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7.0 News
The world this morning 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 ana 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

10.30 Marsh!
12: In Bashkiria
Written by VAUGHAN JAMES (Third-year Russian)
10.45 Intermediate German Mendelssohn: written by ELSE JOHANNSEN -WAGNER
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
11.40 Religion in its
Contemporary Context
The second 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:
Else Johannsen
Presented By:
Gary Taylor
Unknown:
David Pinner
Introduced By:
Ralph Rolls

Presenter Jeanine McMullen Your Home and Family
How much does death cost? Your family is entitled to a death grant, but what about the undertaker and other charges? A look at the finance of funerals,
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 1

Contributors

Presenter:
Jeanine McMullen

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

2.0 Peoples of the World
Japan Today: The Fujisawa Family - 2. Written by PRUE DEMPSTER and DUNCAN TAYLOR
2.20 Geography. Suez Canal by PHILIP HOLLAND
2.40 Stories and Rhymes (7-9) Hans and Peter by BEIDRUN PETRIDES

Contributors

Written By:
Prue Dempster
Written By:
Duncan Taylor
Unknown:
Philip Holland
Unknown:
Beidrun Petrides

by HUGH WALPOLE dramatised in 12 episodes Book 1: Rogue Herriesadapted for radio by SHAUN SUTTON
2: The Forty Five and A Wild Marriage
Music composed by PAUL FERRIS Producer TREVOR HILL
(from the North of England)

Contributors

Unknown:
Shaun Sutton
Composed By:
Paul Ferris
Producer:
Trevor Hill
David Herries, the Narrator:
Jack Watson
Francis:
Kenneth Haigh
Benjamin, his servant):
Geoffrey Banks
The Pedlar:
Geoffrey Banks
Endicott:
Frederic Wilson
Mirabell Starr:
Elizabeth Kelly
Mr Cumberledge):
Graham Tennant
Captain Bann:
Graham Tennant
Hetty, his daughter:
Juliet Cooke
Mrs Cumberledge:
Valerie Skardon
Man in alehouse:
Joseph Holmes
Captain of Militia:
Eden Phillips
Harry:
David Casey
Thawn:
Wheeler Geoffrey
Rev Gordon Sunwood:
Geoffrey Wheeler
Deborah Herries:
Marah Stohl
A Dalesman:
Tom Harrison
Sarah Denburn:
Julia Lang

visits Atherton in Lancashire.
Members of the Atherton Botanical Gardens Horticultural Society put questions to FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL. Question-master FRANKLIN ENGELMANN
Producer KENNETH FORD

Contributors

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

Annapurna South Face
CHRIS BONINGTON , leader of the 1970 Expedition which climbed one of the most formidable mountain walls in the world. reads extracts from his book 2: First Encounter-and a Blind Alley

Contributors

Leader:
Chris Bonington

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

Contributors

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

[number removed]to
London, Paris and Hamburg
As Britain prepares to sign the Treaty of Accession to the Common Market, Your Line links you for the first time simultaneously to guests in Britain. France and Germany. Ring Robin Day to put your question on Britain's future in the European Community to: in London: Richard Mayne , Director of the Federal Trust for Education and Research. and former Personal Assistant to ' the Father of Europe,' Jean Monnet in Paris: Pierre Url , former Economic Director, European Coal and Steel Community in Hamburg: Theo Sommer , Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the weekly Die Zeit
To promote a maximum flow of questions [number removed](16 lines) will take them from 6 0 pm onwards as well as while the programme is on the air. Producer WALTER WALLICH

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Mayne
Unknown:
Jean Monnet
Unknown:
Pierre Url
Unknown:
Theo Sommer
Producer:
Walter Wallich

In May 1936 the liner Queen Mary set sail for New York on her maiden voyage. A great achievement had taken place - but only just. with contributions from ANNA AND DORIS ZINKEISEN
LORD DONEGALL, RONALD BLYTHE and the men and women of Clydebank
Written by CATE HASTE
Narrator DOUGLAS STUART
Producer MICHELL RAPER

Contributors

Unknown:
Doris Zinkeisen
Unknown:
Ronald Blythe
Written By:
Cate Haste
Narrator:
Douglas Stuart
Producer:
Michell Raper

A look at the present plight and future shape of town and country: compiled and introduced by Nicholas Taylor Humberside: Britain's Europort
Many Northern businessmen believe that the Humber has a great future as Britain's equivalent of Europort, now that trade across the North Sea to the Common Market is likely to increase. At the moment Hull is a cul-de-sac, but the new Humber Bridge and the motorways will change this. Could this neglected estuary enjoy Britain's greatest boom in the next generation?
ALDERMAN SIR LEO SCHULTZ , Leader. Hull City Council
THE RT HON ANTHONY CROSLAND , mp for Grimsby
IAN HOLDEN, Director of Industrial Development.
Hull ALAN PLATER , playwright and architect
Producer LEONIE COHN
9.59 Weather

Contributors

Duced By:
Nicholas Taylor
Leader:
Sir Leo Schultz
Unknown:
Anthony Crosland
Unknown:
Hull Alan Plater
Producer:
Leonie Cohn

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