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The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anywhere on earth introduced by Michael Parkinson and Douglas Cameron
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50-8.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
8.0 The News and more of Today
(including, in the Midlands and E Anglia, Regional Extra: and Today in the South and West)
8.40 Today's Papers

Contributors

Introduced By:
Michael Parkinson
Introduced By:
Douglas Cameron

A series in which you meet interesting and unusual people from all walks of life. The Piano Tuner
For 50 years Bert Pearce has tuned for the greatest pianists in the land. Benjamin Britten says of him: ' Bert is the perfect piano tuner ... I can'get on without him.'
Today he talks about his experiences and his love of music. Produced by NEIL MURRAY (from Birmingham)

Contributors

Unknown:
Bert Pearce
Unknown:
Benjamin Britten
Produced By:
Neil Murray

Voix de France
16: Les parents français
Compiled by RAYMOND ESCOFFEY (Sixth-form French)
10.50 A Corner for Music by ALBERT CHATTERLEY
16: Dreaming and dancing (i)
(This programme should be tape-recorded)
11.0Quest
A Lion from the East
11.20 feeing and Saying
Poems bv May Swenson, Seamus Heanev William Carlos
Williams W. H. Auden.
Hal Summers. John Cotton ,
Roy Campbell and Andrew Young.
Compiled and produced by JOHNKERRY
(Radiovision: this broadcast should be tape-recorded)
(Listening and Writing)
11.40 Prospect: 2000 AD - shall we still have books?
Compiled by DAVID WILLIAMS
12.0 Announcements

Contributors

Unknown:
Raymond Escoffey
Unknown:
Heanev William Carlos
Unknown:
Williams W. H. Auden.
Unknown:
Hal Summers.
Unknown:
John Cotton
Unknown:
Roy Campbell
Unknown:
Andrew Young.
Unknown:
David Williams

Jeanine McMullen presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature: Your Ou'n Time
Innocent abroad?: ERIK DE
MAUNY. the BBC correspondent in France offers a guideline to he not so-experienced traveller. And other topical items too.

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeanine McMullen

Let's Join In
The Good Housewife by VIRGINIA HAVILAND
2.20 You and Survival 6: Give me air
Written by LEWIS JONES
Presented by PETER PACEY
2.40 The Imperial Dragon has Five Claws
An adaptation from a Chinese story by COLIN CLEMAK
(Stories and Rhymes: 7-9)

Contributors

Written By:
Lewis Jones
Presented By:
Peter Pacey
Story By:
Colin Clemak

by Bernard Shaw
A Sermon in Crude Melodrama
with William Sylvester

Contributors

Author:
Bernard Shaw
Producer:
John Gibson
Narrator:
Denys Hawthorne
Babsy, a bumptious young slattern:
Margaret Walker
Lottie, a sentimental girl:
Jane Jordan Rogers
Hannah, elderly and wise:
Bessie Love
Jessie, good-natured but sharp-tongued:
Sally Travers
Emma, a sneak:
Dorothy Bibby
Elder Daniels:
Russell Napier
Blanco Posnet, evidently a blackguard:
William Sylvester
Strapper Kemp, a lad just turning into a man:
Derry Power
Feemy Evans, a young woman with impudent manners and battered good looks:
Kate Binchy
Sheriff Kemp, a stout man with large flat ears and a neck thicker than his head:
Kevin Flood
The Foreman of the Jury:
Harry Webster
Nestor, an old juryman, drunk:
Earle Grey
The Woman:
June Tobin
The Boys:
Alan Barry
The Boys:
Denys Hawthorne
The Boys:
Michael Spice

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

Presenter:
William Hardcaslle
Presenter:
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 RICHARD BURWOOD (Shortened version: Sat, 4.30)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Robert Dougall
Unknown:
Jean Stroud
Produced By:
Richard Burwood

A spontaneous discussion by JOHN ARLOTT , LORD SOPER SIR RICHARD WAY
PEGGY FENNER , MP
Chairman DAVID JACOBS
Produced by MICHAEL BOWEN from the Technical College, Fareham. Hampshire
(Repeated: Saturday. 1.15 pm) Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? should be sent to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol, BS8 2LR

Contributors

Unknown:
John Arlott
Unknown:
Lord Soper Sir Richard Way
Unknown:
Peggy Fenner
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Produced By:
Michael Bowen

The Industrial Relations Bill discussed bv
The Rt Hon Robert Carr , mp Secretary of State for Employment Vic Feather
General Secretary of the TUC and Campbell Adamson
Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry
KENNETH HARRIS chairs this airing of the issues raised by the Bill now before
Produced by ALAN BURGESS (Radio Times People: page 5)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Carr
Unknown:
Campbell Adamson
Unknown:
Kenneth Harris
Produced By:
Alan Burgess

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