Programme Index

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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 Derek Jones)

8.40 Today's Papers

Contributors

Presenter:
John Timpson
Presenter:
Douglas Cameron
Deputy Editor:
Alastair Osborne
Editor:
Marshall Stewart
Presenter (Extraordinary!):
Don MacLean
Presenter (Today in the South and West):
Derek Jones

John Merson talks to people about their memories of life in the countryside and villages of England a long time ago 1: Work and the Land
Songs, rhymes and stories of work on the land with horses and by hand, the village life, love and courtship, drunkenness and poaching.
Introduced by RITA DANDO Producer ROBERT FOX
12.0 Announcements

Contributors

Talks:
John Merson
Introduced By:
Rita Dando
Producer:
Robert Fox

Anona Winn. Joy
Adamson Norman Hackforth , Peter Glaze with a mystery guest
David Franklin in the chair Producer JOHN CASSELS
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area

Contributors

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

2.0 Let's Join In. Antipka and his bad-tempered wife, by JOHN YEOMAN
2.20 Christian Focus: Nation with nation: LESLIE SMITH talks with young people at an International Voluntary Service camp
2.35 Interlude
2.40 Guitar School: presented by MICHAEL JESSETT (36)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Yeoman
Talks:
Leslie Smith
Presented By:
Michael Jessett

Selected for Friday
From Oblivion to Obscurity by F. C. BALL
An autobiographical drama in which the author. of A Breath of Fresh Air and other books describes how he was sent to London as a boy to make his fortune in the grocery trade
Producer DAVID THOMSON

Contributors

Unknown:
F. C. Ball
Producer:
David Thomson
Jack:
Nigel Anthony
His mother:
Cécile Chevreau
Grocery Inspector:
John Pullen
Housekeeper:
Betty Hardy
Manager:
John Sharp
Mr Smelswete:
Ralph Truman
Soldier:
Eric Francis
Joner:
John East
Cravat:
Nicholas Edmett
Lappsy:
Alaric Cotter
Cockney:
Peter Bartlett

The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team including
STEVE RACE'S Radio Times Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
William Hardcastle
Editor:
Derek Lewis
Editor:
Andrew Boyle

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 IAN GILLIES 4: Midlands
Including ' Beat the Brains ' In which listeners put their own questions to the contestants Devised and written by JOHN P. WYNN
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Gillies
Written By:
John P. Wynn
Producer:
John Fawcett Wilson

NANCY WISE makes a personal selection of items from BBC Radio and TV
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON Research by JEAN STROUD
Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON
(Repeated: Saturday, 4.30 pm)

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Ellison
Unknown:
Jean Stroud
Producer:
Phyllis Robinson

A spontaneous discussion by Baroness Stocks Lord Mancroft
Antony Hopkins Anthony Howard
Chairman DAVID JACOBS Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Idmiston, Wiltshire
(Repeated: Saturday, 1.15 pm) Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? should be addressed to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Unknown:
Baroness Stocks Lord Mancroft
Unknown:
Antony Hopkins
Unknown:
Anthony Howard
Unknown:
Chairman David Jacobs
Producer:
Michael Bowen

Rhodesia - What Now?
Now that the Pearce Commission has reported, what courses of action are open to the British government and which of them should it adopt?
How do Mr Smith and his colleagues see the situation and what are the views of those Rhodesians who are not his supporters?
Presented by Ian Mclntyre Producer GEORGE FISCHER
9.59 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Mr Smith
Presented By:
Ian McLntyre
Producer:
George Fischer

With DENISE COFFEY
Jonathan Cecil
DAVID COODERSON , 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)

Contributors

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

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