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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

A Guide to Summer Visitors - visiting birds, that is.
During the next few weeks, millions of migrant birds will be returning to their summer haunts in this country
BRUCE CAMPBELL and ERIC SIMMS play recordings of their voices. Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer DILYS BREESE (from Bristol: Sunday's broadcast)

Contributors

Unknown:
Bruce Campbell
Unknown:
Eric Simms
Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Dilys Breese

The combination may seem unlikely, but it was with the ambition of making it a reality that an English public school-boy left for Spain nine years ago to become a bullfighter.
JONATHAN DIMBLEBY talks to Henry Higgins after his first full season as one of the élite of the bullfighting arena. Producer PAT TAYLOR

Contributors

Talks:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Unknown:
Henry Higgins
Producer:
Pat Taylor

3: Gentlemen's Agreement by ANTONIA RIDGE
A story of the days when Saints were saints - not narrow-minded bigots, but homely, free-and-easy types who'd give the Devil himself a break ... within reason, of course ...
Music composed by JOHN BAKER BBC Radiophonic Workshop Producer BRIDGET MARROW

Contributors

Composed By:
John Baker
Storyteller:
Trader Faulkner
Archangel Michael:
Trader Faulkner
St Galonnek:
Edward Kelsey
William:
Cordon Gardner
First Angel:
Michael Kilgarriff
Second Angel:
Brian Hewlett
y ves:
Douglas Blackwell
Marie Labise:
Katherine Parr

Presenter Joan Yorke your Rights and Responsibilities. Trespassers Won'be Prosecuted - but they can be sued. A Barrister explains how the law affects adventurous children and their parents. Other topical items too, and What's On Your Mind?

Contributors

Presenter:
Joan Yorke

LONDON STUDIO ORCHESTRA leader REGINALD LEOPOLD conducted by VILEM TAUSKY includes music by Montague Phillips , Anthony Hedges , Haydn Wood
KATHLEEN JONES (piano) plays lbert, Brahms and Liszt's Rigolctto Fantasy

Contributors

Leader:
Reginald Leopold
Conducted By:
Vilem Tausky
Music By:
Montague Phillips
Music By:
Anthony Hedges
Music By:
Haydn Wood
Piano:
Kathleen Jones

by Kay McManus
with Patience Collier and Elizabeth Proud

Adelaide Beckett the Poet, famous also as a radical and a feminist, is now in her 80s. These are definite facts, but nothing else can be learnt about the lady which is either definite or a fact.

(Patience Collier is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Co.: Pat Nye is in 'Reunion in Vienna' at the Piccadilly, London)

Contributors

Writer:
Kay McManus
Producer:
Jane Graham
TV producer:
David Gooderson
His secretary:
Kate Binchy
Ann Foxley:
Elizabeth Proud
Mrs Foxley:
Dorothy Edwards
Mary Sugden:
Hilda Schroder
Elspeth Winter:
Pat Nye
Landlord:
William Eedle
Mr Jenkins Jnr:
John Rowe
Mr Jenkins Snr:
Wilfrid Carter
Adelaide Beckett:
Patience Collier

18: The Ringing Grooves of Change: the Steam Engine gets up and runs in the Railway Age. Composed and produced by MICHAEL MASON under the direction of Theo Barker. Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Kent, who also speaks the commentary.
Speakers for the People: MR CADMAN. JAMES GIBSON , MRS SCOTT , OTTO HOLLANDER. THOMAS SMITH , MRS SHARPE. MILDRED WINSTANLEY, W. HOLLINS , TOM SALMON, ELIZABETH HARLAND , MR KEFFORD , JAMES MACDONALD , FRANK HOLT , BOB DELEW , JIM O'CONNOR , ALISON DELEW , T. RIDDIOUGH , ALAN JACKSON, G. RYAN , J. BRADLEY , ROY CREWDSON , NORMAN MACCAIG , B. JURSKI , RONALD BOLTON , MR GUDGIN, J. HADFIELD , FRANK HOLT , JAMES GRAY , GEORGE BRUCE , JEAN SEZNEC , J. BRADLEY , MR BARTLE , DRUMMOND HUNTER, J. S. HOLDSWORTH, BRIAN JOHNSON , ASTON GAZE, MR WILLATS , ROBERT PATTISON, GORDON BAVISTOCK , TONY LOCKETT , CYRIL POLTER , W. R. BOSTON, ANTHONY RYE.
Producer for the Voices of the People CHARLES PARKER , assisted by JOHN MERSON and JON CROOK
Special music by DAVID CAIN Programme realisation by DICK MILLS , LLOYD SILVERTHORNE EARLY MUSIC CONSORT OF LONDON directed by DAVID MUNROW Readers Elizabeth PROUD
NIGEL ANTHONY , SEAN BARRETT HENRY STAMPER
Additional commentary by JACQUETTA HAWKES , MICHAEL DRAKE The series of 26 programmes created in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop by MICHAEL MASON

