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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 ARTHUR LEAVINS conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE DAVID MCCALLUM (violin) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
Introduced by ROY WILLIAMSON Producer JOHN MELOY

Contributors

Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Conductor:
Ashley Lawrence
Violin:
David McCallum
Introduced By:
Roy Williamson
Introduced By:
John Meloy

by A. PHILIPPA PEARCE abridged for radio in six parts by BERTHA LONSDALE
Besides trees and plants in the garden, Tom saw people. They all ignored him, however; he was obviously invisible to them, but one day he suddenly discovered that a little girl could see him ...
3: A Question of Ghosts Reader GEOFFREY BANKS
Producer HERBERT SMITH f

Contributors

Unknown:
A. Philippa Pearce
Producer:
Herbert Smith

Derek Cooper presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature:
Your Budget: JOAN YORKE talks to a young housewife who says that, as a result of having to spend so much of their income on rent, her family tend to live on ' lentil stew, sausage pie and hope.'
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
Talks:
Joan Yorke

by A. A. MILNE abridged by BARBARA SLEIGH Storyteller Bernard Cribbins 1: The Story Begins, and Piglet Meets a Heflalump
In which we are introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh, and he decides that there is only one reason for being a bee, and that is for making honey; and in which Piglet and Christopher Robin unmask the Horrible Heffalump.
Producer MARTIN JENKINS
(Radio Times People: page 5) Drawings by E. H. Shepard iromWinnie-the-Pooh (Methuen)

Contributors

Unknown:
A. A. Milne
Abridged By:
Barbara Sleigh
Unknown:
Bernard Cribbins
Producer:
Martin Jenkins
Unknown:
E. H. Shepard

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

5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news

Contributors

Presenter:
Robert Williams
Presenter:
Steve Race
Deputy Editor:
Derek Lewis
Editor:
Andrew Boyle

Liza Goddard as Victoria, Yootha Joyce as Edna say You want it, we find it in the weekly adventures of an agency
With Caroline Blakiston, Olwen Griffiths, Basil Henson, Edward Kelsey, Clifford Norgate, Eva Stuart, Margaret Wolfit

(Take one girl: page 11)

Contributors

Script:
Terence Brady
Script:
Charlotte Bingham
Producer:
John Bridges
Victoria:
Liza Goddard
Edna:
Yootha Joyce
[Actress]:
Caroline Blakiston
[Actress]:
Olwen Griffiths
[Actor]:
Basil Henson
[Actor]:
Edward Kelsey
[Actor]:
Clifford Norgate
[Actress]:
Eva Stuart
[Actress]:
Margaret Wolfit

A new panel game in which
Cyril Fletcher , June Whitfield Caryl Brahms and Graeme Garden converse in verse with their chairman Gyles Brandreth who devised the game
Poems read by DAVID BRIERLEY Producer SIMON BRETT
(Radio Times People: page 5)

Contributors

Unknown:
Cyril Fletcher
Unknown:
Whitfield Caryl Brahms
Unknown:
Graeme Garden
Unknown:
Gyles Brandreth
Read By:
David Brierley
Producer:
Simon Brett

A third childhood autobiography by R.C. Scriven
with
The author continues his memories of his early life in Yorkshire, describing his family, his days at school and his growing pains.

Contributors

Writer:
R.C. Scriven
Producer:
Charles Lefeaux
Narrator:
Stephen Murray
Grandmother:
Kathleen Helme
Grandfather:
David March
James Scriven:
Edward Kelsey
Jess:
Denise Bryer
Ronald Scriven:
Judy Bennett
Neville Scriven:
Jo Manning Wilson
Fred:
Jean England
G B Newport, MA:
Edward Kelsey
Great-aunt Jin:
Margot Boyd
Great-aunt Suff:
Betty Baskcomb
Mr Robb:
John Rye
Hugh Miles:
Brian Hewlett
Uncle Harold:
Nigel Lambert

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