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The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anywhere on earth introduced by John Timpson and Robert Robinson
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:
John Timpson
Introduced By:
Robert Robinson
Editor:
Alastair Osborne
Editor:
Marshall Stewart

They are plants. They stand over seven feet high. They can walk and 'talk' and their sting can kill. When a world-wide disaster disables most of the human race, they seem to sense that their day has come...

The novel by John Wyndham abridged for radio
Read by Gabriel Woolf
(First of 15 instalments, broadcast Mondays-Fridays)

Contributors

Author:
John Wyndham
Reader:
Gabriel Woolf
Producer:
John Cardy

Today: Music from Vienna BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conducted by MARCUS DODS DAVID MCCALLUM (violin) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
Introduced by PETER BARKER Producer JOHN MELOY

Contributors

Conducted By:
Marcus Dods
Violin:
David McCallum
Piano:
Wilfrid Parry
Introduced By:
Peter Barker
Introduced By:
John Meloy

by A. PHILIPPA PEARCE abridged by BERTHA LONSDALE
Tom was fascinated by the way time jumped about during his visits to the Midnight Garden. He and Hatty had a quarrel when each accused the other of being a ghost.
4: The Tree House Brings Disaster
Reader GEOFFREY BANKS
Producer HERBERT SMITH

Contributors

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

Nancy Wise presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today: Your Money
Gamblers Anonymous: DAVID BROWN looks at a cure for one misuse of money.
Other topical items too, and What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see column 5

Contributors

Unknown:
David Brown

The celebrated novel about Roman Britain by ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF abridged in ten episodes by FELIX FELTON and SUSAN ASHMAN Read by David Davis 1: The Frontier Fort
Sometime about the year 117 AD the Ninth Legion, which was stationed at Eburacum, where York now stands, marched north to deal with a rising of the Caledonian tribes, and was never heard of again. Producer GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Unknown:
Roman Britain
Unknown:
Rosemary Sutcliff
Unknown:
Felix Felton
Unknown:
Susan Ashman
Read By:
David Davis
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
Unknown:
Steve Race
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 guest artist Deryck Guyler and GERALD CROSS, ERIC FRANCIS. HANNAH GORDON
Script by TERENCE BRADY and CHARLOTTE BINGHAM
Producer JOHN BRIDGES
(Radio Times People: page 4)

Contributors

Artist:
Deryck Guyler
Unknown:
Eric Francis.
Unknown:
Hannah Gordon
Script By:
Terence Brady

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

Contributors

Chairman/Devised by:
Gyles Brandreth
Panellist:
Cyril Fletcher
Panellist:
June Whitfield
Panellist:
Caryl Brahms
Panellist:
Graeme Garden
Reader:
David Brierley
Producer:
Simon Brett

by PETER RUSSELL with Sandor Eles as Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis
' The great revolution of modern times in obstetrics as well as in surgery is the result of the one idea that, complete and clear, first arose in the mind of Semmelweis, and was embodied in the practice of which he was the pioneer.'
The action takes place in Vienna and Buda between the years 1836 and 1865. ] Members of the Vienna Medical Faculty, students, nurses, patients and others
Producer ARCHIE CAMPBELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Russell
Unknown:
Sandor Eles
Unknown:
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis
Producer:
Archie Campbell
Aunt:
Olwen Griffiths
Von Epp:
,patrick Tull
Major von:
Clifford Norgate
Markusouszky:
Clifford Norgate
Hebra:
Clifford Norgate
Ludwig von Markusouszky:
John Rye
Carl Braun:
David Valla
Von Kleperman:
Leslie Heritage
Hirsch:
David Brierley
Professor Kolletschka:
Lewis Stringer
Katrin:
Jo Manning Wilson
Professor Skoda:
Edward Kelsey
Professor Klein:
Peter Tuddenham
Chiari:
Sean Barrett
Joseph Semmelweis:
Godfrey Kenton
Julia, his daughter:
Elaine Banham
Priest:
Michael Kilgarriff
Cornelius:
Michael Kilgarriff
Kussmaul:
John Paul
Von Arneth:
Peter Russell
Marie Weidenhofer:
Jane Knowles
Dr von Balassa:
Gerald Cross
Midwife:
Betty Baskcomb

What's the real person like behind the popular image of the ever-smiling beauty queen, the dashing pilot, the haughty head-waiter, the aristocratic landlord of a stately home or the wise-cracking holiday-camp comic? How do these people, who are particularly busy just now looking after or entertaining holidaymakers, see themselves, their jobs and their public?
To find out Monty Modlyn talks to them in this new series of five late-night conversations starting with BARBARA GILLMAN , the Beauty Queen.
Producer MICHAEL EMBER

Contributors

Talks:
Monty Modlyn
Unknown:
Barbara Gillman
Producer:
Michael Ember

abridged in five episodes by EILEEN CAPEL from
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by ANITA LOOS with Toby Robins as Lorelei, the girl from Little Rock, Arkansas
1: Fate Keeps on Happening
'Kissing a girl's hand may make her feel very very good, but a diamond and satire bracelet lasts forever.'

Contributors

Unknown:
Eileen Capel
Unknown:
Toby Robins

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