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7.0 News
The world this morning introduced by Robert Robinson and John Timpson
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:
Robert Robinson
Introduced By:
John Timpson

Should teenage schoolchildren take weekend jobsr
Is it worth studying for an arts degree when there are so many unemployed graduates?
Parents and teenagers put these and other questions to
ALFRED BERG , headmaster; DR WENDY GREENGROSS , marriage guidance consultant; DR JAMES HEMMING , educational psychologist; and ALAN LEIGHTON , youth counsellor
Chairman Jean Metcalfe Producer THENA HESHEL

Contributors

Unknown:
Alfred Berg
Unknown:
Dr Wendy Greengross
Unknown:
Dr James Hemming
Unknown:
Alan Leighton
Unknown:
Jean Metcalfe
Producer:
Thena Heshel

Bob Symes Schutzmann Is an unashamed and self-confessed railway maniac. Ever since he can remember he has been facinated by railways great and small, homely and exotic. With recordings of railwaymen and their engines from the BBC Sound Archives he reveals the full depth of his addiction. Producer DENYS GUEROULT

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Symes Schutzmann
Producer:
Denys Gueroult

4: The Celebration by EDWARD BENNETT
LIZ: I dressed up. Specially to see if you'd notice.
JOHNSON: Did you? What was that?
LIZ: All through dinner I was wearing my baggy polo sweater and my Arsenal football socks. The ones you loathe.
Producer richard WORTLEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Bennett
Producer:
Richard Wortley
Johnson:
Hugh Dickson
Liz:
Eva Haddon
Harvey:
Henry Stamper
Driving tester:
Brian Hewlett
Harvey's secretary/Val/Jenny:
Kate Bihchy

Presenter John Edmunds

Your Health and Welfare
The mysterious 'cot deaths': Barbara Myers reports on the latest research into the baffling medical problem of sudden infant deaths which stubbornly remain at the same high level while infant mortality as a whole continues to drop.

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

Contributors

Presenter:
John Edmunds
Reporter:
Barbara Myers

A radio happening with Jimmy Edwards. Ted Ray
Arthur Askey , Cyril Fletcher In the chair MCDONALD HOBLEY Special guest Isobel Barnett
From an idea by JIMMY EDWARDS Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area

Contributors

Unknown:
Jimmy Edwards.
Unknown:
Ted Ray
Unknown:
Arthur Askey
Unknown:
Cyril Fletcher
Unknown:
Isobel Barnett
Unknown:
Jimmy Edwards
Producer:
Edward Taylor

BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA leader IAN TYRE conductor IAIN SUTHERLAND include music by Ronald Binge , Bryan Kelly and Sullivan JANE MANNING sings
French and English songs with WILFRID PARRY at the piano

Contributors

Conductor:
Iain Sutherland
Music By:
Ronald Binge
Music By:
Bryan Kelly
Music By:
Sullivan Jane Manning
Unknown:
Wilfrid Parry

Paulo Baby by JAN NEEDLE with Jane Knowles as Paulo
' Pauline Mason , the girl with no prospects, that's me. Trevor will be round tonight. With his nose. The biggest thing in my life. Oh Paulo, baby! '
Producer GERRY JONES

Contributors

Unknown:
Jane Knowles
Unknown:
Pauline Mason
Producer:
Gerry Jones
Mr Wilson:
John Hollis
Trevor:
David Valla
Violet:
Damaris Hayman
Betty:
Joy Harrison

A ten-part series examining the seamier and less overt aspects of Victorian life.
2: Old School Ties
Written and narrated by JOHN CHANDOS with Peter Howell as Tuckwell Victorian Public Schools were the deliberate expression of the highest moral purpose but they had a repellent side too.
Producer R. D. SMITH

Contributors

Unknown:
John Chandos
Unknown:
Peter Howell
Producer:
R. D. Smith
Dr Arnold of Rugby:
William Fox
Parent:
Grizelda Hervey
First Etonian:
Ian Lubbock
Second Etonian:
Gavin Doyle
First Harrovian:
Antony Kearey
Dr Vaughan of Harrow:
Felix Felton
Second Harrovian:
Gareth Johnson
Dr Moberly of Winchester:
Gerald Cross
Arthur Coleridge:
David Lloyd James
Brinsley Richards:
Alan Barry
Marlburian:
Michael Harbour
Benson:
Cormac Rigby
Dean Stanley:
Michael Harbour
Dean Farrar:
Lewis Stringer
Dr Wilson of Clifton:
Douglas Blackwell
Lecturer:
Nigel Anthony
Drage:
John Wyse

A weekly survey of the arts Introduced by Derek Parker This edition includes:
Yerma: one of a trilogy of folk tragedies by Lorca. The Nuria Espert Company from Spain is directed by Victor Garcia in this production in the World Theatre Season at the Aldwych Theatre, London
Indian Paintings from Court, Town and Village on show in London - with a complete contrast in the paintings and drawings of Bernard Cohen , both at the Hayward Gallery Producers MIRIAM RAPP and DAN ZERDIN

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Parker
Directed By:
Victor Garcia
Unknown:
Bernard Cohen
Unknown:
Dan Zerdin

Cabinet Ministers and eminent scientists, housewives and schoolboys - why do they all listen to New Worlds? After all, it's only a programme of discovery and invention. Presenter PAUL VAUGHAN Producer LAURIE JOHN
(Repeated: Monday, 10.30 am)

Contributors

Presenter:
Paul Vaughan
Producer:
Laurie John

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