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7.0 News
The world this morning introduced by John Timpson and Douglas Cameron
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 Extraordinary! with DON MACLEAN ; and Today, in the South and West introduced by CLIVE CUNNINGHAM )
8.40 Today's Papers

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Introduced By:
Douglas Cameron
Unknown:
Don MacLean
Introduced By:
Clive Cunningham

11.20 Listening and Writing
The 50-yard Dash ': a short story by William Saroyan and poems by Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson
11.40 Prospect. Current affairs
12.0 Announcements

Contributors

Story By:
William Saroyan
Unknown:
Robert Frost
Unknown:
Emily Dickinson

Presenter Derek Cooper Your Own Time
Pen Friends - but often lonely hearts and good Samaritans too: PAT CALLAGHAN reports
Where Have all the Porters Gone?: a complaint from MOLLIE WEIR , and an explanation from British Rail

Contributors

Presenter:
Derek Cooper
Unknown:
Pat Callaghan
Unknown:
Mollie Weir

2.0 Let's Join In. The Hurdy-Gurdy Man by M. W. BIANCO
2.20 Christian Focus. the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY takes part in a discussion with young people chaired by LESLIE SMITH
2.35 Interlude
2.40 Guitar School, written and presented by MICHAEL JESSETT (35)

Contributors

Unknown:
M. W. Bianco
Unknown:
Leslie Smith
Presented By:
Michael Jessett

Selected for Friday
Not Wishing to Return by JEREMY SANDFORD
An account, based upon her diaries, of a young English noblewoman's experiences in Ireland during the early years of this century. with Patricia Gallimore as Mary, the diarist Others taking part:
DAVID BRIERLEY , BEE DUFFEI,L
TOMMY DUGGAN , DENYS HAWTHORNE SALLY MATES, DENIS MCCARTHY
ANNE MCGRATH , HUMPHREY MORTON SHEILA RAYNOR
Producer TERENCE TILLER

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeremy Sandford
Unknown:
Patricia Gallimore
Unknown:
David Brierley
Unknown:
Tommy Duggan
Unknown:
Denys Hawthorne
Unknown:
Denis McCarthy
Unknown:
Anne McGrath
Unknown:
Humphrey Morton
Unknown:
Sheila Raynor
Producer:
Terence Tiller

A nation-wide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete for this title. Second Round: featuring each week three winners from the first round of the contest.
Chairman FRANKI.IN ENGELMANN 2: Home Counties and South of England
Including 'Beat the Brains' in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants

A spontaneous discussion by Anne Allen
David Franklin
Campbell Adamson Leslie Thomas
Chairman DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD from Llanfair Waterdine, Radnorshire
(Repeated: Saturday, 1.15 pm) Listeners' views for use in Any Answersr should be addressed to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Unknown:
Anne Allen
Unknown:
David Franklin
Unknown:
Campbell Adamson
Unknown:
Leslie Thomas
Unknown:
Chairman David Jacobs
Producer:
Roy Hayward

The Rt non Roy Jenkins , mp former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, in conversation with IAN MCINTYRE about the major domestic and international issues of the day Producer GEORGE FISCHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Roy Jenkins
Unknown:
Ian McIntyre
Producer:
George Fischer

with Denise Coffey, Jonathan Cecil, David Gooderson, David Jason, Bill Wallis and Peter Pontzen at the piano
Written by Peter Spence and Christopher Langham with additional material by David Renwick
Producer David Hatch
(Denise Coffey is a National Theatre player at the Young Vic)
(The joke factory that churns out North Pole penguins and South Sea Gas: page 12)

Contributors

Unknown:
Denise Coffey
Unknown:
Jonathan Cecil
Unknown:
David Gooderson
Unknown:
David Jason
Unknown:
Peter Pontzen
Written By:
Peter Spence
Written By:
Christopher Langham
Unknown:
David Renwick
Producer:
David Hatch

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