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7.0 News
The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anywhere on earth introduced by Robert Robinson and John Tlmpson
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
8.40 Today's Papers

Contributors

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

Short story by SYLVIA LEWIN Read by JOAN MATHESON
' The house looked grim. Dark and Gothic behind its shrubs and creepers. I said something about not wanting to go on with it, especially as we weren'sure of our welcome, but Ralph pointed out that there seemed absolutely nowhere else.'

Contributors

Story By:
Sylvia Lewin
Read By:
Joan Matheson

9.30 Religious Service for Primary Schools
' Man for All the People ': an outside broadcast from Whitley South Primary School, Whitley Bay, Northumberland,
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.5 am)
9.50 Interlude
9.55 Movement and Music 2 for the 6-to-7-year-olds by JAMES DODDING

10.30 Marsh!
6: In the restaurant
Written by VAUGHAN JAMES (Third-year Russian)
10.45 Intermediate German Nicht jeder Stern glitzert Written by MILO SPERBER
11.0 Movement and Music 1 for the S-to-6-year-olds 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 - 3: ROBERT WALTON on 'Truth for the Religious Man ' (Sixth Form series)

Contributors

Written By:
Vaughan James
Written By:
Milo Sperber
Presented By:
Gary Taylor
Unknown:
Robert Walton

Joan Yorke presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature: Your Home and Family
In search of lodgings: GEOFFREY GREEN looks at the position of youngsters leaving home and in need of accommodation, Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
(Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA; or phone [number removed], extension 3030, and record your letter)
VHF South West: see column 1

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan Yorke
Unknown:
Geoffrey Green

A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams Clement Freud
Peter Jones , Andrle 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:
Andrle Melly
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
David Hatch

2.0 Peoples of the World
The House of Roses: a story about Mexico - part 2
Written by MARGERY MORRIS
2.20 Geography
France - Aluminium and the Savoie Landscape, by NORMAN TURNER. Series produced and edited by ALEX HUNTER
2.40 Stories and Rhymes (7-9) Bellerophon and Pegasus: a Greek legend retold by JUNE HODGE

Contributors

Written By:
Margery Morris
Unknown:
Norman Turner.
Edited By:
Alex Hunter

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 4.: The Prisoner
Producer PETER TITHERADGE
(Edward de Souza is in The Philanthropist ' at the May Fair Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Barr
Unknown:
Jim Nicholson
Unknown:
Edward de Souza
Unknown:
Bryden Murdoch
Unknown:
John Graham
Unknown:
Geoffrey Frederick
Producer:
Peter Titheradge
Jim Niehoison:
Edward de Souza
Ian McLeod:
Bryden Murdoch
Major Miller:
John Graham
Paul O'Donnell:
Geoffrey Frederick
Sergeant Finney:
Clive Merrison
Alan Shaw:
Andrew Neil
Katy Evans:
Gretta Gouriet
Alec Rogers:
Ian Dewar
Prisoner:
David Gooderson
Pilot:
Cuve Merrison

What was it like to be up against it in the London of 70 years ago or more? DAISY,' now in her 80s, never had it easy: with a feckless father and almost no money, she remembers queueing late at night to get the cheapest food; and a working life which began at the age of 13 in service. She reminisces with NANCY wise

visits Crieff in Perthshire
Members of the Strathearn Horticultural Society put their questions to:
JOHN LACEY , BILL SOWERBUTTS
ALAN GEMMELL. Question-master FRANKLIN ENGELMANN
Producer KENNETH FORD

Contributors

Unknown:
John Lacey
Unknown:
Bill Sowerbutts
Question-Master:
Alan Gemmell.
Question-Master:
Franklin Engelmann
Question-Master:
Kenneth Ford

Ian Carmichael and Dinah Sheridan in Keeping Up With the Talbots with Colin Gordon and Charlotte Mitcbell and SUZANNE KERCHISS , PETER CRAZE EDWARD KELSEY , JOHN BULL
Written by GODFREY HARRISON Producer EDWARD TAYLOR

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Carmichael
Unknown:
Dinah Sheridan
Unknown:
Colin Gordon
Unknown:
Suzanne Kerchiss
Unknown:
Peter Craze
Unknown:
Edward Kelsey
Unknown:
John Bull
Written By:
Godfrey Harrison
Written By:
Edward Taylor

[number removed]
Ring Robin Day to put your question in person to
Rt Hon Sir Keltn Joseph , mp Secretary of State for Social Services
To promote a maximum flow of questions, [number removed](16 lines) will take them from 6 pm onward, as well as while the programme is on the air. Producer WALTER WALLICH

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Keltn Joseph
Producer:
Walter Wallich

A second chance to hear
What Happened to Hancock? Written and introduced by PHILIP. OAKES
Throughout his career Tony Hancock was a perfectionist, searching for some indefinable and unattainable peak of ' pure' comedy. It was a search which brought him both triumph and disaster. He was still searching when he died tragically in Australia In June 1968. with contributions from
RALPH READER, BERYL VERTUE SYLVIA SYMS , SID JAMES
DUNCAN WOOD, MICHAEL WALE
RAY GALTON and ALAN SIMPSON Research and interviews by RITA DANDO
Producer MICHELL RAPER

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Hancock
Reader:
Beryl Vertue
Reader:
Sylvia Syms
Reader:
Sid James
Unknown:
Michael Wale
Unknown:
Ray Galton
Unknown:
Rita Dando
Producer:
Michell Raper

A look at the present plight and future shape of town and country: compiled and introduced by Nicholas Taylor The Owners of Our Cities
Large parts of our city centres are still in the hands of the same few noble landlords who created them. The Grosvenor Estate has just published a plan for the future of Mayfair. Are the great estates living up to their responsibilities? Speakers include:
GEORGE RIDLEY and J. N. C. JAMES , Trustees of the Grosvenor Estate
JOHN TAYLOR , Architect-Planner to the Grosvenor Estate
SIR JOHN SUMMERSON , author of Georgian London
COUNCILLOR HUGH CUBITT , Chairman of the Planning Committee, Westminster City Council Producer LEONIE COHN
9.59 Weather

Contributors

Duced By:
Nicholas Taylor
Unknown:
George Ridley
Unknown:
J. N. C. James
Unknown:
John Taylor
Unknown:
Sir John Summerson
Unknown:
Georgian London
Unknown:
Hugh Cubitt
Producer:
Leonie Cohn

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