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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 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

Voix de France
14: L'enseignement de l'anglais en France
Compiled by RAYMOND ESCOFFEY (Sixth-form French)
10.50 A Corner for Music by ALBERT CHATTERLEY
14: Pancakes and Valentines
(This programme should be tape-recorded)
11.0 Quest. Myself or Others by R. E. T. LAMB
11.20 The Dog that Bit People A story by James Thurber ; poems, 'Waiting for IT' and 'Cat and the Weather' by May Swenson, and ' Cats ' by A. J. Tessimond
(Listening and Writing)
11.40 Prospect
2000 AD - a world of plastic?
Compiled by KEITH MCDOWALL
12.0 Announcements

Contributors

Unknown:
Raymond Escoffey
Unknown:
R. E. T. Lamb
Story By:
James Thurber
Unknown:
A. J. Tessimond
Unknown:
Keith McDowall

Ken Sykora presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you Today's main feature: Your Own Time
Fact or Fancy?: DEREK COOPER contrasts holiday resorts as described in brochures and as shown in a guide for the trade. And other topical items too. South West VHF: see cot 2

Contributors

Unknown:
Ken Sykora
Unknown:
Derek Cooper

Let's Join In. Henny-Penny: the traditional tale
2.20 You and Survival
4: The wisdom of the body Written by LEWIS JONES
Presented by PETER PACEY
2.40 The City Where No One Laughed
A new story by GWEN DUNN
Produced by ELIZABETH ORNBO (Stories and Rhymes: 7-9)

Contributors

Written By:
Lewis Jones
Presented By:
Peter Pacey
Story By:
Gwen Dunn
Produced By:
Elizabeth Ornbo

The Sorrows of Ireland by HONOR TRACY with Alan Bennett and Patrick Magee
For many years Dick Fother gill, a producer, worked on Irish programmes, faithfully adhering to Policy. Falling a prey to Melancholia, he is allowed, just once, to express his own ideas - ably hampered by Sean Sweeney , an absentee patriot who volunteers to criticise and correct. and and Produced by DOUGLAS CLEVERDON The Sorrows of Ireland ' won the Radio Writers' Award for the best feature of 1967

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Bennett
Unknown:
Patrick Magee
Unknown:
Dick Fother
Unknown:
Sean Sweeney
Produced By:
Douglas Cleverdon
Dick Fothergill:
Alan Bennett
Sean Sweeney:
Patrick Magee
Irish Singer:
Beth Boyd
Nurse:
Margaret Robertson
Actor:
Ian Thompson
Romans, Petronius and Lucullus:
Geoffrey Wincott
Miss Ribbersniff, an English lady:
Nancy Nevinson
Dr Doyle:
Denis McCarthy
Lord Erne:
Duncan McIntyre
Capt Boycott:
Denys Hawthorne
Priest:
Robert Mooney
Mickey O'Flaherty, a farmer:
Harry Hutchinson
Mary his wife:
Mary O'Farrell
Two English tourists. John and Diana:
Denis Goacher
Two English tourists. John and Diana:
Barbara Mitchell
Aphrodite, a Greek peasant:
Nancy Nevinson
A German businessman:
Geoffrey Wincott
Tomo, an Irish labourer:
Harry Hutchinson

The biography of Ivor Novello (1893-1951) by W. MACQUEEN POPE abridged in nine episodes by DEREK PARKER
Read by JOHN PALMER 6: War Breaks Out
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Unknown:
W. MacQueen
Unknown:
Derek Parker
Read By:
John Palmer
Produced By:
Graham Gauld

The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening. 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

NANCY WISE makes a personal selection of items from BBC Radio and TV
Introduced by ROBERT DOUGALL Research by JEAN STROUD
Produced by PHYLLIS ROBINSON (Shortened version: Sat, 4.30)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Robert Dougall
Unknown:
Jean Stroud
Produced By:
Phyllis Robinson

A spontaneous discussion by LORD ROBENS. LORD KEARTON
LORD GREENWOOD ELAINE KELLETT , MP
Chairman DAVID JACOBS
Produced by MICHAEL BOWEN from the Public Hall,
Haslingden, Lancashire
(Repeated: Saturday. 1.15 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Lord Greenwood Elaine Kellett
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Produced By:
Michael Bowen

A view of the Women's Liberation Movement in America by Ian McIntyre.

"It's like a tribal drum. It's beating all over the country" (Betty Friedan)
"Women must in a sense commit suicide" (Ti-Grace Atkinson)
"Let it all hang out. Let it seem twitchy, cutty, dykey, frustrated... We are the women that men have warned US about" (Robin Morgan)
"It's crazy - next thing they'll want is equal time in the men's room" (Man in a New York bar)

(Friedan fighter: page 4)
(9.58 Weather)

Contributors

Presenter:
Ian McIntyre
Interviewee:
Betty Friedan
Interviewee:
Ti-Grace Atkinson
Interviewee:
Robin Morgan
Producer:
George Fischer

David Jason. Bill Wallis and Frank Abbott look back at the week's news and illustrate the funny side with NIGEL REES
Script by PETER SPENCE
Produced by SIMON BRETT and DAVID HATCH

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jason.
Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
Frank Abbott
Script By:
Peter Spence
Produced By:
Simon Brett
Produced By:
David Hatch

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