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The world this morning introduced by John Timpson and Peter Woods
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
Deputy editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE Editor MARSHALL STEWART
Regional VHF: see Variations

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Introduced By:
Peter Woods
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler
Editor:
Alastair Osborne
Editor:
Marshall Stewart

.5 Frisch begonnen German for Beginners
Rodenkirchen, written and produced by STEPHEN KANOCZ
(A radiovision programme recorded in collaboration with West German Radio)
9.30 Foreign Correspondent
A weekly study of a topic of current international significance.
Presented by GRAHAM TAYAR
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1.45 Music Workshop I
Preparation for a performance of Alice. a play adapted from Lewis Carroll 's Alice in Wonderland, with music by WILLIAM HOWARD PARRY. Written and produced by WILLIAM MURPHY

Contributors

Duced By:
Stephen Kanocz
Presented By:
Graham Tayar
Unknown:
Lewis Carroll
Music By:
William Howard Parry.
Duced By:
William Murphy

10.30 Voix de France French VI. CRÉDIF written by GEOFFREY BRAITHWAITE
10.50 A Corner for Music by ALBERT CHATTERLEY 2: Bouncing
11.0 Deutsch für die Oberstufe Zeit der Schuldlosen by SIEG-FRIED LENZ , adapted by H. r. GARTEN. Producers DAVID LYTTLE and AL WOLFF
11.20 Listening and Writing
Over the Hills: an anthology of poems about the countryside and landscapes compiled and presented by NORMAN MACCAIG
11.40 Prospect. Experiment In the Arts. Music: illustrated review by PETER PORTER

Contributors

Written By:
Geoffrey Braithwaite
Unknown:
Fried Lenz
Adapted By:
H. R. Garten.
Producers:
David Lyttle
Presented By:
Norman MacCaig
Review By:
Peter Porter

Presenter Jeanine McMullen You and the Law
There's a car on my doorstep: FRANCES BERTHELSEN looks into the car-dumping menace and what you can do about it. And other topical items too
VHF South West: see Variations

Contributors

Presenter:
Jeanine McMullen
Unknown:
Frances Berthelsen

with Stephen Murray, Jon Pertwee , Leslie Phillips
A chronicle of events aboard HMS Troutbridge

The Royal Navy will keep Inventing things, and Insist on trying them out to see if they work. They frequently don't-equally frequently to the discomfiture of CPO Pertwee.
Written by LAWRIE WYMAN and GEORGE EVANS and involving
RICHARD CALDICOT, HEATHER CHASEN TENNIEL EVANS , MICHAEL BATES
Announcer MICHAEL DE MORGAN Producer
ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
(Leslie Phillips is in ' The Man Most Likely To ... ' at the Duke of York's Theatre: Richard Caldicot in ' No Sex, Please - We're British ' at The Strand Theatre, London)
12.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Murray
Unknown:
Jon Pertwee
Unknown:
Leslie Phillips
Written By:
Lawrie Wyman
Written By:
George Evans
Unknown:
Heather Chasen
Unknown:
Tenniel Evans
Unknown:
Michael Bates
Announcer:
Michael de Morgan
Unknown:
Alastair Scott Johnston
Unknown:
Leslie Phillips

Selected for Friday
We All Come to It in the End by DON HAWORTH
' ... which goes to show how the lack of a resident father can put you on wrong lines altogether on a subject not remotely connected.'
Other parts PAMELA DELLAR, KATHLEEN WORTH, PAUL BOND ROY BARRACLOUGH, BARBARA MULLANEY
Producer ALAN AYCKBOURN
A chance to hear again some of the best one-hour plays broadcast in recent years.
(We All Come to It in the End is also the title of a book containing six of Don Haworth 's wittiest plays for radio - a BBC publication, at £2.75: see p 66)

Contributors

Unknown:
Don Haworth
Unknown:
Pamela Dellar
Unknown:
Paul Bond
Unknown:
Roy Barraclough
Unknown:
Barbara Mullaney
Producer:
Alan Ayckbourn
Unknown:
Don Haworth
George:
Derrick Gilbert
Fred:
George A Cooper
Viner:
Leonard Fenton
Percy:
John Sharp
Dad:
Kenneth Gilbert
Mum:
Ruth Holden
Miriam:
Dorothy Vernon

by RAY COONEY and JOHN CHAPMAN starring Moira Lister as Felicity Willow Terence Alexander as Paul Willow and Doris Hare as Nanny The Cost of Loving
Perhaps it isn'only cricketers who think that willows are bats. Certainly Marigold - Nanny's substitute - brings off some fine leg glances (well caught by Mrs Willow). jo KENDAI.L as Marigold Foskett RAY COONEY as the Boutique Owner
JOHN CHAPMAN as Mr Foskett Producer DAVID HATCH
(Terence Alexander is In 1 Move Over. Mrs Markham ' at the Vaudeville Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Ray Cooney
Unknown:
John Chapman
Unknown:
Moira Lister
Unknown:
Felicity Willow
Unknown:
Terence Alexander
Unknown:
Paul Willow
Unknown:
Doris Hare
Unknown:
Marigold Foskett
Unknown:
Ray Cooney
Unknown:
John Chapman
Unknown:
Mr Foskett
Producer:
David Hatch
Unknown:
Terence Alexander
Unknown:
Mrs Markham

A spontaneous discussion by Rt Hon Richard Marsh Russell Braddon
Ludovic Kennedy. Beryl Grey Chairman David Jacobs Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Birmingham
(Repeated: Saturday. 1.15 pm) Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? should be addressed to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Marsh
Unknown:
Russell Braddon
Unknown:
Ludovic Kennedy.
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Producer:
Michael Bowen

In Conference
The party conference season traditionally signals the waking of politics from its summer doze.
Are these seaside assemblies as important as the delegates think? Is their function changing? What is their value to the party managers? Speakers include:
BERNARD CRICK , joint editor of the Political Quarterly and Professor of Politics, Birkbeck College, London
RT HON RICHARD CROSSMAN. MP
DAVID WATT , political editor of the Financial Times
Chairman IAN MCINTYRE Producer ARCHIE GORDON

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Crick
Unknown:
Richard Crossman.
Unknown:
David Watt
Unknown:
Ian McIntyre
Producer:
Archie Gordon

GEOFFREY GOODMAN looks at the problems of shop stewards and trade union officers.
Tonight he talks to DAN MC-GARVEY, President of the Amalgamated Society of Boiler-makers, and LIEF MILLS, General Secretary. National Union of Bank Employees.

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Goodman

DAVID JASON BILL WALLIS NIGEL REES and BILL MCGUFFIE at the piano take a late-night look back over the week's news and Illustrate the funny side
Script by PETER SPENCE and CHRIS MILLER
Producers DAVID HATCH and SIMON BRETT

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jason
Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
Nigel Rees
Unknown:
Bill McGuffie
Script By:
Peter Spence
Script By:
Chris Miller
Producers:
David Hatch
Unknown:
Simon Brett

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