [number removed], and record your letter)
South West VHF: see Variations, col 2

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Cooper
Unknown:
Madge Hart

A panel game controlled (!) bv Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams
Derek Nimmo , Clement Freud Andree 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:
Andree Melly
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Produced By:
Simon Brett
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo

Weavers from Abroad
Written by MARY COCKETT (World History)
2.20 Music Session
Music of Benjamin Britten Noye's Fludde: part 2 Script by DAVID LORD
2.40 France - Conservation of the Coast by ARNOLD KEMP. (Geography)

Contributors

Written By:
Mary Cockett
Script By:
David Lord
Unknown:
Arnold Kemp.

A serial for radio in 12 parts based on the novels of L. P. HARTLEY with Paul Gregory as Eustace and Penelope Lee as Hilda
6: Lady Godiva of HighcrOss Hill with MARGOT BOYD , JANET BURNELL , JUDITH BOYD , EDWARD KEL-SEY , and PETER BARTLETT

Contributors

Unknown:
L. P. Hartley
Unknown:
Paul Gregory
Unknown:
Penelope Lee
Unknown:
Margot Boyd
Unknown:
Janet Burnell
Unknown:
Judith Boyd
Unknown:
Edward Kel-Sey
Unknown:
Peter Bartlett
Anthony Lachish:
John Caird
Stephen Hilliard:
Kenneth Fortescue
Barbara:
Jan Edwards
Jimmy Crankshaw:
Carl Forgione
Dick Stavey:
James Villiers
Aunt Sarah:
Marjorie Westbury
Narrator:
David Davis

Twelve programmes featuring some of the less famous, but certainly not less interesting characters from Dickens.
Compiled by BARRY CAMPBELL 5: Wackford Squeers, the Yorkshire schoolmaster taken from Nicholas NicMeby with Malcolm Hayes and Anthony Jacobs
Produced bv R. D. SMITH

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Campbell
Unknown:
Nicholas Nicmeby
Unknown:
Malcolm Hayes
Unknown:
Anthony Jacobs
Unknown:
R. D. Smith
Narrator:
Anthony Jacobs
Wackford Squeers:
Malcolm Hayes
Nicholas Nickleby:
Sean Arnold
Boy:
Paul Hennen
Snawley:
Gerald Cross
Mrs Squeers:
Phyllis Montefiore
Wackford Jr:
Sean Arnold
Smike:
Paul Hennen

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

Contributors

Unknown:
William Hardcastle
Unknown:
Steve Race

A radio happening with Jimmy Edwards. Ted Ray Arthur Askcy , Roy Hudd
In the chair MCDONALD HOBLEY , Special guests The Bachelors from an idea by JIMMY EDWARDS Produced by EDWARD TAYLOR

Contributors

Unknown:
Jimmy Edwards.
Unknown:
Ted Ray
Unknown:
Arthur Askcy
Unknown:
Roy Hudd
Unknown:
Jimmy Edwards
Produced By:
Edward Taylor

Ring Robin Day on [number removed] to put your question in person to The Rt Hon James Callaghan , MP former Chancellor of the Exchequer, former Home Secretary, Treasurer of the Labour Party, and Shadow Home Secretary.
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:
James Callaghan
Produced By:
Walter Wallich

Margaret Noble by BARBARA FOXE with Narrator GABRIEL WOOLF Also taking part:
GARARD GREEN , JOHN GABRIEL and MARGOT BOYD
Margaret Noble , who was born in Ireland in 1867 and died in Bengal in 1911, is known all over India bv her Hindu name of Sister Nivedita. She was the disciple of the great Hindu leader, Swami Vivekananda , who took the West by storm at the end of the 19th century. Let me become the conscious spectator of all these fragments of universal harmony. Let me no longer act but only radiate the light! Produced by HALLAM TENNYSON
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Noble
Unknown:
Barbara Foxe
Narrator:
Gabriel Woolf
Unknown:
Garard Green
Unknown:
John Gabriel
Unknown:
Margot Boyd
Unknown:
Margaret Noble
Leader:
Swami Vivekananda
Produced By:
Hallam Tennyson
Margaret Noble:
Anna Cropper
Swami Vivekananda:
Cyril Shaps

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