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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

French for Beginners
10: Sept heures: papa rentre Written by RAYMOND ESCOFFEY (Radiovision) †
10.45 Interlude
10.47 Nous void! 9: Du va-etvient chez les Bousquet
Written by MAX BELLANCOURT (Third-year French) †
11.1 Singing Together
Introduced by JOHN HUWDAVIES
11.20 The Mummers' Play - 2 (Springboard)
11.40 Drama Workshop 9: Exploration (iii)
Quest for Achievement
Written by CHARLES SAVAGE and ALAN PENN
Presented by PETER PACEY

Contributors

Written By:
Raymond Escoffey
Written By:
Max Bellancourt
Introduced By:
John Huwdavies
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
Careers: How does management select the bright boys? DEREK COOPER talks to ROBERT HELLER , Editor of Management Today.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
South West VHF: see cot 2

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Cooper
Talks:
Derek Cooper
Unknown:
Robert Heller

The Earth is Deserted
3: Man in Western Australia Written by PADDY FEENY (Exploration Earth)
2.20 The Music Box by GORDON REYNOLDS
2.30 Animals as Machines
Including Song of the Battery Hen' and ' Caring for Animals' by JON SILKIN. (Speak)
2.40 Movement, Mime, and Music 2 by GLYN HARRIS

Contributors

Written By:
Paddy Feeny
Unknown:
Gordon Reynolds
Unknown:
Jon Silkin.
Music By:
Glyn Harris

Three novelettes by HONORE DE BALZAC
The second novelette: Gobseck In an old house in one of the dark and dingy streets of the Paris of 1829 dwells Gobseck the moneylender, a man feared by the haughtiest families of France ...
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 Nicholas Woolley and Steve Race
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS
Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
Nicholas Woolley
Editor:
Derek Lewis
Editor:
Andrew Boyle

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

Contributors

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

A play by OWEN LEEMING with Jill Bennett and Max Adrian
Rocking in his chair, the Commandant broods on his country's Imperial past, but which of the voices he hears come from the present and which from his own past? What is real, what is not ...?
Pianist ALAN BOUSTEAD Special sound by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX

Contributors

Play By:
Owen Leeming
Unknown:
Jill Bennett
Unknown:
Max Adrian
Pianist:
Alan Boustead
Produced By:
Charles Lefeaux
Narrator:
Jill Bennett
The Commandant:
Max Adrian
John-Philip, his elder son:
John Pullen
Louise, his daughter:
Kate Coleridge
Thomas, his servant:
John Gabriel
Francis, his younger son:
Brian Haines
Amelia, his wife:
Sylvia Coleridge

Third of a series of programmes surveying different aspects of the many changes taking place in the British Theatre. 3:Changes in WritingTom Stoppard and Howard Brenton talk to
JOHN RUSSELL TAYLOR
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Stoppard
Unknown:
Howard Brenton
Unknown:
John Russell Taylor
Produced By:
Charles Lefeaux

by PAUL GALLICO adapted in 15 instalments by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by John Westbrook
'Only one man could save Gibraltar for the Allies. Everything hinged on Captain Tim Bailey, that insignificant junior officer, that glorified zoo-keeper, that nursemaid to a pack of apes.'
Produced by JOHN CARDY

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Gallico
Unknown:
Neville Teller
Read By:
John Westbrook
Produced By:
John Cardy

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