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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

9.30 History in Evidence
Restoration Britain -1: Sir Isaac Newton , narrated by PATRICK MOORE
Written by MAURICE WHITBREAD Producer ALAN EREIRA
9.45 Listening and Reading 3
' The Hook ' by LIAM O'FLAHERTY Reader JOHN HOLLIS
9.55 Nous y sommes!
5: Vol au Chateau de ]a Tr6-mouille: written by ARIEL DAIGRE
(Fourth year French: 1112)
10.5 Poetry Corner Let's Hear it Again

Contributors

Unknown:
Isaac Newton
Unknown:
Patrick Moore
Written By:
Maurice Whitbread
Producer:
Alan Ereira
Reader:
Liam O'Flaherty
Reader:
John Hollis
Written By:
Ariel Daigre

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. 5: Communist worker by JOHN PARRY (15-16 age group)
11.20 Discovery. Colour and texture - 1: How does it look? by ARTHUR VIALLS
Presented by Richard HEBB
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:
John Parry
Unknown:
Arthur Vialls
Presented By:
Richard Hebb
Presented By:
Graham Tayar

Presenter Derek Cooper Your Rights and Responsibilities
Trusts and Trustees: LAURIE SAPPER tells JOHN EDMUNDS What Trusts are. when they can be set up and what duties a Trustee must perform.
Other topical items too. and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?

Contributors

Presenter:
Derek Cooper
Unknown:
Laurie Sapper
Unknown:
John Edmunds

Based on the book by HENRY CECIL
Assault with This week s guest star
Written by HENRY CECIL and HASIL DAWSON
Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK
(Richard Briers is in ' Butley ' at the Criterion: Dennis Rams den in ' No Sex Please - We're British at the Strand. London)
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area

Contributors

Book By:
Henry Cecil
Written By:
Henry Cecil
Written By:
Hasil Dawson
Producer:
Trafford Whitelock
Unknown:
Richard Briers
Unknown:
Dennis Rams
as Roger Thursby in starring:
Richard Briers
Grimes:
John Glyn-Jones
Sally:
Julia Lockwood
Jov:
Bridget Armstrong
Mr Merivale:
Dennis Ramsden
as Frith Wyndham:
Simon Merrick
the Judge:
Gerald Cross
Alec:
Martin Friend
Mrs Polegate:
Joan Sims

2.0 Movement, Mime and Music 1 by JAMES DODDlNG
2.20 Books, Plays, Poems
Knocking into Shape: a programme of poems about the lessons of experience Script by STUART EVANS
2.45 Nature. Earthworms and the Life of the Soil by CHRISTOPHER REYNOLDS

Contributors

Music By:
James Doddlng
Script By:
Stuart Evans
Unknown:
Christopher Reynolds

A Day Trip with the Last Rocker by BILL LYONS
It's Ron's last day of freedom for he's getting married tomorrow. So why not go down to Brighton for the day and see what turns up. and PATRICK TULL, JOHN ROWE
PETER MARINKER. EVA STUART Producer JANE GRAHAM

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Lyons
Unknown:
Patrick Tull,
Unknown:
John Rowe
Unknown:
Peter Marinker.
Unknown:
Eva Stuart
Producer:
Jane Graham
Ron Crisp:
Bill Lyons
Sandra Francis:
Jane Knowles
Mrs Francis:
Margot Boyd
Bomber:
Paul Angelis
Bird:
Petra Leah
Arnold Francis:
Geoffrey Beevers
Pam:
Angela Down
Mr Francis:
Manning Wilson

26: Between Tiro Worlds: Our Own Changing Society
Composed and produced by DANIEL SNOWMAN under the direction of Stuart Hall. Acting Director. Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. University of Birmingham, who also speaks the commentary. Readers JOHN SAMSON
DAVID VALLA , NIGEL LAMBERT
Speakers for the voices of the People: NORMAN DANIEL. HUGH TREVOR-ROPER and voices from BBC Sound Archive recordings. Producer for the voices of the People: CHARLES PARKER. assisted by JOHN MERSON and JON CROOK Literary advisers: MICHAEL ALEXANDER . Lecturer in English at the University of Stirling: RAY-MOND Williams. Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, and University Reader in Drama
Central consultants: ASA BRIGGS, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sussex; (;WYN Williams. Professor of History at the University of York Special music by DAVID CAIN
EARLY MUSIC CONSORT OF LONDON directed by DAVID MUNROW Programme realisation by PICK MILLS , LLOYD SILVERTHORNE Folk music adviser
MADEAU STEWART
Producer's assistant I.IBBY MAUDE The series of 26 programmes created in the BBC Radiuphonic
Workshop by MICHAEL MASON

Contributors

Produced By:
Daniel Snowman
Readers:
John Samson
Readers:
David Valla
Readers:
Nigel Lambert
Unknown:
Norman Daniel.
Unknown:
Hugh Trevor-Roper
Unknown:
Charles Parker.
Assisted By:
John Merson
Unknown:
Jon Crook
Unknown:
Michael Alexander
Unknown:
Mond Williams.
Music By:
David Cain
Directed By:
David Munrow
Unknown:
Pick Mills
Unknown:
Lloyd Silverthorne
Unknown:
Madeau Stewart
Unknown:
I.Ibby Maude
Unknown:
Michael Mason

Down But Not Out by SANDRA CLARK with Alan Rothwell
George A. Cooper and June Barry
' They'll see me, when me name's in all the papers. The Birdman, climbing into the cool clear air among the clouds. Folks'll look like beads scattered along the ribbon roads, while I soar above 'em all, making patterns out of their endless scurrying ...'
Producer TONY CLIFF
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.0 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sandra Clark
Unknown:
Alan Rothwell
Unknown:
George A. Cooper
Producer:
Tony Cliff
Bertha:
June Barry
Herbert:
Alan Rothwell
Fred:
George A Cooper
Reg:
Geoffrey Banks
Arnold:
Roy Barraclough
Jack:
Harry Markham
Commentator:
John McCregor
Jackie:
Patricia Leventon
Ada:
Susan Littleh

with Marghanita Laski
A review of Greenvoe. the first novel by the notable Orcadian poet and storyteller George Mackay Brown
A look at the Selected Letters of E- E. Cummings , who wrote to ' ezra pound.' william carlos Williams ' edmund wilson ' and many others
How to be published: GILES CORDON joins MARGHANITA LASKI in the second of three discussions about the public and the book trade
Producer KEVIN CROSSLEY-HOLLAND

Contributors

Unknown:
Marghanita Laski
Unknown:
George MacKay Brown
Unknown:
E. Cummings
Unknown:
Edmund Wilson
Producer:
Kevin Crossley-Holland

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