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 Mary Marquis
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
Regional VHF: see Variations

Contributors

Introduced By:
Robert Robinson
Introduced By:
Mary Marquis
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler

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

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

10.30 Halb gewonnen!
(An O-level course in German) 15: Munster und Munsterland written by WOLFGANG SCHEMANN Producer AL wolff
11.0 Singing Together
15: presented by CLIFF MORGAN
11.20 Springboard (7-9)
Flat Stanley: adapted for radio by DEREK FARMER
Producer MICHAEL ROLFE
11.40 Drama Workshop
RUR by KAREL CAPEK : with JEANNIE FISHER. DOUGLAS FISHER NOEL JOHNSON , MURRAY KASH
CORINNA MARLOWE , PETER FACET
Music and special sounds created by MALCOLM CLARKE of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Contributors

Written By:
Wolfgang Schemann
Presented By:
Cliff Morgan
Producer:
Michael Rolfe
Unknown:
Karel Capek
Unknown:
Jeannie Fisher.
Unknown:
Douglas Fisher
Unknown:
Noel Johnson
Unknown:
Murray Kash
Unknown:
Corinna Marlowe
Unknown:
Malcolm Clarke

Presenter Joan Yorke
' Work and Money
Employment for the Disabled. What opportunities exist? NANCY wise finds a surprising number. With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Editor DENNIS LOWER
VHF South West: see Variations

Contributors

Presenter:
Joan Yorke

2.0 Exploration Earth
5: Soft fruit from the Carse of Cowrie, by HENRY DONALB
2.20 The Music Box with GORDON REYNOLDS and MARK GRIFFITH
2.30 Speak
Talk about pictures: a stimulus to group discussion and improvisation
2.40 Movement, Mime and MUSiC II by BRIAN SANDERS Producer VERA GRAY

Contributors

Unknown:
Henry Donalb
Unknown:
Gordon Reynolds
Unknown:
Mark Griffith
Unknown:
Brian Sanders
Producer:
Vera Gray

The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts of your evening: presented by Robert Williams and PM's reporting team
5.50 Stock Market report
VHF: Regional news, weather
S.55 Weather, programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
Robert Williams

from the TV series based on the characters created by A. J. CRONIN with Unfit to Marry: written and adapted by HARRY GREEN
(For full cast see Wed, 12.25 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
A. J. Cronin
Adapted By:
Harry Green
Dr Cameron:
Andrew Cruickshank
Janet:
Barbara Mullen
Dr Finlay:
Bill Simpson

'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 MESSITEIt
Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK

Contributors

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

by Pat Hooker
with Coral Browne, George Baker, Margaret Rawlings, Rosalind Shanks, William Fox.

'Sometimes I wake in the night, and I know you are awake. Lying still beside me, in your long robe. your eyes open ... What do you think about?'
'Remember...'
'Odysseus Did you love him? Helen, did you love him?'
'No, love. No. He was the only man who passed me by ...'

Contributors

Writer:
Pat Hooker
Producer:
Guy Vaesen
Harpist:
Frances Kelly
Composer:
David Cain
Menelaus:
William Fox
Telemachus:
David Gooderson
Helen:
Coral Browne
Calypso:
Rosalind Shanks
Odysseus:
George Baker
Hecuba:
Margaret Rawlings
Diomedes:
Nigel Anthony
Antielos:
Terry Scully
Epeius:
Ronald Herdman
Deiphobus:
John Rowe
Sirens:
Hannah Francis
Sirens:
Heather Kay
Sirens:
Kathy Martin

George by EMLYN WILLIAMS abridged in 15 parts by JANET HITCHMAN
The early autobiography of the famous playwright and actor, stretching from his childhood in rural Wales to his departure for Oxford in the 20s.
Read by Richard Bebb (1) Producer MARGARET ETALL

Contributors

Unknown:
Janet Hitchman
Read By:
Richard Bebb
Producer:
Margaret Etall

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