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7.0 News
The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anywhere on earth introduced by Robert Robinson and John Timpson
Deputy editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE Editor MARSHALL STEWART
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
Editor:
Alastair Osborne
Editor:
Marshall Stewart
Introduced By:
Derek Jones

BBC Northern Ireland Orchestra conductor Kenneth ALWYN
BAND OF THE GRENADIER GUARDS director of music CAPTAIN PETER PARKES
Introduced by BRYAN MARTIN
Producer BARRY KNIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Alwyn
Unknown:
Peter Parkes
Introduced By:
Bryan Martin
Producer:
Barry Knight

by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON abridged in ten parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by David Davis
1: The Old Sea Dog at the ' Admiral Benbow
In which Jim Hawkins tells of the arrival of the Captain at his father's inn.
Producer DAVID H. GODFREY

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Louis Stevenson
Unknown:
Donald Bancroft
Read By:
David Davis
Producer:
David H. Godfrey

Nancy Wise presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you.
Your Money - earning, saving and spending it
Too Many Holidays? An investigation into how we fare compared with other countries. Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?

BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA leader Ian TYRE conductor IAIN Sutherland including music by Haydn Wood, Waldteufel and Eric Coates 's Summer Days Suite GEORGINA ZELLAN-SMITH (piano) Liszt, Scarlatti and Mompou
Producer ALAN OWEN

Contributors

Leader:
Ian Tyre
Conductor:
Iain Sutherland
Piano:
Georgina Zellan-Smith
Producer:
Alan Owen

Rockets in Ursa Major by FRED and GEOFFREY HOYLE abridged for radio in five parts by STEPHEN MCLRINE
Read by John Shedden
1: The Space-ship DSP 15
A space-ship sent from Earth 30 years before, in the 1980s, and long given up for lost, is suddenly discovered to be on its way home. But what has happened to its crew?
Producer GORDON EMSLIE

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Hoyle
Unknown:
Stephen McLrine
Read By:
John Shedden
Producer:
Gordon Emslie

The news magazine: presented by Robert Williams and PM's reporting team Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50-6.0 Regional news. weather and programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
Robert Williams
Editor:
Derek Lewis
Editor:
Andrew Boyle

Written and adapted for radio from their television series by PAULINE DEVANEY and EDWIN APPS The Bishop Buys a Car starring and with Producer DAVID HATCH

Contributors

Unknown:
Pauline Devaney
Unknown:
Edwin Apps
the Archdeacon:
Robertson Hare
the Bishop:
William Mervyn
the Dean:
John Barron
the Chaplain:
Jonathan Cecil
the Chancellor:
Manning Wilson

Contributors

Written By:
Bruno Milna
Daniel Archer:
Edgar Harrison
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer:
Angela Piper
Roger:
Jeremy Mason
Mrs Travers-Macy:
Beatrice Kane
Lilian:
Elizabeth Marlowe
Ralph Bellamy:
Jack Holloway
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Laura Archer:
Gwenda Wilson
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Carol Tregorran:
Anne Cullen
John Tregorran:
Philip Morant
Woolley:
Phillp Garston-Jones
Nora Salt:
Julia Mark
Jane Petrie:
Ursula O'Leary

DAPHNE DC MAURIER 'S novel abridged in eight parts by GORDON GOW
Read by JILL BALCON
4: Portrait of Caroline
' I didn'recognise the face that stared at me in the glass. I watched this self that was not me at all and then smiled: a new, slow smile....' Producer PAMELA HOWE (from Bristol)

Contributors

Unknown:
Daphne Dc Maurier
Unknown:
Gordon Gow
Read By:
Jill Balcon
Producer:
Pamela Howe

A not-particularly-solemn quiz in which Ned Shprrin puts literary questions to literary people.
This week: Caryl Brahms Clive James , John Gross Questions compiled by BARRY CARMAN and GORDON SNELL Producer ALAN JONES
(BBC World Service production)

Contributors

Unknown:
Ned Shprrin
Unknown:
Caryl Brahms
Unknown:
Clive James
Unknown:
Barry Carman
Unknown:
Gordon Snell
Producer:
Alan Jones

People are Living There by ATHOI. FUGARD adapted for radio by R. D. SMITH with Milly, jilted by her lodger, in. vites a layabout student and a thick postman to join her for a wild birthday party
Producer R. d. smith

Contributors

Unknown:
R. D. Smith
Producer:
R. D. Smith
Milly:
Hilda Kriseman
Don:
Sean Barrett
Shorty:
Ronald Herdman
SiSSy:
Fiona Nicholson

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