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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)
8.40 Today's Papers

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Introduced By:
Robert Robinson

The Peak Park
This month's Radio Nature Trail visits the wild and beautiful Peak District, home of ring ouzel, red grouse, mountain hare and golden plover. The area of the Park is ringed by cities, so careful planning will be vital to preserve its beauty and value to wildlife. Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE
(from Bristol: shortened version of Sunday's broadcast)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Dilys Breese

9.30 History in Evidence Tudor Britain. 4: Frobisher's
Voyage, by HUGH WOODHOUSE
9.45 Listening and Reading 2 Robinson Crusoe by Defoe Read by JOHN HOLLIS - 1
9.55 Radio Jeunesse
9: A radio magazine including Paris-Londres by PAULE-ALINE DENT. (Second-year French)
10.5 Poetry Corner The Echoing Green

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh Woodhouse
Read By:
John Hollis

10.30 Music Workshop 2 Paris under Gaslight by JOHN PARRY
Music by Jacques OFFENBACH arranged by IAN HUMPHRIS

11.0 Inquiry. Unit IV: The Public Health. 4: Drugs: use and abuse, by JUNE ROSE (15-16 age group)

11.20 Discovery. Bread (ii) by JO MANTON
Presented by RICHARD BEBB

11.40 Foreign Correspondent
Introduced by GRAHAM TAYAR

Contributors

Unknown:
John Parry
Arranged By:
Ian Humphris
Unknown:
Jo Manton
Presented By:
Richard Bebb
Introduced By:
Graham Tayar

Queen's Institute of District Nursing: BRIAN rix on gardens open this summer.
Illustrated booklets (England and Wales, 25p including postage) from 57 Lower Belgrave Street, London SWI, or Scotland's Gardens (20p including postage) from 26 Castle Terrace, Edinburgh 1.

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Rix

For Your Friends Are My Friends by JOAN TIMOTHY
' I don'expect my slippers in the hearth, the evening paper by my chair, or even a glass of sherry, but I don'even get a cup of tea. And why? Because my dearly beloved wife is out on her many works of charity. Charity! There's a proverb about that you might bear in mind.'
Producer JANE GRAHAM
(Miriam Margolyes is in ' The Threepenny* Opera ' at the Prince of Wales Theatre)

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan Timothy
Producer:
Jane Graham
Unknown:
Miriam Margolyes
Felicity:
Miriam Margolyes
Brian:
John Samson
Marian:
Diana Olsson
Diana:
Sheila Grant
Stan:
Bert Palmer

Themes and Variations from the History of the People in Britain, based upon their own words.
16: True-born Britons
As the French Revolution challenged the old regime in Europe, Everyman found a radical political voice which was to echo down two generations of sweeping social change. Composed and produced by DANIEL SNOWMAN under the direction of Gwyn Williams , Professor of History at the University of York, who also speaks the commentary.
Special music by DAVID CAIN Programme realisation by DICK MILLS , LLOYD SILVERTHORNE EARLY MUSIC CONSORT OF LONDON directed by DAVID MUNROW Readers JOHN SAMSON
WILLIAM EEDLE and ROBIN BROWNE The series of 26 programmes created in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop by MICHAEL MASON

Contributors

Produced By:
Daniel Snowman
Unknown:
Gwyn Williams
Music By:
David Cain
Unknown:
Dick Mills
Unknown:
Lloyd Silverthorne
Directed By:
David Munrow
Readers:
John Samson
Readers:
William Eedle
Readers:
Robin Browne
Unknown:
Michael Mason

Explorers by KATHERINE SIM Narrated by CARLETON HODES 3: Jean Louis Burckhardt (1784-1817)
The great caravan routes of Arabia travel through sandy plains still unknown to us ...'

Contributors

Unknown:
Katherine Sim
Unknown:
Jean Louis Burckhardt
Burekhardt:
John Levitt
Leake:
Geoffrey Wincott
Salt:
Christopher Saul

The questions and ideas you send are discussed today by Renée Houston, Margot Naylor Sally Beauman , Charmian limes in the chair Anona Winn Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER
Producer CHRISTOPHER SERLE
(Repeated:-Friday, 12.25 pm) (Radio Times People: page 4)

Contributors

Unknown:
Margot Naylor
Unknown:
Sally Beauman
Unknown:
Anona Winn
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
Christopher Serle

The Prizewinners by JOHN IIOLLIS with Patricia Hayes
When the kids have left home you've got to find some way of filling the day. Competitions and bingo are fun and, of course, you could win a lot of money.
Producer JANE GRAHAM

Contributors

Unknown:
John Iiollis
Unknown:
Patricia Hayes
Producer:
Jane Graham
Ariadne Dutton:
Patricia Hayes
Frank Dutton:
Edward Kelsey
Julie Mitchell:
Emily Richard
Sydney Mitchell:
David Vai,la
Mrs Hammer:
Sheila Grant
Bernie Forbes:
Nigel Anthony
Norman Tewkes:
Ronald Herdman
Organiser:
Douglas Blackwell
Poacher:
William Eedle

with Magnus Magnusson
LENA JF. GER, MP, looks at Old Age, Simone de Beauvoir 's study of society's treatment of old people in the past and now; Hugh Leonard talks about Sean O'Casey as revealed in his autobiography, being published in paperback, with readings by O'Casey himself; and other books including The Lunatic Express by Charles Miller, the true story of the building of a railway across East Africa in the 1890s.
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK

Contributors

Presenter:
Magnus Magnusson
Unknown:
Lena Jf.
Unknown:
Simone de Beauvoir
Talks:
Hugh Leonard
Unknown:
Sean O'Casey
Unknown:
Charles Miller

from Chaucer to Yeats
24: Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
Coventry Patmore (1823-1896) George Meredith (1828-1909)
Introduced by ANTHONY thwaite Reader HARVEY HALL
Producer GEORGE MACBETH

Contributors

Unknown:
George Meredith
Introduced By:
Anthony Thwaite
Reader:
Harvey Hall
Producer:
George MacBeth

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