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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 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
Introduced By:
Derek Jones

A magazine edition of this programme about wildlife and the countryside.
Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer DILYS BREESE (from Bristol: shortened version of Sunday's broadcast) I
Private Lives: a book of fully illustrated natural history studies on a year in the life-cycles of 13 different species of animals and birds is available, price £1.75 (a BBC publication).

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Dilys Breese

9.38 History in Evidence
Medieval Britain - 2: An Assize Court. Written by HUGH wood -HOUSE
9.45 Listening and Reading
Stig of the Dump (i) by CLIVE KING. Read by GARARD GREEN
9.55 Radio Jeunesse
2: A radio magazine including Vous avez le nez cassé! by PAULE-ALINE DENT
(Second-year French)
10.5 Poetry Corner
Rain from a Red Sky

Contributors

Written By:
Hugh Wood
Unknown:
Clive King.
Read By:
Garard Green
Unknown:
Paule-Aline Dent

10.30 Music Workshop 2 Paris under Gaslight by JOHN PARRY
Music by JACQUES OFFENBACH arranged by IAN HUMPHRIS
11.0 Inquiry. Unit 111: Violence 2: A Case Study written by FRED HOOPER The series edited by JACK SINGLETON
(15-16 age group)
11.20 Discovery. Communication 2: There's no need to talk by ARTHUR VIALLS
Presented by RICHARD BEBB
11.40 Foreign Correspondent
Each week, an examination in depth of a major and current issue in international affairs. Introduced by GRAHAM TAYAR

Contributors

Unknown:
John Parry
Arranged By:
Ian Humphris
Written By:
Fred Hooper
Edited By:
Jack Singleton
Talk By:
Arthur Vialls
Presented By:
Richard Bebb
Introduced By:
Graham Tayar

Presenter Derek Cooper Your Rights and Responsibilities
Do people who defend themselves, instead of employing a lawyer, get a fair deal from magistrates courts? ELIZABETH MITCHELL discusses some possible changes in legal procedure. Other topical items too, and What's On Your Mind?
(Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 1AA; or phone [number removed], extension 3030, and record your letter)
VHF South West: see column 2

Contributors

Presenter:
Derek Cooper
Unknown:
Elizabeth Mitchell

from the television series based on the characters created by A. J. CRONIN with The Masterpiece written by VINCENT TILSLEY and adapted by PAT DUNLOP
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12.55 Weather, information and news for your area

Contributors

Unknown:
A. J. Cronin
Written By:
Vincent Tilsley
Adapted By:
Pat Dunlop
Dr Cameron:
Andrew Cruickshank
Jane:
Barbara Mullen
Dr Finlay:
Bill Simpson
Alexander Craig:
Bryden Murdoch
James Anstruther:
Garard Green
Jock Hamilton ,:
Brian Hewlett

2.0 Movement, Mime and Music for the 7-to-9-year-olds by JAMES DODDING
2.20 Books, Plays, Poems
'If I could only find the words' by FAY WELPON
A new play specially written for this series
2.45 Nature. How Birds Fly by PADDY FEENY

Contributors

Unknown:
James Dodding
Unknown:
Paddy Feeny

Figures in the Foreground by GYLES ADAMS with Sean Barrett. Kate Coleridge and Stephen Thorne
Photographs of monks who couldn'have been there lead to strange developments.
Producer R. d. SMITH

Contributors

Unknown:
Gyles Adams
Unknown:
Sean Barrett.
Unknown:
Kate Coleridge
Unknown:
Stephen Thorne
Producer:
R. D. Smith
Roger Maddox:
Sean Barrett
Jess Langly:
Kate Coleridge
The Rev Paul Langly:
Stephen Thorne
Mrs Piper:
Lynn Carson
Dr Ogdon:
Alan Lawrance

The questions and ideas you send are discussed today by Renée Houston. Eileen Fowler Gwen Grant , Juno Alexander In the chair Anona Winn Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER
Producer CHRISTOPHER SERLE (Repeated: Friday, 12.25 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Eileen Fowler
Unknown:
Gwen Grant
Unknown:
Juno Alexander
Unknown:
Anona Winn
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
Christopher Serle

Smoke by ROBIN SMYTH with Lynn Carson , John Dearth and Kathleen Helme
Life is definitely not over at 40 in this cheerful domestic comedy - not if your luck's in! Producer R. D. SMITH
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.0 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robin Smyth
Unknown:
Lynn Carson
Unknown:
John Dearth
Producer:
R. D. Smith
Joe Eastley:
John Ruddock
Jimmy Timms:
Nigel Anthony
Hilda Lincoln:
Kathleen Helme
Amy Tuck:
Lynn Carson
Albert Fowler:
John Dearth
Bingo caller:
Leo Maguire
Bingo checker:
Stephanie Turner
Nurse McIver:
Diana Robson
Winnie Johnson:
Eva Stuart
Tannoy voice:
Nigel Anthony
Council clerk:
Lewis Stringer

with Richard Mavne
ARNOLD KETTLE talks about a new edition of Daniel Defoe 's Moll Flanders, with readings by GABRIEL WOOLF London Pride: a look at two nostalgic books about our vanishing metropolis, Lost London and Chelsea
The voice of the late STEVIE smith reading from a new hook of her poems and other new books Producers DAN ZERDIN and MIRIAM RAPP

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Mavne
Talks:
Arnold Kettle
Unknown:
Daniel Defoe
Unknown:
Gabriel Woolf
Unknown:
Stevie Smith
Producers:
Dan Zerdin
Producers:
Miriam Rapp

from Chaucer to Yeats
An anthology in 26 programmes 16: Robert Burns ([number removed]) George Crabbe 11754-1832) William Blake (1757-1827)
Introduced by PETER PORTER Reader HARVEY hall
Producer GEORGE MACBETH
(26 Jan: Wordsworth, Coleridge)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Burns
Unknown:
George Crabbe
Unknown:
William Blake
Introduced By:
Peter Porter
Reader:
Harvey Hall
Producer:
George MacBeth

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