Contributors

Produced By:
Michael Mason
Unknown:
Theo Barker.
Unknown:
Mr Cadman.
Unknown:
James Gibson
Unknown:
Mrs Scott
Unknown:
Otto Hollander.
Unknown:
Thomas Smith
Unknown:
Mrs Sharpe.
Unknown:
W. Hollins
Unknown:
Elizabeth Harland
Unknown:
Mr Kefford
Unknown:
James MacDonald
Unknown:
Frank Holt
Unknown:
Bob Delew
Unknown:
Jim O'Connor
Unknown:
Alison Delew
Unknown:
T. Riddiough
Unknown:
Alan Jack
Unknown:
G. Ryan
Unknown:
J. Bradley
Unknown:
Roy Crewdson
Unknown:
Norman MacCaig
Unknown:
B. Jurski
Unknown:
Ronald Bolton
Unknown:
J. Hadfield
Unknown:
Frank Holt
Unknown:
James Gray
Unknown:
George Bruce
Unknown:
Jean Seznec
Unknown:
J. Bradley
Unknown:
Mr Bartle
Unknown:
Brian Johnson
Unknown:
Mr Willats
Unknown:
Robert Patti
Unknown:
Gordon Bavistock
Unknown:
Tony Lockett
Unknown:
Cyril Polter
Unknown:
Charles Parker
Assisted By:
John Merson
Music By:
David Cain
Unknown:
Dick Mills
Unknown:
Lloyd Silverthorne
Directed By:
David Munrow
Readers:
Elizabeth Proud
Readers:
Nigel Anthony
Readers:
Sean Barrett
Unknown:
Henry Stamper
Commentary By:
Jacquetta Hawkes
Commentary By:
Michael Drake
Unknown:
Michael Mason

Anona Winn , Joy Adamson
Norman Hackforth , Peter Glaze with a mystery guest
David Franklin in the chair Producer BOBBY JAYE
(Repeated: Friday. 12.25 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Anona Winn
Unknown:
Joy Adamson
Unknown:
Norman Hackforth
Unknown:
Peter Glaze
Unknown:
David Franklin
Producer:
Bobby Jaye

with Magnus Magnusson
JILL TWEKDIE talks to MARGARET DRABBLE , whose latest novel The Needle's Eye is published tomorrow
JAMES THOMSON on Palflraue of Arabia, MEA ALLAN's biography of the brilliant soldier, priest and explorer of the Middle East. The Limits to Growth: WALTER PATTERSON defends the ecological prophets
Producer MICHAEL HEFFERNAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Magnus Magnusson
Talks:
Jill Twekdie
Unknown:
Margaret Drabble
Unknown:
Walter Patterson
Producer:
Michael Heffernan

from Chaucer to Yeats
An anthology in 26 programmes 26: Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) A. E. Housman (1859-1936) W. B. Yeats (1865-1939)
Edirard Thomas (1878-1917)
Introduced by ANTHONY THWAITE Reader GARY WATSON
Producer GEORGE MACBETH

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Hardy
Unknown:
E. Housman
Unknown:
B. Yeats
Unknown:
Edirard Thomas
Introduced By:
Anthony Thwaite
Reader:
Gary Watson
Producer:
George MacBeth

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