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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
8.0 The News and more of Today
(including, in the Midlands and E Anglia, Regional Extra; and Todav in the South and West introduced by DEREK JONES ) VHF East Anglia: see below
8.46 Today's Papers

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jack de Manio
Introduced By:
John Timpson
Editor:
Alastair Osborne
Editor:
Marshall Stewart
Introduced By:
Derek Jones

French for Beginners
29: Qu'est-ce qui se passe?
Written by RAYMOND ESCOFFEY (Radiovision programme)
16.45 Interlude
16.47 Nous Voici !
26: Planète 217, Episode 2: Ravon 0 = !?
Written by MICHEL FAURE (Third-year French)
11.1 Singing Together (26)
Script by douglas coombes
11.20 Springboard. Experiments with Sound and Music, introduced by GLADYS WHITRED
11.40 Drama Workshop: ' The War of the Worlds' by H.G. WELLS with music and special sounds created by MALCOLM CLARKE Of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Series produced by DICKON REED

Contributors

Written By:
Raymond Escoffey
Unknown:
Nous Voici
Written By:
Michel Faure
Script By:
Douglas Coombes
Duced By:
Gladys Whitred
Unknown:
Malcolm Clarke
Produced By:
Dickon Reed

Nancy Wise presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature:
Your Budget: in which JOAN YORKE asks listeners how they make ends meet. Today she talks to a Hertfordshire housewife, married with three children. who works part-time to supplement her husband's income as a caretaker.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see column 2

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan Yorke

Look for Yourself 2: Gone Fishing
BERNARD VENABLES fishes for trout on the River Alre in Hampshire
(Exploration Earth)
2.20 The Music Box by GORDON REYNOLDS with MARI GRIFFITH
2.30 Space Travellers
' We are all space-travellers and our space ship is the Earth.' Poems: ' Report Back by JOHN COTTON and 'Budgie' by LOUIS MACNEICE. (Speak)
2.40 Movement, Mime, and Music 2 by GLYN HARRIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Venables
Unknown:
Gordon Reynolds
Unknown:
Mari Griffith
Unknown:
John Cotton
Music By:
Glyn Harris

The novel by DAPHNE du MAURIER abridged in eight parts by GORDON gow. Read by JILL BALCON 5: The Bay
' I knew now the reason for my sense of foreboding. It wasn'the stranded ship that was sinister ... was the stillness of the black water, and the unknown things that lay beneath.'
Produced by PAMELA HOWE

Contributors

Unknown:
Gordon Gow.
Read By:
Jill Balcon
Produced By:
Pamela Howe

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
Editor:
Andrew Boyle

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

Winnipeg team: Richard Decter, Martha Barber, Lawrence Sokoloff
Question-master Bob Burton

Sydney team: Charles Maddison, Igor Nossar, Colleen Guray
Question-master John Dease

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

Producers in Winnipeg Ken Bolton, in Sydney Hal Lashwood

Contributors

Question-master (Winnipeg):
Bob Burton
Contestant (Winnipeg):
Richard Decter
Contestant (Winnipeg):
Martha Barber
Contestant (Winnipeg):
Lawrence Sokoloff
Question-master (Sydney):
John Dease
Contestant (Sydney):
Charles Maddison
Contestant (Sydney):
Igor Nossar
Contestant (Sydney):
Colleen Guray
Questions set by:
Roy Smith
Producer (Winnipeg):
Ken Bolton
Producer (Sydney):
Hal Lashwood
Executive Producer:
Martin Fisher

In which travellers on the Southern Region pass their time like Chaucer's pilgrims by telling stories.
This week: The Tale of the Secondhand Car Salesman
Written and told by Peter Jones to GERALD CROSS and RONALD FORFAR
Produced by DAVID HATCH followed by an interlude

Contributors

Told By:
Peter Jones
Produced By:
David Hatch

by Frederick Bradnum
with Hugh Burden, Maurice Denham and Mary Wimbush

'Bunny' Bingham, formerly of the Foreign Office, defected to Russia but has now been allowed back into England under conditions of utmost secrecy. He has returned to die.

Contributors

Writer:
Frederick Bradnum
Producer:
John Tydeman
'Bunny' Bingham:
Hugh Burden
Lord Newham:
Maurice Denham
Sybil Pennington:
Mary Wimbush
Malcolm Phillipson:
William Fox
Nurse Mycroft:
Elizabeth Proud
Glyn Hacker:
John Rye
Dr Brown:
Michael Kilgarriff
Paul:
Garrick Hagon
Guy Soper:
Gerald Cross
Roderick Meredith:
John Wyse
Michael Linsky:
Andrew Sachs
Veronica Thorne:
Fiona Nicholson
Dounia Smerdyakova:
Magdalena Buznea

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