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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

My first marriage broke up and now I want to marry again, but am so worried that I might make another mistake
I am bitterly unhappy: my husband and I just don'get on, but is it fair on our children to try for a divorcer
Two of the problems being discussed by OLGA FRANKLIN ; DR WENDY GREENGROSS ; GERALD SANCTUARY, co-author of Divorce and After; and NICOLAS STACEY , Director of Social Services in Ealing.
Chairman Jean Metcalfe Producer THENA HESHEL

Contributors

Unknown:
Olga Franklin
Unknown:
Dr Wendy Greengross
Unknown:
Nicolas Stacey
Unknown:
Jean Metcalfe
Producer:
Thena Heshel

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conducted by TERENCE LOVETT including music by Schubert, Bryan Kelly
Tchaikovsky and Debussy with the MIKE SAMMES SINGERS
Introduced by COLIN DORAN

Contributors

Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Conducted By:
Terence Lovett
Unknown:
Bryan Kelly
Singers:
Mike Sammes
Introduced By:
Colin Doran

starring A. GIBBON , OBE and featuring
Tim Brooke-Taylor
John Cleese. Graeme Garden David Hatch , Jo Kendall Bill Oddie with THE DAVE LEE GROUP
Written by BILL ODDIE and GRAEME GARDEN
Producers DAVID HATCH and PETER TITHERADGE
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area

Contributors

Unknown:
A. Gibbon
Unknown:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Unknown:
John Cleese.
Unknown:
Graeme Garden
Unknown:
David Hatch
Unknown:
Jo Kendall
Unknown:
Bill Oddie
Written By:
Bill Oddie
Written By:
Graeme Garden
Producers:
David Hatch
Producers:
Peter Titheradge

(Repeated: Friday, 1.30 pm)

Contributors

Written By:
Brian Hayles
Daniel Archer:
Edgar Harrison
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Roger Travers-Macy:
Jeremy Mason
Lilian Bellamy:
Elizabeth Marlowe
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Shula Archer:
Judy Bennett
Laura Archer:
Gwenda Wilson
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Carol Tregorran:
Anne Cullen
Jack Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Mrs Lily:
Mollie Harris
Joby Woodford:
George Woolley
Joe Grundy:
Reg Johnston
Gordon Armstrong:
Gordon Gardner
Jethro Larkin:
George Hart

A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion heard in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD
(Repeated: Friday. 4.0 pm)
If you wish to add your views to any of the subjects discussed in this week's Any Questions' (Friday, 8.30 pm) send them as soon as possible to BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Introduced By:
David Jacobs
Producer:
Roy Hayward

Based on Madame de Pompadour by NANCY MITFORD adapted for radio by ALAN MELVILLE
3: The Well-Beloved with Moira Lister Edward de Souza and Alan Melville
A sequence of three programmes depicting the colourful life at the court of Louis XV, and his romantic and tempestuous relationship with Madame de Pompadour.
Producer NORMAN WRIGHT
(Edward de Souza is in ' The Philanthropist ' at the May Fair Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Nancy Mitford
Radio By:
Alan Melville
Unknown:
Moira Lister
Unknown:
Edward de Souza
Unknown:
Madame de Pompadour.
Producer:
Norman Wright
Narrator:
Alan Melville
LOUiS XV:
Edward de Souza
Mme de Choiseul:
Kate Binchy
Mme de Pompadour:
Moira Lister
Mme de Hausset:
Cecile Chevreau
A young Widow:
Deborah Dallas
Dr Quesney:
Godfrey Kenton
Comte d'Argenson:
Geoffrey Matthews
M de Sacy:
Phillip Morant
Mme d'Estrades:
Jane Knowles
MCollin:
John Samson
Marquise de la Ferté:
Margot Boyd
The Queen:
Pauline Letts

A weekly magazine of the arts
Presented by Alexander Walker

The Front Page: Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's celebrated comedy about Chicago newspapermen in the roaring 20s produced for the first time in Britain by the National Theatre Company at the Old Vic

The Nightcomers: Kingsley Amis discusses Michael Winner's film, which provides a prologue to Henry James's ghostly story The Turn of the Screw

Contributors

Presenter:
Alexander Walker
Reviewer:
Kingsley Amis
Producer:
Rosemary Hart
Producer:
Michael Heffernan

PAUL VAUGHAN takes a look at new inventions, new ideas and new discoveries in the world of science and technology, and introduces some of the people producing them.
Producer MICHAEL R. BRIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Producer:
Michael R. Bright

The Eustace Diamonds bv ANTHONY TROLLOPE
When Lizzie, Lady Eustace, became a widow at the age of 22 she decided she would not part with a certain diamond necklace belonging to the Eustace family, let her late husband's relatives protest how they might. She would defy them. She would seek protection from them by marrying again. Her eye began to alight on a possible husband-several possible husbands ... abridged by VIRGINIA BROWNE -WILKINSOM Producer JOHN CARDY
(First of 20 instalments)

Contributors

Abridged By:
Virginia Browne
Producer:
John Cardy

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