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The world this morning introduced by Robert Robinson and John Timpson
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

Contributors

Introduced By:
Robert Robinson
Introduced By:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler

S.30 Religious Service for Primary Schools. My Work 4: a musician - DONALD SWANN (Repeated: Thursday, 9.5 am)
9.50 Interlude
9.55 The World of Work Unit III: Choices - 8 written by COLIN FlNBOW

Contributors

Musician:
Donald Swann
Written By:
Colin Flnbow

10.30 History in Focus
The Worker in the State 1870-
1960.3: The Soviet written by DAVID ROBINS
10.45 Intermediate German
Wer anderen eine Grube grabt written by CARL DUERING (ii)
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
Norman Nicholson and his poetry presented by R. E. T. LAMB

Contributors

Written By:
David Robins
Written By:
Carl Duering
Presented By:
Gary Taylor
Unknown:
Norman Nicholson
Presented By:
R. E. T. Lamb

Presenter Derek Cooper Home and Family
Old Age: a time of difficulty or a time of adjustment? HETTY WYON offers some reflections.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA
VHF South West: see Variations

Contributors

Presenter:
Derek Cooper

starring Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler
MILDRED: These anti-flu jabs are for our own good.
LENNOX-BROWN: That's a matter of opinion. If the Good Lord meant us to work every day, He wouldn't have given us flu in the first place.
with Norma Ronald, Ronald Baddiley, Joan Sanderson, John Graham
(Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather, programme news; VHF: Regional news, weather

Contributors

Writer:
Edward Taylor
Writer:
John Graham
Producer:
Edward Taylor
Star/[actor]:
Richard Murdoch
Star/[actor]:
Deryck Guyler
[Actress]:
Norma Ronald
[Actor]:
Ronald Baddiley
[Actress]:
Joan Sanderson
[Actor]:
John Graham

2.0 World History
Gertude Bell explores the desert: written by ELIZABETH GREY
2.20 Geography
Switzerland: Italian workers in the economy by NORRIS WILLAT
2.40 Stories and Rhymes
The courage of Sarah Noble by ALICE DALGLIESH

Contributors

Unknown:
Gertude Bell
Written By:
Elizabeth Grey
Unknown:
Norris Willat
Unknown:
Sarah Noble
Unknown:
Alice Dalgliesh

by WINIFRED HOLTBY : adapted for radio in five instalments by OLIVE SHAPLEY
5: Alderman Mrs Beddows
Wireless commentator from
St Paul 's Cathedral: recorded voice Of CMDR STEPHEN KING-HALL
Producer TREVOR HILL
(from the North of England: Sunday's broadcast)

Contributors

Unknown:
Winifred Holtby
Unknown:
Olive Shapley
Unknown:
St Paul
Narrator:
David Mahlowe
Mrs Beddows:
Ruth Dunning
Robert Carne:
Nigel Davenport
Lydia Holly:
Susan Moverley
Alice Holly:
Marah Stohl
Dolly, Lydia's friend:
Mary Lennon
Barney Holly:
Tom Harrison
Mrs Brimsley:
Norma Wilson
Councillor Alfred Huggins:
Wilfred Pickles
Miss Sarah Burton:
Anna Cropper
Joe Astell:
Bryden Murdoch
Alderman Anthony Snaith:
Wilfred Harrison
Midge Carne:
Helen Worth
Lord Sedgmire:
Graham Tennant
Lovell Brown of the Kingsport Chronicle:
Alan Rothwell
Photographer,:
Graham Roberts

KENNETH FORD invites
FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL to answer questions which listeners have sent in by post. Introduced by KENNETH FORD Producer BARBARA MCDONALD
Questions, on postcards, to Gardeners' Question Time, BBC, Woodhouse Lane , Leeds LS2 9PX

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Ford
Unknown:
Bill Sowerbutts
Unknown:
Alan Gemmell
Introduced By:
Kenneth Ford
Producer:
Barbara McDonald
Unknown:
Woodhouse Lane

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

Ring Robin Day to put your question on the growing role of polytechnics in higher education to
Sir Norman Lindop , Director of the Hatfield Polytechnic and Chairman of the Committee of Directors of Polytechnics.
[number removed](16 lines) will take questions from 6.0 pm onward Producer WALTER WALLICE

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Norman Lindop
Producer:
Walter Wallice

The Crossroads: introduced by Michael Flanders including
The Silver Jubilee; Spithead Review; The Italian 'Adventure'; Invention of Radar; British win at Wimbledon; The Rome Pact; Anglo-German Naval Treaty; Jubilee Service and Procession; Bluebird breaks land speed record; General Election; King George V's last speech: Songs, shows and music of the time. with the recorded voices of KING GEORGE V, FRED ASTAIRE, RT HON STANLEY BALDWIN, DOROTHY DICKSON, SEFTON DELMER, MAJOR R. J. T. EVANS,
GRACIE FIELDS, GRETA GARBO, STANLEY HOLLOWAY, LAYTON AND JOHNSTONE, ALVAR LIDELL, FRED PERRY, RT HON RAMSAY MACDONALD, W. MACQUEEN-POPE, JOHN SNAGGE, SHIRLEY TEMPLE, A. J. TAYLOR, SIR ROBERT WATSON-WATT, CMDR STEPHEN KING-HALL
Research assistant COLIN REID Compiled, written and produced by JOHN BRIDGES

Contributors

Introduced By:
Michael Flanders
Unknown:
Fred Astaire
Unknown:
Stanley Baldwin
Unknown:
Dorothy Dickson
Unknown:
Sefton Delmer
Unknown:
Major R. J. T. Evans
Unknown:
Gracie Fields
Unknown:
Greta Garbo
Unknown:
Stanley Holloway
Unknown:
John Stone
Unknown:
Alvar Lidell.
Unknown:
Fred Perry
Unknown:
Rt Hon Ramsay MacDonald
Unknown:
W. MacQueen-Pope
Unknown:
John Snaggb
Unknown:
Shirley Temple
Unknown:
A. J. Taylor
Unknown:
Sir Robert Watson-Watt
Unknown:
Cmdr Stephen King-Hall
Unknown:
Colin Reid
Produced By:
John Bridges

More recollections by H. Colin Davis and his brother David Davis , who also plays the piano.
In an earlier programme, Where for Me the World Began, the Davis brothers remembered their childhood In Malvern. This evening they recall the period between the wars, with its eventual gathering gloom, ' and sport no more seen on the Darkening Green.' Producer GRAHAM GAULD
S.59 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
H. Colin
Unknown:
David Davis
Producer:
Graham Gauld

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