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7.0 News
The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anywhere on earth 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 (23) Script by DOUGLAS COOMBES
11.20 Springboard
The Bicycle Children Script by ANITA HEWITT Producer MICHAEL ROLFE
11.40 Drama Workshop. The Mine: written by DAVID SELF Presented by PETER PACEY and ROSALIND ELLIOT

Contributors

Script By:
Douglas Coombes
Script By:
Anita Hewitt
Producer:
Michael Rolfe
Written By:
David Self
Presented By:
Peter Pacey
Presented By:
Rosalind Elliot

Joan Yorke presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Your Money - earning, saving and spending it
Is a stockbroker necessary?
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)

2.0 Exploration Earth 3: Under the Mersey by NORMAN TURNER
2.20 The Music Box by GORDON REYNOLDS With MARI GRIFFITH
2.30 Speak. Finding Out (i)
Young people still at school interview a young married couple
2.40 Movement, Mime and Music 2 by BRIAN SANDERS

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman Turner
Unknown:
Mari Griffith
Music By:
Brian Sanders

Animal Farm by GEORGE ORWELL abridged for radio in five parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by Tom Fleming 1: The Great Rebellion
' The whole of the produce of our labour is stolen from us by human beings. There, comrades, is the answer to all- our problems. It is summed up in a single word-Man. Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever.'
Producer GORDON EMSLIE (from Scotland)

Contributors

Unknown:
George Orwell
Unknown:
Donald Bancroft
Read By:
Tom Fleming

The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening
Including the latest news, the evening press, the City, the people and talking points of the day. 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 the book by HENRY CECIL starring in Menaces with Written by HENRY CECIL and BASIL DAWSON Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK (Repeated: Wed, 12.25 pm)
(Richard Briers is in ' Butley ' at the Criterion, London)

Contributors

Book By:
Henry Cecil
Written By:
Henry Cecil
Written By:
Basil Dawson
Producer:
Trafford Whitelock
Roger Thursby:
Richard Briers
Sally:
Julia Lockwood
Joy:
Bridget Armstrong
Mr Perkins:
Sam Kydd
the Judge:
Felix Felton
Knaphill:
Alec Bregonzi
Det InSp:
Douglas Blackwell
Counsel:
Nigel Anthony

Radio spans the world to link the cities of Sydney, Wellington, Winnipeg and London in a general knowledge contest between schoolchildren in Australia. New Zealand, Canada and the United Kingdom.

Canadian team: Raymond Torbiak, Richard Decter, Joanne Peters
Questionmaster Bob Burton

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 (Canada):
Bob Burton
Contestant (Canada):
Raymond Torbiak
Contestant (Canada):
Richard Decter
Contestant (Canada):
Joanne Peters
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:
David McCormick
Producer:
Graeme Ross
Executive Producer:
John Bridges

The Uncharted Sea Dos weite Land by ARTHUR SCHNITZLER
English version by RONALD ADAM with John Moffatt
Sheila Grant. Rosalind Shanks 'We try to create a well-ordered life as best we may - but the good order is only something artificial-a natural state - is chaos ... the soul of man is an uncharted sea ... * Scene: The Hofreiter villa at Baden bei Wien, a small town near Vienna, and a hotel in a mountain resort in the Dolomites. Time: the early part of this century.
Producer JOHN TYDEMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Ronald Adam
Unknown:
John Moffatt
Unknown:
Sheila Grant.
Unknown:
Rosalind Shanks
Producer:
John Tydeman
Friedrich Hofreiter, an industrialist:
John Moffatt
Genia his wife:
Sheila Grant
Frau Wahl:
Joan Matheson
Erna her daughter:
Rosalind Shanks
Gustl, her son:
Neville Phillips
Dr Aigner:
William Fox
Frau Aigner:
Barbara Markham
Lt Otto Aigner, her son:
David Spenser
Dr Mauer:
Simon Lack
Paul Kreindl:
Christopher Good
Herr Natter, a banker:
Martin Friend
Adele his wife:
Jill SimcOx
Dr Schulz:
Gerald Cross
Albert Rhon, a poet:
Lewis Stringer
Marie, his wife:
Kate Binchy
Capt Stanzides, a Cavalry Officer:
Leslie Heritage

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