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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 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
Deputy editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE Editor MARSHALL STEWART
Regional VHF: see Variations

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Introduced By:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler
Editor:
Alastair Osborne
Editor:
Marshall Stewart

9.5 Frisch Begonnen
German for Beginners
14: Wiederholung und Lieder written by STEPHEN KANOCZ (a radiovision programme recorded in collaboration with West German Radio)
9.30 Foreign Correspondent
9.45 Music Workshop: Stage 1 Preparation for a play with music about Aesop. Script and libretto by WILLIAM MURPHY
Music arranged by IAN HUMPHRIS and NICOS SKALKOTTAS

Contributors

Unknown:
Frisch Begonnen
Written By:
Stephen Kanocz
Unknown:
William Murphy
Arranged By:
Ian Humphris

10.30 Voix de France. French VI 14: Roubaix-Toureoing - agglomeration industrielle. Compiled by GEOFFREY BRAITHWAITE
10.50 A Corner for Music by ALBERT CHATTERLEY Playing on the Stairs
11.0 Quest
Our Gang, by PHILIP TURNER
11.20 Listening and Writing
Fellow Travellers: a selection of poems, and a short story by DOROTHY WHIPPLE
11.40 Prospect
The Third World: Together or Alone? by RORY MACPHERSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Braithwaite
Unknown:
Philip Turner
Story By:
Dorothy Whipple
Unknown:
Rory MacPherson

Presented by Jeanine McMullen You and the Law
Landladies: who gets a raw deal - landlady or tenant? asks FRANCES BERTHELSEN.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Editor DENNIS LOWER
VHF South West: see Variations

Contributors

Presented By:
Jeanine McMullen
Unknown:
Frances Berthelsen.

2.0 Let's Join In
How Honeypaw Lost His Tail, by ALAN C. JENKINS
2.20 Christian Focus
Renewal: the churches in South America by PADDY FEENY
2.35 Interlude
2.40 Guitar School (24) presented by MICHAEL JESSETT

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan C. Jenkins
Unknown:
Paddy Feeny
Presented By:
Michael Jessett

Selected for Friday Land of My Dreams by CLIVE EXTON with Michael Hordern
-You know what I think? I sometimes think the world ended in 1914.' Producer CHARLES LEFEAUX
(Shortened version of broadcast in 1967: Third)

Contributors

Unknown:
Clive Exton
Unknown:
Michael Hordern
Producer:
Charles Lefeaux
Alice Walmer:
Sylvia Coleridge
Arthur Walmer, her brother:
Michael Hordern
Paddy Lynch:
J G Devlin
Margaret Walmer, Arthur's wife:
Helen Shingler

The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle with PM's reporting team Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50 Stock Market report
VHF: Regional news, weather
5.55 Weather, programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
William Hardcastle
Editor:
Derek Lewis
Editor:
Andrew Boyle

NANCY WISE makes a personal selection of items from BBC Radio and TV.
Introduced by JOHN Ellison Research by JEAN STROUD
Producer VANESSA HARRISON
(Repeated: Saturday, 10.30 am)

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Ellison
Unknown:
Jean Stroud
Producer:
Vanessa Harrison

A spontaneous discussion by Lord Soper Patrick Moore David Hunt
Marjorie Proops
Chairman David Jacobs Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Avonmouth, Bristol
(Repeated: Saturday, 1.15 pm) Listeners' views for use in Any Answers' should be addressed to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Unknown:
Lord Soper Patrick Moore
Unknown:
David Hunt
Unknown:
Marjorie Proops
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Producer:
Michael Bowen

In Aid of the Civil Power'
Christopher Serpell examines the problems that arise when troops are called out to restore law and order.
Do they make things worse in the long run? How else can society defend itself against civil violence and the breakdown of law and order? And how does a situation like that in Northern Ireland affect an army's spirit?
Producer ROLAND challis

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Serpell

DAVID JASON , BILL WALLIS nigel rees and BILL MCGUFFIE at the piano take a late-night look back over the week's news and illustrate the funny side. Script by PETER spence and chris miller
Producers SIMON BRETT and JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
(David Jason is in ' No Sex Please ... We're British ' at the Strand Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jason
Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
Nigel Rees
Unknown:
Bill McGuffie
Script By:
Peter Spence
Script By:
Chris Miller
Producers:
Simon Brett
Unknown:
John Fawcett Wilson
Unknown:
David Jason

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