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The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anywhere on earth, including live reports from the Sixth Test at Adelaide, introduced by Jack de Manio, Douglas Cameron
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:
Douglas Cameron

Marsh!
14: Holidays in the South Written by VAUGHAN JAMES (Third-year Russian)
10.45 Karneval in Köln Written by A. A. WOLFF
(Intermediate German)
11.0 Movement and Music 1 for the 5-6-year-olds by PENNY WHITTAM
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.55 am)
11.26 Come to the fair
Presented by GARY TAYLOR (Music Club)
11.40 Laughing down there in the Dark: third 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

Contributors

Written By:
Vaughan James
Written By:
A. A. Wolff
Presented By:
Gary Taylor
Unknown:
R. E. T. Lamb
Produced By:
Richard Wortley
Sale:
Geoffrey Matthews
Ben:
Peter Pacey
CaSS:
David Brierley
McCredy:
Geoffrey Matthews
Dawson:
Hugh Dickson
Searle:
David King

Joan Yorke presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature: Your Home and Family
Parent Power: an enquiry by MAUREEN O'CONNOR.
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], extension 3030, and record your letter)
VHF South West: cot 1

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan Yorke
Unknown:
Maureen O'Connor.

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
Produced By:
David Hatch
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo

The Trial and Execution of Charles I
Written by HENRY MARSHALL (World History)
2.20 Music Session
Folk Around the World - 4
Script by CATHERINE BAXTER
2.40 Egypt by DESMOND STEWART (Geography)

Contributors

Written By:
Henry Marshall
Script By:
Catherine Baxter
Unknown:
Desmond Stewart

by GEORGE ELIOT : adapted as a serial in 12 parts by HOWARD AGG with Angela Pleasence , Martin Jarvis Megs Jenkins and Anthony Bate 6: The Vow
The sale of the house furniture was over and the bills were out for the sale of the mill and the land. The miller, unaware of the lapse of time, fancied himself still in that first stage of his misfortunes when expedients might be thought of. Produced by JANE GRAHAM

Contributors

Unknown:
George Eliot
Unknown:
Angela Pleasence
Unknown:
Martin Jarvis
Unknown:
Megs Jenkins
Unknown:
Anthony Bate
Produced By:
Jane Graham
Narrator:
Sonia Fraser
Mrs Tulliver:
Megs Jenkins
Maggie Tulliver:
Angela Pleasence
Tom Tulliver:
Martin Jarvis
Lawyer Wakem:
Bernard Hepton
Mr Winship:
Paul Dawkins
Mr Deane:
Peter Pratt
Mr Tulliver:
Anthony Bate

A series of plays written by ANTHONY SCOTT VEITCH featuring William Gaunt with Tom Watson as Major Duncan Geddes and Olive Milbourne as Mrs Mary Pybus The Running Man
Produced by ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON

Contributors

Written By:
Anthony Scott Veitch
Unknown:
William Gaunt
Unknown:
Tom Watson
Unknown:
Major Duncan Geddes
Unknown:
Mrs Mary Pybus
Produced By:
Alastair Scott Johnston
Ben Loveday:
Ronald Forfar
Jane Geddes:
Hannah Gordon

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 Steve Race
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
William Hardcastle
Presented By:
Steve Race

Written and adapted for radio from their television series by PAULINE DEVANEY and EDWIN APPS The Bishop Sees a Ghost starring Robertson Hare as the Archdeacon
William Mervyn as the Bishop Derek Nimmo as the Bishop's Chaplain
John Barron as the Dean with GERALD CROSS as the Ghost RONALD FORFAR as Scamm and this week's guest: Joan Sanderson as Mrs Pugh Critchley
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:
Robertson Hare
Unknown:
William Mervyn
Unknown:
Bishop Derek Nimmo
Unknown:
John Barron
Unknown:
Joan Sanderson
Unknown:
Mrs Pugh Critchley
Produced By:
David Hatch
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo

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As Apollo 14 approaches the Moon, ring Robin Day to put your question in person to
Sir Bernard Lovell , Director of Jodrell Bank, the Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories, on the subject of space exploration.
To promote a maximum flow 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:
Sir Bernard Lovell
Produced By:
Walter Wallich

Written and introduced by PHILIP OAKES
Throughout his career Tony Hancock was a perfectionist, searching for some indefinable and unattainable peak of ' pure ' comedy. It was a search which brought him both triumph and disaster. He was still searching when he died tragically in Australia in June 1968. with contributions from
RALPH READER, BERYL VERTUE SYLVIA SYMS , SID JAMES
DUNCAN WOOD, MICHAEL WALE
RAY GALTON and ALAN SIMPSON Research and interviews by RITA DANDO
Produced by MICHELL RAPER

Contributors

Introduced By:
Philip Oakes
Unknown:
Tony Hancock
Reader:
Beryl Vertue
Reader:
Sylvia Syms
Reader:
Sid James
Unknown:
Michael Wale
Unknown:
Ray Galton
Produced By:
Michell Raper

The Arts have leapt off the particular track they were on, on to heaven knows what other
Bernard Levin sets out to discover why the performing arts leapt off that track, and to examine the place of tradition in the arts today in discussion with Colin Davis, Glenda Jackson and Peter Hall

9.58 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Levin
Unknown:
Colin Davis
Unknown:
Glenda Jackson
Unknown:
Peter Hall
Producer:
Anne Duncan-Jones

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