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7.0 News
The world this morning introduced by John Timpson and Michael Parkinson
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:
John Timpson
Introduced By:
Michael Parkinson
Introduced By:
Derek Jones

Presenter .Icanlne McMullen Your Rights and Responsibilities
Going Missing: a barrister explains the position of people who evade their responsibilities by disappearing, and the rights of the families they leave behind.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?

Who Walks Alone by IVOR WILSON
Shirley Kendall , a teacher In a respectable girls' school. Is found dead in the lake. Did he fall accidentally, was It suicide, or was she pushed?
Producer ALFRED BRADLEY (from Leeds)

Contributors

Unknown:
Ivor Wilson
Unknown:
Shirley Kendall
Producer:
Alfred Bradley
Inspector Owen:
Geoffrey Banks
Sergeant King:
Graham Roberts
Headmistress:
Elizabeth Kelly
Pat Murray:
Pamela Craig
Jill:
Maggie Peacock
Penny:
Barbara Hickmott
Laura:
Elizabeth Knight
Harold:
John Nightingale
Rowland Payne.:
Derrick Gilbert

Recollections by H. Colin Davis of the childhood he and his brother David Davis spent in Worcestershire at the beginning of the century.
Narrated by H. COLIN DAVIS with readings by DAVID DAVIS who also plays the piano Producer GRAHAM GAULD (Repeated next Sat, 10.30 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
H. Colin Davis
Unknown:
David Davis
Unknown:
H. Colin Davis
Unknown:
David Davis
Producer:
Graham Gauld

Here's a second chance to hear Terry Scott
In a comedic extravaganza written by ERIC MERRIMAN with June Whitfield. Hugh Paddick Dllys Watling , Colin Jeavons THE JACK EMBLOW SFPTET Producer JOHN BROWELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Terry Scott
Written By:
Eric Merriman
Unknown:
June Whitfield.
Unknown:
Hugh Paddick
Unknown:
Dllys Watling
Unknown:
Colin Jeavons
Producer:
John Browell

A new play for radio by Densil Barr
with Nigel Anthony as Johann Schmidt, Roger Delgado as President Gonzales, Eva Haddon as Rosa Dubois, Clifford Norgate as Secretary Vanhoffen
'We can'have people like Johann Schmidt wandering around the world. His name spells anarchy. There's no place for anarchy in our society in the year 13 WG.'
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.0 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Densil Barr
Producer:
John Theocharis
Johann Schmidt:
Nigel Anthony
President Gonzales:
Roger Delgado
Rosa Dubois:
Eva Haddon
Secretary Vanhoffen:
Clifford Norgate
Buclon:
John Rowe
Commentator:
Paul Maxwell
Elsa:
Pat Keen
Peterson:
David Gooderson
First policeman:
Ronald Herdman

The words and music of Pablo Casals
Each day I am reborn. For over 80 years I have begun each day in the same manner. I go to the piano and play ttro preludes of Bach.... It is a sort of benediction on the house. It fills me with atrareness of the wonder of living. Script by DAVID WHEELER
The words of Casals read by TIMOTHY WEST
Narration by TRADER FAULXNER Producer DAVID CAIN

Contributors

Unknown:
Pablo Casals
Script By:
David Wheeler
Read By:
Timothy West

' 1 decided very early that I wuuld not work for a living -defining work as something you would give up tomorrow if you came into £25,060.'
Sir Neville Cardus. cricket writer and music critic. talks about his Manchester childhood to STEPHEN BONARJEE.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Neville Cardus.
Unknown:
Stephen Bonarjee.

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