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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

9.30 Religious Service for Primary Schools Building for People by R. E. T. LAMB
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.5 am)
9.50 Interlude
9.55 Movement and Music 2 for the 6-to-7-year-olds by JAMES DODDING

Contributors

Unknown:
R. E. T. Lamb
Unknown:
James Dodding

10.30 Marsh! 16: To Siberia Written by VAUGHAN JAMES (Third-year Russian)
10.45 Intermediate German Sonst war es sehr gemiitlich 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)
11.2* Music Club presented by GARY TAYLOR
11.40 Religion in its
Contemporary Context
LESLIE SMITH talks to people about ' The Meaning of Love

Contributors

Written By:
Vaughan James
Written By:
Milo Sperber
Presented By:
Gary Taylor
Talks:
Leslie Smith

Presenter Jeanine McMullen Your Home and Family
' If only I had three hands! . -but many people haven'the full use Of two. LUCILLE HALL reports on household equipment, prepared with the disabled in mind, that makes life easier for the rest of us.
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
Sheila Hancock 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:
Sheila Hancock
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
David Hatch

2.0 Peoples of the World
Italy: Good Living in the North, by GARRY LYLE
2.20 Geography China: industry by GEOFFREY SHILLINGLAW
2.40 Stories and Rhymes (7-9)
Far away is where I've come from: poems and music

Contributors

Unknown:
Garry Lyle
Unknown:
Geoffrey Shillinglaw

by HUGH WALPOLE
Book 2: Judith Paris adapted for radio by SHAUN surroN 4: Adam
Special effects prepared by DAVID FLEMING-WILLIAMS
Theme music by PAUL FERRIS Producer TREVOR HILL
(from the North of England)
(Seventh of 12 instalments: Sunday's broadcast)

Contributors

Music By:
Paul Ferris
Francis Herries, who narratesthe story:
David Mablowe
Walter Herries:
Geoffrey Banks
Judith Paris:
Rosalie Crutchley
Adam, her small son:
Marah Stohl
The Rev Reuben Sunwood:
Roy Barraclough
Jennifer Herries:
Sonia Elliman
Capt Fernyhirst, her lover:
Bryden Murdoch
Lady Rockage:
Valerie Skardon
Charlie Watson, the Cumbrian:
Farmer Hugh Wright
John Herries, Jennifer's son:
David Sharpe
Bennett:
Sybil Holroyd
Mr Winch, the tutor:
Richard Griffiths

visits Birmingham

Members of the Birmingham and Midland Orchid Society put their questions to: Fred Loads, Bill Sowerbutts and Alan Gemmell. Question-master Franklin Engelmann

Contributors

Question-master:
Franklin Engelmann
Panellist:
Fred Loads
Panellist:
Bill Sowerbutts
Panellist:
Alan Gemmell.
Producer:
Kenneth Ford

'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

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Washington
Ring Robin Day in the week of President Nixon's historic visit to China to put vour question in person on American foreign
Senator William Fulbright
Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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:
William Fulbright
Producer:
Walter Wallich

A series of five Royal Scandals 2 Criminal Conversation by JOHN CHANDOS : with Anna Cropper and Ellen Pollock Few scandals were more notorious-or more comic-than the love affair between Henry, Duke of Cumberland, the King's brother, and Henrietta, wife to Earl Grosvenor.
Producer NESTA pain

Contributors

Unknown:
John Chandos
Unknown:
Anna Cropper
Unknown:
Ellen Pollock
Narrator:
John Chandos
Henrietta, Lady Grosvenor:
Anna Cropper
Richard, Earl Grosvenor:
Gerald Cross
Henry, Duke of Cumberland:
Leslie Heritage
Mrs Reda:
Ellen Pollock
Denison:
Nigel Anthony
Elizabeth Elms:
Jane Knowles
Caroline Vernon:
Alexa Romanes
Stephens:
Brian Badcoe

Conversations with young men and women of modern India still taught from standard English primers but growing up as the first generation' since Independence.
Gandhi was all the strength of India
But not so much for Bengal
My father regards him as a demi-god. I don'want to spend my time on him
Recorded and compiled by DILIP HIRO in Calcutta, Bombay, Madras and Delhi Narrator
SAEED JAFFREY
Producer CHARLES PARKER
9.59 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Dilip Hiro
Narrator:
Saeed Jaffrey
Producer:
Charles Parker

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