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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 column 5
8.40 Today's Papers

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Introduced By:
Robert Robinson
Introduced By:
Derek Jones

10.30 Marsh! 13: To Kazakhstan (Third-year Russian)
10.45 Intermediate German Wieder in Deutschland written by A. A. WOLFF
11.0 Movement and Music 1 by PENNY WHITTAM
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.55 am)
11.20 Music Club presented by GARY TAYLOR
11.40 Religion in its Contemporary Context: the third pair of DAVID PINNER 'S short plays Seven and a Half Deadlu Sins Introduced by RALPH ROLLS (Sixth Form series)

Contributors

Written By:
A. A. Wolff
Presented By:
Gary Taylor
Unknown:
David Pinner
Introduced By:
Ralph Rolls

Presenter Nancy Wise
Your Home and Family
Is there an ideal age gap? JOAN YORKE looks into the question of timing and spacing children in the family.
Other topical items too. and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see column 5

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan Yorke

2.0 Peoples of the World
Australia: In the Blazing Sun (i), by BRUCE BEEBY
2.20 Geography
Israel, by GERALD BLAKE
2.40 Stories and Rhymes (7-9)
' The Magnet and the Marvellous Stick ' by MARY COCKETT

Contributors

Unknown:
Bruce Beeby
Unknown:
Gerald Blake
Unknown:
Mary Cockett

by HUGH WALPOLE dramatised in12 episodes Book 1: Rogue Herriesadapted by SHAUN SUTTON
3: The Bright Turrets of lllion
Other parts STRUAN RODGER
ROBIN ANDREWS , BARRY WILMORE DAVID CASEY
Producer TREVOR HILL
(from the North of England)

Contributors

Adapted By:
Shaun Sutton
Unknown:
Struan Rodger
Unknown:
Robin Andrews
Unknown:
Barry Wilmore
Unknown:
David Casey
David Herries,:
Who Narrates
the story:
Jack Watson
Mirabell:
Elizabeth Kelly
Francis Herries:
Kenneth Haigh
Benjamin, his servant):
Geoffrey
Adam Betty:
Banks
Deborah:
Marah Stohl
Sarah:
Julia Lang
Rev Harness:
Wilfred Harrison
Mrs Henny:
Madeleine Vacher

'twixt Isobel Barnett
Eleanor Summerfield and Richard Murdoch , David Nixon Tune-twisters from STEVE RACE 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

Ring Robin Day to put your question in person to
The Rt Hon John Davies , mp, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
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
(On unemployment, that bomb, and water-skiing: page 12)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Davies
Producer:
Walter Wallich

The life and loves of Robbie Burns
(born 25 January 1759)
Singers DUNCAN ROBERTSON ROBIN HALL and JIMMIE MACGREGOR
Music conducted by ALFRED RALSTON
Narrators CHARLES CHILTON
DUNCAN MCINTYRE , ANDREW FAULDS Written. and produced by CHARLES CHILTON
(Burns Night: page 8)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robbie Burns
Singers:
Duncan Robertson
Singers:
Robin Hall
Singers:
Jimmie MacGregor
Conducted By:
Alfred Ralston
Conducted By:
Narrators Charles Chilton
Conducted By:
Duncan McIntyre
Produced By:
Charles Chilton

A look at the present plight and future shape of town and country: compiled and introduced by Nicholas Taylor
New Uses for Historic Churches In remote villages and depopulated slums, more than 2 000 of the Church of England's 18,000 church buildings face the prospect of redundancy and decay. Should the sites be sold off to the highest bidder or should new secular uses be found for those which are architecturally attractive? Speakers include:
IVOR BULMER-THOMAS . Chairman, Redevelopment Church Fund
THE REV DR GILBERT COPE, Deputy Director, Institute of Worship and Religious Architecture, Birmingham University
DAVID lloyd , architectural adviser for the Victorian Society Producer LEONIE COHN

Contributors

Duced By:
Nicholas Taylor
Unknown:
Ivor Bulmer-Thomas
Unknown:
David Lloyd
Producer:
Leonie Cohn

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