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The world this morning 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 Europe Information Desk and travel news
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

Talking Point: discussing listeners' queries and comments about wildlife and the country-side. Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE (from Bristol: Sunday's broadcast) Questions to Talking Point, The Living World, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Dilys Breese

by ROY BOLITHO Fagoon - a coral South Sea island. Tasman encircled it, Cook avoided it and Captain Bligh nearly ran into it. It sounded like a paradise posting to Arnold Stump, just promoted manager of Northern Mats Fagoon Branch.
Producer IAN COTTERELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Roy Bolitho
Producer:
Ian Cotterell
Sir Clarence Lunn:
William Fox
Arnold Stump:
Nigel Anthony
Elspeth:
Sheila Grant
Travel agent's clerk:
Fraser Kerr
Mayor of Fagoon:
Ronald Herdman
Captain Poop-Deek:
Brian Haines
Lena:
Jane Knowles
Lena's father:
Nigel Graham

Mallory Moor
A play for radio by ELLA D. CAMPBELL with Martin Jarvis and Sylvia Coleridge
Elderly Mrs Louise Vaughan goes for a walk by herself on Mallory Moor , where she falls and sprains her ankle. There is something strange about her rescuer and even stranger about events that follow ...
Producer DAVID H. GODFREY

Contributors

Unknown:
Ella D. Campbell
Unknown:
Martin Jarvis
Unknown:
Sylvia Coleridge
Unknown:
Elderly Mrs Louise Vaughan
Unknown:
Mallory Moor
Producer:
David H. Godfrey
Louise Vaughan:
Sylvia Coleridge
Geoffrey Hunt:
Martin Jarvis
Jennifer Vaughan:
Jane Knowles
Muriel Hunt:
Helen Worth
Edwin Packer:
John Rowe
Mrs Robley:
Katherine Parr
Mrs Minns:
Olwen Griffiths

The questions and ideas you send are discussed this week by Renle Houston
Eleanor Summerfield
Teddy Beverley, Beryl Grey In the chair Anona Winn Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER
Producer CHRISTOPHER SERLE

Contributors

Unknown:
Beryl Grey
Unknown:
Anona Winn
Unknown:
Anona Winn
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
Christopher Serle

A Second Class Risk by R. D. WINGFIELD
'This isn't the usual petty run-of-the-mill claim, Crisp, this is big.... The week he died, Beaumont insured his life with us for £50,000 ... I like to see the ink dry on a policy before paying out on it.'
Other parts PHILIP WESTON
OLWEN GRIFFITHS. FRASER KERR Producer GLYN DEARMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
R. D. Wingfield
Unknown:
Philip Weston
Unknown:
Olwen Griffiths.
Unknown:
Fraser Kerr
Producer:
Glyn Dearman
Anne Beaumont:
Penelope Lee
Jordan:
John Rye
Crisp:
Geoffrey Matthews
Birkett:
Peter Pratt
Chief Insp Dunn:
Simon Lack
Pam Conley:
Kate Binchy

with Derek Parker
I was always conscious of something helpless and perhaps even untrustworthy in myself; I could not hold to my opinions among people who would make light of them if I felt for those people any sympathy - W. B. Yeats in his Memoirs, published now for the first time.
Bride of the Resolution:
MICHAEL SCAMMELL examines Robert H. McNeal 's biography of Lenin's wife, Krupskaya.
CHAIM RAPHAEL reviews new thrillers and detective stories, including Michael Innes 's latest, Appleby's Answer. And other new books Producer MIRIAM RAPP

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Parker
Unknown:
W. B. Yeats
Unknown:
Michael Scammell
Unknown:
Robert H. McNeal
Unknown:
Chaim Raphael
Unknown:
Michael Innes
Producer:
Miriam Rapp

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More