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 column 5
8.40 Today's Papers

Contributors

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

10.30 Marsh! 5: At the Theatre Written by VAUGHAN JAMES (Third-year Russian)
10.45 Intermediate German Und der Hund mir nach
Written by MILO SPERBER
11.0 Movement and Music 1 by PENNY WHITTAM
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.55 am)
11.20 Music Club
Presented by GARY TAYLOR
11.40 Religion in its Contemporary Context
Searching for Truth-2: ARTHUR PEACOCKE on ' Truth for the Scientist' (Sixth Form series)

Contributors

Written By:
Vaughan James
Written By:
Milo Sperber
Presented By:
Gary Taylor
Unknown:
Arthur Peacocke

Nancy Wise presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you.
Today: Your Home and Family ' Why has Daddy got no clothes on? ' Should one show all as well as tell all? An enquiry into this dilemma for progressive parents,
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see column 5

A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams Clement Freud
Peter Jones. Andree Melly try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer DAVID HATCH
(Repeated: Thurs, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Peter Jones.
Unknown:
Andree Melly
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
David Hatch

2.0 Peoples of the World
The House of Roses: a story about Mexico - part 1
Written by MARGERY MORRIS
2.21 Geography
Belgium - Pit Closures in the Borinage, by DAVID BLAKE
2.40 Stories and Rhymes (7-9) The Firebird: a Russian folk tale retold by SHIRLEY GOULDEN

Contributors

Written By:
Margery Morris
Unknown:
David Blake
Unknown:
Shirley Goulden

by ROBERT BARR
A further Jim Nicholson adventure in six parts, taking us back to the remote and lonely islands of the Outer Hebrides. starring Edward de Souza
Bryden Murdoch. John Graham Geoffrey Frederick Part 3: The Escape
Producer PETER TITHERADGE

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Barr
Unknown:
Jim Nicholson
Unknown:
Edward de Souza
Unknown:
Bryden Murdoch.
Unknown:
John Graham
Unknown:
Geoffrey Frederick
Producer:
Peter Titheradge
Jim Nicholson:
Edward de Souza
Ian McLeod:
Bryden Murdoch
Major Miller:
John Graham
Paul O'Donnejl:
Geoffrey Frederick
Sergeant Finney:
Clive Merrison
Alan Shaw:
Andrew Neil
Katy Evans:
Gretta Gouriet
Alec Rogers:
Ian Dewar
Doctor:
Gerald Cross

FRANKLIN ENGELMANN invites
FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL to answer questions which listeners have sent in by post Producer KENNETH FORD
Questions should be on postcards and addressed to Gardeners' Question Time, BBC, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9PX

Contributors

Unknown:
Franklin Engelmann
Unknown:
Bill Sowerbutts
Unknown:
Alan Gemmell
Producer:
Kenneth Ford

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

Contributors

Presented By:
William Hardcastle
Presented By:
Steve Race

Ian Carinichael and Dinah Sheridan in Marry Me. Marry My Family with Colin Gordon and Charlotte Mitchell and ANDREW JOHNS , PAULA WILCOX Written by GODFREY HARRISON Producer EDWARD TAYLOR

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Carinichael
Unknown:
Dinah Sheridan
Unknown:
Colin Gordon
Unknown:
Charlotte Mitchell
Unknown:
Andrew Johns
Unknown:
Paula Wilcox
Written By:
Godfrey Harrison
Written By:
Edward Taylor

Ring Robin Day to put your question in person to
Malcolm Muggeridge , author, broadcaster, former editor of Punch: champion against moral pollution and for a Christian revival.
To promote a maximum flow of questions, [number removed] (16 lines) will take them from 5.30 pm onward, as well as while the programme is on the air. Producer WALTER WALLICH

Contributors

Unknown:
Malcolm Muggeridge
Producer:
Walter Wallich

Kurt Gerstein - witness extraordinary
I told him what I'd seen at Belzec concentration camp and how it was only a part, a small part. I told him everything I knew. And nothing happened. He didn'seem to have heard me ... didn'seem to be listening.'
The story of an anti-Nazi German who infiltrated the ss so successfully that he was put in charge of the distribution of Cyclone B, the gas that was used in the death camps Written by MIKE STOTT
Narrated by ALLAN CUTHBERTSON and KATHLEEN MICHAEL with ALEX SCOTT as Kurt Gerstein Other voices PETER MARINKER ANTONY HIGGINSON and BARRIE COOKSON
Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING

Contributors

Unknown:
Kurt Gerstein
Written By:
Mike Stott
Unknown:
Allan Cuthbertson
Unknown:
Kathleen Michael
Unknown:
Alex Scott
Unknown:
Kurt Gerstein
Unknown:
Peter Marinker
Unknown:
Antony Higginson
Unknown:
Barrie Cookson
Producer:
Christopher Venning

A look at the present plight and future shape of town and country: compiled and introduced by Nicholas Tavlor
Regional Development: is it grinding to a halt?
The programme of new and expanding towns has brought new industry to depopulated rural counties, some of which have the lowest average wage levels in the country. Bu'. industry is now reluctant to move and thousands of new houses are standing empty in East Anglia. Speakers
BERNARD BROOK-PARTRIDGE, Chairman, Town Development Committee. GLC
WYNDHAM thomas, General Manager, Peterborough Develop-men
Corpn JAMES GORST , County Planning Officer, West Suffolk
JUDY HILLMAN. Planning Corresponden't, The Guarcliun Producer LEONIE COHN

Contributors

Duced By:
Nicholas Tavlor
Unknown:
Corpn James Gorst
Unknown:
Judy Hillman.
Producer:
Leonie Cohn

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