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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

A miscellany for morning listening
Today: Music from Vienna BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conducted by MARCUS DODS DAVID MCCALLUM (violin) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
Introduced by PETER BARKER Producer JOHN MELOY
(Radio Times People: page 4)

Contributors

Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Conducted By:
Marcus Dods
Violin:
David McCallum
Introduced By:
Peter Barker
Introduced By:
John Meloy

by A. PHILIPPA PEARCE abridged for radio in six parts by BERTHA LONSDALE
Tom has found out that Abel the gardener had seen and heard him all along, but pretended not to. Matters came to a crisis when Hatty fell out of the tree-house she and Tom were making, and cut her head badly.
5: Time, and Time Again Reader Geoffrey BANKS
Producer HERBERT SMITH

Contributors

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

Nancy Wise presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you.
Your Money - earning, saving and spending it
How much are you worth? Almost certainly more than you think. NORMAN MELBURN , a chartered surveyor, talks about the problem of under-insurance. Other topical items too, and What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see column 5

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman Melburn

The celebrated novel about Roman Britain by ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF abridged in ten episodes Read by DAVID DAVIS
Now that he could walk again Marcus conceived a plan that he and Esca should cross the Wall and attempt to find the lost Eagle of the Ninth Legion. 6:Across the Frontier

Contributors

Unknown:
Rosemary Sutcliff
Read By:
David Davis

The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening. 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 Yootha Joyce as Victoria as Edna say You want it, we find it in the weekly adventures of an agency with GERALD CROSS, MARTIN FRIEND BASIL HENSON , LESLIE HERITAGE EDWARD KELSEY , EVA STUART
Script by TERENCE BRADY and CHARLOTTE BINGHAM
Producer JOHN BRIDGES

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Friend
Unknown:
Basil Henson
Unknown:
Leslie Heritage
Unknown:
Edward Kelsey
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 Producer SIMON BRETT

Contributors

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

by D. H. LAWRENCE adapted by GUY VAESEN with 'I care just as much for you as ever.'
' It looks like it, when night after night you leave me sitting up here till near 11.0.' ' Once, Mother, once - and that was when it was her birthday.'
Beatrice Wyle.STEPHANIE TURNER Producer GUY VAESEN

Contributors

Unknown:
D. H. Lawrence
Adapted By:
Guy Vaesen
Unknown:
Stephanie Turner
Producer:
Guy Vaesen
Ernest:
Roy Spencer
Nellie:
Christine Welch
Mother:
Mary Griffiths
Gertie Coomber:
Jo Manning Wilson
Father:
David Brierley
Ernest:
Roy Spencer
Barker:
Neville Smith
Carlin:
George Woolley
Maggie Pearson:
Jane Knowles

An A-Z of South Africa's peoples and problems
In a series of five programmes ANGUS MCOERMID , the BBC'S Southern Africa correspondent. discusses the influences and pressures at work in the South African scene today.
1:The Rise of the AfrikanerProducer PADDY O'KEEFFE

Contributors

Unknown:
Angus McOermid

by WINIFRED HOLTBY abridged by MADGE HART Read by Annette Crosbie
Miss Sarah Burton , MA, BLitt, was much too small... Her hair was red, almost crimson. From her sensible walking shoes rose shapely ankles. Head-mistresses should not possess ankles as slender as a gazelle's and flexible arched insteps. Producer JOHN CARDY
(First of 17 instalments)

Contributors

Unknown:
Winifred Holtby
Abridged By:
Madge Hart
Read By:
Annette Crosbie
Read By:
Miss Sarah Burton
Producer:
John Cardy

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