Programme Index

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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
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

10.30 Halb gewonnen!: 15: Munster und Munsterland
(An O-level course in German)
Written by Wolfgang Schemann
(Radiovision)

11.0 Singing Together (15)
Script and production by Douglas Coombes

11.20 Springboard: The Library

11.40 Drama Workshop: 3: Exploration (iii): Quest for Achievement
Written by Charles Savage and Alan Penn
Presented by Peter Pacey

Contributors

Written By:
Wolfgang Schemann
Production By:
Douglas Coombes
Written By:
Charles Savage
Presented By:
Peter Pacey

Joan Yorke presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. your Money - earning, saving and spending i&
PATRICK BUTBER , City Editor of the Sunday Telegraph, answers hsteners' questions about Capital Gains Tax.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see column 2

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan Yorke
Unknown:
Patrick Butber

2.0 Exploration Earth
5: The Mauritius Cyclone 1960 by GAKRY LYLE
2.20 The Music Box by GOHDON REYNOLDS with MAHI GRIFFITH
Producer ALBERT CHATTERLEY
2.3* Speak. So to Speak: starters for improvised drama
2.40 Movement, Mime and Music 2 by BRIAN SANDERS

Contributors

Unknown:
Gohdon Reynolds
Producer:
Albert Chatterley
Music By:
Brian Sanders

The Freedom Trap
DESMOND BAGLEY 'S recently published thriller: abridged for radio in five episodes 1: Arrival
... a clever thief ...
Reader Trader Faulkner Producer JOHN SCOTNEY
(from Northern Ireland)

Contributors

Unknown:
Desmond Bagley
Producer:
John Scotney

Including the latest news, the evening press, the City. the people and talking points of the day. Presented by Robert Williams and PM's reporting team
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
Robert Williams

from the television series based on the characters created by A. J. CRONIN
An Evening Out written by N. J. Crisp and adapted by Pat Dunlop
Broadcast by arrangement with GRAHAM STEWART
Producer PETER TITHERADGE
(Rptd: Wednesday, 12.25 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
A. J. Cronin
Written By:
N. J. Crisp
Adapted By:
Pat Dunlop
Arrangement With:
Graham Stewart
Producer:
Peter Titheradge
Dr Cameron:
Andrew Cruickshank
Janet:
Barbara Mullen
Dr Finlay:
Bill Simpson
Angela Wilson Carr:
Justine Lord
Robbie Cullen:
Ian Dewar
Jessie Cullen:
Sheila Donald
Tom Busby:
Sean Barnett
Dr Murchison:
Douglas Blackwell

Spike Milligan talks to Derek Jones about his enthusiasm for wild animals and his concern for their future, aided by recordings from the BBC Sound Archives. Producer John Burton (from Bristol)

Contributors

Guest:
Spike Milligan
Interviewer:
Derek Jones
Producer:
John Burton

The novel by ELIZABETH BOWEN dramatised by MARY HOPE ALLEN
with Rachel Gurney, Joss Ackland, Dilys Laye and Jill Balcon
On that Sunday in September 1942, it was a Viennese Orchestra that played in Regents Park. The season was late for an outdoor concert, already the leaves were drifting on to the grass stage, and during the music more fell...

Contributors

Author:
Elizabeth Bowen
Dramatised by:
Mary Hope Allen
Producer:
Charles Lefeaux
Narrator:
Jill Balcon
Louie Lewis:
Dilys Laye
Harrison:
Edward Kelsey
Stella Rodney:
Rachel Gurney
Roderick, her son:
Brian Hewlett
An Airman:
David Valla
Robert Kelway:
Joss Ackland
Ernestine Gibb, his sister:
Eva Stuart
Mrs Kelway:
Mavis Walker
Connie:
Hilda Kriseman
Donovan:
Ronald Herdman
Mary Donovan:
Kate Binchy

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