Programme Index

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7.0 News
The world this morning 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 )
8.40 Today's Papers

Contributors

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

BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA leader JAMES DAVIS conducted by MICHAEL MOORES including music by Schubert, Faur6 and Coates MARTIN GOLDSTEIN QUINTET playing Handel, Bach, Mozart Introduced by COLIN DORAN

Contributors

Leader:
James Davis
Conducted By:
Michael Moores
Conducted By:
Coates Martin Goldstein
Introduced By:
Colin Doran

2: Gamber Does It On the Side An office comedy by IAN MASON The secret life of Mr Gamber , a town hall Deputy Departmental Head who has an unofficial wife as secretary and uses his office accommodation as their home.
Producer RICHARD WORTLEY

Contributors

Comedy By:
Ian Mason
Unknown:
Mr Gamber
Producer:
Richard Wortley
Narrator:
David Brierley
Gamber:
Douglas Blackwell
Miss Phipps:
Eva Stuart
Sgt Norris/Barman/Mailing boy:
Michael Harbour
Frean:
Willlam Fox
Mrs Frean:
Katherine Parr
Tina:
Helen Worth
Mabel Hopkins:
Olwen Griffiths

Presenter Joan Yorke
Your Home and Family
Flavour Factory: FRANCES BERTH-ELSEN visits a source of taste-to-order where everything can be flavoured of the best.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
(Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA)

Contributors

Presenter:
Joan Yorke

starring Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler in The Conference Trick with NORMA RONALD , RONALD BADDILEY JOHN GRAHAM , GARARD GREEN Written by EDWARD TAYLOR and JOHN GRAHAM
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Murdoch
Unknown:
Deryck Guyler
Unknown:
Norma Ronald
Unknown:
Ronald Baddiley
Unknown:
John Graham
Written By:
Edward Taylor
Written By:
John Graham
Producer:
Edward Taylor

by W. M. THACKERAY The adaptation by JOHN KEIR CROSS rearranged in five parts by BRIDGET MARROW with Judy Parfitt and Michael McClain
1: Castlewood 1691-1696
In which the young Henry encounters his new patron and the beautiful lady whose love and influence are to rule the rest of his life.
Producer ARCHIE CAMPBELL

Contributors

Unknown:
W. M. Thackeray
Unknown:
John Keir
Unknown:
Judy Parfitt
Unknown:
Michael McClain
Producer:
Archie Campbell
Mrs Worksop, a housekeeper:
Betty Baskcomb
Viscount Castlewood:
William Fox
Rachel, his wife:
Judy Parfitt
Beatrix, his daughter:
Helen Worth
Dr Tusher, chaplain:
Rolf Lefebvre
Henry Esmond (as storyteller):
Michael McClain
Henry,as a boy:
Adam Richardson
Dowager Viscountess Castlewood:
Una Venning

A panel game for four hands Leader of the pack and chairman is David Nixon who deals to June
Whitfield Patrick Moore , William Rushton Devised and shuffled by IAN MESSITER. Produced and cut by RICHARD WILLCOX

Contributors

Unknown:
David Nixon
Unknown:
Whitfield Patrick Moore
Unknown:
William Rushton
Unknown:
Ian Messiter.
Unknown:
Richard Willcox

A Night at The Royal Eagle with PETER REEVES , PAT WHITMORK and CHARLES YOUNG
MUSIC HALL SINGERS directed by CHARLES YOUNG LONDON STUDIO PLAYERS leader REGINALD LEOPOLD conducted by ALFRED RALSTON Chairman Roy Hudd
Written and produced by CHARLES CHILTON
(Roy Hudd is at Wellington Pier Theatre, Great Yarmouth)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Reeves
Unknown:
Pat Whitmork
Directed By:
Charles Young
Leader:
Reginald Leopold
Conducted By:
Alfred Ralston
Unknown:
Roy Hudd
Produced By:
Charles Chilton
Unknown:
Roy Hudd

recalls the Sounds of a Lifetime
In two programmes the distinguished screen actor browses through the catalogues of the BBC Sound Archives and introduces recordings which have a personal meaning for him.
Dirk Bogarde's first programme included the voices of Henry Moore and Graham Sutherland, with whom he trained as a painter (later serving as a war artist at the Normandy landings). In 1948 he made his screen debut, and tonight's programme is about ...
Films, Films and More Films
Producer JOHN KNIGHT

Contributors

Producer:
John Knight

JULIAN MITCHELL tells the story of a man who was born 400 years ago and whose life appears to be one large contradiction.
Jack Donne wrote some of the best and most passionate love poems in the English language, and Dr Donne was renowned for the Sermons he preached when he was Dean of St Paul's. Tony Britton as John Donne Geoffrey Beevers as Izaak Walton with DOUCLAS STORM and WILLIAM SLEIGH
The songs sung by MARTYN HILL With JAMES TYLER (lute) Producer JANE GRAHAM
(Tony Britton is in ' Move Over Mrs Markham ' at the Vaudeville Theatre, London)
9.59 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Julian Mitchell
Unknown:
Jack Donne
Unknown:
Tony Britton
Unknown:
John Donne
Unknown:
Geoffrey Beevers
Unknown:
Izaak Walton
Sung By:
Martyn Hill
Producer:
Jane Graham
Unknown:
Tony Britton
Unknown:
Mrs Markham

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