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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
Regional VHF: see Variations

Contributors

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

The Wye Valley
The river Wye flows through one of the outstandingly beautiful valleys in Britain. This week's Nature Trail follows part of its course in search of the plants and wildlife that live in its waters and along its banks.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer PETER FRANCE
Series producer DILYS BREESE
(from Bristol: shortened version of Sunday's broadcast)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Peter France
Producer:
Dilys Breese

9.30 History in Evidence Tudor Britain 3: A Recusant Story written by ROBERT LAMB
9.45 Listening and Reading II The Balaclava Story by GEORGE LAYTON
9.55 Radio Jeunesse. French II 8: A radio magazine Including Le correspondant anglais by PAULE-ALINE DENT
10.5 Poetry Corner Jeremiah Obadiah

Contributors

Written By:
Robert Lamb
Story By:
George Layton
Unknown:
Jeremiah Obadiah

10.30 Music Workshop II continues preparation for The Pennine Way
11.0 Inquiry. Eating and Living 3: A la carte: script by ELAINE MOORE and DEREK FARMER
Interviews by PHILIP HOLLAND
11.20 Discovery
1: Bread, by ARTHUR VIALLS Presented by RICHARD BEBB
11.40 Art and Humanities J. M. W. Turner: ' He seems to paint with tinted steam ' (radiovision): written and spoken by DAVID THOMPSON Producer PEGGY BRANFORD

Contributors

Script By:
Elaine Moore
Script By:
Derek Farmer
Unknown:
Philip Holland
Presented By:
Richard Bebb
Spoken By:
David Thompson
Producer:
Peggy Branford

2.0 Movement, Mime and Music I by JAMES DODDING
2.20 Books, Plays, Poems
State of Siege by ALBERT CAMUS adapted and produced by STUART EVANS : part 2
2.45 Nature. Water written and presented by HARRY ARMSTRONG

Contributors

Unknown:
James Dodding
Unknown:
Albert Camus
Produced By:
Stuart Evans
Presented By:
Harry Armstrong

Listen Pablo - We're Richl A comedy for radio by KON FRASER with Zena Walker and Bryan Pringle ' Do you think I look 40? Do you think I've left it too late? ' Her premium bond has come up and Ann now aims to do what she has always wanted.
Producer JOHN CARDY

Contributors

Unknown:
Kon Fraser
Unknown:
Zena Walker
Unknown:
Bryan Pringle
Producer:
John Cardy
Ann Floyd:
Zena Walker
Sally:
Rosalind Adams
Miss Burley:
Janet Burnell
Tom Mallard:
Bryan Pringle
Bill Simkln:
John Samson
Pratt:
Nigel Graham
Janey:
Helen Worth
Janey's mother:
Delia Paton
Bobby's mother -:
Shirley Dixon
Another mother:
Gail MacFarlane
Mary Porter:
Gail MacFarlane
Joan Wall:
Jean England

When a baby says ' dada ' or ' mama ' does he really know what it means? When your 2-year-old suddenly surprises you with what seems to be a very pertinent remark is it just repetition? By the age of 5 the average child has mastered not only the vocabulary, grammar and syntax of his native language but the much more difficult business of actually shaping the words.
Anthony Martin , Director of the Nuffield Hearing and Speech Centre at the Royal National Hospital, discusses how the child learns to talk and illustrates his views with recordings made at regular intervals throughout the first two years of a baby's life.
Research by DOROTHY MARTIN Recordings by BILL REID Producer DENYS GUEROULT
(A second chance to hear this programme broadcast in December)

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Martin
Producer:
Denys Gueroult

The questions and ideas you send are discussed this week by Renée Houston, Mary Stocks Katharine Whitehorn Louisa Service
In the chair Anona Winn Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER
Producer CHRISTOPHER SERLE
(Repeated: Friday, 12.25 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Anona Winn
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
Christopher Serle

June Barry and Barrie Ingham in M6 - Northbound by JOHN TARRANT
When Derek Kneen stops to give an attractive young girl a lift from Hendon to Knutsford in Cheshire, little does he realise that he will become suspect No 1 in a murder hunt.
Producer TREVOR HILL
(from the North of England)

Contributors

Unknown:
Barrie Ingham
Unknown:
John Tarrant
Unknown:
Derek Kneen
Producer:
Trevor Hill
Derek Kneen:
Barrie Ingham
Tessa Cowell:
Carol Turner
Paula:
June Barry
Chief Insp Sayle:
John Blain
Det-SgtMaddrell:
Graham Roberts
Roy Faragher:
Joseph Holmes
John Teare, a gamekeeper:
Joe Gladwin
Gelling:
John Baldwin

with Christopher Ricks
"What is missing from the national planning about television is any serious or hard thinking about the point of the 'box' and failure to realise that this harmless toy could develop into an uncontrollable monster. Does Britain have The Least Worst Television in the World?" This is the title of Milton Shulman's new book (Barrie and Jenkins).
Also: World Cinema - a Short History by David Robinson: 75 years and a quarter of a million films since the beginning, an attempt to assess the main shaping influences on the art form of the 20th century.
JANE ALEXANDER looks at The Future of Marriage, a sociological view by Jessie Bernard : and a fictional view. Marriages, a first novel by Peter Straub.
Producer KRISHAN KUMAR

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Ricks
Unknown:
Milton Shul
Unknown:
David Robinson
Unknown:
Jane Alexander
Unknown:
Jessie Bernard
Novel By:
Peter Straub.
Producer:
Krishan Kumar

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