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The world this morning introduced by Robert Robinson and John Timpson
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; 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 Todav including at 8.25 Sportsdesk; at 8.35 Today's Papers
Regional VHF: see Variations

Contributors

Introduced By:
Robert Robinson
Introduced By:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler

10.30 History in Focus Nationalism in Europe
2: The Unification of Italy written by BARRY CARMAN
10.45 Intermediate German
Der unmbgliche Raubiiberfall written by CARL DUERING
11.0 Movement and Music I by PENNY WHITTAM
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.55 am)
11.20 Music Club presented by GARY TAYLOR
11.40 Religion and Life
Technology and Man: written and presented by KEITH WILKES (for Sixth Forms)

Contributors

Written By:
Barry Carman
Written By:
Carl Duering
Presented By:
Gary Taylor
Presented By:
Keith Wilkes

Presenter Joan Yorke Home and Family
But we feel so lonely: JOAN YORKE discusses parental bereavement With FR KESTER scRorE and THE REV
SIMON STEPHENS.
Other topical items, too. and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see Variations

Contributors

Presenter:
Joan Yorke
Unknown:
Joan Yorke
Unknown:
Fr Kester
Unknown:
Simon Stephens.

A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which
Kenneth Williams
Derek Nimmo. Clement Freud Peter Jones try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer DAVID HATCH
(Repeated: Thurs. 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo.
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Peter Jones
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
David Hatch

2.0 World History. Helen of Troy written by COLIN D'ALBANY Music by'vERA CRAY
2.20 Geography
An Appalachian County by MICHAEL WITHERICK
2.40 Stories and Rhymes (7-9)
The Five Hunters: poems and songs. compiled by MICHAEL ROSEN

Contributors

Written By:
Colin D'Albany
Unknown:
Michael Witherick
Unknown:
Michael Rosen

by JANE AUSTEN adapted in four parts by THEA HOLME with Jill Balcon , Madeleine Cannon Peter Egan , John Rowe Part 1
Pianist ANNA BERENSKA Harpist HILARY WILSON Producer JANE GRAHAM
(Peter Egan is in Journey's End' at the Cambridge Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jane Austen
Unknown:
Thea Holme
Unknown:
Jill Balcon
Unknown:
Madeleine Cannon
Unknown:
Peter Egan
Pianist:
Anna Berenska
Harpist:
Hilary Wilson
Producer:
Jane Graham
Unknown:
Peter Egan
Jane Austen:
Jill Balcon
Lady Bertram,:
Betty Baskcomb
Sir Thomas v:
Peter Cellier
Mrs Norris:
Alethea Charlton
Fanny:
Madeleine Cannon
Tom:
John Samson
Edmund:
John Rowe
Julia:
Jans Knowles
James Rushworth:
Nigel Lambert
Maria:
Sara Coward
Mrs Grant:
Eva Stuart
Dr Grant:
Haydn Jones
Mary Crawford:
Rosalind Shanks
Henry Crawford:
Peter Egan
WilCOX:
William Sleigh

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

A comic tour of the British Isles guided by Frank Muir stopping this week in Ireland with illustrations from
PETER REEVES and the voices of VAL DOONICAN, THE DUBLINERS MICHEÁL MAC LIAMMÓIR
MIKE NEWMAN , PETER SELLERS and others
Research by TONY ASPLER Producers DAVID HATCH and SIMON BRETTt

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Peter Reeves
Unknown:
Mike Newman
Unknown:
Tony Aspler
Producers:
David Hatch
Unknown:
Simon Brettt

Ring Robin Day to put your question on the Longford Committee's Report on pornography to two of its members:
Sir Frederick Catherwood and Peregrine Worstherne
To promote a maximum flow o/ questions [number removed](16 lines) will take them from 6.0 pm onward until the end of the programme.
Producer WALTER WALLICH

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Frederick Catherwood
Producer:
Walter Wallich

Most of us will certainly spend several weeks of our lives in hospital in varying degrees of discomfort and apprehension.
One middle-aged housewife and mother entered a North Country hospital for a major operation. This is how she faced up to the experience and what happened to her.
Compiled and narrated by TONY VAN DEN BERGH
Producer ALAN BURGESS

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony van Den Bergh
Producer:
Alan Burgess

An occasional series on famous French criminal trials by RAYNER HEPPENSTALL
The Murder of Jean Jaures The trial of Raoul Villain
Jean Jaures. the leader of the French Socialists who might well have been an important influence for peace in Europe, was murdered a few days before the outbreak of the First World War on 31 July 1914. It may well have been one of the most fateful murders in all history.
This programme tells the story of the victim and of the murderer.
Producer MARTIN ESSLIN

Contributors

Unknown:
Rayner Heppenstall
Producer:
Martin Esslin
Narrator 2:
Cecile Chevreau
Jean Jaures:
Ronald Herdman
Raoul Villain:
Brian Hewlett
Péguy:
Leslie Heritage
Calvet:
John Samson
Marty:
Patrick Tull
Drioux:
Martin Friend
Boucard:
Gerald Cross
Paul-Boncour:
William Eeple
Ducos:
Robin Browne
Béguin:
Lewis Stringer
Zevaès:
John Ruddock
Geraud:
Edward Kelsey

Five programmes in which
GEOFFREY GOODMAN looks at the problems of shop stewards and trade union officers.
Tonight he talks to PETER REES , member of executive committee, National Union of Bank Employees, and TERRY Lyons , personnel director, Williams and Glyn's Bank

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Goodman
Unknown:
Peter Rees
Unknown:
Terry Lyons

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