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The world this morning: what Britain's getting up to, plus the news from anywhere on earth, introduced by John Timpson and Robert Robinson
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:
John Timpson
Introduced By:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler

by CLARENCE DAY
Read by Blain Fairman
1: Father and the Sick-Room
Father got annoyed at us when we didn'stay well. He usually stayed well himself and he expected us to be like him. All this talk about germs was merely new-fangled nonsense. Producer JOHN CARDY
(First of three instalments)

Contributors

Read By:
Blain Fairman
Producer:
John Cardy

10.30 Halb gewonnenl Missverstandnisse
Written by STEPHEN KANOCZ (recorded in Studio Munster, WDR)
11.0 Singing Together
Introduced by FERGUS O'KELLY
11.20 Springboard (7-9)
The Big Cats: written and presented by JOHNNY MORRIS
11.40 The Music Box Treasury Presented by GORDON REYNOLDS With MARI GRIFFITH
Producer ALBERT CHATTERLEY

Contributors

Written By:
Stephen Kanocz
Unknown:
Johnny Morris
Presented By:
Gordon Reynolds
Unknown:
Mari Griffith
Producer:
Albert Chatterley

Presenter Joan Yorke Work and Money
Take a letter, Mr Smith ! DAVID BELLAN discovers that men are fast replacing women as secretaries and cleaners.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? VHF South West: see Variations

Contributors

Presenter:
Joan Yorke
Unknown:
Mr Smith
Unknown:
David Bellan

2.0 Exploration Earth M62: by BARRY CARMAN
2.20 The Music Box
With GORDON REYNOLDS and MARI GRIFFITH
2.30 Speak. Giving and Getting ' The King who decided to be generous': a a Dervish story by IDRIES SHAH adapted by DAVID WADE
2.40 Movement, Mime and Music II: by BRIAN SANDERS

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Carman
Unknown:
Gordon Reynolds
Unknown:
Mari Griffith
Story By:
Idries Shah
Adapted By:
David Wade
Unknown:
Brian Sanders

Allan Quatermaln by H. RIDER HAGGARD abridged for radio in ten parts by RONALD RUSSELL
Read by Duncan Carse 1: The Black Hand
Two famous Haggard characters - Allan the white hunter and the Zulu warrior Umslopogaas - go on their last adventure. They seek a great white race said to inhabit the unexplored interior of Africa.
Duncan Carse recorded this story before setting out on an adventure of his own. He leaves today with the British Antarctic Survey-his eighth visit to the polar regions. Producer PAMELA HOWE (from Bristol)

Contributors

Unknown:
Allan Quatermaln
Unknown:
H. Rider Haggard
Unknown:
Ronald Russell
Read By:
Duncan Carse
Producer:
Pamela Howe

Written and adapted for radio from their television series by PAULINE DEVANEY and EDWIN APPS The Bishop Loses his Chaplain starring Robertson Hare as the Archdeacon
Producer JOHN DYAS
(Repeated: Wed, 12.25 pm)
(Julia McKenzie is appearing in ' Company ' at Her Majesty's Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Pauline Devaney
Unknown:
Robertson Hare
Producer:
John Dyas
Unknown:
Julia McKenzie
the Bishop:
William Mervyn
the Dean:
John Barron
the Chaplain:
Jonathan Cecil
Guests: Mrs Pugh-Critchley:
Joan Sanderson
Felicity:
Julia McKenzie

by H. G. WELLS : abridged in ten parts by HOWARD JONES Read by DAVID DAVIS 5: The Wedding
Mr Polly has bought a bicycle and is enjoying himself immensely. Now, of all things, he is engaged to marry his cousin, Miriam Larkins. Producer GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Unknown:
H. G. Wells
Unknown:
Howard Jones
Read By:
David Davis
Unknown:
Mr Polly
Unknown:
Miriam Larkins.
Producer:
Graham Gauld

Dog's Day: a new play for radio by PETER RUSSELL starring
Paul Danoman. John Justin Prunella Scales
Rosalie Crutchley with Margot Boyd and David Valla
In the depths of the country they live, these two old soldiers; one, a General, the other his batman. Out of the freezing mist that covers the land come two men bringing a strange and dramatic change of fortune for both of them.
' Every dog shall have his day....
Producer JOHN POWELL
(Geoffrey Collins is in Gone with the Wind ' at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Russell
Unknown:
Paul Danoman.
Unknown:
John Justin
Unknown:
Prunella Scales
Unknown:
Rosalie Crutchley
Unknown:
Margot Boyd
Unknown:
David Valla
Producer:
John Powell
Unknown:
Geoffrey Collins
Laura:
Prunella Scales
Edwin:
David Valu
Joseph:
Paul Daneman
The General:
John Justin
Helen:
Rosalie Crutchley
Martha:
Margot Boyd
Godfrey:
Michael McClain
Ralph:
Brian Haines
Richard:
Geoffrey Collins
Cerry:
Jane Knowles
The Official:
David Gooderson

As we approach the 50th anniversary of the BBC, its foreign correspondents examine some aspects of the development of broadcasting in their areas.
1: Anthony Lawrence, BBC Far East correspondent for over 15 years, discusses the radio war in the Far East.
Producer Paddy O'Keeffe
(The week after next Radio Times includes a colour feature on the BBC's foreign correspondents, who will be talking about their world on BBC1 - 24 October)

Contributors

Speaker:
Anthony Lawrence
Producer:
Paddy O'Keeffe

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