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The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anywhere on earth introduced by Jack deManio - 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 Demanio
Unknown:
John Timpson

and more of Today
(including in the Midlands and E Anglia, Regional Extra; and Today in the South and West introduced by CLIVE CUNNINGHAM ) VHF East Anglia: see below
8.40 Today's Papers

Contributors

Introduced By:
Clive Cunningham

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)
Produced by GEORGE FISCHER
(Shortened version of Analysis broadcast on 5 February)

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian McIntyre
Unknown:
Betty Friedan
Produced By:
George Fischer

Introduced by Sidney Harrison who invites you to listen to some easily remembered music played by the BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA leader JAMES DAVIS conducted by MICHAEL MOORES with IFOR JAMES (horn)
WILFRID PARRY (piano)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sidney Harrison
Leader:
James Davis
Conducted By:
Michael Moores

Joan Yorke presents the Radio
4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature:
Your Home and Family
One-parent Families (ii) Home Without Mother: LESLIE SMITH investigates
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 East Anglia: see column 1

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan Yorke
Unknown:
Leslie Smith

From the television series based on the characters created by A. J. CRONIN with
Bill Simpson at Dr Finlay The Cheats: written and adapted by EDDIE MAGUIRE
Broadcast by arrangement with GRAHAM STEWART
Produced by PETER TITHERADGE (Repeated:Thursday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area

Contributors

Unknown:
A. J. Cronin
Unknown:
Bill Simpson
Adapted By:
Eddie Maguire
Arrangement With:
Graham Stewart
Produced By:
Peter Titheradge
Dr Cameron:
Andrew Cruickshank
Janet:
Barbara Mullen
Sgt Gilbey:
Duncan McIntyre
Sandy McTaggart:
John Graham
Mary McTaggart:
Patricia Leventon
Tammie:
Sheila Donald
Kate:
Gretta Gouriet
Duggie Steel:
Duncan McIntyre
Mrs Guthrie:
Betty Cardno

A novel-sequence (1914-1968) arranged for radio in 29 parts 5: The Trial
Early 1933 and George Passant and his friends are charged with conspiracy to defraud.
Other parts RICHARD GRIFFITHS Executive producer NORMAN WRIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
George Passant
Unknown:
Richard Griffiths
Producer:
Norman Wright
Lewis Eliot:
Geoffrey Matthews
Judge:
Trevor Martin
Porson:
David March
Exell:
Martin Friend
Mrs Ward:
Polly Murch
Herbert Getliffe:
Edward Kelsey
Harry Eden:
Gerald Cross
Howard Martineau:
Philip Morant
Jack Cotery:
John Rye
Olive Calvert:
Margaret Wolfit
George Passant:
Clifford Norgate

FRANKLIN ENGELMANN invites FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL to answer questions which listeners have sent in by post Produced by KENNETH FORD
(Questions, on postcards, to: Gardeners' Question Time, BBC, Woodhouse Lane , Leeds LS2 9PX)

Contributors

Unknown:
Franklin Engelmann
Unknown:
Bill Sowerbutts
Unknown:
Alan Gemmell
Produced By:
Kenneth Ford
Unknown:
Woodhouse Lane

A series of six programmes by JULIA SMALL
2:The Lion Prevails
Emperor Haile Selassie
'Does this initiative mean in practice the abandonment of Ethiopia to her aggressor? Are the States going to set up the terrible precedent of bowing before force? It is us today. It will be you tomorrow.' Readers DENYS HAWTHORNE and HENRY STAMPER
Produced by JOHN SCOTNEY
(from Northern Ireland)

Contributors

Readers:
Denys Hawthorne
Readers:
Henry Stamper
Produced By:
John Scotney

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

Contributors

Presented By:
Nicholas Woolley
Presented By:
Roger Cook

Contributors

Writer:
Bruno Milna
Daniel Archer:
Edgar Harrison
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Jack Archer:
Denis Folwell
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Lilian:
Elizabeth Marlowe
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Christine:
Lesley Saweard
Paul Johnson:
Leslie Dunn
Laura Archer:
Gwenda Wilson
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Nora Salt:
Julia Mark
Hugo Barnaby:
Michael McClain
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville
Carol Tregorran:
Anne Cullen
Jack Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Ralph Bellamy:
Jack Holloway
Zebedee Tring:
Graham Rigby
Robin Freeman:
Peter Kenvyn
Mabel Larkin:
Kay Hudson
Joe Grundy:
Reg Johnston
Bobby Waters:
Alaric Cotter

Ring Robin Day to put your question in person to
Rt Hon Roy Jenkins , mp
Deputy Leader of the Opposition and Shadow Chancellor. Ask him about the Labour Party's role in opposition, its future plans and economic policies.
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:
Roy Jenkins
Produced By:
Walter Wallich

The more I thought about it the clearer it seemed that a real ballet could only be created by the perfect combination of the three main factors - music, decorative design and choreography
An impression, in two parts, of the great days of the Russian Ballet and of the man who created it.
1: The World of Art
Other parts JOHN BLAIN
WILFRED HARRISON , RONALD HARV1 CYNTHIA MICHAELIS
Written by MICHAEL KENNEDY Produced by STANLEY WILLIAMSON (Part 2: next Tuesday, 8.30 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Blain
Unknown:
Wilfred Harrison
Unknown:
Ronald Harv1
Unknown:
Cynthia Michaelis
Written By:
Michael Kennedy
Produced By:
Stanley Williamson
Narrator:
David Marlowe
Sergei Diaghilev:
Antony Boden

Is there bias in broadcasting? Is there a liberal or an Establishment conspiracy? Is there merely a consensus view of politics and culture to which most broadcasters subscribe? Or are allegations of bias just examples of selective perception? Is it ' all in the mind '?
These are some of the questions tonight's programme attempts to answer with the help of: RT HON WILLIAM DEEDES , MP, Conservative Minister in charge of Government Information Services 1962-64
GERALD KAUFMAN , MP, Parliamentary Press Liaison Officer Labour Party 1965-70
JOHN BEAVAN , columnist Daily Mirror group
JOHN CRAWLEY , member BBC Board of Management, in charge of news and current affairs 1967-71
Chairman ANTHONY KING , Professor of Government, Essex University
Produced by BERNARD TATE

Contributors

Unknown:
William Deedes
Unknown:
Gerald Kaufman
Unknown:
John Beavan
Unknown:
John Crawley
Unknown:
Anthony King
Produced By:
Bernard Tate

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