Programme Index

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The world this morning: what Britain's getting up to, plus the news from anywhere on earth, 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 All this week:
Reader DAME ANNA NEAGLE Speaker DR COLIN MORRIS
7.50 Travel news
VIIF: Regional news, weather
7.55 Weather, programme news
8.0 News and more of Today including at 8.25 Sportsdesk
With CRAWFORD WHITE on the Fourth Test in Kanpur; at
8.35* Today's Papers
Regional VHF: see Variations

Contributors

Introduced By:
Robert Robinson
Introduced By:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler
Reader:
Dame Anna Neagle
Unknown:
Dr Colin Morris
Unknown:
Crawford White

Lance Percival , Linda Blandford Fritz Spiegl , Zena Skinner Kenneth Robinson Doug Crawford 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 Spiegl
Unknown:
Zena Skinner
Unknown:
Kenneth Robinson
Unknown:
Doug Crawford
Producer:
Michael Ember

10.30 Halb gewonnen!
(An O-level course in German) 13: Unerwarteter Zwischenfall written by STEPHEN KANOCZ (recorded in Studio Munster, wi)R)
11.0 Singing Together
13: presented by CLIFF MORGAN
11.20 Springboard (7-9)
The Tay Bridge Disaster script by DUNCAN TAYLOR
11.40 Drama Workshop
Noah. Reader PETER PACEY with music and special sounds created by DELIA DERBYSHIRE of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Contributors

Written By:
Stephen Kanocz
Presented By:
Cliff Morgan
Script By:
Duncan Taylor
Reader:
Peter Pacey

Presenter Derek Cooper Work and Money
Supplementary Benefits: who is entitled and how can you claim? TONY LYNES , author of The Penauin Guide to Supplementary Benefits, explains.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? VHF South West: see Variations

Contributors

Presenter:
Derek Cooper
Unknown:
Tony Lynes

2.0 Exploration Earth
3: Stoke Pottery (radiovision) by PADDY FEENY
Producer GEOFFREY SHERLOCK
2.20 The Music Box with GORDON REYNOLDS and MARI GRIFFITH
2.30 Speak. Trying your luck
Scenes from Three Cheers for Parti by LABICKE, translated by J. YEOMAN
2.40 Movement. Mime and Music II by BRIAN SANDERS

Contributors

Unknown:
Paddy Feeny
Producer:
Geoffrey Sherlock
Unknown:
Gordon Reynolds
Unknown:
Mari Griffith
Translated By:
J. Yeoman
Unknown:
Brian Sanders

by Nina Bawden abridged in five parts by Julia Small
Read by Eva Haddon
A delicate, probing story of an apparently loyal and tightly-knit middle-class family of 20 years ago. It is told with the benefit of adult hindsight and comment on the memories and feelings of a girl who at the time was 13 years old. Part 1
Producer Roger Pine

Contributors

Read By:
Eva Haddon
Producer:
Roger Pine

The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening: presented by Robert Williams and PM's reporting team
5.50 Stock Market report
VHF: Regional news, weather
5.55 Weather, programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
Robert Williams

from the TV series based on the characters created by A. J. CRONIN with The Next Provost but One written bv ROBERT KEMP and adapted by PAT DUNLOP
Broadcast by arrangement with GRAHAM STEWART
Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK

Contributors

Unknown:
A. J. Cronin
Adapted By:
Pat Dunlop
Arrangement With:
Graham Stewart
Producer:
Trafford Whitelock
Dr Cameron:
Andrew Cruickshank
Janet:
Barbara Mullen
Dr Finlay:
Bill Simpson
Harry MacAlpine:
John Graham
Mary MacAlpine:
Ellen McIntosh
Town Clerk:
Ronald Herdman
Ex-Provost Stodhart:
John Rae
Bailie Duncan:
Wilfrid Carter
Fisher:
John Dunbar
Arthur Hepburn:
James Thomason
Sgt Gilbey:
Duncan McIntyre
Jack Henderson:
Duncan McIntyre
Angus:
Fraser Kerr
Betsy Mills:
Joyce Carpenter
Mrs White:
Eva Stuart

'twixt Isobel Barnett, Eleanor Summerfield and Richard Murdoch, David Nixon
une-twisters from Steve Race
In the chair Roy Plomley

Contributors

Panellist:
Isobel Barnett
Panellist:
Eleanor Summerfield
Panellist:
Richard Murdoch
Panellist:
David Nixon
Chairman:
Roy Plomley
Devised by/Writer:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
Trafford Whitelock

Bread and Butter
A radio version of the play by CECIL P. TAYLOR with Fulton Mackay as Morris Joseph Brady ' as Alec Miriam Margolyes as Miriam and Doris McLatchie as Sharon
' Tomorrow will be better than today. We'll know more, tomorrow. We'll be nearer the truth. That's the only way, Alec, to move nearer and nearer the truth.'
The action, which is set in Glasgow, spans the years 1931 to 1965.
Producer STEWART CONN (from Glasgow)

Contributors

Writer:
Cecil P. Taylor
Morris:
Fulton MacKay
Alec:
Joseph Brady
Miriam:
Miriam Margolyes
Sharon:
Doris McLatchie
Producer:
Stewart Conn

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