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The world this morning: what Britain's getting up to, plus the news from anywhere on earth, 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 All this week:
FRANK HENNIG talking to THE RECTOR OF DYMCHURCH
7.50 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
Unknown:
Frank Hennig

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) 14: Der Rundfunk berichtet written by STEPHEN KANOCZ (recorded in Studio Münster, WDR)
11.0 Singing Together
14: Producer DOUGLAS COOMBES
11.20 Springboard (7-9). A very tall story by LESLEY DAVIES
11.40 The Music Box Treasury With GORDON REYNOLDS and MARI GRIFFITH
Producer ALBERT CHATTERLEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Halb Gewonnen
Written By:
Stephen Kanocz
Story By:
Lesley Davies
Unknown:
Gordon Reynolds
Unknown:
Mari Griffith
Producer:
Albert Chatterley

Presenter Derek Cooper Work and Money
Your Rates. Rateable values go up this spring. How will the new ratings affect what you pay? TIM MATTHEWS investigates. With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? VHF South West: see Variations

Contributors

Presenter:
Derek Cooper
Unknown:
Tim Matthews

2.0 Exploration Earth 4: Venetian Glass by NORMAN TURNER
2.20 The Music Box
With GORDON REYNOLDS and MARI GRIFFITH
2.30 Speak. Different attitudes to the way power is exercised
2.40 Movement, Mime and Music 11 by BRIAN SANDERS

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman Turner
Unknown:
Gordon Reynolds
Unknown:
Mari Griffith
Music By:
Brian Sanders

Cimarron by EDNA FERBER adapted in ten parts and read by June Barrie
A story of America's second Wild West - the settlement of Oklahoma. Into the wilderness go Yancey Cravat , a gun-toting lawyer with fire and imagination, and a wife whose stability turns the dynastic dream into a reality.... Part 1
Producer BRIAN MILLER (from Bristol)

Contributors

Read By:
June Barrie
Unknown:
Yancey Cravat
Producer:
Brian Miller

from the TV series based on the characters created by A...1. CRONIN
The Immortal Memory written bv JAN READ and adapted by PAT DUNLOP
Broadcast by arrangement with GRAHAM STEWART
Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK (Repeated: Wed. 12.25 pm)

Contributors

Adapted By:
Pat Dunlop
Arrangement With:
Graham Stewart
with Dr Cameron:
Andrew Cruickshank
Janet:
Barbara Mullen
Dr Finlay:
Bill Simpson
Mr Young:
Michael Spice
Mrs Young:
Beth Boyd
Mrs Duff:
Betty" Cardno
Ailsa Young:
Gail MacFarlane
Mr Galbraith:
Simon Lack
Mr Inglis:
Anthony Higginson

'twixt Isobel Barnett
Eleanor Summerfield and Richard Murdoch. David Nixon Tune-twisters from Steve Race In the chair Roy Plomley Devised and written by IAN MESSITER
Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK

Contributors

Unknown:
Isobel Barnett
Unknown:
Eleanor Summerfield
Unknown:
Richard Murdoch.
Unknown:
David Nixon
Unknown:
Roy Plomley
Written By:
Ian Messiter

A dramatic epilogue by Henrik Ibsen
Translated from the Norwegian by Michael Meyer
With Ralph Richardson, Irene Worth, Barbara Jefford and Gordon Jackson

"On the whole 'When We Dead Awaken' may rank with the greatest of the author's work - if, indeed, it be not the greatest" (JAMES JOYCE)
"His magic is nowhere more potent" (BERNARD SHAW)

The action of Ibsen's last play takes place in Norway - at a coastal watering place and In a mountain health resort.

The play adapted and produced by John Tydeman
(Broadcast in 1969)
(Ralph Richardson in 'Home' by David Storey: Tuesday BBC2)

followed by an interlude

Contributors

Author:
Henrik Ibsen
Translator:
Michael Meyer
Music:
John Baker of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Producer/Adapted by:
John Tydeman
Professor Arnold Rubek, a sculptor:
Ralph Richardson
Maja, his wife:
Barbara Jefford
The Inspector:
James Thomason
Ulfheim, a country squire:
Gordon Jackson
A Lady Traveller (Irene):
Irene Worth
A Nun:
Crizelda Hervey
Narrator:
Charles Simon

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