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
8.40 Today's Papers

Contributors

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

9.30 Religious Service for Primary Schools
'Jesus the storyteller' by Robert Rietty
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.5 am)
9.50 Interlude
9.55 Movement and Music 2 for the 6-to-7-year-olds by James Dodding
(Monday's broadcast)

Contributors

Writer:
Robert Rietty
Presenter:
James Dodding

10.30 Marsh! 7: Travels
Written by VAUGHAN JAMES (Third-year Russian)
10.45 Intermediate German In der Sprechstunde
Written by HEINRICH MINDEN
11.0 Movement and Music 1 for the 5-to-6-year-olds by PENNY WHITTAM
11.20 Music Club
Presented by GARY TAYLOR
11.40 Religion la iu Contemporary Context
Searching for Truth: MARGRA-NITA laski reviews the last three programme* on the search for truth and concludes with her own contribution. (Sixth Form series)

Contributors

Written By:
Vaughan James
Written By:
Heinrich Minden
Unknown:
Penny Whittam
Presented By:
Gary Taylor
Unknown:
Nita Laski

Joan Yorke presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature: Your Home and Family
'Don'come and see me in the morning NIGEL reis has some advice for parents whose children wake them up too early.
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)
VIIF South West: see column 1

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan Yorke
Unknown:
Nigel Reis

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

2.0 Peoples of the World
A Golden Earring - Peru today and yesterday: part 1 Written by MARGERY MORRIS
2.20 Geography
France - conservation of the coast, by ARNOLD KEMP
2.40 Stories and Rhymes (7-9) ' A Prince, two Mice and some Kitchenmaids,' by E. NESBIT

Contributors

Written By:
Margery Morris
Unknown:
Arnold Kemp
Unknown:
E. Nesbit

by ROBERT BARR
A further Jim Nicholson adventure in six parts starring Edward de Souza
Bryden Murdoch , John Graham Geoffrey Frederick
Part 5: The Intruders
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:
Eward 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
Landlord:
Andrew Neil

From nest-robbing London schoolboy to the respected ornithologist of today - that is the story in brief of DESMOND NETHERSOLE-THOMPSON 's career. In this interview he tells DEREK COOPER how a growing enthusiasm led him from the heronry in Richmond Park to the study of bird life in the Scottish Highlands,

Contributors

Unknown:
Desmond Nethersole-Thompson
Unknown:
Derek Cooper

Villette by CHARLOTTE BRONTË Read by JUDY PARFITT
During her younger days Lucy Snowe had spent many happy times staying with her god-mother Mrs Bretton. Later their ways parted and at 22 Lucy found herself with no home and little money. She determined to break out anew and seek her living in France. while crossing the Channel she met a young Englishwoman who was at school in Villette. 2: The Rue Fossette

Contributors

Read By:
Judy Parfitt
Unknown:
Lucy Snowe
Unknown:
Mrs Bretton.

Ian Carmichael and Dinah Sheridan in The Back Stabbing Business with Derek Farr and Charlotte Mitchell and ANDREW JOHNS
FREDERICK TREVES
Written by GODFREY HARRISON Producer EDWARD TAYLOR

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Carmichael
Unknown:
Dinah Sheridan
Unknown:
Derek Farr
Unknown:
Charlotte Mitchell
Unknown:
Andrew Johns
Unknown:
Frederick Treves
Written By:
Godfrey Harrison
Written By:
Edward Taylor

Ring Robin Day to p[number removed]ut your questionin nprson to
The Rt Hon Richard Marsh Chairman of British Railways Board
To promote a maximum flow of questions, [number removed](16 lines) will take them from 6.0 pm onward, as well as while the programme is on the air. Producer WALTER WALLICH

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Marsh
Producer:
Walter Wallich

In China, as in all other countries, the year divides itself into seasons. One season which they have, and we do not. is the time during which people can make the six-hour swim from mainland Communist China to British Hong Kong. That season is now closed for this year. but before it closed Patricia Penn examined the year's catch - or toll - however you care to look at It. Written and compiled by PATRICIA PENN

Contributors

Unknown:
Patricia Penn

A look at the present plight and future shape of town and country
Compiled and introduced by Nicholas Taylor

Does out-of-town mean anti-town?
There is strong pressure from developers to build out-of-town shopping centres or hypermarkets, but most planning authorities have resisted this drastic change in social habits. Are such projects a menace to our cities or could they help to preserve them?

9.55 Weather

Contributors

Compiled and introduced by:
Nicholas Taylor
Producer:
Leonie Cohn

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