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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 Today 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

Pelicans Galore: a visit to America's first wildlife refuge. A tiny island, only two miles long, is the home of over 1,000 nesting pairs of brown pelicans: elsewhere in the United States these handsome birds are on the verge of extinction. Introduced by PATRICK MORRIS
Producer DILYS BREESE (from Bristol: shortened version of Sunday's broadcast)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Patrick Morris
Producer:
Dilys Breese

9.30 History in Evidence
Roman Britain. Druids on Anglesey, written by ALAN EREIRA
9.15 Listening and Reading I
Mr Miacca : adapted from Joseph Jacob 's English Fairy Tales, and Brother and Sister by Lewis Carroll
9.55 La Parole aux Jeunes French III. La maison edited and compiled by R. A. ESCOFFEY
10.5 Poetry Corner One-ery, two-ery

Contributors

Written By:
Alan Ereira
Unknown:
Mr Miacca
Unknown:
Joseph Jacob
Unknown:
Lewis Carroll
Unknown:
R. A. Escoffey

10.30 Music Workshop II
Mutiny on the Cutty Sark by JOHN PARRY , with music arranged by IAN HUMPHRIS: written and produced by WILLIAM MURPHY
11.0 Inquiry. Unit I: Sporting Life. Fans: dramatisation by IAN SHUREY with Interviews by PHILIP HOLLAND
(14-16 age group)
11.20 Discovery. Human Biology. Survival of the Fittest by BRIAN GEAR and ARTHUR VIALLS
11.40 Guitar School (3)
Introduced by MICHAEL JESSETT

Contributors

Unknown:
Cutty Sark
Unknown:
John Parry
Produced By:
William Murphy
Unknown:
Ian Shurey
Unknown:
Philip Holland
Unknown:
Brian Gear
Guitar:
Arthur Vialls
Introduced By:
Michael Jessett

Presenter Joan Yorke Consumer Style
Amazing offers! Unique bargains! MICHAEL MOLYNEUX explains how the consumer is protected by the Trade Descriptions Act, and by the law of misrepresentation.
Fire! Do you need a fire extinguisher at home, and just how good are they?
Other topical items too. and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
(Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA)
VHF South West: tee Variations

Contributors

Presenter:
Joan Yorke
Unknown:
Michael Molyneux

2.0 Movement, Mime and Music I by JAMES DODDING
2.2* Books, Plays, Poems
Bubble and Squeak by JOHN HOLLIS : a new story specially written for the series, read by the author.
2.45 Nature: Hamsters by CHRISTINE DUDLEY
With BLAIN FAIRMAN , JOHN BULL GARARD GREEN, BRIAN HAINES Producer ELIZABETH ORNBO

Contributors

Unknown:
James Dodding
Unknown:
John Hollis
Unknown:
Christine Dudley
Unknown:
With Blain Fairman
Unknown:
John Bull
Unknown:
Brian Haines
Producer:
Elizabeth Ornbo

You Can Take Your Choice A play for radio by CHARLES CAWLEY
'And for God's sake keep a grip on your tongue. If you want to raise the standing of scientists, you're going the wrong way about it. Your behaviour isn'helping anyone.'
Producer \DAVID h. GODFREY

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Cawley
Producer:
David H. Godfrey
MOlly:
Eva Stuart
Dr Richard Maddenc:
Hugh Manning
Will Strong:
Lewis Stringer
Sir George:
William Fox
Miss Perkins:
Dorit Welles
Susan Knight:
Helen Fraser
Dr Carter:
Michael McClain
Constable:
William Sleigh

Reflecting some aspects of life in the British countryside at this season of the year.
Harvest time - a time for taking stock and looking ahead:
Hop-picking the modern way; Autumn fairs in the Cotswold country: Grain harvesting on the prairie-like wheatfields of Lincolnshire, contrasted with stone walling around the pocket-sized meadows of Devon and Cornwall; a seasonal look at the red grouse following the ' Glorious Twelfth' with NEVILLE POWLEY , PAUL HUMPHREYS MOLLIE HARRIS , PATRICK DOBBS BOB DANVERS-WALKER
DR ROBERT MOSS and ERIC SIMMS Introduced by C. GORDON GLOVER Producer ARTHUR PHILLIPS
(Shortened version of Sunday's broadcast)

Contributors

Unknown:
Neville Powley
Unknown:
Paul Humphreys
Unknown:
Mollie Harris
Unknown:
Patrick Dobbs
Unknown:
Bob Danvers-Walker
Unknown:
Dr Robert Moss
Introduced By:
C. Gordon Glover
Producer:
Arthur Phillips

Here's a second chance to hear Terry Scott in a comedic extravaganza written by ERIC MERRIMAN
June Whitfield. Hugh Paddiek Dilys Watling , Colin Jeavons THE JACK EMBLOW SEPTET
Producer JOHN BROWELL ‡

Contributors

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

by Valerie Murray and Frank Singuineau
with Charles Hyatt and Valerie Murray
Manny Dawson wants to indulge in a little gentlemanly polygamy, but his design for living doesn't appeal to his wife Josephene at all! A Jamaican viewpoint on the eternal triangle.

(Repeated: Thursday, 3.0 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Valerie Murray
Writer:
Frank Singuineau
Producer:
Betty Davies
Manny Dawson:
Charles Hyatt
Josephene:
Valerie Murray
Dad:
Frank Singuineau
Mama:
Mona Hammond
Beth 1:
Myrtle Robinson
Ben:
Clifton Jones

with John Julius Norwich
I would beg you, Sir to observe that the present attempt to liberate women is a revolt against nature, which will bring its own punishment ... August Strindberg's Getting Married provoked an uproar and a prosecution for blasphemy when these stories were published in the mid-1880s. GERMAINE GREER talks about them as they appear in their first complete translation into English.
BASIL BOOTHROYD reviews Chronicles of Wasted Time by Malcolm Muggeridge, and JONATHAN RABAN considers the short stories of Graham Greene and Doris Lessing
Producer DAN ZERDIN

Contributors

Unknown:
John Julius Norwich
Talks:
Germaine Greer
Unknown:
Jonathan Raban
Stories Of:
Graham Greene
Stories Of:
Doris Lessing
Producer:
Dan Zerdin

An anthology in 13 programmes 11: Stevie Smith (1902-1971) Sir John Betjeman (b 1906) R. S. Thomas (b 1913) Roy Fuller (b 1912)
Charles Causley (b 1917)
Introduced by ANTHONY THWAITE Readers GARY WATSON and the poets themselves
Producer GEORGE MACBETH

Contributors

Unknown:
Stevie Smith
Unknown:
Sir John Betjeman
Unknown:
R. S. Thomas
Unknown:
Roy Fuller
Unknown:
Charles Causley
Introduced By:
Anthony Thwaite
Introduced By:
Readers Gary Watson
Producer:
George MacBeth

Five programmes in which
GEOFFREY GOODMAN looks at the problems of shop stewards and trade union officers.
Tonight, with JACK BESTON , convener, Firestone Tyres, member of shop stewards committee; and JIM O'HAGAN , industrial relations manager.

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Goodman
Unknown:
Jack Beston
Unknown:
Jim O'Hagan

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