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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

Ancient Parklands
Building, farming, roadways-very little of our countryside has been left free of man's ' improvements.' But in a medieval deer park, scene of this month's Radio Nature Trail, we can still find a picture of the ancient trees, the insects and plants of the primeval English forest.
Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer DILYS BREESE (from. Bristol: Sunday's broadcast)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Dilys Breese

BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE CAVANAGH conductor KENNETH ALWYN including music by Ernest Tomlinson and Patric Stanford MARGARET WILLIAMS (soprano) with WILFRID PARRY (piano) singing folksongs to operetta Introduced by COLIN DORAN

Contributors

Leader:
Maurice Cavanagh
Conductor:
Kenneth Alwyn
Music By:
Ernest Tomlinson
Music By:
Patric Stanford
Soprano:
Margaret Williams
Piano:
Wilfrid Parry
Introduced By:
Colin Doran

3: The Concert by NICHOLAS WOOD and a multitude of helpful people played by ROBIN BROWNE RONALD HERDMAN and MICHAEL KILGARRIFF Producer DAVID CAIN

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Wood
Played By:
Robin Browne
Played By:
Ronald Herdman
Played By:
Michael Kilgarriff
Producer:
David Cain
Peter:
Dennis Waterman
Fiona:
Rosalind Shanks
Rodney:
Nigel Lambert
Anne:
Caroline John

Presenter Joan Yorke Your Rights and Responsibilities
Protection and Advice for Consumers: LUCILLE HALL investigates the work of a trading standards department.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?

Contributors

Presenter:
Joan Yorke

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conducted by WILLI BOSKOVSXY and International Orchestras including music by Berlioz, Joseph Strauss and Grieg PHILIP CHALLIS playing piano music by Dussek, Smetana and Chopin

Contributors

Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Conducted By:
Willi Boskovsxy
Unknown:
Joseph Strauss
Unknown:
Grieg Philip Challis

This Fantastic New System by GAIE HOUSTON with Angela Pleasence and Alethea Charlton
A baby snatcher gets three months ' holiday in Majorca followed by a child-care guidance course! What kind of a fantastic new system is this?
Producer SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN

Contributors

Unknown:
Angela Pleasence
Unknown:
Alethea Charlton
Producer:
Shaun MacLoughlin
Woman at the Printing Press:
Angela Pleasence
Emily:
Angela Pleasence
Mavis:
Alethea Charlton
Man at the Printing Press:
David Gooderson
Mr Pilkington:
David Gooderson
The Policeman:
Martin Friend
The Judge:
Katherine Parr
The Voice:
Colin Doran

Ah! Seaweed smells from sandy coves
And thyme and mist in whiffs, Lark song and seasounds in the air
And sptendour, splendour everywhere
The waterways of the East Midlands, a nature trail on the lower slopes of the Cambrian mountains, wildlife in the Scottish Highlands, and a balloonist's-eye view of Herefordshire make up part of this pattern of summertime in the British countryside with NEVILLE POWLEY
DON MOSEY , ERIC SIMMS and BOB DANVERS-WALKER
Introduced by c. GORDON GLOVER Producer ARTHUR PHILLIPS
(Repeated: Sunday, 10.10 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Neville Powley
Unknown:
Don Mosey
Unknown:
Eric Simms
Unknown:
Gordon Glover
Producer:
Arthur Phillips

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

by Robin Houston
With Sylvia Coleridge and Pauline Letts
'That summer was hot. 1939. One day I took a picture of him. He was standing on top of the cliff, looking up into the sky, he seemed to be up in the sky, laughing in the sky.'
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.0 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Robin Houston
Producer:
Gerry Jones
Carrie Hemsley:
Sylvia Coleridge
Alice Hemsley:
Pauline Letts
Gloria/Carrie as a girl:
Miriam Margolyes
A Reader/Peter:
John Rowe

with Magnus Magnusson Out tomorrow:
Hoax, ' the inside story of the Howard Hughes-Clifford Irving affair ' examined by KENNETH ALLSOP
The Sway of the Grand Saloon, a social history of the North Atlantic from 1818 to QE2, reviewed by JOHN DONAT
A. S. BYATT takes her pick from the latest novels and CLAUD COCKBURN reflects on yesterday's best sellers
Producer DAN ZERDIN

Contributors

Unknown:
Magnus Magnusson
Unknown:
Howard Hughes-Clifford Irving
Unknown:
Kenneth Allsop
Unknown:
John Donat
Unknown:
A. S. Byatt
Unknown:
Claud Cockburn
Producer:
Dan Zerdin

An anthology in 13 programmes 2: Edward Thomas (1878-1917) Edmund Blunden (born 1896) Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) W. H. Davies '(1871-1940) Harold Monro (1879-1932)
Introduced by Anthony Thwaite Reader GARY WATSON
Producer GEORGE MACBETH

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Thomas
Unknown:
Edmund Blunden
Unknown:
H. Davies
Unknown:
Harold Monro
Introduced By:
Anthony Thwaite
Reader:
Gary Watson
Producer:
George MacBeth

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