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The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anywhere on earth introduced by Douglas Cameron and Malcolm Billings
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50-8.0 Regional news, weather and programme news

Contributors

Introduced By:
Douglas Cameron
Introduced By:
Malcolm Billings

A new holiday science programme with a difference.... you can take part!
Paddy Feeny will be phoning children all over the country and putting them on the line to the panel of resident scientists. You can talk to Patrick Moore about space travel and astronomy, and to Professor Richard Gregory about inventions and how the brain works.
This week's guest is Professor Eric Ash. who would be interested to answer questions about the way everything and anything in the world works.
You can hear ARTHUR GARRATT telling you how to use yourself as a guinea-pig for some amusing experiments.
If you would like a chance to talk on the telephone to the experts, send your question on a postcard, giving your name. age and telephone number, to:
Dial a Scientist, BBC. Broadcasting House. London WIA 1AA Producer ALISTAIR BROWN

Contributors

Unknown:
Paddy Feeny
Unknown:
Patrick Moore
Unknown:
Professor Richard Gregory
Unknown:
Eric Ash.
Unknown:
Arthur Garratt
Producer:
Alistair Brown

Joan Yorke presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you.
Today's main feature: Your Rights and Responsibilities
Buying a Flat: a chartered surveyor, NORMAN MELBURN. discusses some of the problems that may arise.
Other topical items too, and What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see col

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan Yorke
Unknown:
Norman Melburn.

by R. D. WINGFIELD with Kenneth Williams
Chapter 2: Brief Encounter
KENNETH: 'We've all got our little secrets, haven'we? But you can'keep things hidden forever - so you are now going to hear about the side of me that no one knows.'
Other parts NIGEL ANTHONY
JOHN G. HELLER , DAVID VALLA Organ played by TED TAYLOR
Scripts edited by GERRY JONES Producer KEITH WILLIAMS
(Kenneth Williams is in ' Captain Brassbound's Conversion ' at the Cambridge Theatre, London; Richard Caldicot in No
Sex, Please -We're British at the Strand Theatre, London)
12.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
R. D. Wingfield
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Nigel Anthony
Unknown:
John G. Heller
Played By:
Ted Taylor
Edited By:
Gerry Jones
Edited By:
Keith Williams
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Sir Charles Prattle:
Richard Caldicot
Maisie:
Josephine Tewson
Miss Gibbs:
Caroline Blakiston
Tomkins:
Leslie Heritage

by BRIAN HAYLES
As a ' Samaritan ' Arnold Metcalfe has grown accustomed to helping strangers. When his wife suspects that he needs help she enlists the aid of Inspector Lench ...
Producer JAMES DUCKETT (from Birmingham)
(Brian Miller is in ' How the Other Half Loves' at the Lyric Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Hayles
Producer:
James Duckett
Unknown:
Brian Miller
Arnold Metcalfe:
John Bott
Helen Metcalfe:
Ursula O'Leary
Inspector Lench:
John Malcolm
Constable Parker:
Brian Miller
JO:
Barry McGinn
Harris:
George Woolley
Desk Sgt:
George Woolley

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

Contributors

Presented By:
Robert Williams
Presented By:
Roger Cook

by R. D. WlNGFIELD
' As we've said sir, reasons are rarely adequate when we try to explain them to other people.'
Producer ROGER PINE
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.0 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
R. D. Wlngfield
Det-Insp Nuttall:
Frederick Treves
David Hallet:
John Pullen
Clare Hatiet:
Alethea Charlton
Det-Sgt Dalton:
John Samson
Dr Fuller:
Douglas Blackwell
Jordan j:
J Murphy
Man at station:
Martin Friend
John Foster:
John Rye
Bank manager:
Antony Higginson
Police Constable:
Jullan Fox

Presented by Philip Oakes, who makes some personal choices and introduces
Kenneth Allsop on The Magic of the Senses, 'new discoveries in animal perception' by Vitus B. Droscher
Alexander Walker commenting on recent film paperbacks including Carlos Clarens's Horror Movies and Ivan Butler's The Making of Feature Films
Lena Jeger, MP, and Barry Took discussing some favourite books available between soft-covers
(Repeated: Thurs, 3.45 pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Philip Oakes
Unknown:
Kenneth Allsop
Unknown:
Alexander Walker
Unknown:
Lena Jeger
Producer:
Philip French

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