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7.0 News
The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anywhere on earth introduced by Robert Robinson and John Timpson
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 )
9.40 Today's Papers

Contributors

Introduced By:
Robert Robinson
Introduced By:
John Timpson
Introduced By:
Derek Jones

by H. F. ELLIS : abridged in five parts and read by Noel Iliff with JOHN GABRIEL
The hilarious experiences of Mr Wentworth during his many years at Burgrove Preparatory School throw some light on the forces militating against the composure and, indeed, the sanity of assistant masters.
1: Mr Wentworth gets the Bird Producer MARGARET ETALL ‡

Contributors

Unknown:
H. F. Ellis
Read By:
Noel Iliff
Unknown:
John Gabriel
Unknown:
Mr Wentworth
Unknown:
Mr Wentworth
Producer:
Margaret Etall

Jeanine McMullen presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Your Money - earning, saving and spending it. National Giro: pros and cons for the customer analysed by FRANCES CAIRNCROSS. Legal Liability and Insurance Cover: MICHAEL MOLYNEUX on the problem of compensation for victims of motor car accidents. Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeanine McMullen
Unknown:
Frances Cairncross.
Unknown:
Michael Molyneux

Wuthering Heights by EMILY BRONTE: abridged in ten instalments by NAN MACDONALD Read by Ronald Harvi and Marah Stohl
Mr Lockwood , the new tenant of Thrusheross Grange , is puzzled by the ill-assorted household he finds at Wuthering Heights. What is their relationship? Why are they so surly and hostile to strangers? Who was Catherine Earnshaw , Heathcliff or Linton whose name he found so constantly scratched on the ledge by the box bed?
1: A Churlish Reception Read by RONALD HARVI

Contributors

Read By:
Ronald Harvi
Read By:
Marah Stohl
Unknown:
Mr Lockwood
Unknown:
Thrusheross Grange
Unknown:
Catherine Earnshaw
Read By:
Ronald Harvi

starring Richard Briers as Roger Thursby in What do you do?
JOHN GLYN-JONES as Grimes BRIDGET ARMSTRONG as Joy AMANDA REISS as Miss MulCCt FELIX FELTON as the Judge and featuring
GEOFFREY SUMNER as Col Brain And this week's guest star:
Alfie Bass as Arritzivin Bashlaq Written by HENRY CECIL
Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK (Repeated: Wed, 12.25 pm)
(Richard Briers is in ' Butley at the Criterion, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Briers
Unknown:
John Glyn-Jones
Unknown:
Grimes Bridget Armstrong
Unknown:
Joy Amanda Reiss
Unknown:
Miss Mulcct Felix Felton
Unknown:
Geoffrey Sumner
Unknown:
Alfie Bass
Unknown:
Arritzivin Bashlaq
Written By:
Henry Cecil
Producer:
Trafford Whitelock
Unknown:
Richard Briers

Radio spans the world to link the cities of Sydney, Wellington, Winnipeg and London in a general knowledge contest between schoolchildren in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United Kingdom.

United Kingdom Team - Ruth Lewis, Matthew Cobb, Andrew Barker
Questionmaster John Ellison

New Zealand Team - Terence Rudge, Alison Miller, Rosalind Salas
Questionmaster Lyell Bowes

(Also broadcast on the networks of ABC Australia, NZBC New Zealand and CBC Canada)

Contributors

Questionmaster (UK):
John Ellison
Contestant (UK):
Ruth Lewis
Contestant (UK):
Matthew Cobb
Contestant (UK):
Andrew Barker
Questionmaster (New Zealand):
Lyell Bowes
Contestant (New Zealand):
Terence Rudge
Contestant (New Zealand):
Alison Miller
Contestant (New Zealand):
Rosalind Salas
Producer:
Graeme Ross
Executive Producer:
John Bridges

A comic tour of the British Isles guided by Frank Muir stopping this week in Ireland with illustrations from PETER REEVES and the voices of VAL DOONICAN, THE DUBLINERS MICIIeAl MAC LIAMMÓIR
MIKE NEWMAN , PETER SELLERS and others
Research by TONY ASPLER Producers DAVID HATCH and SIMON BRETT

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Peter Reeves
Unknown:
Mike Newman
Unknown:
Tony Aspler
Producers:
David Hatch
Unknown:
Simon Brett

Idea for a Rhapsody by MICHAEL KITTERMASTER with Tony Britton
Mary Wimbush , Muriel Pavlow Pauline Letts , John Bentley
' Hasn'anyone told you that you've got to work at human relationships ... to take a risk or two, forget your amour propre? Dissemble a bit if necessary. But you've just given up! '
with OLWEN GRIFFITHS GEOFFREY BEEVERS and MICHAEL KILGARRIFF
Rhapsody composed by PETER GREENWEI. L
Pianist WINFRED DAVEY Producer BETTY DAVIES
(Mary Wimbush is in ' Butley at the Criterion; Tony Britton in ' Move Over Mrs Markham ' at the Vaudeville Theatre, London)
9.59 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Kittermaster
Unknown:
Tony Britton
Unknown:
Mary Wimbush
Unknown:
Muriel Pavlow
Unknown:
Pauline Letts
Unknown:
John Bentley
Unknown:
Geoffrey Beevers
Composed By:
Peter Greenwei.
Pianist:
Winfred Davey
Producer:
Betty Davies
Pianist:
Mary Wimbush
Unknown:
Tony Britton
Unknown:
Mrs Markham
Robin Colley:
Tony Britton
Carol Grant:
Kate Binchy
Grace Barthrop.:
Mary Wimbush
Mary Colley:
Paullne Letts
Frank Millward:
John Bentley
Rikki Carr:
Muriel Pavi.Ow
James Adams:
William Eedle

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