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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 Timpson
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:
Robert Robinson
Introduced By:
John Timpson
Editor:
Alastair Osborne
Editor:
Marshall Stewart
Introduced By:
Derek Jones

10.30 Halb gewonnen!
(An O-level course in German) 10: Wo war Gunter?
Written by STEPHEN KANOCZ †
11.0 Singing Together Request programme
Edited and produced by DOUGLAS COOMBES (10)
11.20 Springboard
The Sleeping Beauty
A pantomime with music by PENELOPE FARMER and JFNYTH WORSLEY special guest Jimmy SAVILE
11.40 Drama Workshop
6: Socialisation: written by CHARLES SAVAGE and ALAN PENN Presented by PETER PACEY

Contributors

Written By:
Stephen Kanocz
Produced By:
Douglas Coombes
Music By:
Penelope Farmer
Music By:
Jfnyth Worsley
Unknown:
Jimmy Savile
Written By:
Charles Savage
Unknown:
Alan Penn
Presented By:
Peter Pacey

Nancy Wise presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature:
Your Money - earning, saving and spending it
One man's experience of starting his own business: GEORGE LUCEtalks to optical engineer PHILIP ALIEN.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see column 2

Contributors

Unknown:
George Lucetalks

2.0 Exploration Earth
10: Along the Skyline Drive by JEREMY GIBSON
2.20 The Music Box by GORDON REYNOLDS
Producer ALBERT CHATTERLEY †
2.30 Speak
Speak for Yourself: examples of work done by listeners as follow-up to this term's broadcasts. Series editor JOHN KERRY
2.40 Movement, Mime and Music 2 by Brian SANDERS

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeremy Gibson
Unknown:
Gordon Reynolds
Producer:
Albert Chatterley
Editor:
John Kerry
Music By:
Brian Sanders

A Gull on the Roof by DEREK TANGYE arranged in five parts by MARVIN KANE
Read by Alan Gibson
Derek and Jean Tancye escape from London to make their home and a market garden in Cornwall. This is the story of Minack; other characters include Monty the cat and Hubert the gull.
Producer PAMELA HOWE (from Bristol)

Contributors

Unknown:
Marvin Kane
Read By:
Alan Gibson
Unknown:
Jean Tancye
Producer:
Pamela Howe

The news magazine that sums up your day and starts off your evening. Presented by Robert Williams and PM's reporting team Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news

Contributors

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

starring Richard Murdoch and Deryck Gnyler in Gone to Pot with NORMA RONALD
RONALD BADDILEY ,JOHN GRAHAM Written by EDWARD TAYLOR and JOHN GRAHAM
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Murdoch
Unknown:
Deryck Gnyler
Unknown:
Norma Ronald
Unknown:
Ronald Baddiley
Unknown:
John Graham
Written By:
Edward Taylor
Written By:
John Graham
Producer:
Edward Taylor

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 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Peggy Ashcroft Festival
We do not habitually get the pleasure of hearing the most moving voice on the English stage, that of Peggy Ashcroit , in a full recording of a great role (Ivor Brown : 1967) and With EILEEN ATKINS
ANTONY BROWN. EBWARD CADOICK SIMON CARTER , JOHN DAVIDSON HENRY DAVIES , MAVIS EDWARDS WILLIAM ELMHIRST ELIZABETH EVANS
KENNETH GILBERT , JOHN GRAYSON DEREK MAYHEW , NORMAN MILLER PETER PALMER
JOHN MURRAY SCOTT
JOHN SALWAY , GORDON SOUTFR ROY SPENCER. MOLLY TAPPER
PAMELA TAYLOR , GORDON WRIGHT Director PETER HALL with music by RAYMOND LEPPARD Radio adaptation and production by VICTOR MENZIES
(from Birmingham: shortened version of the 1957 broadcast by the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Company)
9.59 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
William Shakespeare
Unknown:
Peggy Ashcroft
Unknown:
Peggy Ashcroit
Unknown:
Ivor Brown
Unknown:
Eileen Atkins
Unknown:
Antony Brown.
Unknown:
Ebward Cadoick
Unknown:
Simon Carter
Unknown:
John Davidson
Unknown:
Henry Davies
Unknown:
Mavis Edwards
Unknown:
William Elmhirst
Unknown:
Elizabeth Evans
Unknown:
Kenneth Gilbert
Unknown:
John Grayson
Unknown:
Derek Mayhew
Unknown:
Norman Miller
Unknown:
Peter Palmer
Unknown:
John Murray Scott
Unknown:
John Salway
Unknown:
Gordon Soutfr
Unknown:
Roy Spencer.
Unknown:
Molly Tapper
Unknown:
Pamela Taylor
Unknown:
Gordon Wright
Director:
Peter Hall
Music By:
Raymond Leppard
Production By:
Victor Menzies
Narrator:
Patrick Wymark
A gentleman:
Thanebettany
First Lord:
Peter Celller
Second Lord:
Barry Warren
The Queen:
Joan Miller
Posthumus Leonatus, husband to Imogen ....:
Richard Johnson
Imogen, daughter to Cymbeline by a former Queen:
Peggy Ashcroft
Cymbeline, King of Britain:
Robert Harris
Pisanio, servant to Posthumus:
Mark Dignam
Cloten, son to the Queen by a former husband...:
Clive Revill
lachimo, an Italian:
Geoffrey Keen
Philario, an Italian, friend to Posthumus.:
Donald Layne-Smith
Cornelius, a physician:
James Wellman
A singer:
Rex Robinson
Caius Lucius, general of the Roman forces...:
Donald Eccles
Belarius, called Morgan:
Cyril Luckham
Guiderius and Arviragus. sons to Cymbeline, supposed sons to Morgan:
Robert Arnold
Guiderius and Arviragus. sons to Cymbeline, supposed sons to Morgan:
Brian Bedford
A Gaoler:
Julian Glover

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