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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

Lance Percival , Linda Blandford Fritz Spirgl , Zena Skinner Kenneth Robinson and who knows who take a lively look round and meet some of the people for whom this is a special week. Producer MICHAEL EMBER

Contributors

Unknown:
Lance Percival
Unknown:
Linda Blandford
Unknown:
Fritz Spirgl
Unknown:
Zena Skinner
Unknown:
Kenneth Robinson
Producer:
Michael Ember

10.30 Halb gewonnen!
(An O-level course in German) 6: Vor der Hochzeit written by STEPHEN KANOCZ
11.0 Singing Together
Script and production by DOUGLAS COOMBES
11.20 Springboard (7-9)
Winter Weathers by GWEN DUNN Snow Queen: part 1 adapted by MARGERY MORRIS
11.40 Drama Workshop Rescue Services written by JOHN SCADDING with PETER PACEY , ROSALIND ELLIOT

Contributors

Written By:
Stephen Kanocz
Production By:
Douglas Coombes
Unknown:
Gwen Dunn
Adapted By:
Margery Morris
Written By:
John Scadding
Unknown:
Peter Pacey
Unknown:
Rosalind Elliot

Nancy Wise presents this edition of the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you.
Work and Money
To Learn a Trade: GEORGE LUCE looks at the modern apprentice in industry. with other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? VHF South West: see Variations

Contributors

Unknown:
George Luce

2.0 Exploration Earth
6: In Hannibal's Footsteps by GARRY LYLE : an adaptation of the book Trunk Rood for Hannibal by John Hoyte.
Producer GEOFFREY SHERLOCK
2.20 The Music Box
With GORDON REYNOLDS and MARI GRIFFITH
2.39 Speak. Talk about Pictures: young people discuss drawings and photographs
2.40 Movement, Mime and Music 11, by BRIAN SANDERS

Contributors

Unknown:
Garry Lyle
Unknown:
John Hoyte.
Producer:
Geoffrey Sherlock
Unknown:
Gordon Reynolds
Unknown:
Mari Griffith
Music By:
Brian Sanders

Xavier by Richard HESLOP abridged in five parts by the author
Lt-Col Richard Heslop 's personal account of his dramatic and dangerous life as an soe agent organising and leading resistance strikers in German-occupied France.
Read by Haydn Jones 1: The Preliminaries Producer ROGER PINK

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Heslop
Unknown:
Lt-Col Richard Heslop
Read By:
Haydn Jones

Written and adapted for radio from their television series by PAULINE DEVANEY and EDWIN APPS The Bishop is Hospitable starring Robertson Hare as the Archdeacon
William Mervyn as the Bishop John Barron as the Dean and Jonathan Cecil as the Chaplain with MARGARET WOLFIT as Toni Rogers Producer JOHN DYAS

Contributors

Unknown:
Pauline Devaney
Unknown:
Robertson Hare
Unknown:
William Mervyn
Unknown:
John Barron
Unknown:
Jonathan Cecil
Unknown:
Margaret Wolfit
Unknown:
Toni Rogers
Producer:
John Dyas

by h. G. WELLS: abridged in ten parts by HOWARD JONES Read by DAVID DAVIS
7: Making an End to Things
After 15 years. Mr Polly's marriage has led only to unhappiness. His outfitter's business is a failure and he is on the brink of bankruptcy.
Producer GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Unknown:
Howard Jones
Read By:
David Davis
Producer:
Graham Gauld

A comic tour of the Continent This week Frank Muir takes a rather English look at Italy and Spain with illustrations from HUGH FADDICK and the voices of PRANKIE HOWERD , BOB NEWHART MICHAEL FLANDERS, JOHN CLEESI MARTY FELDMAN , BENNY HILL PETER SELLERS and others Producer SIMON BRETT

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Hugh Faddick
Unknown:
Prankie Howerd
Unknown:
Bob Newhart
Unknown:
John Cleesi
Unknown:
Marty Feldman
Unknown:
Benny Hill
Producer:
Simon Brett

The Governor by CHRISTOPHER SALKIELB with Elizabeth Sellars and Hector Ross
The play is set in a Roman province in the Middle East during the time of Tiberius Caesar. The governor is faced with the same sort of problems which would have occurred in any colonial system of more recent years.
Adapted and produced by DAVID H. GODFREY
9.59 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Salkielb
Unknown:
Elizabeth Sellars
Unknown:
Hector Ross
Produced By:
David H. Godfrey
Paulinus, the commander of thegarrison:
Michael Kilgarriff
Proculus, a civil servant:
Edward Kelsey
The Governor:
Hector Ross
Claudia, his wife:
Elizabeth Sellars
Persephone, a Greek slave:
Jo Manning Wilson
Representatives of the people: Joseph:
Lewis Stringer
Representatives of the people: Zambri:
Brian Haines
Longinus, a centurion:
William Eedle
The Historian:
John Ruddock

Are they part of the Tudor Tiara so lovingly designed by the late Prince Consort? Or are the earrings in that hideous bauble merely paste? Come to that, is the tiara the real tiara or just a copy of the genuine thing? Nothing seems certain in this summer of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. Such an unsettling time! Not like the good old days!
Abridged by Mollie Hardwick from the novel by Robert Player
Read by John Moffatt Producer John Cardy
(First of 12 instalments)

Contributors

Abridged By:
Mollie Hardwick
Novel By:
Robert Player
Read By:
John Moffatt
Producer:
John Cardy

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