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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
Deputy editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE Editor MARSHALL STEWART
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50-8.0 Regional news, weather and programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
John Timpson
Editor:
Alastair Osborne
Editor:
Marshall Stewart

French for Beginners
Lesson 24: Une partie de tennis Written by RAYMOND ESCOFFEY
(A radiovision programme)
10.45 Interlude
10.47 Nous Voici !
21: Roger à Roscoff
Written by PAULE-ALINE dent (Third-year French)
11.1 Singing Together With JOHN HUW DAVIES
Written and produced by DOUGLAS COOMBES
11.20 Springboard
Water: music, poetry and story Written by JENYTH WORSLEY
11.40 Drama Workshop
' The Ancient Mariner ' by COLERIDGE and ' Flannan Isle' by WILFRID GIBSON
Reader STEPHEN THORNE with music and special sounds created by MALCOLM CLARKE of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Material for this term Drama Workshop series selected and arranged by DEREK ROWSKILL Producer DICKON REED

Contributors

Written By:
Raymond Escoffey
Unknown:
Nous Voici
Unknown:
John Huw Davies
Produced By:
Douglas Coombes
Written By:
Jenyth Worsley
Reader:
Wilfrid Gibson
Reader:
Stephen Thorne
Unknown:
Malcolm Clarke
Arranged By:
Derek Rowskill
Arranged By:
Dickon Reed

Joan Yorke presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature:
Your Money - earning, saving, and spending it
Unit Trusts: how have they been affected by the Budget? Which Specialist Trusts have benefited?
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see cot 2

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan Yorke

Because it's There 1: Coast Walk
JOHN EARLE walks from Cape Cornwall to Land's End (Exploration Earth)
2.20 The Music Box by GORDON REYNOLDS With MARI GRIFFITH
Produced by ALBERT CHATTERLEY
2.30 Co-Existing
'Mending Wall ' by ROBERT FROST and an excerpt from The Kitchen by ARNOLD WESKER (Speak)
2.40 Movement, Mime, and Music 2 by GLYN HARRIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Mari Griffith
Produced By:
Albert Chatterley
Unknown:
Robert Frost
Unknown:
Arnold Wesker
Music By:
Glyn Harris

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 Nicholas Woolley and Roger Cook
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
Nicholas Woolley
Presented By:
Roger Cook
Editor:
Derek Lewis
Editor:
Andrew Boyle

Joyce Grenfell discusses with DEREK JONES her interest in wildlife and its conservation, and chooses some recordings from the BBC's Sound Archives. Produced by JOHN BURTON and PAMELA HOWE (from Bristol)

Contributors

Unknown:
Joyce Grenfell
Unknown:
Derek Jones
Produced By:
John Burton
Produced By:
Pamela Howe

Adapted by ERIC EWES from the novel bv JAMES HANLEY with Rolf Lefebvre Elspeth March and Rosalind Iden
At Greys,' the family home, an eccentric household of middle-aged brothers and sisters live out their secluded and curiously separate existences. Their peace -or rather, a state of truce - is shattered by the sudden arrival of a young and not entirely welcome guest.
Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL (Elspeth March is in ' Abelard and Heloise ' at Wyndham's Theatre: Wensley Pithey in 'The Jockey Club Stakes ' at the Duke of York's Theatre, London)
9.59 Weather

Contributors

Adapted By:
Eric Ewes
Unknown:
James Hanley
Unknown:
Rolf Lefebvre
Unknown:
Elspeth March
Unknown:
Rosalind Iden
Produced By:
Archie Campbell
Unknown:
Wensley Pithey
Thomas, a butler:
David Lloyd Meredith
Robert, aged 7 ADAM RICHARDSON Gabriel, his grandfather:
Rolf Lefebvre
Celia, Gabriel's second wife:
Rosalind Iden
Geoffrey and Arthur, his brothers:
Wensley Pithey
Geoffrey and Arthur, his brothers:
Antony Higginson
Agatha and Isobel, his sisters:
Elspeth March
Agatha and Isobel, his sisters and:
Janet Burnell
Elizabeth, his only daughter:
Margaret Wolfit
Dolphin, her husband:
Kerry Francis
Joan, a maidservant:
Oi.Wen Griffiths
Mrs Dora Dolphin:
Betty Baskcomb
Her daughter:
Sheila Grant
PC:
Patrick Tull

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