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The world this morning introduced by John Timpson and Douglas Cameron
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: set Variations

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Introduced By:
Douglas Cameron
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler

10.30 History in Focus
The Worker in the State 1870-1960. 5: Nationalisation in Britain: written by MICHAEL ROSEN
10.45 Intermediate German
Nachrichten und Neuigkeiten written by AL WOLFF
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
Michelangelo by MARY THENCHARD (VI Form series)

Contributors

Written By:
Michael Rosen
Written By:
Al Wolff
Presented By:
Gary Taylor
Unknown:
Mary Thenchard

Presenter Joan Yorke Home and Family
In Your Own Handwriting: FRANCES BERTHEI. SEN finds out what your handwriting reveals about you through the science of graphology.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? VHF South West: see Variations

Contributors

Presenter:
Joan Yorke
Unknown:
Frances Berthei.

starring Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler
LENNOX-BROWN: Look at this note: 'Leave our village alone! Keep your rotten noses out of our business, or you won't live to collect your pensions! Signed. A Well-Wisher.'
MILDRED: Perhaps you'd better lay off, sir. Treat this problem like all the others - file it behind the radiator.
with Norma Ronald, Ronald Baddiley, John Graham, Hilary Pritchard.
(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
Mildred:
Norma Ronald
[Actor]:
Ronald Baddiley
[Actor]:
John Graham
[Actress]:
Hilary Pritchard

2.0 World History
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) written by LESLIE READE
2.20 Geography
Norway - Fishing and Fish Processing: by PAUL MARTIN Series producer ALEX HUNTER
2.40 Stories and Rhymes Children's own work: a Bestiary

Contributors

Unknown:
Abraham Lincoln
Written By:
Leslie Reade
Unknown:
Paul Martin

by HOWARD SPRING: adapted for radio in four parts by TRUMAN REEVES
2: Growing success takes the two friends and their families to Cornwall, where they meet with a God-haunted Captain and a fatal accident.
Producer R. D. SMITH

Contributors

Producer:
R. D. Smith
William Essex:
Wilfred Pickles
Nellie:
Mary Wimbush
Oliver:
Miriam Margolyes
Dermot O'Riorden:
Kevin McHugh
Rory O'Riorden:
Gabrielle Blunt
Maeve O'Riorden:
Elizabeth Morgan
Sam Sawle:
Stephen Jack
Captain Judas:
Wilfrid Lawson
Mary Latter:
Gudrun Ure
Mr Winthringham:
John Justin

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 George Scott to put your question on food and sensible eating to Dorothy Hollingsworth , Director, British Food Foundation
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

Unknown:
George Scott
Unknown:
Dorothy Hollingsworth
Producer:
Walter Wallich

The young American beauty who became the first woman to take her seat in Parliament ... A woman devoutly religious, extremely worldly, a fanatical teetotaller, contemptuous of snobs, indefatigable hostess to the eminent in politics and letters. A woman, above all, who wounded cruelly those she loved most deeply, numbering herself among her victims.
Gary Watson introduces a radio portrait written by DOROTHY BAKER and based on the recent biography by CHRISTOPHER SYKES
Irene Worth as Nancy Joseph O'Conor as Shaw With MARGARET ROBERTSON
HAYDN JONES , JOHN ROWE and MANNING WILSON ProducerHELEN FRY

Contributors

Introduces:
Gary Watson
Written By:
Dorothy Baker
Unknown:
Christopher Sykes
Unknown:
Irene Worth
Unknown:
Nancy Joseph O'Conor
Unknown:
Margaret Robertson
Unknown:
Haydn Jones
Unknown:
John Rowe
Unknown:
Manning Wilson
Producer:
Helen Fry

Two programmes about the way doctors see their patients 2: More a refuge than a remedy A medical consultant in a hospital in the Home Counties talks about what he hopes to do for the patients who come under his care. He believes that medicine is strictly limited in what it can achieve, and that for many patients a stay in hospital is simply a refuge from outside life.
Introduced by JUNE ROSE Producer MICHAEL TOTTON
9.59 Weather

Contributors

Introduced By:
June Rose
Producer:
Michael Totton

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More