Programme Index

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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
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 below
8.4t Today's Papers

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Introduced By:
Robert Robinson
Introduced By:
Derek Jones

In which you meet interesting and unusual people from all walks of life.
It Don'Seem a Day Too Much EMILY WILLIAMS and NELLIE GILES have been working together now for more than 50 years. Mrs Williams owns one of London's best known fish restaurants and Nellie is her chief oyster-opener.
They talk to DEREK COOPER Producer SUSAN ERLBECK

Contributors

Unknown:
Emily Williams
Unknown:
Nellie Giles
Unknown:
Mrs Williams
Unknown:
Derek Cooper
Producer:
Susan Erlbeck

10.30 Voix de France: 1: La Bataille d'Hernani
Written by Max Bellancourt (Sixth Form French)
10.50 A Corner for Music: 1: Starting and Stopping
by Albert Chatterley
(This programme should be tape-recorded)
11.0 Deutsch fur die Oberstufe: Dantons Tod
by Georg Buchner adapted by Hugo F. Garten
11.2* Listening and Writing: Big Fish, Little Fish
by Italo Calvino
Reader Michael Smee
11.40 Prospect: Current Affairs
12.0 Announcements

Contributors

Writer (Voix de France):
Max Bellancourt
Presenter (A Corner for Music):
Albert Chatterley
Author (Dantons Tod):
Georg Buchner
Adapter (Dantons Tod):
Hugo F. Garten
Writer (Big Fish, Little Fish):
Italo Calvino
Reader (Big Fish, Little Fish):
Michael Smee

Joan Yorke presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature: Your Own Time
'An exhilarating experience': Colin Reid has a go at the popular sport of gliding, And other topical items too.
VHF South West: see col 2

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan Yorke
Unknown:
Colin Reid

starring Kenneth More with Ewan Roberts and Jean Harvey written by JACK ROFFEY 8: Pictures in the Fire
One is inclined to believe someone with a title more readily than someone in a cloth cap. It is a dangerous assumption, particularly as an upper-class tongue can often be a very clever one.
Producer
ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth More
Unknown:
Ewan Roberts
Unknown:
Jean Harvey
Written By:
Jack Roffey
Unknown:
Alastair Scott Johnston
Simon Crawford QC:
Kenneth More
Hamish Gillespie:
Ewan Roberts
Sheila Grant:
Jean Harvey
Anna Villaresi:
Betty Kaskcomb
Mr Wood:
Antony Higginson
Charles:
Brian Hewlett
Mr Eley:
Patrick Tull
Judge:
John Ruddock
Shopkeeper:
Kerry Francis

2.6 Let's Join In
Little Dog Turpie
2.20 Art and Design: Chagall
Selections from My Life by Marc Chagall , translated by DOROTHY WILLIAMS : arranged and produced by JOAN GRIFFITHS (Radiovision)
2.40 Guitar School
Edited and produced by DOUGLAS COOMBES

Contributors

Unknown:
Marc Chagall
Translated By:
Dorothy Williams
Produced By:
Joan Griffiths
Produced By:
Douglas Coombes

Selected for Friday
An Arm for England by MICHAEL DRIN with John Bentley as Sir Horatio Nelson in this story of a life and a death at sea
Producer DAVID GEARY
A chance to hear again some of the best one-hour plays broadcast in recent years.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Bentley
Unknown:
Horatio Nelson
Producer:
David Geary
Sam Sproule:
Lockwood West
Tom Scully:
John Bryning
Jonathan Parkes:
John Gabriel
Capt Ball:
Philip Morant
Capt Saumarez:
Michael Kilgarriff
Capt Berry:
Peter Williams
Capt Hardy:
John Pullen
Capt Troubridge:
Frederick Treves
William Pitt:
Godfrey Kenton
Lady Hamilton:
Gudrun Ure
Capt Blackwood:
Garard Green
Lieut Pasco:
Michael Deacon
Chief Surgeon Beatty:
Charles Simon

The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening. Presented by William Hardcastle and Roger Cook
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
William Hardcastle
Presented By:
Roger Cook

A spontaneous discussion by DAVID FRANKLIN , LORD MANCROFT THE RT HON RICHARD MARSH JACKY GILLOTT
Chairman DAVID JACOBS Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from The Watson Hall ,
Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire (Repeated: Sat, 1.15 pm)
Listeners' views for use in Any AnswersT should be sent to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Unknown:
David Franklin
Unknown:
Richard Marsh
Unknown:
Jacky Gillott
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Producer:
Michael Bowen
Unknown:
Watson Hall

A Monetary Turning-Point
In the wake of President Nixon's far-reaching economic measures, the 118 members of the International Monetary Fund meet in Washington on Monday to try to reconcile conflicting national interests and aims in search of monetary stability.
What are the economic and political implications of the American measures? What kind of international financial arrangements can we expect? Presented by Ian Mclntyre Producer GEORGE FISCHER f
9.59 Weather

Contributors

Presented By:
Ian McLntyre
Presented By:
George Fischer

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