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7.0 News
The world this morning introduced by Robert Robinson and Douglas Cameron
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:
Douglas Cameron
Introduced By:
Derek Jones

starring Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler in How Now, Brown Cow
LENNOX-BROWN: (reads) Princess Caroline of Hamburg arriving Southampton Wednesday 1400. Have Ministry officials meet her with suitable transport....'
LAMB: I say, a real Princess! And the Arts Council want us to meet her!
LENNOX-BROWN: There could be an OBE in this. with NORMA RONALD , RONALD BADDILEY JOHN GRAHAM
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:
Brown Cowf
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 3: Beatrix 1701-1710
Producer ARCHIE CAMPBELL

Contributors

Unknown:
W. M. Thackeray
Unknown:
John Keir
Unknown:
Judy Parfitt
Unknown:
Michael McClain
Producer:
Archie Campbell
Rachel:
Judy Parfitt
Henry Esmond:
Michael McClain
Dowager:
Viscountess Castle
wood:
Una Venning
Capt Westbury:
Douglas Blackwell
Richard Steele:
Clifford Norgate
Frank:
Kenneth Fortescue
Beatrix:
Jane Knowles
St John:
John Row
Duchess of Ormonde:
Beatrix MacKey
General Webb:
Michael Kilgarrifp
Duke of Hamilton:
David Gooderson

KENNETH FORD invites
FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL to answer questions which listeners have sent in by post Producer KENNETH FORD
Questions, on postcards, to Gardeners' Question Time, BBC, Woodhouse Lane , Leeds LS2 9PX

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Ford
Unknown:
Bill Sowerbutts
Unknown:
Alan Gemmell
Producer:
Kenneth Ford
Unknown:
Woodhouse Lane

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

(Repeated: Wed. 1.30 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Brian Hayles
Daniel Archer:
Edgar Harrison
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Lilian:
Elizabeth Marlowe
Tony Archer:
Colin Skirp
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Shula Archer:
Judy Bennett
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Carol Tregorran:
Anne Cullen
John Tregorran:
Philip Morant
Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Mrs Lily:
Mollie Harris
Joe Grundy:
Reg Johnston
Ken Pound ,:
Michael Collins
Jethro Larkin:
George Hart
Jane Petrie:
Ursula O'Leary

A Night Out in the 70s with PETER REEVES , PAT WHITMORE and CHARLES YOUNG
MUSIC HA1.L 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 Whitmore
Directed By:
Charles Young
Leader:
Reginald Leopold
Conducted By:
Alfred Ralston
Unknown:
Roy Hudd
Produced By:
Charles Chilton
Unknown:
Roy Hudd

I'm glad things have chanoed. I wouldn't u'ant to go back to what they call the ' nood old days ' - not me (Brighton beach cleaner)
It's all different now, the entertainments, the things people do. what they wear. I miss the old days, I do. But they're gone now, all gone (Blackpool sailor)
In the summer the British flock to the beaches for their annual seaside holiday. What do they expect to find? Is it all changing?
Paul Vaughan meets the holidaymakers - those who spend just two weeks a year by the sea, and those whose livelihood is centred upon one of the country's great institutions. the beaches of Britain.
Producer MICHAEL R. BRIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Producer:
Michael R. Bright

An occasional series on famous French criminal trials by Rayner Heppenstall.
The case of Henri-Desire Landru
Fifty years ago one of history's most notorious murderers was executed - Landru, the Blue-beard of Paris. This is a reconstruction of one of the most celebrated cases in the annals of French crime.

9.59 Weather

Contributors

Producer:
Martin Esslin
Narrator:
Rayner Heppenstall
Landru:
Michael Kilgarriff
Belin:
Lewis Stringer
Fernande Segret:
Sheila Grant
Dr Paul:
Douglas Blackwell
Gilbert:
William Eddle
Moro:
Leslie Heritage
Godefroy:
Robin Browne
Mme Lacoste:
Olwen Griffiths
Millerand:
John Ruddock

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