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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. 18: L'atmosphere dans les lycées
Compiled and introduced by RAYMOND ESCOFFEY
(Sixth-form French)
10.50 A Corner for Music by ALBERT CHATTERLEY
18: Noah and the Flood (i)
(This programme should be tape-recorded)
11.0 Quest. 8: Muhammad by RALPH ROLLS
11.20 Hall a Candle by JILL CHANEY adapted by DOROTHY BAKER -1 (Listening and Writing)
11.40 Prospect. 2000 AD - What sort of music?
Compiled by HERBERT CHAPPELL
12.0 Announcements

Contributors

Introduced By:
Raymond Escoffey
Music By:
Albert Chatterley
Unknown:
Jill Chaney
Adapted By:
Dorothy Baker
Unknown:
Herbert Chappell

John Edmunds presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Your Own Time
Innocent Abroad?: PETER FLINN , of the BBC's foreign news staff, offers a guideline to the not-so-experienced traveller in Tiirkev
Sex at the Bookstall: are there no detective, travel, or adventure stories left? DAVID BELLAN investigates
And other topical items too.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Edmunds
Unknown:
Peter Flinn
Unknown:
David Bellan

Let's Join In
Hapi and the Morepork by IRIS BERMINGHAM
2.20 You and Survival
8: At the setting of the sun Written by LEWIS JONES
Presented by PETER PACEY
2.40 Lion at Large - 2
A story by RICHARD PARKER adapted by MARILYN FOX
(Stories and Rhymes: 7-9)

Contributors

Written By:
Lewis Jones
Presented By:
Peter Pacey
Story By:
Richard Parker
Adapted By:
Marilyn Fox

by Barry Hines
Selected for Friday
With Arthur Lowe as Billy and Ronald Baddiley as Darkly

'Let's get this straight once and for all. I'm holding this shovel, they've employed me to do the job and they're paying me when it's done. I've got a job and you haven't. I'm working and you're watching; and now you're offering me a partnership in my own job.'

A chance to hear again some of the best one-hour plays broadcast in recent years.

Contributors

Writer:
Barry Hines
Producer:
Alfred Bradley
Billy:
Arthur Lowe
Darkly:
Ronald Baddiley

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

Chairman FRANKLIN ENGELMANN 8: Scotland (i)
DOROTHY IBALL (Aberdeen) medical laboratory technician DAVID FERGUS (West Lothian) schoolmaster
WILLIAM R. HUTTON (Lanarkshire) dental surgeon
JOHN MALCOLM (Glasgow) postmaster
Including Beat the Brains In which listeners put their own questions to the contestants. Devised and written by JOHN P. WYNN. Produced by JOHN FAWCETT WILSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Franklin Engelmann
Unknown:
William R. Hutton
Unknown:
John Malcolm
Written By:
John P. Wynn.
Produced By:
John Fawcett Wilson

(Repeated: Monday, 1.30 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Brian Hayles
Daniel Archer:
Edgar Harrison
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Jack Archer:
Denis Folwell
Lilian Nicholson:
Elizabeth Marlowe
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Christine Johnson:
Lesley Saweard
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Nora Salt:
Julia Mark
Hugo Barnaby:
Michael McClain
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville
John Tregorran:
Philip Morant
Ralph Bellamy:
Jack Holloway
Brigadier Winstanley:
Anthony Godfrey
Mrs Lily:
Mollie Harris
Deirdre:
Eileen Barry

NANCY WISE makes a personal selection of items from the many broadcasts on BBC Radio and TV during the past seven days
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 Baroness Stocks, Rt Hon Edward du Cann, MP, The Bishop of Crediton, John Pardoe, MP
Chairman David Jacobs
from the Queen's Hall, Barnstaple, Devon
(Repeated: Saturday, 1.15 pm)

Contributors

Chairman:
David Jacobs
Panellist:
Baroness Stocks
Panellist:
Rt Hon Edward du Cann
Panellist:
The Bishop of Crediton
Panellist:
John Pardoe
Producer:
Michael Bowen

and a very serious game it is, because the nuclear balance accepted by the United States and the Soviet Union in the last few years is threatened by recent technological progress on both sides - a threat which had provided the main impetus to the talks on Strategic Arms Limitation which got under way two years ago.
An agreement in this area could be of much greater significance than either the Test Ban or Non-Proliferation Treaties; and yet some of America's NATO allies are nervous about the implications for European security, and from Peking came angry charges of collusion against the Chinese people.
What do the Super-Powers really want? How likely are they to get it?
Presented by Ian McIntyre
Produced by GEORGE FISCHER
9.59 Weather

Contributors

Presented By:
Ian McIntyre
Produced By:
George Fischer

A sequential entertainment for radio starring Ronnie Barker also featuring
TERENCE BRADY and PAULINE YATES with GORDON LANGFORD at the piano The lines are contributed by CHRIS ALLEN , J. H. B. PEEL
ALLAN SCOTT and CHRIS BRYANT
PETER SPENCE , GERALD WILEY Produced by JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
(Shortened version of Monday's broadcast)

Contributors

Unknown:
Ronnie Barker
Unknown:
Terence Brady
Unknown:
Pauline Yates
Unknown:
Gordon Langford
Unknown:
Chris Allen
Unknown:
J. H. B. Peel
Unknown:
Allan Scott
Unknown:
Chris Bryant
Unknown:
Peter Spence
Unknown:
Gerald Wiley
Produced By:
John Fawcett Wilson

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More