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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
Deputy editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE Editor MARSHALL STEWART
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
Editor:
Alastair Osborne
Editor:
Marshall Stewart
Introduced By:
Derek Jones

10.30 Halb gewonnen!
O-level course in German (9) Written by STEPHEN KANOCZ
11.0 Singing Together Introduced by FERGUS O'KELLY 19)
11.20 Springboard
GLADYS WHiTRED takes the second rehearsal of The Sleepijig Beauty by PENELOPE FARMER and JENYTH WORSLEY
11.40 Interlude
11.45 Growing Up
Written by MARGARET SHEFFIELD (Radiovision)

Contributors

Written By:
Stephen Kanocz
Introduced By:
Fergus O'Kelly
Unknown:
Gladys Whitred
Unknown:
Penelope Farmer
Unknown:
Jenyth Worsley
Written By:
Margaret Sheffield

Derek Cooper presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature:
Your Money - earning, saving and spending it
Package ' Insurance: a look at a new trend in insurance policies to find out whether it provides good value,
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

2.0 Exploration Earth 9: Erskine Bridge by BARRY TURNER
2.20 The Music Box by GORDON REYNOLDS
With MAHI GRIFFITH
2.30 Speak
Conscience Versus Duty: a scene from the play Billy Budd by L. o. coxe and R. CHAPMAN
2.44 Movement, Mime and Music 2 by BRIAN SANDERS

Contributors

Unknown:
Erskine Bridge
Unknown:
Barry Turner
Unknown:
Gordon Reynolds
Unknown:
Mahi Griffith
Unknown:
Billy Budd
Unknown:
L. O. Coxe
Unknown:
R. Chapman
Music By:
Brian Sanders

The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening.
Including the latest news, the evening press, the City, the people and talking points of the day. Presented by Robert Williams and P.M's recording team Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW ROYLE
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
Robert Williams
Editor:
Derek Lewis
Editor:
Andrew Royle

by R. D. WINGFIELD with Kenneth Williams RICHARD CALDICOT as Sir Charles Prattle
JOSEPHINE TEWSON as Maisie CAROLINE BLAKISTON as Miss Gibbs and LESLIE HERITAGE as Tomkins Chapter 8: The Black Widow
. Other parts JOHN HOLLIS and ELIZABETH MORGAN
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:
R. D. Wingfield
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Richard Caldicot
Unknown:
Josephine Tewson
Unknown:
Maisie Caroline Blakiston
Unknown:
Leslie Heritage
Unknown:
John Hollis
Unknown:
Elizabeth Morgan
Edited By:
Gerry Jones
Edited By:
Keith Williams

A panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir u challenge Anne Scott-James and Denis Norden
In the chair Jack Longland

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 ANTON CHEKHOV translated by DAVID MAGARSHACK A World Theatre presentation with Irene Worth. Ian McKellen Zena Walker , Hugh Burden and Jack May
The action takes place on Sorin's country estate in 1896. Producer CHARLES LEFEAUX
(Radio Times People: page 5) followed by an interlude
9.59 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Anton Chekhov
Translated By:
David Magarshack
Unknown:
Irene Worth.
Unknown:
Ian McKellen
Unknown:
Zena Walker
Unknown:
Hugh Burden
Producer:
Charles Lefeaux
Semyon Medvyedenko a school-master:
Anthony Jackson
Masha, Shamrayev's daughter:
Barbara Mitchell
Pyotr Sorin, Arkadina brother:
Ronald Herdman
Konstantin, Arkadina's son:
Ian McKellen
Nina, a young girl:
Zena Walker
Yakov, a workman:
Bernard Brown
Polina, Shamrayev's wife:
Marjorie Westbuhy
Yevgeny Dorn, a doctor:
Jack May
Shamrayev, manager of Sorin's estate:
Victor Lucas
Madame Irina Arkadina an actress:
Irene Worth
Boris Trigorin, a novelist:
Hugh Burden

Yuki by RONALD KIRKBRIDE abridged by HONOR WYATT Read by Gary Watson
Handsome Johnny Galahad from' Tonbridge Village.' De. licious, determined Miss Yuki Okano from Japan. They would make such a beautiful pair if only they could meet up again. But Johnny was proving so elusive ...
Producer JOHN CARDY
(First of ten instalments)

Contributors

Unknown:
Ronald Kirkbride
Abridged By:
Honor Wyatt
Read By:
Gary Watson
Unknown:
Johnny Galahad
Producer:
John Cardy

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