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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

A mid-morning mixture for your enjoyment with CONTINENTAL ORCHESTRAS and JACK BRYMER (clarinet) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
Introduced by PETER DONALDSON Producer BARRY S. KNIGHT

Contributors

Clarinet:
Jack Brymer
Piano:
Wilfrid Parry
Introduced By:
Peter Donaldson
Producer:
Barry S. Knight

The biography of the legendary dancer written by his widow ROMOLA NIJINSKY abridged in ten parts by DEREK PARKER from Nijinsky and The Last Years of Nijinsky Read by ANNA BURDEN 6: The Final Dance
As his mind begins to crack. Nijinsky dances for the last time in public.

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Parker
Read By:
Anna Burden

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
The Cost of Litigation: going to law is notoriously expensive. but there are ways of keeping the costs down. LAURIE SAPPER explains. †
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 2

The Cruel Sea by NICHOLAS MONSARRAT abridged in ten episodes and read by GABRIEL WOOLF 6:1942 - Darkness
HMS Compass Rose has fought valiantly against the cruel sea as well as a cruel enemy for three punishing years. And now in 1942, in the bitterly cold sea off Iceland, the moment they have feared these long years has come. A U-boal has found them at last ...

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Monsarrat
Read By:
Gabriel Woolf

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

From the television series based on the characters created by A.J. Cronin
with Andrew Cruickshank as Dr Cameron, Barbara Mullen as Janet, Bill Simpson as Dr Finlay
This week: A Question of Conflict
Written by Tony Williamson and adapted by Pat Dunlop

Contributors

Writer:
Tony Williamson
Adapted by:
Pat Dunlop
Characters created by:
A.J. Cronin
Broadcast by arrangement with:
Graham Stewart
Producer:
Peter Titheradge
Dr Cameron:
Andrew Cruickshank
Janet:
Barbara Mullen
Dr Finlay:
Bill Simpson
Sister McKay:
Sonia Dresdel
Dr Snoddie:
Eric Woodburn
Mr Dewar:
Simon Lack
Nurse Henderson:
Christina Gray
Board member:
Douglas Blackwell
Almoner:
Trevor Martin

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

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
Edward J. Mason
Unknown:
Dilys Powell
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Anne Scott-James
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Unknown:
Jack Longland

Edgar Lustgarten reconstructs six of the most famous murder trials of this century.
4: The Chalk Pit Mw,
' Two days after the existent party ... Mudie's dead body was discovered. In a deserted chalk pit Discovered with clean shoes on ... though the surrounding ground looked like a swamp Discovered with a cord around. the neck....
Producer ROGER PINE †

Contributors

Unknown:
Edgar Lustgarten

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