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 Douglas Cameron
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 CLIVE CUNNINGHAM ) VHF East Anglia: see below
8.40 Today's Papers

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Introduced By:
Douglas Cameron
Introduced By:
Clive Cunningham

10.30 Halb gewonnen!
(An O-level course in German) 3: Arbeit im Rundfunk
Written and produced by STEPHEN KANOCZ
11.0 Singing Together 3: Introduced by FERGUS O'KELLY
11.20 Springboard
Animals and the Seasons by PADDY FEENY
11.40 Drama Workshop
2: Need. Written by CHARLES SAVAGE and ALAN PENN
Presented by PETER PACEY

Contributors

Produced By:
Stephen Kanocz
Presented By:
Peter Pacey

Derek Cooper presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today: Your Budget
The monthly series in which JOAN YORKE talks to listeners about where the money goes. Today she looks at the problems of flat-sharing.
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

2.0 Exploration Earth
3: Fish Farming in Scotland by BARRY CARMAN. (Radiovision)
2.20 The Music Box by GORDON REYNOLDS with MARI GRIFFITH
2.30 Speak. Making it Clear (1). Men and women: equal but different? ' Starters ' for group discussion? Compiled by BARRY CARMAN
2.40 Movement, Mime and Music 2 for the 9-to-ll-year-olds by BRIAN SANDERS

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Carman.
Unknown:
Gordon Reynolds
Unknown:
Mari Griffith
Unknown:
Barry Carman
Unknown:
Brian Sanders

Atlantic Rendezvous by WILLIAM MURRAY
Five episodes selected and abridged by NAN MACDONALD Read by Alan Moore
Part 1: The Pocket Battleship
In November 1940 William Murray , a young radio officer in the Merchant Navy, joins his ship the ss Tribesman. Three days out of Liverpool the ship. bound for India, leaves the convoy and sets her independent course towards the south Atlantic. A fortnight of heavy storms are followed by calm weather, but then.... Producer TREVOR HILL

Contributors

Unknown:
William Murray
Abridged By:
Nan MacDonald
Read By:
Alan Moore
Unknown:
William Murray

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

Presented By:
Robert Williams
Presented By:
Steve Race

byR.D.WINCFIELD with Kenneth Williams RICHARD CALDICOT as Sir Charles Prattle
JOSEPHINE TEWSON as Maisie CAROLINE BLAKISTON as Miss Gibbs LESLIE HERITAGE as Tomkins Chapter 1: Curious Yellow
KENNETH: We've all got our little secrets, haven'we? But you can'keep things hidden forever - so you are now going to hear about the side of me that no one knows.'
Other parts DAVID VALLA
MARTIN FRIEND, BARBARA YU LING NERYS HUGHES , NIGEL LAMBERT Scripts edited by GERRY JONES Producer KEITH WILLIAMS
(Richard Caldicot is in No Sex, Please-We're British' at the Strand Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Richard Caldicot
Unknown:
Sir Charles Prattle
Unknown:
Josephine Tewson
Unknown:
Maisie Caroline Blakiston
Unknown:
Miss Gibbs Leslie
Unknown:
David Valla
Unknown:
Barbara Yu Ling
Unknown:
Nerys Hughes
Unknown:
Nigel Lambert
Edited By:
Gerry Jones
Edited By:
Keith Williams

A panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Anne Scott-James and Denis Norden
In the chair Jack Longland (Repeated: Thursday, 12.25 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
Edward J. Mason
Unknown:
Dilys Powell
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Anne Scott-James
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Unknown:
Jack Longland

by VIJAY TENDULKAR translated from the Marathi by PRIYA ADARKAR
A group of friends perform mock trials as village entertainments. When as a rehearsal they pretend to try one of their number, a schoolmistress, for infanticide, it appears that not all the ' evidence ' is invented.
With HEATHER EMMANUEL
Producer MARGARET ETALL
9.59 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Vijay Tendulkar
Translated By:
Priya Adarkar
Unknown:
Heather Emmanuel
Producer:
Margaret Etall
Leela Benare, schoolmistress,the accused:
Ursula Mohan
Sukhatme. unsuccessful bar rister, Prosecuting and Defending Counsel:
Rafiq Anwar
Kashikar, a social worker, Chairman and Judge:
Renu Setna
Mrs Kashikar, Witness for the Prosecution:
Zohra Segal
Gopal Ponkshe. Post Office clerk and failed scientist Witness for the Prosecution:
Madhav Sharma
Raghunath Bhikaji Samant, a shy young villager, Witness for the Defence:
Sam Dastor
Balu Rokde, young protege of the Kashikars Usher and Witness for the Prosecution:
Marc Zuber
Karnik, an actor, Independent Witness:
Tariq Yunus

Robert McKenzie examines the art and craft of political oratory. Tonight he looks at politicians who have scored high marks on the public platform, including WINSTON CHURCHILL, FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT , ANEURIN BEVAN.
Producer ANNE DUNCAN-JONES

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert McKenzie
Unknown:
Franklin Roosevelt
Unknown:
Aneurin Bevan.

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