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7.0 News
The world this morning introduced by John Timpson and Douglas Cameron
Deputy editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE Editor MARSHALL STEWART
7.40 Today's Papers
7.4S 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
Editor:
Alastair Osborne
Editor:
Marshall Stewart
Introduced By:
Derek Jones

Percy Edwards , the bird-imitator of radio, television, films and variety theatre fame, discusses With DEREK JONES his career and enthusiasm for wildlife, aided by recordings from the BBC Sound Archives. Producer JOHN BURTON (from Bristol)

Contributors

Unknown:
Percy Edwards
Unknown:
Derek Jones
Producer:
John Burton

Selected for Friday
Aucassin and Nicolette
The 13th-century musical fable translated and adapted for radio by RENÉ HAGUE: with musicarrangedfromcontemporary sources by DENIS STEVENS
MARIA KORCHINSKA (harp)
MAXWELL WARD (viola d'amore) DESMOND DUPRÉ (viola da gamba) Directed by ROY JESSON
Producer douglas CLEVERDON
A chance to hear again some of the best one-hour plays broadcast in recent years.

Contributors

Directed By:
Roy Jesson
Producer:
Douglas Cleverdon
Storyteller:
Allan McClelland
Aucassin:
Trader Faulkner
Nicolette:
Jane Asher
Count Garin of Beaucaire:
Norman Shelley
Countess of Beaucaire:
Dorothy Black
The Viscount:
Lewis Stringer
Ugly:
Ralph Truman
The Shepherd:
Denys Hawthorne
King of Torelore:
George Curzon
The Singers of the Lays: The Jongleur:
Edgar Fleet
The Singers of the Lays: Aucassin:
Wilfred Brown
The Singers of the Lays: Nicolette:
Patricia Clark

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 spontaneous discussion by Rt Hon Jeremy Thorpe , MP
Rt Hon Edward du Cann , MP Gwyneth Dunwoody Beryl Reid
Chairman David Jacobs Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Meavy, Devon
(Repeated: Saturday. 1.15 pm) Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? should be addressed to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeremy Thorpe
Unknown:
Edward du Cann
Unknown:
Gwyneth Dunwoody
Unknown:
Beryl Reid
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Producer:
Michael Bowen

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 Vie)

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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