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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 introduced by DEREK JONES )
8.40 Today's Papers

Contributors

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

Written by JEAN JENKINS , Curator of Musical Instruments at the Horniman Museum, to the producer MADEAU STEWART during a hazardous trip to record the traditional music of Ethiopia. Read by the correspondent and illustrated by her unique recordings

Contributors

Written By:
Jean Jenkins
Producer:
Madeau Stewart

11.0 Movement and Music 1 by PENNY WHITTAM
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.55 am)
11.20 Music Club presented by GARY TAYLOR
11.40 Religion in its
Contemporary Context
ROBERT KEEGAN and SHIRLEY COOKLIN in ' I can manage thank you ': a play on human relationships by R. E. T. LAMB Producer MICHAEL ROLFE

Contributors

Presented By:
Gary Taylor
Unknown:
Robert Keegan
Unknown:
Shirley Cooklin
Unknown:
R. E. T. Lamb
Producer:
Michael Rolfe

Presenter Joan Yorke
Your Home and Family
' Have scholarship, will travel': TIM MATTHEWS surveys the work of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
(Write to You and Yours. BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA; or phone [number removed], ext 3030, and record your letter)

Contributors

Presenter:
Joan Yorke
Unknown:
Tim Matthews

A panel game (?) starring John Cleese and Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie with Humphrey Lyttelton in the chair and Dave Lee at the piano.
(Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area

Contributors

Panellist:
John Cleese
Panellist:
Graeme Garden
Panellist:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Panellist:
Bill Oddie
Chairman:
Humphrey Lyttelton
Pianist:
Dave Lee
Producer:
John Cassels

2.0 In the Trenches. Soldiers' Songs of the 1914-18 War: a radiovision programme by CHARLES CHILTON
2.40 Stories and Rhymes (7-9) ' A White Horse with Wings ' by ANTHEA DAVIES : part 1 Producer Michael ROLFE

Contributors

Programme By:
Charles Chilton
Unknown:
Anthea Davies
Producer:
Michael Rolfe

CHARLOTTE BRONTË'S novel adapted as a five-part serial by BARBARA COUPER Part 5
Producer BETTY DAVIES

Contributors

Unknown:
Barbara Couper
Producer:
Betty Davies
Jane Eyre:
Meg Wynn Owen
Mr Rochester:
Patrick Allen
St John Rivers:
John Rye
Diana Rivers:
Patricia Leventon
Mary Rivers:
Kate Binchy
Servant girl:
Jane Knowles
Innkeeper:
William Eedle
Mary:
Katherine Parr
John:
Ronald Herdman

KENNETH FORD invites
FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and CHRIS BRICKELL to answer questions which listeners have sent in by post.
Producer KENNETH FORD
Questions, on postcards, to Gardeners' Question Time, BBC, Woodhouse Lane , Leeds LS2 9PX.

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Sowerbutts
Unknown:
Chris Brickell
Unknown:
Woodhouse Lane

A panel game for four hands Leader of the pack and chairman is David Nixon who deals to June
Whitfield Patrick Moore , William Rushton Devised and shuffled by IAN MESSITER. Produced and cut by RICHARD WILLCOX

Contributors

Unknown:
David Nixon
Unknown:
Whitfield Patrick Moore
Unknown:
William Rushton
Unknown:
Ian Messiter.
Unknown:
Richard Willcox

[number removed]
Ring Robin Day to put your question in person to
Professor Christiaan Barnard , heart transplant pioneer
To promote a maximum flow of questions [number removed](16 lines) will take them from 6.0 pm onwards as well as while the programme is on the air. Producer BERNARD TATE

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Christiaan Barnard
Producer:
Bernard Tate

by BRYON BUTLER
The Centenary of the FA Cup
The Cup began 100 years ago. It became the springboard for organised professional football, the laws of the game and, much later, The World Cup. Above all, it gave football to the people. It belongstoIrthlingborough and Norton Woodseats just as much as to Arsenal and Leeds.
BRYON BUTLER traces the story of ' The Cup,' its social impact, its fever and drama, with the aid of BBC recorded commentaries and the voices Of GEORGE ALLISON , GEORGK WOODCOCK, C. B. FRY , JOHN ARLOTT , GEOFFREY GREEN, STANLEY MATTHEWS , JACKIE CHARLTON , PROFESSOR A. J AYER , PETE MURRAY , ARTHUR HOPCRAFT and many others passionately involved in playing or watching 'The Cup.'
Producer JACOB DE VRIES

Contributors

Unknown:
Bryon Butler
Unknown:
Norton Woodseats
Unknown:
Bryon Butler
Unknown:
George Allison
Unknown:
C. B. Fry
Unknown:
John Arlott
Unknown:
Stanley Matthews
Unknown:
Jackie Charlton
Unknown:
Professor A. J Ayer
Unknown:
Pete Murray
Unknown:
Arthur Hopcraft
Producer:
Jacob de Vries

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