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The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anywhere on earth, including live reports from the Fifth Test at Melbourne, 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

Marsh! 13: To Kazakhstan Written by VAUGHAN JAMES (Third-year Russian)
10.45 Wieder in Deutschland Written by A. A. WOLFF
(Intermediate German)
11.0 Movement and Music I for the 5-6-year-olds by PENNY WHITTAM
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.55 am)
11.20 Cement music
Presented by GARY TAYLOR (Music Club)
11.40 Macaw: second of a trilogy of plays by R. E. T. LAMB. The action takes place in Brazil where some freelance miners are involved in a mine disaster.
Produced by RICHARD WORTLEY
(Sixth Form series: Religion in its Contemporary Context)

Contributors

Written By:
Vaughan James
Written By:
A. A. Wolff
Presented By:
Gary Taylor
Produced By:
Richard Wortley
Searle:
David King
McCredy:
Geoffrey Matthews
Dawson:
Hugh Dickson

Joan Yorke presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature:
Your Home and Familu
Shared Homes: LESLIE SMITH looks into communal living
(Phone [number removed]. extension 3030, and record your letter) Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see col

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan Yorke
Unknown:
Leslie Smith

A panel game controlled (?) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams
Derek Nimmo , Clement Freud and Sheila Hancock try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER
Produced by DAVID HATCH
(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:
Sheila Hancock
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Produced By:
David Hatch
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo

The Gunpowder Plot (1605)
Written by MARGARET J. MILLER (World History)
2.20 Music Session
Folk Around the World - 3
Script by CATHERINE BAXTER
2.40 Israel by GERALD BLAKE. (Geography)

Contributors

Written By:
Margaret J. Miller
Script By:
Catherine Baxter
Unknown:
Gerald Blake.

by GEORGE ELIOT : adapted as a serial in 12 parts by HOWARD AGG with Angela Pleasence , Martin Jarvis Megs Jenkins and Anthony Bate 5: Cold Counsel
Tom had so often thought how joyful he should be the day he left school ' for good! ' And now his school-years seemed like a holiday that had come to an end. He and Maggie had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed behind them.
Produced by JANE GRAHAM I
(Megs Jenkins is in ' The Wins-low Boy ' at the New Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
George Eliot
Unknown:
Angela Pleasence
Unknown:
Martin Jarvis
Unknown:
Megs Jenkins
Unknown:
Anthony Bate
Produced By:
Jane Graham
Unknown:
Megs Jenkins
Narrator:
Sonia Fraser
Maggie Tulliver:
Angela Pleasence
Mrs Tulliver:
Megs Jenkins
Tom Tulliver:
Martin Jarvis
Mrs Deane:
Betty Baskcomb
Mrs Glegg:
Alison Leggatt
Mr Glegg:
Lockwood West
Mrs Pullet:
Cecile Chevreau
Mrs MOSS:
Diana Bishop
Mr Tulliver:
Anthony Bate
Mr Deane:
Peter Pratt
Bob Jakin:
Bill Lyons

A series of plays written by ANTHONY SCOTT VEITCH
The Fortress
Produced by ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON

Contributors

Written By:
Anthony Scott Veitch
Produced By:
Alastair Scott Johnston
as Mister Pybus:
William Gaunt
as Major Duncan Geddes:
Tom Watson
as Mrs Mary Pybus:
Olive Milbourne
Leonard Shackleton:
John Gadriel
lima Halliwell:
Margaret Wolfit
George Danton:
Leslie Heritage
Mr Perry:
Kerry Francis

A series of tales concerning ships and seamen and the mysteries which surround them. Written by VINCENT BROME
A previous series under this title a few years ago touched off an enormous response. Once again Vincent Brome has followed the familiar pattern - beginning today with the classic sea story of all time and following during the next four weeks with stories of ships that blow up, disappear or sink more than once-and including of course, the inevitable sea serpent
1: The Mary Celeste
Reader GEOFFREY BANKS
Produced by HERBERT SMITH (from Manchester)

Contributors

Written By:
Vincent Brome
Unknown:
Vincent Brome
Reader:
Mary Celeste
Reader:
Geoffrey Banks
Produced By:
Herbert Smith

The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening. Presented by William Hardcastle and Roger Cook
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
William Hardcastle
Presented By:
Roger Cook

Written and adapted for radio from their television series by Pauline Devaney and Edwin Apps
Starring Robertson Hare as the Archdeacon, William Mervyn as the Bishop, Derek Nimmo as the Bishop's Chaplain, John Barron as the Dean
Jack with RONALD FORFAR and this week's guests: Kenneth Connor Elvey Stickles Samuel Tutt and Sam Kydd
Produced by DAVID HATCH (Repeated: Wed, 12.25 pm)
(Derek Nimmo is in "Charlie Girl" at the Adelphi Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Pauline Devaney
Unknown:
Edwin Apps
Produced By:
David Hatch
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo

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Ring George Scott to put your question in person to
Hugh Cudlipp , Chairman of the International Publishing Corporation: and Chairman of the IPC Newspaper Division which produces the Daily Mirror. Sunday Mirror, and The People. He has been editorial director or editor of national newspapers since he was first appointed Editor of the Sunday Pictorial at the age of 24. To promote a maximum flow of questions, [number removed](12 lines) will take them from 6.30 pm onward as well as while the programme is on the air.
Produced by WALTER WALLICH

Contributors

Unknown:
George Scott
Unknown:
Hugh Cudlipp
Produced By:
Walter Wallich

Paul Bucci is one of the longhaired young. He doesn'see any point in tidiness or punctuality for their own sake; he doesn'want to live by other people's standards but by his own. His present job with Task Force, which organises voluntary help for old people, gives him the freedom he wants yet makes great demands on him. Introduced by DAVID BELLAN Produced by VIRGINIA BROWNE-WILKINSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Bucci
Introduced By:
David Bellan
Produced By:
Virginia Browne-Wilkinson

The most powerful nation on earth is finding the modern equivalent of the White Man's Burden intolerably heavy
On a recent visit to the United States, IAN MCINTYRE discussed the implications of this shift from idealism to self-interest with politicians, academics, journalists, and officials in the Administration.
Those taking part include STEWART ALSOP
AMBASSADOR GEORGE BALL
PROFESSOR DANIEL BOORSTIN
GOVERNOR AVERELL HARRIMAN SENATOR VANCE HARTKE RICHARD PEDERSEN JOSEPH J. SISCO
Produced by GEORGE FISCHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian McIntyre
Unknown:
Stewart Alsop
Unknown:
Professor Daniel Boorstin
Unknown:
Averell Harriman
Unknown:
Vance Hartke
Unknown:
Richard Pedersen
Unknown:
Joseph J. Sisco
Produced By:
George Fischer

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