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The world this morning 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

9.30 Religious Service for Primary Schools My Work. 1: a nurse written by jim CRACE
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.5 am)
9.50 Interlude
9.55 The World of Work
Unit II: Money. 5: Only Money written by JEFFREY SEGAL

Contributors

Written By:
Jim Crace
Written By:
Jeffrey Segal

10.30 History in Focus
Urban Life in Britain 1832-50. 5: The Drainmakers written by NORMAN LONG MATE
10.45 Intermediate German Weiberfastnacht written by H. j. DAUS
11.0 Movement and Music I by PENNY WHITTAM
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.55 am)
11.20 Music Club presented by GARY TAYLOR
11.40 Religion and Life
MOTHER TERESA talks to RALPH ROLLS about the work of her Missionaries of Charity and of her own beliefs. (VI Form series)

Contributors

Written By:
Norman Long
Written By:
H. J. Daus
Presented By:
Gary Taylor

Presenter Joan Yorke Home and Family
An Unexpected Visitor: just how safe is your house from burglars? KAY NASH looks at security precautions.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? VHF South West: see Variations

Contributors

Presenter:
Joan Yorke

A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams
Derek Nimmo. Clement Freud Sheila Hancock try to talk for just a minute on this and that Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer DAVID HATCH
(Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pml
12.55 Weather, programme news VHF . Regional news, weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo.
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Sheila Hancock
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
David Hatch

2.0 World History. The Plague and the Fire: London, 1665-6 written by MAUREEN OSBORNE
2.20 Geography
France: Industrial Pollutioi and the Vine-Growers by MARGARET MAYNE
2.40 Stories and Rhymes Pangur Ban by JOAN BALFOUR PAYNE

Contributors

Written By:
Maureen Osborne
Unknown:
Joan Balfour Payne

by Winifred Holtby
A story of Yorkshire life in the 1930s adapted for radio in five episodes by Olive Shapley

The School Governors appoint a new Head Mistress

(from the North: Sunday's broadcast)

Contributors

Author:
Winifred Holtby
Adapted by:
Olive Shapley
Producer:
Trevor Hill
The Narrator:
David Mahlowe
Lovell Brown, a young journalist:
Alan Rothwell
Syd Mail, of the Kingsport Chronicle:
Graham Tennant
Alderman Mrs Beddows:
Ruth Dunning
Miss Sarah Burton, MA:
Anna Cropper
Councillor Robert Carne of Maythorpe Hall:
Nigel Davenport
Lydia Holly:
Susan Moverley
Dolly Castle:
Mary Lennon
Mrs Holly:
Rosalie Williams
Barney Holly:
Tom Harrison
Councillor Joe Astell, from Glasgow:
Bryden Murdoch
Councillor Alfred Ezekiel Huggins, lay preacher and haulage contractor:
Wilfred Pickles
Alderman Anthony Snaith:
Wilfred Harrison
Miss Dolores Jameson, classics mistress:
Marah Stohl
Other parts:
Jack Carr
Other parts:
John Linstrum
Other parts:
Hope Johnstone
Madame Hubbard's pupils:
Girls of the Wirral County Grammar School
Conductor:
Doris Parkinson
Organist at the Methodist Chapel:
Trevor Holroyd
Child vocalist:
Helen Charnock

visits Kent
Members of the Paddock Wood Horticultural Society put their questions to FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERHUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL Questionmaster MICHAEL BARRATT Producer KENNETH FORD

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Sowerhutts
Unknown:
Alan Gemmell
Unknown:
Questionmaster Michael Barratt
Producer:
Kenneth Ford

A panel game for four hands Leader of the pack and chairman is David Nixon who deals to June
Whitfield Patrick Moore. William Rushton Devised and shuffled by IAN MESSITER
Produced and cut by RICHARD WILLCOX

Contributors

Unknown:
David Nixon
Unknown:
Whitfield Patrick Moore.
Unknown:
William Rushton
Unknown:
Richard Willcox

In the beginning - hydrogenl
Have the startling discoveries in astronomy and biology made it impossible to believe in God as Creator of the universe and man? Listen to the scientists, then telephone [number removed]with your reactions.
7.30 Peter Armstrong tests his Christian belief in God the Creator against the views of astronomer Patrick Moore , cosmologist Dennis Sciama. philosopher Renford Bambrough, polymath John Taylor , Nobel Prize-winner Jacques Monod. Old Testament scholar Anthony Phillips subjects the book of Genesis to critical scrutiny, and physical "biochemist Arthur Peacocke explains why. in the face of the evidence, he has nevertheless become ordained. Producer LAURIE JOHN
8.30 Ring Laurie John in the studio to put your question direct to Arthur Pcacocke. Fellow of St Peter 's. Oxford, and John Tavlor , Professor of Mathematics. King's College, London.
Producer-wALTER WALLICH
[number removed](16 lines) will take questions from 7.0 pm onward (Radio Times People: page 4)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Armstrong
Unknown:
Patrick Moore
Unknown:
Dennis Sciama.
Unknown:
John Taylor
Unknown:
Jacques Monod.
Unknown:
Anthony Phillips
Unknown:
Arthur Peacocke
Producer:
Laurie John
Unknown:
Laurie John
Unknown:
Arthur Pcacocke.
Unknown:
St Peter
Unknown:
John Tavlor

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