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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
7.90-8.0 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 )
8.40 Today's Papers

Contributors

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

10.30 Halb gewonnen!: 17: Schon der Reihe nach
(An O-level course in German)
Written by Stephen Kanocz
(recorded in Studio Munster, WDR)

11.0 Singing Together: 17
Presented by Cliff Morgan

11.20 Springboard: A Village Folk Tale
by Edward Blishen

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Blishen

Presenter Jeanine McMullen

Your Money - earning, saving and spending it

Protection against Wrongful Dismissal: a look at part of the Industrial Relations Act

Workshops for the Elderly: Robert MacDonald

Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?

Contributors

Presenter:
Jeanine McMullen
Unknown:
Robert MacDonald

2.0 Exploration Earth. 7: Kew Gardens, by Paddy Feeny
2.20 The Music Box by Gordon Reynolds with Mari Griffith
2.30 Speak. Earning a Living
An extract from The Penny World by Arthur Barton
2.40 Movement, Mime and Music 2: by Brian Sanders

Contributors

Presenter (Exploration Earth):
Paddy Feeny
Presenter (The Music Box):
Gordon Reynolds
Presenter (The Music Box):
Mari Griffith
Author (The Penny World):
Arthur Barton
Presenter (Movement, Mime and Music):
Brian Sanders

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by BETTY SMITH abridged for radio In ten Instalments by JOSEPHINE PLUMMER Read by Eva Haddon
Betty Smith died in Connecticut earlier this year. A Tree Crows in Brooklyn has become one of the world's best-selling novels. It tells the moving story of a young girl, Francie Nolan, growing up in the slums of Brooklyn at the turn of the century. Betty Smith captures all the heartache and the happiness of life.
1: Saturday in Brooklyn Producer MARTIN JENKINS

Contributors

Unknown:
Betty Smith
Unknown:
Josephine Plummer
Producer:
Martin Jenkins

with The Phantom Piper of Tannochbrae written by ALAN GOSLING adapted by PAT DUNLOP
GORDON SPIERS (pipes)
Broadcast by arrangement with GRAHAM STEWART
Producer PETER TITHERADGE
(Rptd: Wednesday, 12.25 pm)

Contributors

Written By:
Alan Gosling
Adapted By:
Pat Dunlop
Unknown:
Gordon Spiers
Arrangement With:
Graham Stewart
Producer:
Peter Titheradge
Dr Cameron:
Andrew Cruickshank
Janet:
Barbara Mullen
Dr Finlay:
Bill Simpson
The Piper:
Andrew Crawford
Lord Sinclair:
Duncan McIntyre
Mr Miller:
John Graham
Mr Jamieson:
Antony Higginson
Miss Nixie:
Margot Boyd
Sgt Glibey:
Duncan McIntyre
Patient:
Douglas Blackwell

The novel by Henry James adapted by Mary Hope Allen

"Oh, to be here at last! In the most famous Green Room in Europe! Look, see that dress hanging on the clothes tree! ... It's enough just to see all this ... All the great artists of this great theatre. Their portraits surround me and I hear their voices."

Contributors

Author:
Henry James
Adapter:
Mary Hope Allen
Producer:
David H. Godfrey
Nicholas Dormer:
Geoffrey Beevers
Lady Agnes Dormer:
Lydia Sherwood
Crace Dormer:
Clare Horne
Biddy Dormer:
Kate Binchy
Gabriel Nash:
Dinsdale Landen
Waiter:
John Rowe
Peter Sherringham:
Alexander John
Julia Dallow:
Elizabeth Proud
Madame Carre:
Gladys Spencer
Mrs Rooth:
Betty Hardy
Miriam Rooth:
Elizabeth Morgan
Mr Carteret:
Carleton Hobbs
Basil Dashwood:
Michael Kilgarriff
Mlle Voisin:
Katherine Parr
Florry Tressilian:
Jane Knowles

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