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The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anywhere on earth introduced bv 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:
Jack de Manio
Unknown:
John Timpson
Editor:
Alastair Osborne
Editor:
Marshall Stewart

French for Beginners
Lesson 25: Colette aide la police Written by RAYMOND ESCOFFEY
(A radiovision programme)
10.45 Interlude
10.47 Nous Voici ! 22: Roger A Paris
Written by PAULE-ALINE DENT (Third-year French)
11.1 Singing Together (22)
Script by DOUGLAS COOMBES
11.20 Springboard: Canals Script by NANCY MARTIN
Produced by JENYTH WORSLEY
11.40 Drama Workshop
' Hiawatha ' by LONGFELLOW Reader DAVID MARCH with music by MAGNA CARTA

Contributors

Written By:
Raymond Escoffey
Unknown:
Nous Voici
Script By:
Douglas Coombes
Script By:
Nancy Martin
Produced By:
Jenyth Worsley
Unknown:
Longfellow Reader David
Music By:
Magna Carta

Derek Cooper presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature: Your Budget
Now that Mr Barber 's Budget is over, JOAN YORKE continues the series in which she finds out how listeners cope with theirs. Today she looks at the special problems of managing on a small income.
Other topical items too. and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see column 2

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Cooper
Unknown:
Mr Barber
Unknown:
Joan Yorke

Because It's There
2: No Picnic on Mt Kenya
An adaptation by GARRY LYLE Of FELICE BENUZZI 'S book (Exploration Earth)
2.20 The Music Box by GORDON REYNOLDS With MARI GRIFFITH
2.30 My Kind and Your Kind
'A Drink in the Passage': a short story by ALAN PATON (Speak)
2.40 Movement, Mime, and Music 2 by GLYN HARRIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Mt Kenya
Unknown:
Garry Lyle
Unknown:
Of Felice Benuzzi
Unknown:
Gordon Reynolds
Unknown:
With Mari Griffith
Story By:
Alan Paton
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 Steve Race
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS
Editor
ANDREW BOYLE
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
Nicholas Woolley
Editor:
Derek Lewis
Unknown:
Andrew Boyle

A general knowledge contest between schoolchildren in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United Kingdom.

London team: Michael Davies, Elizabeth Sharp, John Peet
Question-master John Ellison
Winnipeg team: Richard Decter, Martha Barber, Lawrence Sokoloff
Question-master Bob Burton

(Also broadcast on the networks of ABC Australia, NZBC New Zealand and CBC Canada)

Producers, in Winnipeg Ken Bolton, in London Martin Fisher

Contributors

Question-master (London):
John Ellison
Contestant (London):
Michael Davies
Contestant (London):
Elizabeth Sharp
Contestant (London):
John Peet
Question-master (Winnipeg):
Bob Burton
Contestant (Winnipeg):
Richard Decter
Contestant (Winnipeg):
Martha Barber
Contestant (Winnipeg):
Lawrence Sokoloff
Questions set by:
Roy Smith
Producer (Winnipeg):
Ken Bolton
Producer (London):
Martin Fisher

Robert Dougall discusses with DEREK JONES his interest in wildlife and its conservation, and chooses some recordings from the BBC's Sound Archives. Produced by JOHN BURTON (from Bristol)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Dougall
Unknown:
Derek Jones
Produced By:
John Burton

by Thomas Murphy: adapted for radio by Eric Ewens
with Denys Hawthorne, Pauline Letts, Peter Jeffrey, Allan Cuthbertson, Geoffrey Matthews, Isobel Black

A Sunday afternoon in the autumn of 1846 in the Irish village of Glenconor. The potato crop has failed. The villagers are gathered to mourn the daughter of John Connor who has died of starvation.

Contributors

Author:
Thomas Murphy
Adapted by:
Eric Ewens
Producer:
Martin Jenkins
John Connor:
Denys Hawthorne
Mother, his wife:
Pauline Letts
Maeve, his daughter:
Isobel Black
Dan O'Dea:
Harry Webster
Liam Dougan:
Geoffrey Matthews
Mark:
Malcolm Hayes
Brian:
Clifford Norgate
Malachy O'Leary:
Sean Arnold
Mickeleen O'Leary:
Sean Barrett
Fr Horan:
John Franklyn Robbins
Justice of the Peace:
Peter Jeffrey
Capt Shine:
Allan Cuthbertson
Mr Simmington:
Clifford Rose
Fr Daly:
Gerald Cross
Clancy:
Edward Kelsey
Policeman:
Clifford Norgate
Policeman:
Edward Kelsey

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