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The world this morning introduced by Robert Robinson and John Timpson
6.50 medium wave Travel news. What's on, and Keep Fit with EILEEN FOWLER
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 medium wave Travel news
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 last column

Contributors

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

'More beautiful than Her Majesty's far-famed jewels..., ' That's the reaction of a Victorian naturalist, after peering through his microscope at a starfish. Beautiful. yes; but those attractive spines have a function to perform, the arms have a marvellous ability to grow again when damaged, and these delicate-looking creatures can exert a pull of up to 12 Ib when opening up a luckless shellfish.
Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer dilys BREESE (from Bristol: Sunday's broadcast)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Dilys Breese

In a special transatlantic edition Monty Modlyn goes West and turns his eagle eye on the Golden State with the help of the Californian satire group, THE CREDIBILITY GAP.
On the other side of America, Kenneth Robinson dares to walk the streets of New York - and lives to tell the tale. Producer richard GILBERT

Contributors

Unknown:
Monty Modlyn
Unknown:
Kenneth Robinson
Producer:
Richard Gilbert

LONDON STUDIO ORCHESTRA leader REGINALD LEOPOLD conducted by ASHLEY LAWRENCE including movements from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite and music by Leo Norman and Trevor Duncan
ISABEL BEYER and HARVEY DAGUL play piano duets by Weber and FaurS

Contributors

Leader:
Reginald Leopold
Conducted By:
Ashley Lawrence
Music By:
Leo Norman
Music By:
Trevor Duncan
Unknown:
Isabel Beyer
Unknown:
Harvey Dagul

John Dunn introduces holiday programmes for younglisteners
2: Jennings at School by ANTHONY BUCKERIDGE Jennings and the Scientific Frogman
Producer HERBERT SMITH (from Manchester)
(Tomorrow: Time Well Spent)

Contributors

Introduces:
John Dunn
Unknown:
Anthony Buckeridge
Producer:
Herbert Smith
Jennings:
Mark Hadfield
Darbishire:
Steven Jenkins
Venables:
Nigel Makin
Mr Carter:
John Daglish
Atkinson:
Jeremy Clarkson
Temple:
Jonathan Carp
Mr Wilkins:
Anthony Bucheridge
Headmaster:
David Mahlowe
Dr Hipkin:
Geoffrey Banks

from the TV series based on the characters created by A. J. CRONIN
A Late Spring: written and adapted by DONALD BULL
Broadcast by arrangement with GRAHAM STEWART
Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK
12.55 medium wave Weather, programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
A. J. Cronin
Adapted By:
Donald Bull
Arrangement With:
Graham Stewart
Producer:
Trafford Whitelock
Dr Cameron:
Andrew Cruickshank
Janet:
Barbara Mullen
Dr Finlay:
Bill Simpson
Mr Finlay:
Wilfred Pickles
Alice Perrins:
Madeleine Christie
Mrs Rae:
Marigold Sharman
Clem Perrins:
Ronald Herdman
Maisie:
Christina Gray

BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE CAVANAGH conducted by ALUN FRANCIS
NIGEL COXE (piano)
HENRY KREIN AND HIS QUARTET
Introduced by MARTIN MUNCASTER

Contributors

Leader:
Maurice Cavanagh
Conducted By:
Alun Francis
Piano:
Nigel Coxe
Piano:
Henry Krein
Introduced By:
Martin Muncaster

Freedom of the Vices by BLOKE MODISANE
Make Peme is tried by a ' Kangaroo Court ' in a small African township. The fact that he's an African does not give him the ' Freedom of the Vices '
Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING

Contributors

Unknown:
Bloke Modisane
Producer:
Christopher Venning
Battleship:
Valerie Murray
Nomsa Mapasa:
Taiwo Ajai
Deadwood Dick:
Bloke Modisane
Pontiac Mick:
Alton Kumalo
Kalif:
Leslie Rainey
Make Peme:
Willie Jonah

A Bit of a Writer by JAMES MCMANUS with ' When my father died, I was not there. I've tried to write about him several times.... he was a writer too ...' , It'll never come out the way you want it to - not with all the love in the world.'
Producer GLYN DEARMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
James McManus
Producer:
Glyn Dearman
John:
James McManus
Mum:
Valerie Lush
Dad:
Peter Tuddenham
Soldier:
Brian Haines
Best Man:
Fraser Kerr

by Margaret Forster: abridged in 13 parts by Madge Hart
Read by Mary Wimbush

Miss Owen-Owen has been appointed Headmistress of Seacrill Girls' High School and is dedicated to its total modernisation; but her brilliance and energy promise to win her more enemies than friends an she attacks her chosen work.

Contributors

Author:
Margaret Forster
Abridger:
Madge Hart
Reader:
Mary Wimbush
Producer:
Margaret Etall

3: Wage Differentials
Some regard them as a vital economic incentive, others as an instrument for perpetuating economic inequality. What part do they play in promoting Inflation?
The BBC's Industrial Correspondent IAN ROSS talks tO DEREK GLADWIN, Southern Regional Secretary of the General and Municipal Workers Union, and HARRY URWIN , Assistant General. Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union.

Contributors

Talks:
Ian Ross
Unknown:
Harry Urwin

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