Programme Index

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7.0 News
The world this morning introduced by John Timpson and Douglas Cameron
7.40 Todays 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:
Douglas Cameron
Introduced By:
Derek Jones

John Merson talks to people about memories of daily life in the villages and countryside of England a long time ago 3: The World Beyond
How the villagers approached the supernatural, the mysteries of their world. Songs and stories of myths, witches and curses, John Barleycorn and a true fairy-tale from Romania. Introduced by RITA DANDO Additional material by A. L. LLOYD
Producer ROBERT FOX
12.0 Announcements

Contributors

Talks:
John Merson
Unknown:
John Barleycorn
Introduced By:
Rita Dando
Unknown:
A. L. Lloyd
Producer:
Robert Fox

2.0 Let's Join In. The Golden Phoenix by MARIUS BARBEAU
2.20 Christian Focus A topical broadcast
2.35 Interlude
2.40 Guitar School: written and presented by MICIBEL JESSETT (38). Producer DOUGLAS COOMBES

Contributors

Unknown:
Marius Barbeau
Presented By:
Micibel Jessett
Producer:
Douglas Coombes

Selected fur Friday
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN translated and adapted for radio by NICHOLAS BETHELL
Central Siberia, 1950. A compassionate and harrowing picture of life in a Soviet labour camp by the 1971 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. with Nigel Stock as Ivan Denisovich Shukhov
Producer JOHN GIBSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Ivan Denisovich
Unknown:
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Radio By:
Nicholas Bethell
Unknown:
Nigel Stock
Unknown:
Ivan Denisovich Shukhov
Producer:
John Gibson
Buinovsky:
Lockwood West
Tiurin:
Jehn Hollis
Caesar:
Basil Jones
Alyosha:
Emrys James
Fetyukov:
Leroy Lingwood
Kolya:
Ronald Herdman
Der:
Douglas Hankin
Tartar guard:
Michael Grabam Cox
Second guard:
Nigel Clayton
Third guard:
David Brierley
Searcher:
Ronald Herdman
Radio announcer:
Gudrun Ure

A spontaneous discussion by Sir Edwin Leather Jimmy Reid
Mary Goldring Kenneth Allsop
Chairman David Jacobs Producer MICHAEL BOWFN from Severn Beach, Glos
(Repeated: Saturday, 1.15 pm) Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? should be addressed to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BSS 2LR

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Edwin Leather
Unknown:
Jimmy Reid
Unknown:
Mary Goldring
Unknown:
Kenneth Allsop
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Producer:
Michael Bowfn

The Road to the White House
Only one state primary remains to be fought in the United States before the two major parties assemble in convention to choose their presidential candidates - the Democrats next month, the Republicans in August.
Ian Mclntyre reports from Washington and chairs a discussion on the state of the parties and the issues that divide them.
STEWART ALSOP , columnist of Newsweek
HOWARD R. PENNIMAN , Professor of Government, Georgetown University
Richard M. SCAMMON , Director of the Elections Research Center Producer GEORGE FISCHER
9.59 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian McLntyre
Unknown:
Stewart Alsop
Unknown:
Howard R. Penniman
Unknown:
Richard M. Scammon
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 Producer SIMON BRETT
(Denise Coffey is a National Theatre player at Young Vic)

Contributors

Unknown:
Denise Coffey
Unknown:
Jonathan Cecil
Unknown:
David Gooderson
Unknown:
David Jason.
Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
Peter Pontzen
Written By:
Peter Spence
Written By:
Christopher Langham
Producer:
Simon Brett
Unknown:
Denise Coffey

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