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The world this morning: what Britain getting up to. plus the news from anywhere on earth. introduced by John Timpson and Douglas Cameron
6.50 Travel news, What's on, and Keep Fit with EILEEN FOWLER VHF: Regional news, weather
6.55 Weather, programme news
7.0 News and more of Today including at 7.25 Sportsdesk from Munich; at 7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50 Travel news, What's on VHF: Regional news, weather
7.55 Weather, programme news
8.0 News and more of Today including at 8.25 Sportsdesk from Munich: at 8.35 Today's Papers
Regional VHF: see Variations

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Introduced By:
Douglas Cameron
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler

Talking Point: discussing listeners' queries and comments about wildlife and the country-side. Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE (from Bristol: Sunday's broadcast) J Questions to Talking Point, The Living World, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Dilys Breese

Presenter Derek Cooper Your Rights and Responsibilities
It Doesn'Work: DES FAHEY looks at some of the problems of getting foreign electrical gadgets serviced
Other topical items too. and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see Variations

Contributors

Presenter:
Derek Cooper

The Rule Book by EDWARD CROWLEY with John Bentley and Margaret Robertson
ARTHUR: Do you think I don'know what I've done? Do you think I haven'been paying for it ever since? ... My wife ... my son ... my Job ... all ruined now, whatever they do to me at Quarter Sessions.
Producer ARCHIE CAMPBELL

Contributors

Book By:
Edward Crowley
Unknown:
John Bentley
Unknown:
Margaret Robertson
Producer:
Archie Campbell
Arthur Williams:
John Bentlet
Joan, his wife:
Margaret Robertson
Richard, their son:
Paul Gregory
Judith, a young visitor:
Helen Worth
Policewoman:
Kate Binchy
Det-Insp Davis:
William Fox
'Bingo' Caruthers:
Brian Haines

Aeronwy Thomas , daughter of the poet Dylan Thomas , revisits The Boathouse. Laugharne, where she lived till her father died when she was 10, and talks to one of his oldest friends, artist and critic MERVYN LEVY.

Contributors

Unknown:
Aeronwy Thomas
Unknown:
Dylan Thomas
Unknown:
Mervyn Levy.

Here s a second chance to hear Terry Scott in a comedic extravaganza written by ERIC MERRIMAN with June Whitfield , Hugh Paddick Dllys Walling. Colin Jeavons Music from
THE JACK EMBLOW SEPTET
Producer JOHN BROWELL

Contributors

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

(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)

Contributors

Written By:
Brian Hayles
Daniel Archer:
Edgar Harrison
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Jack Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Polly Perks:
Hilary Newcombe
Nora Salt:
Julia Mark
Joe Grundy:
Reg Johnston
Stanley Cooper:
Geoffrey Lewis
Angela Cooper:
Elizabeth Revill
Alan:
Raymond Skipp

Inspector Ghote and the All-bad Man by H. R. F. KEATING with and 'What is it, Inspector? You are police officer, you have seen plenty of miscreants in your time. Am I going to hear you say there is no such thing as an all-bad man! '
Producer JOHN SCOTNEY
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.0 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
H. R. F. Keating
Producer:
John Scotney
Ghote:
Kevork Malikyan
dsp Samant:
Saeed Jaffrey
Record-shop owner:
Ronnie Herdman
Beggar woman:
Rani Dube
Daddyji:
Henry Stamper
Mr Sodawaterwala:
Renu Setna

The Householder's
Guide toCommunity
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Bureaucratic Aggression
They are going to run a six-lane dual carriageway past your bedroom window, build an electricity generating station on the village green, knock down the village school and erict you while they think what to do next ...
What do you do? Follow Antony Jay 's advice on organising a protest action group.
Experienced protesters such at DOUGLAS JAY. UP. JOHN LUKIES , ALFRED BOULTON , OLIVE and NEIL JACKSON. JIM MONAHAN. GEORGE CLARK and THE COUNTESS OF DART-MOUTH contribute their experience: IVOR WALKER puts the planners' case; and MALCOLM MACEWEN takes leave to differ on one or two points. Producer HELEN FRY

Contributors

Unknown:
Antony Jay
Unknown:
John Lukies
Unknown:
Alfred Boulton
Unknown:
Neil Jackson.
Unknown:
Jim Monahan.
Unknown:
George Clark
Unknown:
Ivor Walker
Unknown:
Malcolm MacEwen

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