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The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anywhere on earth introduced by Jack de Manio in London and John Timpson in Luxembourg
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

A children's extravaganza by John Parry and Michael Jessett
Performed by La Maitrise, the Children's Choir of ORTF directed by Jacques Jouineau

(Music Workshop 2)

Contributors

Writer:
John Parry
Writer:
Michael Jessett
Singers:
La Maitrise
Music Director:
Jacques Jouineau
Producer:
William Murphy

Foreign Correspondent
Introduced by GRAHAM TAYAR
11.0 Inquiry. When I'm 64
Compiled by SIMON CLEMENTS (for the 15-16 age group)
11.20 Discovery
Round-up programme: children in schools talk about work based on programmes in the series
11.40 Contemporary History
8: Human Rights and Group Prejudice
Written and produced by ALAN EREIRA

Contributors

Introduced By:
Graham Tayar
Unknown:
Simon Clements
Produced By:
Alan Ereira

Derek Cooper presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature: Your Rights and Responsibilities
Inexperienced Travellers: how do you get a passport? How can you make the best use of your duty-free concessions? JOAN YORKE finds out.
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:
Joan Yorke

with Bernard Miles. Betty Marsden Written by HARRY IBBETSON based on the characters in the Larkin family saga by H. E. BATES
11: Happy Return.'
Pop, Ma and the whole Larkin family return from their holiday in Ramsgate to find that all is anything but well at home.
Produced by ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
(Repeated: Saturday, 8.0 pm) 1245 Weather, information and news for your area

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Miles.
Unknown:
Betty Marsden
Written By:
Harry Ibbetson
Unknown:
H. E. Bates
Produced By:
Alastair Scott Johnston
Pop:
Bernard Miles
Ma:
Betty Marsden
Rev John Candy:
Alaric Cotter
Charley:
Michael Harbour
Mariette:
Alexa Romanes
Circus Man:
Antony Higginson
Josh Mattock:
Antony Higginson

by ARTHUR SWINSON with Simon Lack as the MoH
It seemed to be trichinosis - so pork was the likely suspect. And the first victim had been eating pork sausages ...
Produced by DAVID GEARY

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Swinson
Unknown:
Simon Lack
Produced By:
David Geary
Dr John Fearnback:
Simon Lack
Rosemary:
Pamela Craig
Dr Gillian Fisher:
Sheila Mitchell
Mrs Milford:
Sheelah Wilcocks
Dr Peter Lake:
Eric Allan
Sleddon:
Peter Hill
Mrs Wilcox:
Eva Stuart
Dr Ian Hayman:
Nigel Anthony
Mr Pooley:
Ronald Herdman
Carol:
Sarah Grazebrook
Mr Everitt:
Lewis Stringer
Ackroyd:
Bartlett Mullins

A Bristol Memoir 1939-1943 by Felix Felton.

At the outbreak of war in 1939 Felix Felton was the very young BBC Programme Director at Bristol who found himself suddenly in charge of some unusual and highly distinguished evacuees from London programme departments, all having to pull together to keep radio going during the Battle of Britain.

In this programme he relates some of the extraordinary things that happened to him, to the BBC, and to Bristol during the early years of the conflict.

Contributors

Writer:
Felix Felton
Produced by:
Brian Miller

by DUNCAN KYLE abridged for radio in five parts by BERTHA LONSDALE
This is the story of what happened to Dr John Edwards, from Westmorland in England, when he was living in an apartment in New York. 1: Theft of an Envelope Reader GEOFFREY WHEELER
Produced by HERBERT SMITH (from Manchester)

Contributors

Unknown:
Duncan Kyle
Unknown:
Bertha Lonsdale
Reader:
Geoffrey Wheeler
Produced By:
Herbert Smith

The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening. Presented by William Hardcastle and Steve Race
5. 50-6. Regional news, weather and programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
William Hardcastle
Presented By:
Steve Race

by BERRIE DAVIS with Mary Wimbush
' You can'do much with recriminations, self or otherwise; that's negative, that is. But you switch to a bit of positive thinking; you can build on that because it's solid. The other's about as solid as shifting sand.'
Produced by BRIAN MILLER (from Bristol)

Contributors

Unknown:
Berrie Davis
Unknown:
Mary Wimbush
Produced By:
Brian Miller
Aunt Ag:
Betty Baskcomb
Fiona:
Eva Stuart
Sarah:
Mary Wimbush
Mark:
John Crocker
Mr Cooper:
Francis Lunt
Mrs Cooper:
Ruby Luscombe
Joe Hardacre:
John Rye

with MAGNUS MAGNUSSON who casts an eye over some new novels and talks to JULIAN HALE about his Ceausescu's Romania (published tomorrow) and PETER O'CONNOR whose Walking Good (also out tomorrow) records his ' travels to music ' through Romania and Hungary
PAUL JOHNSON reviews The Working Classes in Victorian Fiction by P. J. Keating and a collection of Working Class Stories of the 1890s which includes Kipling's The Record of Badalia Herodsfoot
A. s. BYATT discusses three new autobiographies embracing aspects of English society from the 1870s to the 1930s. Produced by DAN ZERDIN
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.45 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Magnus Magnusson
Unknown:
Julian Hale
Unknown:
Peter O'Connor
Unknown:
P. J. Keating
Unknown:
Badalia Herodsfoot
Produced By:
Dan Zerdin

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