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The world this morning: what Britain's getting up to. plus the news from anywhere on earth, introduced by John Timpson and Robert Robinson
6.5O Travel news, What's on, and Keep Fit with Eileen Fowler
VHF: Regional news, weather
S.55 Weather, programme news
7.0 News and more of Today including at 7.25 Sportsdcsk; 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
Deputy editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE Editor MARSHALL STEWART

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Introduced By:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler
Editor:
Alastair Osborne
Editor:
Marshall Stewart

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

10.30 Halb Gewonnen!: 19: Auf Umwegen nach Suden
(An O-level course in German)
Written by Stephen Kanocz
(recorded in Studio Munster, WDR)

11.0 Singing Together: 19
Script by DOUGLAS COOMBES

11.2* Springboard (7-9) Beaverbird adapted by Zoe Bailey

Contributors

Unknown:
Halb Gewonnen
Unknown:
Stephen Kanocz
Script By:
Douglas Coombes
Adapted By:
Zoe Bailey

Presenter Derek Cooper Work and Money
Value Added Tax: what will It do to prices in the shops? In the second of three enquiries the BBC's Economics Correspondent DOMINICK HARROD talks to GORDON SOIWAY, head of the Department of Corporate Planning of Boots the chemist.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Editor DENNIS LOWER
(Write to You and Yours. BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA)

Contributors

Presenter:
Derek Cooper
Talks:
Dominick Harrod

2.0 Exploration Earth
9: Morwellham for Copper by JOHN EARLE
2.20 The Music Box with GORDON REYNOLDS and MARI GRIFFITH
2.3* Speak
Listen to this: scenes from Peter Nichols 's A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
2.40 Movement, Mime and Music II by BRIAN SANDERS

Contributors

Unknown:
John Earle
Unknown:
Gordon Reynolds
Unknown:
Mari Griffith
Unknown:
Peter Nichols
Unknown:
Brian Sanders

A Pinch of Pound Notes by JOHN DINGLE adapted for radio in five parts by PAUL NICHOLSON
Read by Basil Jones
John Dingle rose from humble origins in Bristol to become a renowned chef: a pioneer in the fight to reclaim this profession for Englishmen, in a field long dominated by ' foreigners.' This is his autobiography. 1: Never Say Cant Pianist MICHAEL ALMOND Producer BRIAN MILLER (from Bristol)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Dingle
Unknown:
Paul Nicholson
Read By:
Basil Jones
Producer:
Brian Miller

The news magazine: presented by Roger Cook and PM's reporting team Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.5t Stock Market report
VHF: Regional news, weather
5.55 Weather, programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
Roger Cook
Editor:
Derek Lewis
Editor:
Andrew Boyle

The General
Written by N. J CRISP adapted by DONALD BULL
An autocratic retired Indian campaigner involves Dr Finlay in a very personal situation.
Broadcast by arrangement with GRAHAM STEWART
Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK (Repeated: Wed, 12.25 pm)

Contributors

Written By:
N. J Crisp
Adapted By:
Donald Bull
Arrangement With:
Graham Stewart
Dr Cameron:
Andrew Cruickshank
Janet:
Barbara Mullen
Dr Finlay:
Bill Simpson
General Hannon:
Nigel Stock
Mrs Hannon:
Gudrun Ure
Bobby Muir:
Michael Deacon
John Muir:
Roy Hanlon
Bently:
Douglas Blackwell

'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 MESSITER
Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK

Contributors

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

Cold Gradations by STANLEY MIDDLETON adapted from his own novel with Cyril Luckham
James Mansfield , schoolmaster, retired, in Nottinghamshire, examines his family and his friends, his philosophy for life and about death.
Producer ANTHONY CORNISH (from Birmingham)
'Catherine Crutchley is at the Phoenix Theatre. Leicester)

Contributors

Unknown:
Stanley Middleton
Unknown:
Cyril Luckham
Unknown:
James Mansfield
Producer:
Anthony Cornish
Unknown:
Catherine Crutchley
JAMES:
Cyril Luckha
Eleanor:
Liane Aukin
David:
Jeremy Burnham
Sarah:
Catherine Crutchley
Daisy:
Elizabeth Revill
Mrs Quinn:
Penelope Shaw
Alfred Hapgood:
George Woolley
Clara Hapgood:
Nan Marriott-Watson
Tom Hapgood:
Tony Robinson
Enid Hapgood:
Heather Barrett

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