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The world this morning introduced by John Timpson and Douglas Cameron t.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 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:
Douglas Cameron
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler

On the Shingle
Which county has the most highly developed coastline in Britain? The answer is - Sussex. But even here one area has escaped human damage: an area of shingle beach with its unique community of plants, its shells and its wintering birds.
Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer DILYS BREESE (from Bristol: shortened version of Sunday's broadcast)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Dilys Breese

9.30 History In Evidence Medieval Britain
1: The death of Becket written by DOROTHY BAKER
9.45 Listening and Reading II The Cave of the Cyclops adapted by PHILIPPA PEARCE read by GARARD GREEN t.55 Radio Jeunesse. French II 1: A radio magazine including Sur la montagne by PAULL-ALINE DENT
10.5 Poetry Corner Inside and Outside

Contributors

Written By:
Dorothy Baker
Adapted By:
Philippa Pearce
Read By:
Garard Green

10.30 Music Workshop II
A musical impression of The Pennine Way with poetry by HAROLD MASSINGHAM and the music composed by GERARD VICTORY : written and produced by WILLIAM MURPHY
11.0 Inquiry. Unit III
Communicating - 1. by MICHAEL SMEE . Songs by GILL and TERRY
11.20 Discovery. Communication 1: Getting the message by ARTHUR VIALI. S
Presented by RICHARD BEBB
11.40 Art and Humanities
Click I: DONALD MCCULLIN talks with five young people about his photographs
Producer JOAN GRIFFITHS

Contributors

Poetry By:
Harold Massingham
Composed By:
Gerard Victory
Produced By:
William Murphy
Unknown:
Michael Smee
Unknown:
Arthur Viali.
Presented By:
Richard Bebb
Talks:
Donald McCullin
Producer:
Joan Griffiths

Presenter Nancy Wise Consumer Style
The Other Side of the Counter: what do shop-assistants think of customers? JOAN YORKE investigates.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? VHF South West: see Variations

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan Yorke

from the TV series based on the characters created by A. J. CRONIN with Andrew Cruickshank as Dr Cameron Barbara Mullen as Janet Bill Simpson as Dr Finlay
Soon or Late: written by CEDRIC WALLIS and STEWART FARRAR adapted by STEWART FARRAR
Broadcast by arrangement with GRAHAM STEWART
Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK
12.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather

Contributors

Unknown:
A. J. Cronin
Unknown:
Andrew Cruickshank
Unknown:
Dr Cameron Barbara Mullen
Unknown:
Janet Bill Simpson
Written By:
Cedric Wallis
Written By:
Stewart Farrar
Adapted By:
Stewart Farrar
Arrangement With:
Graham Stewart
Maggie Rankin:
Jean Anderson
John Lennox,:
Duncan McIntyre
Robert Lennox:
Fraser Kerr
Dora Lennox:
Daphne Anderson
Mr Galbraith:
Simon Lack
Mr Currie:
Alaric Cotter
Nurse:
Delia Paton

2.0 Movement. Mime and Music I by JAMES DODDING
2.20 Books, Plays. Poems
The Player's Progress by GINNIE HOLE: a chronicle of the actor's triumphs and tribulations over the years (part 1) Music arranged by VERA GRAY Producer DAVID LYTTLE
2.45 Nature
Grass snakes: written and presented by BERNARD VENABLES With JOHN NORRIS-WOOD

Contributors

Unknown:
James Dodding
Arranged By:
Vera Gray
Producer:
David Lyttle
Unknown:
Bernard Venables

Clark by LARRY WYCE
' The policeman says not to do that. He says it's breaking and entering and it is illegal.'
Producer JOHN SCOTNEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Larry Wyce
Producer:
John Scotney
ChriS:
Geoffrey Beevers
Clark:
Caroline John
LOiS:
Elizabeth Proud
Denis:
John Rowe
Michael:
Feter Pacey
Policemen:
Anthony Hall
Policemen:
Peter Gordon

Renée
Houston Andree Melly , Sheila Van Damm Patricia Hayes
In the chair Anona Winn Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER
Producer CHRISTOPHER SERLE
(Repeated: Friday. 12.25 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Houston Andree Melly
Unknown:
Sheila van Damm
Unknown:
Patricia Hayes
Unknown:
Anona Winn
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
Christopher Serle

A Kind of Innocence by BILL WESTALL
There's a kind of ... a kind of innocence about you ... a sort of thick innocence, and it sets my nerves jangling. Stick to your own sort of woman, for God's sake.'
Producer ANTHONY CORNISH (from Birmingham)
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.0 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Westall
Producer:
Anthony Cornish
Helen:
Joan Matheson
George:
David Bird
Jane:
Penelope Shaw
Horville:
George Woolley

with Derek Parker who looks at the pick of the week's new books including:
The World of the Crusaders. by Joshua Prawer , who teUs the story of the Crusades which poured into the East to defend and preserve the Latin kingdom.
Failure of a Revolution: Sebastian Haffner 's account of a spontaneous anti-militarist but abortive uprising in the Germany of 1918. A Jane Austen Companion: a comprehensive study of the novelist and her work by F. B. Pinion.
Frank Kermode 's Lawrence: an ' indispensable introduction to the complexities of D. H. Lawrence. '
Producer MIRIAM RAPP

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Parker
Unknown:
Joshua Prawer
Unknown:
Sebastian Haffner
Unknown:
Jane Austen
Unknown:
F. B. Pinion.
Unknown:
Frank Kermode
Unknown:
D. H. Lawrence.
Producer:
Miriam Rapp

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