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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

Joan Yorke presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you.
Your Money - earning, saving and spending it
Careers in Hotels: In a time of high unemployment FRANCES BERTHELSEN investigates the wide opportunities for jobs in this service industry.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan Yorke
Unknown:
Frances Berthelsen

2.0 Exploration Earth
8: Munich prepares for its visitors, by PADDY FEENY
2.20 The Music Box by GORDON REYNOLDS With MARI GRIFFITH
2.30 Speak: follow-up work
2.40 Movement, Mime and Music 2 by BRIAN SANDERS

Contributors

Unknown:
Paddy Feeny
Unknown:
Mari Griffith
Music By:
Brian Sanders

Septimus and the Danedyke Mystery by STEPHEN CHANCE abridged for radio in five parts by LINDA POLAN
Read by Brian Cant
The Rev Septimus Treloar is Rector of St Mary's, Danedyke. Before ordination he was a Scotland Yard detective. 1: The Relic Chapel
Producer ANTHONY CORNISH (from Birmingham)

Contributors

Unknown:
Linda Polan
Read By:
Brian Cant
Producer:
Anthony Cornish

The news magazine: 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 Richard Briers as Roger Thursby in Faults on Both Sides
JOHN GLYN. JONES as Grimes JULIA LOCKWOOD as Sally BRIDGET ARMSTRONG as Joy ALEXANDRA DANE as Miss Fawcett-Turnberry MARTIN FRIEND as Alec EVA STUART as Lady Kent
And this week's guest star:
Michael Hordern as Mr Justice Kent
Written by HENRY CECIL
Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK (Repeated: Wed, 12.25 pm)
(Richard Briers is in ' Butley ' at the Criterion Theatre, London; Michael Hordern is a National Theatre player)

Contributors

Book By:
Henry Cecil
Unknown:
Richard Briers
Unknown:
John Glyn.
Unknown:
Grimes Julia Lockwood
Unknown:
Sally Bridget Armstrong
Unknown:
Joy Alexandra Dane
Unknown:
Miss Fawcett-Turnberry Martin
Unknown:
Alec Eva Stuart
Unknown:
Michael Hordern
Written By:
Henry Cecil
Producer:
Trafford Whitelock
Unknown:
Richard Briers
Unknown:
Michael Hordern

A general knowledge contest between schoolchildren in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United Kingdom.

Australian Team - Laurel Meers, Charles Maddison, Igor Nossar
Questionmaster John Dease

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 (Australia):
John Dease
Contestant (Australia):
Laurel Meers
Contestant (Australia):
Charles Maddison
Contestant (Australia):
Igor Nossar
Producer (Australia):
Hal Lashwood
Questionmaster (New Zealand):
Lyell Boyes
Contestant (New Zealand):
Terence Rudge
Contestant (New Zealand):
Alison Miller
Contestant (New Zealand):
Rosalind Salas
Producer (New Zealand):
Graeme Ross
Executive Producer:
John Bridges

A comic tour of the British Isles guided by Frank Muir stopping this week in The North of England and the voices of ALAN BENNETT GRACIE FIELDS, GEORGE FORMBY STANLEY HOLLOWAY , AL READ Research by TONY ASPLER Producers DAVID HATCH and SIMON BRETT

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Alan Bennett
Unknown:
George Formby
Unknown:
Stanley Holloway
Unknown:
Tony Aspler
Producers:
David Hatch
Unknown:
Simon Brett

A Hospital Case by DINO BUZZATI translated and adapted by HENRY REED with Stephen Murray and Nigel Davenport
Giovanni Corte , a very lion of a man, gets caught up in the machinery of medicine, hospitals, ageing-death: it it a satire on a mid-20th-century health service, but also, on a deeper level, a modern morality play on the death of a rich man. With JOHN GRAHAM
STANLEY LEBOR, PHILIP MORANT
Special effects by the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop
Producer MARTIN ESSLIN
This revival of the 1961 Third Programme production commemorates the death earlier this year of one of Italy's leading playwrights.
•9.59 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Dino Buzzati
Adapted By:
Henry Reed
Unknown:
Stephen Murray
Unknown:
Nigel Davenport
Unknown:
Giovanni Corte
Unknown:
John Graham
Producer:
Martin Esslin
Giovanni Corte:
Stepren Murray
His mother:
Mary O'Farrell
Anita, his wife:
Grizelda Hervey
Bianca, his daughter:
Monica Grey
Dr Malvezzi, his family doctor:
James Thomason
Professor Claretta:
Nigel Davenport
Professor Schroeder:
Felix Felton
Gloria, Corte's secretary:
Dorit Welles
Menti:
Keith Williams
Spanna:
John Bryning
Gobbi:
Charles Hodgson
Mrs Perozzi:
Miriam Karlin
Mascherini:
Tom Watson
Patient on the third floor:
Patrick Magee
Nurses:
Janet Burnell
Nurses:
Dorothy Primrose ,
Nurses:
Gladys Spencer ,
Nurses:
Molly Rankin ,
Nurses:
Delia Paton

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