Programme Index

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7.0 News
The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anywhere on earth and in space: introduced by John Timpson and Robert Robinson
Deputy editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE Editor MARSHALL STEWART
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 )
8.40 Today's Papers

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Introduced By:
Robert Robinson
Editor:
Alastair Osborne
Editor:
Marshall Stewart
Introduced By:
Derek Jones

11.0 Singing Together (21)
Introduced by EUGENE FRASER
11.20 Springboard. Music out of doors. Script by GLADYS WHITRED
11.40 Drama Workshop. The Factory: written by DAVID SELF Presented by PETER PACEY and ROSALIND ELLIOT

Contributors

Introduced By:
Eugene Fraser
Script By:
Gladys Whitred
Written By:
David Self
Presented By:
Peter Pacey
Presented By:
Rosalind Elliot

Nancy Wise presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Your Money - earning, saving and spending it
More than you thought? DEREK COOPER investigates what your house is worth to sell, to insure, and for rates.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Cooper

2.0 Exploration Earth
1: Sheffield - urban study (Radiovision) written and produced by GEOFFREY SHERLOCK Based on the work of Blue-stone Middle School, Sheffield
2.20 The Music Box by GORDON REYNOLDS With MARt GRIFFITH
Producer ALBERT CHATTERLEY
2.30 Speak. Caring More or Less. A Late Launching: from Arthur Barton 's autobiography Two Lamps in Our Street.
2.40 Movement, Mime and Music 2 by BRIAN SANDERS

Contributors

Produced By:
Geoffrey Sherlock
Producer:
Albert Chatterley
Unknown:
Arthur Barton
Music By:
Brian Sanders

Vanity Fair by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY abridged in ten parts by NAN MACDONALD
Read by David Davis 1: Miss Pinkerton's Young Ladies
One sunshiny morning in June 181- a coach drove up to the great iron gate of Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies, on Chiswick Mall. It had come to collect Amelia Sedley and Becky Sharp, and thus the world began for these two young ladies.
Producer GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Unknown:
William Makepeace Thackeray
Read By:
David Davis
Producer:
Graham Gauld

The news magazine: presented by Robert Williams and PM's reporting team Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
Robert Williams
Editor:
Derek Lewis
Editor:
Andrew Boyle

based on HENRY CECIL 'S book starring Richard Briers as Roger Thursby in Deaf Aid JOHN GLYN-JONES as Grimes JULIA LOCKWOOD as Sally BRIDGET ARMSTRONG as Joy JEAN ANDERSON as Mrs Thursby DENNIS RAMSDEN as Mr Merivale BLAKE BUTLER as Mr GolightlV MANNING WILSON as The Judge MARTIN FRIEND as the Solicitor's Clerk Written by HENRY CECIL and BASIL DAWSON Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK (Repeated: Wed, 12.25 pm)
(Richard Briers is in 'Butley' at the Criterion Theatre, London; Dennis Ramsden is in No Sex Please - We're British at the Strand Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Henry Cecil
Unknown:
Richard Briers
Unknown:
Roger Thursby
Unknown:
Grimes Julia Lockwood
Unknown:
Sally Bridget Armstrong
Unknown:
Joy Jean Anderson
Unknown:
Mrs Thursby
Unknown:
Dennis Ramsden
Unknown:
Mr Merivale
Unknown:
Blake Butler
Unknown:
Mr Golightlv
Unknown:
Manning Wilson
Unknown:
Judge Martin Friend
Written By:
Henry Cecil
Written By:
Basil Dawson
Unknown:
Richard Briers
Unknown:
Dennis Ramsden

A general knowledge contest between schoolchildren in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United Kingdom.

Australian team: Laurel Mears, Charles Maddison, Igor Nossar
Questionmaster John Dease

New Zealand team: Terence Rudge, Alison Miller, Rosalind Salas
Questionmaster Lyell Boyes

(Also broadcast on the networks of ABC Australia, NZBC New Zealand and CBC Canada)

Contributors

Questionmaster (Australia):
John Dease
Contestant (Australia):
Laurel Meers
Contestant (Australia):
Charles Maddison
Contestant (Australia):
Igor Nossar
Questionmaster (New Zealand):
Lyell Boyes
Contestant (New Zealand):
Terence Rudge
Contestant (New Zealand):
Alison Miller
Contestant (New Zealand):
Rosalind Salas
Questions set by:
Roy Smith
Producer:
Hal Lashwood
Producer:
Graeme Ross
Executive Producer:
John Bridges

to me, says Elizabeth Longford In conversation with ROBIN RAY , she describes, with illustrations, what makes her laugh, and admits a preference for irony and satire.
Producer PAMELA HOWE (from Bristol)
(Nextweek: Michael Parkinson )

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth Longford
Unknown:
Robin Ray
Producer:
Pamela Howe
Unknown:
Michael Parkinson

by MARGUERITE DURAS translated by SONIA ORWELL Peggy Ashcroft Festival
' I had to see you again. One thinks one wants nothing, then, suddenly there's this longing. Five years ... one shouldn'leave it so long ... Perhaps if one leaves things for too long, one should just simply forget them.' with the original cast from the Royal Shakespeare Company production
Producer GUY VAESEN
(Peggy Ashcroft is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Co)
9.59 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Marguerite Duras
Translated By:
Sonia Orwell
The Mother:
Peggy Ashcroft
The Son:
George Baker
Marcelle:
Frances Cuka
Dédé:
Lewis Stringer

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