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7.0 News
The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anywhere on earth introduced by John Timpson and Michael Parkinson
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 )
8.41 Today's Papers

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Introduced By:
Michael Parkinson
Editor:
Alastair Osborne
Editor:
Marshall Stewart
Introduced By:
Derek Jones

BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE CAVANAGH conductor Kenneth ALWYN and ALAN JONES (baritone) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
Introduced by BRYAN MARTIN Producer BARRY KNIGHT

Contributors

Leader:
Maurice Cavanagh
Conductor:
Kenneth Alwyn
Introduced By:
Bryan Martin
Producer:
Barry Knight

by EMMA SMITH
An adventure story for children abridged for radio in five instalments by LORRAINE DAVIES Read by Margaret John
The day school was sent home early Amy trudged back alone through the snow to the Gwyntfa. Once home, with a well-stocked larder and plenty of oil for the lamps, her grand-mother promised her they might even enjoy being snowed up, but ... 1: The Intruder
Producer LORRAINE DAVIES

Contributors

Unknown:
Emma Smith
Unknown:
Lorraine Davies
Read By:
Margaret John
Producer:
Lorraine Davies

Jeanine McMullen presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Your Money - earning, saving and spending it
Raising Money on Your Home: PAMELA DEEDES puts forward some new ideas, especially for people with no mortgage worries.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeanine McMullen
Unknown:
Pamela Deedes

BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON including Haydn Wood 's Suite ' London Landmarks ' and music by Vaughan Williams
ANTHONY GOLDSTONE playing Russian piano music and movements from a suite by Manos Hadjidakis
Producer ALAN OWEN

Contributors

Conducted By:
Stanford Robinson
Unknown:
Haydn Wood
Music By:
Vaughan Williams
Music By:
Anthony Goldstone
Unknown:
Manos Hadjidakis
Producer:
Alan Owen

Ayo Gurkha! by J. u. MARKS Reader Garard Green
An account of a young Gurkha soldier's life
The author, the reader, and the illustrator (Tony Hart ) are former Gurkha officers. 1: The Prophecy
Producer ROGER PINE

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Hart

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 has a Flutter starring Robertson Hare as the Archdeacon
William Mervyn as the Bishop John Barron as the Dean and Jonathan Cecil as the Chaplain With BALLARD BERKELEY as Lord Ringmould
MALCOLM HAYES as Commentator JOHN SAMSON as Jack Cobb
MANNING WILSON as the Doctor Producer DAVID BATCH
(Repeated: Wed, 12.25 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Pauline Devaney
Unknown:
Robertson Hare
Unknown:
William Mervyn
Unknown:
John Barron
Unknown:
Jonathan Cecil
Unknown:
Ballard Berkeley
Commentator:
John Samson
Unknown:
Jack Cobb
Unknown:
Manning Wilson

DAPHNE DU MAURIER 'S novel abridged in eight parts by GORDON cow. Read by JILL balcon 6: The Cottage in the Cove
' How could I ask you to love me when I knew you loved Rebecca still ...?
Producer PAMELA HOWE

Contributors

Unknown:
Daphne du Maurier
Read By:
Jill Balcon
Producer:
Pamela Howe

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

Contributors

Unknown:
Ned Sherrin
Unknown:
Barry Carman
Unknown:
Gordon Snell
Producer:
Alan Jones

Creditors by AUGUST STRINDBERG translated by MICHAEL MEYER with Gemma Jones , Brian Cox and Sebastian Graham-Jones
The action of the play takes place in the drawing-room of a hotel at a seaside resort In Sweden in 1888. Creditors was recently directed for the stage by ROGER SWAINE Produced for radio by MARTIN JENKINS

Contributors

Translated By:
Michael Meyer
Unknown:
Gemma Jones
Unknown:
Brian Cox
Unknown:
Sebastian Graham-Jones
Unknown:
Roger Swaine
Unknown:
Martin Jenkins
Adolf:
Sebastian Graham-Jones
Gustav:
Brian Cox
Tekla:
Gemma Jones
Porter:
Roger Swaine
Lady guests:
Jane Knowles
Lady guests:
Helen Worth

' In England we were brought up: in India we were allowed to grow up.'
Jon and Rumer Godden , authors and sisters. talk to JACK SINGLETON about their childhood beside a Bengal river. Producer ELIZABETH SMITH

Contributors

Unknown:
Rumer Godden
Unknown:
Jack Singleton
Producer:
Elizabeth Smith

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