Programme Index

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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 4: Wren's London
Written by MAURICE WHITBREAD Producer ALAN EREIRA
9.45 Listening and Reading 3. How My Love was Sawed in Half by ROBERT FONTAINE Reader EDDIE MATTHEWS
9.55 Nous y sommes!
8: Une promenade en voiture written by ARTEL DAIGRE
(Fourth-year French: 11-12)
10.5 Poetry Corner. Let's Hear It Again
Producer MICHAEL ROLFE

Contributors

Written By:
Maurice Whitbread
Producer:
Alan Ereira
Reader:
Robert Fontaine
Reader:
Eddie Matthews
Written By:
Artel Daigre
Producer:
Michael Rolfe

10.30 Music Workshop 2
Hagoromo - a Noh play for Schools radio by ANTHONY THWAITE
Music by GERARD VICTORY
WOMEN'S VOICES OF THE BBC CHORUS and an INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE conducted by THE COMPOSER Producer WILLIAM MURPHY
11.0 Inquiry. Unit 6: The scene this summer. 3: A breath of fresh air. by KEITH YEOMANS. Series edited by JOHN PARRY
11.20 Discovery. Round-Up
11.40 Foreign Correspondent Presented by GRAHAM TAYAR

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Thwaite
Producer:
William Murphy
Unknown:
Keith Yeomans.
Edited By:
John Parry
Presented By:
Graham Tayar
Chief fisherman:
Stephen Thorne
Second fisherman:
John Bull
Spirit:
Olwen Griffiths

Presenter Derek Cooper
Your Rights and Responsibilities. Public libraries: should the author be paid when his books are borrowed and, if so, by whom? JEANINE MCMULLEN examines the alternatives.
Other topical items too, and What's On Your Mind?

Contributors

Presenter:
Derek Cooper
Unknown:
Jeanine McMullen

2.0 Movement, Mime and Music 1 by JAMES DODDING
2.20 Books, Plays, Poems Your Own Poems
2.45 Nature. New Forest Ponies by LESLEY GOULD
Interviewer MICHAEL SMEE Narrator JOHN ARLOTT
Producer ELIZABETH ORNBO

Contributors

Music By:
James Dodding
Narrator:
John Arlott
Producer:
Elizabeth Ornbo

by Maurice C. Packham
with Margaret Ford, Brian Hewlett, Robert Mill, James Thomason

'What shall we do with the Pope? Burn him, burn him!' is a strange cry for choirboys and organist to hear on bonfire night!

Contributors

Writer:
Maurice C. Packham
Organ music played by:
John Strickson
Producer:
R.D. Smith
Canon Jellaby:
James Thomason
Lady Pilford Breeme:
Grizelda Hervey
Amaryllis Wensley:
Margaret Ford
Gumbrill:
Stephen Bone
Nevil Lansdale:
Brian Hewlett
Marchant:
Peter Bartlett
Truelock:
Geoffrey Owen
Small choirboy:
Philip Da Costa
Crablings:
Martin Friend
Samuel Tutcombe:
Martin Friend
Mrs Tutcombe:
Judith Fellows
Scadthrop:
Robert Mill
Rose:
Roberta Symes-Schutzmann

A Bristol Memoir 1939-1943
At the outbreak of war in 1939 Felix Felton was the BBC's very young Programme Director at Bristol who found himself suddenly in charge of some unusual and highly distinguished evacuees from London programme departments.
In this programme he relates some of the extraordinary things that happened to him. to the BBC, and to Bristol during the early years of the conflict. Producer BRIAN MILLER

Contributors

Unknown:
Felix Felton
Producer:
Brian Miller

Anona Winn. Joy
Adamson Norman Hackforth , Peter Glaze with a mystery guest
David Franklin in the chair Producer JOHN CASSELS
(Repeated: Friday, 12.25 pm)

Contributors

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

(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)

Contributors

Written By:
Brian Hayles
Daniel Archer:
Edgar Harrison
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Christine:
Lesley Saweard
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Carol Tregorran:
Anne Cullen
John Tregorran:
Philip Morant
Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Polly Perks:
Hilary Newcombe
Nora Salt:
Julia Mark
Mrs Lily:
Mollie Harris
Joe Grundy:
Reg Johnston
Ken Pound:
Michael Collins
Jane Petrie:
Ursula O'Leary

The Playhouse by BILL LYONS
Being on her own all day, with her husband out at work and her son away at school, Ruth was bound to be affected by the advent of an odd-job man. with Angela Pleasence as Ruth Richard O'Callaghan as Hawkins Robin Ellis as Stephen JANE KNOWLES as Miss Petheridge Producer JANE GRAHAM
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.0 pm) (Radio Times People: page 4)

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Lyons
Unknown:
Angela Pleasence
Unknown:
Ruth Richard O'Callaghan
Unknown:
Hawkins Robin Ellis
Unknown:
Stephen Jane Knowles
Producer:
Jane Graham

with Magnus Magnusson
Nasser, Anthony Nutting 's study of the Egyptian leader, reviewed by JAMES THOMSON , former Head of the BBC'S Arabic Service
CLAUD COCKBURN and LESLEY GARNER discuss Eleanor and Franklin, the story of the Roosevelts bv Joseph P. Lash CHAIM RAPHAEL takes a new look at the work of playwright and novelist Patrick Hamilton whose biography by his brother has just been published. and other new books Producer DAN zerdin

Contributors

Unknown:
Magnus Magnusson
Unknown:
Anthony Nutting
Reviewed By:
James Thomson
Unknown:
Claud Cockburn
Unknown:
Lesley Garner
Unknown:
Joseph P. Lash
Unknown:
Chaim Raphael
Unknown:
Patrick Hamilton

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