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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 introduced by DEREK JONES )
8.40 Today's Papers

Contributors

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

Talking Point: discussing listeners' queries and comments about wildlife and the country-side. Introduced by Derek Jones
(From Bristol: shortened version of Sunday's broadcast)
Questions to Talking Point, The Living World, [address removed]

Contributors

Presenter:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Dilys Breese

9.30 History in Evidenc. Stuart Britain 3:
The Trial of Charles I written by ZOE BAILEY
9.45 Listening and Reading 3
'Tuppenny Rush ' from Joby by STAN BARSTOW
Reader GEORGE LAYTON

Contributors

Written By:
Zoe Bailey
Reader:
Stan Barstow
Reader:
George Layton

10.30 Music Workshop 2
Preparation for a performance of Hagoromo, a Noh play by Seami adapted by ANTHONY THWAITE with music by GERARD VICTORY
11.0 Inquiry. Unit 5: The Worker 3: The machine takes over? by LAURIE JOHN (15-16 age group)
11.20 Discovery. Prime Movers 3: The wheel turns by CHRISTINE WADE
Presented by Richard BEBB
11.40 Foreign Correspondent
Each week, an examination in depth of a major current international issue
Presented by GRAHAM TAYAR

Contributors

Adapted By:
Anthony Thwaite
Music By:
Gerard Victory
Unknown:
Laurie John
Unknown:
Christine Wade
Presented By:
Richard Bebb
Presented By:
Graham Tayar

Presenter Joan Yorke Your Rights and Responsibilities
Homes for the Elderly: a four-part series in which LUCILLE HALL gives advice on how to find and choose residential homes. 1: Where to begin looking
Other topical Items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?

Contributors

Presenter:
Joan Yorke

Based on the book by HENRY CECIL
Written by HENRY CECIL and BASIL DAWSON
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area

Contributors

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

2.0 Movement, Mime and Music 1 for the 7-to-9-year-olds by JAMES DODDING
2.20 Books, Plays, Poems
Fear: a programme of poems Script by STUART EVANS
2.45 Nature. Looking at Trees by PETER MANN (radiovision)

Contributors

Unknown:
James Dodding
Script By:
Stuart Evans
Unknown:
Peter Mann

The Trouble with Miss Partington by PAM TICKELL
1 There aren'any jobs for designers round here. Now, instead of me standing in the dole queue, it's her. And all because I was in a position to pull strings.'
Other parts MICHAEL TURNER and LARRY DANN
Producer ALFRED BRADLEY (from Leeds)

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Turner
Unknown:
Larry Dann
Producer:
Alfred Bradley
Jean:
Stephanie Turner
Gordon Bentley:
Brian Peck
Evie:
Sylvia Brayshay
Rita:
Susan Littler
Mrs Partington:
Ella Atkinson
Miss Partington:
Lorraine Peters

24: Semi-Detached. Middle-class Britain between the wars. For the middle class in the South and East, on the weekend beach, the newspapers flapped headlines about far-away places.
Composed and produced by DANIEL SNOWMAN under the direction of Asa Briggs, Professor of History and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sussex, who also speaks the commentary.
Speakers for the People:
DAVID BURN , HARRIET REYNER , MRS M. STEWART , GEOFFREY TREISSMAN ,LANNETA TREISSMAN , DAVID GUEST , MARIA EDMONDSON , WILLIAM BURGUM , MR and MRS LITTLEWOOD , DAVID SPURGEON , BENJAMIN PHILIPS , MRS SPURGEON , BRENDA BOURDON , LESLIE REW , DAVID FOX , REVDONALD ANDREWS , ERIC WILLIATS , LILY POYSER , RITA HAZELDINE , COLIN EAGLAND , REV ARTHUR LLEWELLYN JONES , RONALD LEE , JOHN MORRIS , JOHN MORAN , W. R. BOSTON
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:
JOHN SAMSON , EVA STUART
Additional commentary by MICHAEL DRAKE
The series of 26 programmes created in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop by MICHAEL MASON

Contributors

Produced By:
Daniel Snowman
Unknown:
David Burn
Unknown:
Harriet Reyner
Unknown:
Mrs M. Stewart
Unknown:
Geoffrey Treissman
Unknown:
Lanneta Treissman
Unknown:
David Guest
Unknown:
Maria Edmondson
Unknown:
William Burgum
Unknown:
Mrs Littlewood
Unknown:
David Spurgeon
Unknown:
Benjamin Philips
Unknown:
Mrs Spurgeon
Unknown:
Brenda Bourdon
Unknown:
Leslie Rew
Unknown:
David Fox
Unknown:
Revdonald Andrews
Unknown:
Eric Williats
Unknown:
Lily Poyser
Unknown:
Rita Hazeldine
Unknown:
Colin Eagland
Unknown:
Rev Arthur Llewellyn Jones
Unknown:
Ronald Lee
Unknown:
John Morris
Unknown:
John Moran
Unknown:
W. R. Boston
Unknown:
Charles Parker
Assisted By:
John Merson
Assisted By:
Jon Crook
Music By:
David Cain
Unknown:
Dick Mills
Unknown:
Lloyd Silverthorne
Directed By:
David Munrow
Readers:
John Samson
Readers:
Eva Stuart
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 JOHN CASSELS

Contributors

Unknown:
Anona Winn
Unknown:
Joy Adamson
Unknown:
Norman Hackforth
Unknown:
Peter Glaze
Unknown:
David Franklin
Producer:
John Cassels

The Thing and I by PETER FIELDSON with Jon Rollason as Tim
'Let's have a look what sort of day.... Oh, yes, same as usual: the sun peeping, sheepishly through the smog; the trees across the way still withering; and the two men still digging up my front lawn. Oh, yes, a normal ... digging up my front lawn! '
Producer Richard WORTLEY
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.0 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Fieldson
Unknown:
Jon Rollason
Producer:
Richard Wortley
Bill:
Ronald Herdman
Sid:
Peter Pacey
JOn:
Douglas Blackwell
Computer:
Leslie Heritage
The Voice:
Joy Harrison

with Richard Mayne
' It is a humorous book ... the relationship between a man and his own sex ALBERTO MORAVIA describes his new novel The Two of Us
LORD CHALFONT reviews Network, an account of the controversial General Gehlen and his spy ring, and EDWARD BLISHEN talks about A Cackhanded War, his memoir of life as a conscientious objector in World War II Producer
KEVIN CROSSLEY-HOLLAND

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Mayne
Talks:
Edward Blishen

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