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John Timpson and Douglas Cameron introduce what
Europe's getting up to, plus the news from anywhere else on earth
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 Europe Information Desk and travel news
VHF: Regional news, weather
7.55 Weather, programme news
8.0 News and more of Today from Amsterdam and London including at 8.25 Sportsdesk, With CRAWFORD WHITE on the Second Test at Calcutta; at
8.35* Today's Papers
Regional VHF: see Variations

Contributors

Unknown:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Douglas Cameron
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler

Another chance to hear this edited anthology from public readings at the Poetry Centre YMHA, New York.
The poems include:
Robert Graves: Welsh Incident
Anon: Polly Perkins
Edward Thomas: Old Man; The Owl
William Plomer: The Flying Bum
W.B. Yeats: Lapis Lazuli
Henry Reed: Naming of Parts
Edith Sitwell: Still Falls the Rain
(BBC Sound Archive recording)

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE with MOURA LYMPANY (piano)
STEVE RACE introduces performances of the third and fourth prize-winning pieces in the recent competition held by the Light Music Society for new British music. The first and second prize-winning pieces can be heard next Thursday.

Contributors

Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Conductor:
Ashley Lawrence
Piano:
Moura Lympany
Piano:
Steve Race

by GAIL CURTIS
Gerda's marriage becomes more important to her than the freedom she thought she had lost ...
Producer BRIAN MILLER (from Bristol)

Contributors

Unknown:
Gail Curtis
Producer:
Brian Miller
Gerda:
Elizabeth Bell
Dave:
David Gooderson
Kuit:
Nigel Anthony
Bobby }:
Gillie Gratham
Teacher:
Gillie Gratham
Mr Miller }:
,ronald Herdman
Jackie:
Sheila Grant

Presenter Nigel Murphy Health and Welfare
There will be deep depressions ...: TIM RICHARDS looks into the problem of depressive illness, and what can be done for it.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? VHF South West: see Variations

Contributors

Presenter:
Nigel Murphy
Unknown:
Tim Richards

David Franklin and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden
In the chair Steve Race t
12.55Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather

Contributors

Unknown:
David Franklin
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Ian Wallace
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Unknown:
Steve Race

RADIO BIG BAND leader NIGEL CARTER conducted by MALCOLM LOCKYER with JANIE MARDEN and the GORDON LANGFORD TRIO
Introduced by BRIAN EMPRINGRAM

Contributors

Leader:
Nigel Carter
Conducted By:
Malcolm Lockyer
Unknown:
Janie Marden
Unknown:
Gordon Langford
Introduced By:
Brian Empringram

by Martin Jarvis
with Robin Ellis and Julian Holloway

Two former schoolfriends meet in a hotel bar in Munich. Their relationship is an uneasy one. Why?

Contributors

Writer:
Martin Jarvis
Producer:
Martin Jenkins
Haddleton:
Robin Ellis
Grey:
Julian Holloway
Dietl:
Sean Arnold
Neutze:
Rolf Lefebvre
Waiter:
David Gooderson
Receptionist:
Olwen Griffiths

A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion heard in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD
(Repeated.: Friday, 4.0 pm)
Write to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Introduced By:
David Jacobs
Producer:
Roy Hayward

Michael Redgrave in a radio feature by JAMES CAMERON
In 1971 the journalist James Cameron suffered a heart-attack while in East Bengal. In this play he has re-created his experience in fictional form.
Producer R. D. SMITH

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Redgrave
Unknown:
James Cameron
Producer:
R. D. Smith
Sister:
Diana Robson
John:
Michael Redgravk
Doctor:
William Fox
Margaret:
Anna Cropper
Indian voices:
Saeed Jaffrey
Surgeon:
Rolf Lefebvre
Priest:
Gerald Cross
Father:
Godfrey Kenton
Nurses:
Kate Binchy
Nurses:
Cleo Sylvestre

Aunt Edna is still going to see those plays she thinks she will like and still staying away in droves from a lot of other plays that the critics tell her she ought to like but which, somehow, she knows she won't
(Terence Rattigan 1963)
DEREK MALCOLM introduces this first edition of 1973 with the question: whatever did happen to Aunt Edna? and discusses With TERENCE RATTIGAN the latest revival of his 1942 comedy While the Sun Shines
DAVID THOMPSON looks at the exhibition The Impressionists in London at the Hayward Gallery - one of the events organised as part of the Fanfare Jor Europe Festival.
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK

Contributors

Unknown:
Terence Rattigan
Introduces:
Derek Malcolm
Unknown:
Terence Rattigan
Unknown:
Sun Shines
Unknown:
David Thompson
Producer:
Alan Haydock

Join PAUL VAUGHAN in his weekly exploration of what is new in the world of science and technology.
New Worlds brings you up-to-date reports about advances, inventions and discoveries and talks to the people who make them.
Producer MICHAEL TOTTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Producer:
Michael Totton

The virtues and problems of being in the same profession. 4: The Industrialists
Edward Brooke. chairman of a Yorkshire textile manufacturers founded in the 16th century, in conversation with his son Massimo Brooke , a director of the firm.

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Brooke.
Unknown:
Massimo Brooke

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