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The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anywhere on earth introduced by Robert Robinson and Douglas Cameron
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

Introduced By:
Robert Robinson
Introduced By:
Douglas Cameron
Editor:
Alastair Osborne
Editor:
Marshall Stewart

A miscellany for morning listening
Today: Music from Vienna BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARNIUR LEAVINS conducted by KENNETH MONTGOMERY and DAVID MCCALLUM (violin) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
Introduced by ROY WILLIAMSON Producer JOHN MELOY

Contributors

Leader:
Arniur Leavins
Conducted By:
Kenneth Montgomery
Violin:
David McCallum
Introduced By:
Roy Williamson
Introduced By:
John Meloy

by A. PHILIPPA PEARCE abridged for radio in six parts by BERTHA LONSDALE
The big house had no garden - only a paved backyard-but one night when the grandfather clock struck 13, Tom found the hall furnished as it must have been long ago; and opening the back door, he saw a large beautiful garden. 2: Explorations
Reader GEOFFREY BANKS
Producer HERBERT SMITH (from Manchester)

Contributors

Unknown:
A. Philippa Pearce
Unknown:
Bertha Lonsdale
Producer:
Herbert Smith

Derek Cooper presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today: Your Money - earning, saving and spending it
Should mortgage interest rates go down? A financial journalist puts the case in favour and a member of the Building Societies Association replies. Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West:

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Cooper

GERALD DURRELL'S book about his South American animal collection expedition: abridged and read in four parts by PETER BILLINGSLEY
4: Homeward bound
A final encounter with a cayman. Then it is time to leave South America and ship the collection of 500 animals back to England.
Producer GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Billingsley
Producer:
Graham Gauld

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 Robert Williams and Steve Race
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
Robert Williams
Editor:
Derek Lewis
Editor:
Andrew Boyle

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

Wellington team: Alison Miller, Rosalind Salas, Leslie Galler
Question-master Lyell Boyes

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 Wellington Graeme Ross, in Sydney Hal Lashwood

Contributors

Question-master (Wellington):
Lyell Boyes
Contestant (Wellington):
Alison Miller
Contestant (Wellington):
Rosalind Salas
Contestant (Wellington):
Leslie Galler
Question-master (Sydney):
John Dease
Contestant (Sydney):
Charles Maddison
Contestant (Sydney):
Igor Nossar
Contestant (Sydney):
Colleen Guray
Questions set by:
Roy Smith
Producer (Wellington):
Graeme Ross
Producer (Sydney):
Hal Lashwood
Executive Producer:
Martin Fisher

by LILLIAN HELLMAN adapted for radio by GUY VAESEN
' I know every foot of this house. It was the great summer mansion and as kids we were here more than we were at home-The great summer mansion! Did the house change, or me? '
September 1949: the Tuckerman house in a summer resort on the Gulf of Mexico, about 100 miles from New Orleans.
Producer DAVID H. GODFREY

Contributors

Unknown:
Lillian Hellman
Producer:
David H. Godfrey
Rose Griggs:
Margaret Robertson
Mrs Mary Ellis:
Betty Hardy
General Benjamin Griggs:
Stuart Nichol
Edward Crossman:
Hayne Ryan
Carrie Ellis:
Helen Horton
Frederick Ellis:
Blain Fairman
Sophie Tuckerman:
Patricia Gallimore
Constance Tuckerman:
Joan Miller
Hilda:
Jo Manning Wilson
Nina Denery:
Jane Jordan Rogers
Nicholas Denery:
Edward Bishop
Leon:
Nigel Anthony

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