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The world this morning
Introduced by JohB 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
Regional VHF.- see Variation*

Contributors

Introduced By:
Johb Timpson
Introduced By:
Robert Robinson
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 LONGMATE
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 Longmate
Written By:
H. J. Daus
Presented By:
Gary Taylor

A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams Clement Freud , Peter Jones Aimi Macdonald try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer DAVID HATCH
(Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pm) (Aimi Macdonald is in 'The Mating Game' at the Apollo Theatre, London)
12.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Peter Jones
Unknown:
Aimi MacDonald
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
David Hatch
Unknown:
Aimi MacDonald

Story: The Great Oa Tree by ANNE ENGLISH
Presenters this week:
AURIOL SMITH and JOHN BULL Scripts by the producer JENYTH WORSLEY
(Turnip Tom and Big Fat Rosie by Mary Calvert , stories from Listen with Mother. illustrated with cartoons by Roger Smith : BBC paperback, 30p: see p 58)

Contributors

Unknown:
Auriol Smith
Producer:
Jenyth Worsley
Unknown:
Mary Calvert
Unknown:
Roger Smith

2.0 World History. The Plague and the Fire: how London suffered in 1665-66 Written by MAUREEN OSBORNE
2.20 Geography
France: Industrial Pollution and the Vine-Growers by MARGARET MAYNE
2.40 Stories and Rhymes Pangur Ban by JOAN BALFOUR PAYNI

Contributors

Written By:
Maureen Osborne
Unknown:
Joan Balfour Payni

by WINIFRED HOLTBY : adapted for radio in five instalments by OLIVE SHAPLEY
2: Councillor Hugging Meets his Avenging Angel
Other parts HUGH WRIGHT and JANETTE CVNNANE Special effects by DAVID FLEMING-WILLIAMS
Producer TREVOR HILL
(from the North of England: Sunday's broadcast)

Contributors

Unknown:
Winifred Holtby
Unknown:
Hugh Wright
Unknown:
Janette Cvnnane
Producer:
Trevor Hill
Narrator:
David Marlowe
George Hicks, groom at Maythorpe Hall:
Ronald Scales
Elsie, his daughter:
Valerie Windsor
Robert Carne:
Nigel Davenport
Alderman Mrs Beddows:
Ruth Dunning
Alderman Snaith:
Wilfred Harrison
Councillor Huggins:
Wilfred Pickles
Landlord of the Tanners Arms:
John Baldwin
Widow Barker:
Norma Wilson
Lovell Brown:
Alan Rothwell
Young Bessy Warbuckle:
Juliet Cooke
Councillor Joe Astell:
Bryuen Murdoch
Sarah Burton:
Anna Cropper
Lily Sawdon:
Julia Lang
Tom Sawdon, landlord of the Nag's Head:
Colin Edwynn
Miss Masters, English mistress:
Merle Kessler
Lydia Holly:
Susan Moverley
Midge Carne of Maythorpe Hall:
Helen Worth
Mrs Holly:
Rosalie Williams

visits Romford in Essex
Members of the Collier Row Horticultural Society and Allotments Association put their questions to
FRED LOADS. BILL SOWERBUTTS ALAN GEMMELL
Questionmaster MICHAEL BARRATT Producer KENNETH FORD

Contributors

Unknown:
Sowerbutts 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:
Ian Messiter.
Unknown:
Richard Willcox

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Ring Robin Day to put your question on your local social services to
Maurice Speed, President of the Association of Directors of Social Services and Director of Social Services for Cheshire
To promote a maximum flow of questions [number removed](16 lines) will take them from 6.0 pm onward until the end of the programme
Producer WALTER WALLICH

Contributors

Producer:
Walter Wallich

When Enrico died in 1921, we had been married for only three years, but as I write now, over 20 years later, my memory of him is as clear as if he had left me an hour ago. With every word I write he walks into the room, and the more I write, the more clear those years become ...
A programme based by CHARLES LEFEAUX on Dorothy Caruso 's biography of her husband, the great Italian tenor, who was born on 25 February 1873 with Irene Worth and the recorded voice of Enrico Caruso
(First broadcast in 1967) (A chance to hear more great voices from the past. including Gigli in Andrea Chinier: Friday 1.50 pm: The Vocal Art of Caruso: Sunday 25 Feb. both R3. Irene Worth's Choice: p 5)

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Lefeaux
Unknown:
Dorothy Caruso
Unknown:
Irene Worth
Unknown:
Enrico Caruso

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