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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 column 5
8.40 Today's Papers

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones

10.30 Marsh!
11: Leningrad - Hero City Written by VAUGHAN JAMES (Third-year Russian)
10.45 Intermediate German Der Nusskaspar
Written by MILO SPERBER
11.0 Movement and Music 1 for the 5-to-6-year-olds by PENNY WHITTAM
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.55 am)
11.20 Music Club
Presented by GARY TAYLOR
Producer ALBERT CHATTERLEY
11.40 Religion in its
Contemporary Context
The first pair of DAVID PINNER 'S short plays
Seven and a Half Deadly Sins Introduced by RALPH ROLLS (Sixth Form series)

Contributors

Written By:
Vaughan James
Written By:
Milo Sperber
Unknown:
Penny Whittam
Presented By:
Gary Taylor
Producer:
Albert Chatterley
Unknown:
David Pinner
Introduced By:
Ralph Rolls

Presenter Jeanine McMullen Your Home and Family
The Pitfalls of Modern Marriages: in just ten years the reasons for the breakdown of marriages have changed most unexpectedly. NIGEL MURPHY reports.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see column 5

Contributors

Presenter:
Jeanine McMullen
Unknown:
Nigel Murphy

A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams
Clement Freud , Peter Jones Andrte Melly try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer DAVID HATCH
(Repeated: Thursday, 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:
Andrte Melly
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
David Hatch

2.0 Peoples of the World
Japan Today: The Fujisawa Family - written by PRUE DEMPSTER and DUNCAN TAYLOR
2.20 Geography
Berlin - a divided city. by CARL DUERING
Producer ALEX HUNTER
2.40 Stories and Rhymes (7-9) Home for Tea: poetry

Contributors

Written By:
Prue Dempster
Written By:
Duncan Taylor
Unknown:
Carl Duering
Producer:
Alex Hunter

by HUGH WALPOLE dramatised in 12 episodes Book 1: Rogue Herries adapted for radio by SHAUN SUTTON
1: Father and Son in Borrowdale
Other parts played by DAVID MAHLOWE , JOSEPH HOLMES
FREDERIC WILSON , RONALD SCALES MARAH STOHL , SUSAN ROBINSON and STEPHEN BENT
Special effects prepared by DAVID FLEMING-WILLIAMS
Theme music composed by PAUL FERRIS
Producer TREVOR HILL (from the North)

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh Walpole
Unknown:
Shaun Sutton
Played By:
David Mahlowe
Played By:
Joseph Holmes
Played By:
Frederic Wilson
Played By:
Ronald Scales
Played By:
Marah Stohl
Played By:
Susan Robinson
Played By:
Stephen Bent
Unknown:
David Fleming-Williams
Composed By:
Paul Ferris
Producer:
Trevor Hill
David, a young man:
Jack Watson
Benjamin, the servant:
Geoffrey Banks
Francis Herries, David's father:
Kenneth Haigh
Margaret Herries:
Sonia Eluman
Alice Press:
Edythe French
Father Roche:
Tom Harrison
David, a boy:
John Harvi
Rosen:
Richard Griffiths
Mirabell:
Elizabeth Kelly
Richard Osbaldistone:
Ronald Harvi

visits Cowley in Oxfordshire
Members of the Royal Oxfordshire Horticultural Society put their questions to:
FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL. Question-master FRANKLIN ENGELMANN
Producer KENNETH FORD

Contributors

Unknown:
Fred Loads,
Unknown:
Bill Sowerbutts
Question-Master:
Alan Gemmell.
Question-Master:
Franklin Engelmann
Producer:
Kenneth Ford

'twixt
Isobel Barnett
Eleanor Summerfield and Richard Murdoch , David Nixon Tune-twisters from STEVE RACE Chairman ROY PLOMLEY Devised and written by IAN MESSITER
Producer PETER TITHERADGE

Contributors

Unknown:
Isobel Barnett
Unknown:
Eleanor Summerfield
Unknown:
Richard Murdoch
Unknown:
David Nixon
Unknown:
Steve Race
Unknown:
Roy Plomley
Written By:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
Peter Titheradge

[number removed]Ring Robin Day in this specially extended two-hour edition which gives you a chance to put your question on Northern Ireland in person to
Rt Hon Roy Bradford. Minister of Development in the Northern Ireland Government
Bernadette Devlin , Independent MP for Mid Ulster
John Hume. Social Democratic Labour Party Member of Stormont for the Foyle Division of Londonderry
The Rev Martin Smyth , Grand Master of the County Orange Lodge of Belfast
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:
Rt Hen Roy Bradford.
Unknown:
Bernadette Devlin
Unknown:
John Hume.
Unknown:
Martin Smyth
Producer:
Walter Wallich

A look at the present plight and future shape of town and country: compiled and introduced by Nicholas Taylor The Future of Severnside
Within the last few weeks the M4 has been completed from London to Wales, and the M5 from the Midlands has joined it near Bristol. A recent Government report made proposals for major growth around the Severn Estuary. What will be the effect on the existing environment, from cities to sea-birds?
Speakers include:
PETER scott , Director, Wildfowl Trust. Slimbridge
PROFESSOR RAYMOND THOMAS , author of a study on the effects of the Severn Bridge
RICHARD HILL , Bristol ship-owner
RON NETHERCOTT , District Secre tary. Transport and General Workers' Union
Producer LEONIE COHN
9.59 Weather

Contributors

Duced By:
Nicholas Taylor
Unknown:
Peter Scott
Unknown:
Professor Raymond Thomas
Unknown:
Richard Hill
Unknown:
Ron Nethercott
Unknown:
District Secre
Producer:
Leonie Cohn

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