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7.0 News
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
8.0 News and more of Today
(including, in the Midlands and E Anglia, Regional Extra: and Today in the South and West introduced by DEREK JONES )
VHF East Anglia: see column 5
8.40 Today's Papers

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Introduced By:
Robert Robinson
Editor:
Alastair Osborne
Editor:
Marshall Stewart
Introduced By:
Derek Jones

Today: Music from Vienna
BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Marcus Dods
David McCallum (violin) Wilfrid Parry (piano)
Introduced by Peter Barker

Contributors

Presenter:
Peter Barker
Musicians:
BBC Concert Orchestra
Conductor:
Marcus Dods
Violinist:
David McCallum
Pianist:
Wilfrid Parry
Producer:
John Meloy

Five stories from the great Russian novelist selected and abridged by H. OLDFIELD BOX Reader Denys Hawthorne 1: Real Hussar Fashion (from Two Hussars)
' ... And in this lively fashion Count Turbin, the hussar, left the town of Kiev for ever.' Producer DAVID A. TURNER
(from Northern Ireland)

Contributors

Abridged By:
H. Oldfield
Reader:
Denys Hawthorne
Producer:
David A. Turner

Nancy Wise presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature: Your Budget
JEANINE MCMULLEN continues the monthly series in which listeners describe how they cope with the eternal problem of making ends meet.
Other topical items too, and What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see column 5

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeanine McMullen

Moonneel by J. MEADE FALKNER : abridged in ten parts by DONALD BANCROFT Read by PAUL DOUGLAS
In Mobnfleet on the Dorset coast, in 1758, smuggling is virtually a respectable way of life, though not to the Excise-men....
6: Solving the Cipher
Producer BRIAN MILLER (from Bristol)

Contributors

Unknown:
J. Meade Falkner
Read By:
Paul Douglas
Producer:
Brian Miller

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
5.58-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news

Contributors

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

Written by Ronnie Taylor

A lighthearted look at life in which Al airs the views of the silent majority on the subject of: The Generation Gap

Pianistic reflections by Peter Rostal and Paul Scaefer
Musical illustrations by Max Harris and his Amazing Dance Band

(Sunday's broadcast: R2)

Contributors

Writer:
Ronnie Taylor
Producer:
John Browell
Pianist:
Peter Rostal
Pianist:
Paul Schaefer
Musicians:
Max Harris and his Amazing Dance Band

Liza Goddard as Victoria and Yootha Joyce as Edna say You want it, we find it in the weeikly adventures of an agency: with JOHN BADDELEY , GERALD CROSS MARTIN FRIEND, SHEILA GRANT
OLWEN GRIFFITHS , LESLIE HERITAGE MICHAEL KILGARRIFF
CLIFFORD NORGATE , EVA STUART Script by TERENCE BRADY and CHARLOTTE BINGHAM
Producer JOHN BRIDGES

Contributors

Unknown:
Liza Goddard
Unknown:
Yootha Joyce
Unknown:
John Baddeley
Unknown:
Sheila Grant
Unknown:
Olwen Griffiths
Unknown:
Leslie Heritage
Unknown:
Michael Kilgarriff
Unknown:
Clifford Norgate
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 RONALD HARWOOD : adapted by the author from his novel with Zakes Mokae Nigel Hawthorne Amelia Bowman Hilda Kriseman Elizabeth Adare
The play takes place In and around Cape Town, South Africa. Time: the present day. George, a young Zulu, is in trouble with the police, his own people and his relatives. He seems to be the victim of some vicious plot - the fates are so often against him. Perhaps he is?
Mrs Sanders. JO MANNING WILSON Producer MARTIN JENKINS
(Nigel Hawthorne is in 'West of Suez ' at the Royal Court; Bloke Modisane. and Zakes Mokae in ' Boesman and Lena ' at the Young Vic; Andrew Sachs in ' A Voyage Round My Father' at the Haymarket Theatre, London) S.59 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Ronald Harwood
Unknown:
Zakes Mokae
Unknown:
Nigel Hawthorne
Unknown:
Amelia Bowman
Unknown:
Hilda Kriseman
Unknown:
Elizabeth Adare
Unknown:
Mrs Sanders.
Unknown:
Jo Manning Wilson
Producer:
Martin Jenkins
Unknown:
Nigel Hawthorne
Unknown:
Bloke Modisane.
Unknown:
Zakes Mokae
Unknown:
Andrew Sachs
George:
Zakes Mokae
Sergeant:
Rolf Lefebvre
Van Heerden:
Nigel Anthony
Mrs Valerie:
Hilda Kriseman
Jannie:
Nigel Hawthorne
Maria:
Amelia Bowman
Nancy:
Elizabeth Adare
Radio Announcer:
Andrew Sachs
Abel:
Sean Barrett
Betty:
Hilda Kriseman
Mbola:
Willie Jonah
Isaac:
Bloke Modisane
Mother:
Elizabeth Adare
Boy JO:
Manning Wilson
First policeman:
Sean Barrett
Second policeman:
Nigel Anthony
Kalanga:
Cosmo Pieterse
Mr Sanders:
Nigel Anthony
Harry:
Andrew Sachs
Insp Valerie:
Rolf Lefebvre

As the delegates to this year's Tnades Union Congress debate current industrial Droblems.
George Woodcock , cotton-weaver at the age of 12, Oxford graduate, and formerly the tuc's General Secretary, discusses his career in a series of five conversations with PETER JENKINS of The Guardian. Producer MARTIN cox

Contributors

Unknown:
George Woodcock
Unknown:
Peter Jenkins

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