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The world this morning introduced by Mary Marquis 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
Deputy editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE Editor MARSHALL STEWART
Regional VHF: see Variation*

Contributors

Introduced By:
Mary Marquis
Introduced By:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler
Editor:
Alastair Osborne
Editor:
Marshall Stewart

9.5 Frisch Begonnen ... German for Beginners
20: Das Fernsehinterview written by STEPHEN KANOCZ
(a radiovision programme recorded in collaboration with West German Radio)
9.30 Foreign Correspondent
9.45 Music Workshop: Stage I Aesop: play by WILLIAM MURPHY , with music arranged by IAN HUMPHRIS with JOHN BADDELEY as Aesop Producer DAVID LYTTLE

Contributors

Unknown:
Frisch Begonnen
Unknown:
Das Fernsehinterview
Written By:
Stephen Kanocz
Play By:
William Murphy
Arranged By:
Ian Humphris
Unknown:
John Baddeley
Producer:
David Lyttle

10.30 Voix de France. French VI. 20: Les transports en
France. Compiled by GEOFFREY BRAITHWAITE
10.50 A Corner for Music by ALBERT CHATTERLEY. Dawn
11.0 Quest. A place for joy by JAMES DODDING
Producer MICHAEL ROLFE
11.20 Listening and Writing
All Kinds of Life: writing by listeners, compiled by DAVID KERRISON
11.40 Prospect. Current Affairs

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Braithwaite
Music By:
Albert Chatterley.
Unknown:
James Dodding
Producer:
Michael Rolfe
Unknown:
David Kerrison

Presented by Nigel Murphy You and the Law
Whose Welfare? LAURIE SAPPER concludes his series about the Welfare State benefits to which you may be entitled. Today he considers benefits for widows. With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Editor DENNIS LOWER
VHF South West: see Variations

Contributors

Presented By:
Nigel Murphy
Unknown:
Laurie Sapper

2.6 Let's Join In
The Bells that lost their chime by IRENE PEARL
2.20 Christian Focus
The Future? by PADDY FEENT Producer GEOFFREY CURTIS
2.35 Interlude
2.40 Guitar School
30: edited and produced by DOUGLAS COOMBES

Contributors

Unknown:
Paddy Feent
Producer:
Geoffrey Curtis
Produced By:
Douglas Coombes

Selected /or Friday Two Tudor Stories
2: A Knot of Secret Might
The ill-fated love story of Lady Katherine Grey , sister of the even more ill-fated Lady Jane Grey.
Compiled from contemporary sources by ALISON PLOWDEN
Producer RICHARD WORTLEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Katherine Grey
Unknown:
Lady Jane Grey.
Unknown:
Alison Plowden
Producer:
Richard Wortley
Narrator:
Stephen Thorne
Katherine Grey:
Nerys Hughes
Hertford:
Sean Arnold
Queen Elizabeth:
Madi Hedd
William Cecil:
Rolf Lefebvre
Sir Edward Warner:
James Thomason
Jane Grey:
Elizabeth Proud
De Feria:
Walter Hall
Thomas Challoner:
Charles E. Stidwill
Quadra:
Garard Green
Soranzo:
Godfrey Kenton
John Grey:
Hector Ross

Th2 news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle with PM's reporting team Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50 Stock Market report
VHF: Regional news, weather
5.55 Weather, programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
William Hardcastle
Editor:
Derek Lewis
Editor:
Andrew Boyle

A spontaneous discussion by Lord Hill
Sir Edwin Leather
Shirley Williams , mp John Cole
Chairman David Jacobs Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Bletchley, Bucks
(Repeated: Saturday. 1.15 pm) Listeners' views for use in Any Answers?, should be addressed to Any Answers?, BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Edwin Leather
Unknown:
Shirley Williams
Unknown:
John Cole
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Producer:
Michael Bowen

The Contingencies of Life Presented by Colin Jones
Who should provide the remedies for life's mishaps? Insurance companies do it - at a price; the courts do it-when they can fix the blame. But should the Government step in and shift the frontier between state and commerical insurance? Speakers include:
HUGHCOCKERELL, SIR BENRY MANCE PROFESSOR GEOFFREY PALMER PROFESSOR HARRY STREET Producer ROLAND CHALLIS
(Analysis will be back on Thursday, 3 May, at 8.45 pm)
9.59 Weather

Contributors

Presented By:
Colin Jones
Unknown:
Sir Benry Mance
Unknown:
Professor Geoffrey Palmer
Producer:
Roland Challis

DAVID JASON , BILL WALLIS NIGEL REES and BILL MCGUFFIE at the piano take a late night look back over the week's news and illustrate the funny side. Script by PETER SPENCE and CHRIS MILLER
Producers SIMON BRETT and JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
(David Jason is in ' No Sex Please ... We're British ' at the Strand Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jason
Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
Nigel Rees
Unknown:
Bill McGuffie
Script By:
Peter Spence
Script By:
Chris Miller
Producers:
Simon Brett
Unknown:
John Fawcett Wilson
Unknown:
David Jason

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