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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
METROPOLITAN ANTHONY OF SOUROZH
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

9.30 Religious Service for Primary Schools. Worship and Action by GEOFFREY CURTIS
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.5 am)
9.50 Interlude
9.55 The World of Work
Unit II: What Kind of Job? 6: Your Own Boss written by KEITH YEOMANS

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Curtis
Written By:
Keith Yeomans

10.30 History in Focus
Free Trade and After (i) written by BARRY CARMAN
10.45 Intermediate German Nicht jeder Stern glitzert written by MILO SPERBER
11.0 Movement and Music I
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.55 am)
11.20 Music Club presented by GARY TAYLOR
11.40 Religion and Life (for vi Forms)
'In the matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer ' by HEINAR KIPP-HARDT: a play about the scientist's responsibility, adapted for radio by MARIANNE COOK

Contributors

Written By:
Barry Carman
Written By:
Milo Sperber
Presented By:
Gary Taylor
Unknown:
Marianne Cook

Presenter Nancy Wise

Home and Family
A Last Resort? Peter Newell of STOPP (Society of Teachers Opposed to Physical Punishment) argues against Rhodes Boyson, headmaster, who thinks the cane must be a last resort in school.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?

VHF
South West: see Variations

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Newell

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

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Kenneth William
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Peter Jones
Unknown:
Andrie Melly
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
David Hatch

2.0 World History
York Minster - 500 years old Presented by NORMAN TURNER With AUDREY RUSSELL
2.20 Geography. Florida by TONY GERAGHTY
2.40 Stories and Rhymes (7-9) Riding the Dark: poems for Hallowe'en compiled by PADDY BECHELY

Contributors

Presented By:
Norman Turner
Presented By:
With Audrey Russell
Unknown:
Tony Geraghty
Unknown:
Paddy Bechely

The novel by W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM : adapted in five parts by HOWARD AGG
Philip, having matriculated at Heidelberg and then spent a boring year learning chartered accountancy, decides on other plans for his future. He wants, he thinks, to be an artist.
2: Paris - The Latin Quarter
Mildred Rogers. JENNIFER TAFLER Producer ARCHIE CAMPBELL

Contributors

Novel By:
W. Somerset Maugham
Unknown:
Howard Agg
Unknown:
Mildred Rogers.
Unknown:
Jennifer Tafler
Producer:
Archie Campbell
Louisa Carey:
Rosalind Iden
Philip Carey:
Nigel Anthony
Mrs Otter:
Hilda Kriseman
Fanny Price:
Carol Mason
Clutton:
Peter Bartlett
Lawson:
Nicholas Edmett
Flanagan:
Ronald Wilson
Cronshaw:
Victor Lucas
M Foinet:
Austin Trevor
Concierge:
Gladys Spencer
Rev William Carey:
Noel Iliff
Mary Ann:
Jill Cary
Dunsford:
Kenneth Fortescue

Doddy's Daft Half-Hour featuring
HUGH PADDICK and PAT COOMBS
TEDDY JOHNSON , TALFRYN THOMAS JO MANNING WILSON , JOHN GRAHAM Devised and written by KEN DODD , MALCOLM CAMERON STEWART CAMPBELL
PETER TONKINSON , MAURICE BIRD Producer BOBBY JAYE

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh Paddick
Unknown:
Pat Coombs
Unknown:
Teddy Johnson
Unknown:
Talfryn Thomas
Unknown:
Jo Manning Wilson
Unknown:
John Graham
Written By:
Ken Dodd
Written By:
Malcolm Cameron
Written By:
Stewart Campbell
Unknown:
Peter Tonkinson
Producer:
Bobby Jaye

[number removed]
Ring Robin Day to put your Question on mental health to
W. Linford Kees , irofessor of Psychiatry at London University and chairman of the Mental Health Group Committee of the British Medical Association and Christopher Mayhew. mp, chairman of the National Association for Mental Health
[number removed](16 lines) will take questions from 6.0 pm onward. Producer WALTER WALLICH

Contributors

Unknown:
W. Linford Kees
Unknown:
Christopher Mayhew.
Producer:
Walter Wallich

A series of five documentary programmes to mark the BBC's anniversary
Presented by René Cutforth 5 A Long Journey from Innocence
A long journey from Beatrice Harrison , charming the nightingales with her cello, to Alf Garnett and the Men on the Moon.
A long journey from the Radio ' family ' created by John Reith in the 20s to the great sprawl of Television and Radio today. A look back and a look round at what BBC Radio and Television have accomplished in the first half century.
Contents: The disc jockeys from Christopher Stone to Tony Blackburn; the big bands from Jack Payne to the pop groups; song and comedy shows from Music-Hall to Monty Python ; the World Cups and Olympics; the programmes which have taken the BBC into the 70s.
Research by JEAN STROUD Written and produced by ALAN BURGESS

Contributors

Unknown:
Beatrice Harrison
Unknown:
Alf Garnett
Unknown:
John Reith
Unknown:
Christopher Stone
Unknown:
Jack Payne
Unknown:
Monty Python
Unknown:
Jean Stroud
Produced By:
Alan Burgess

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