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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

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

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

Presenter:
Robert Robinson
Presenter:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler

Talking Point: discussing listeners' queries and comments about wildlife and the country-side. Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE
(from Bristol: shortened version of Sunday's broadcast) Questions to Talking Point, The Living World, BBC, Bristol BoSS 2LR

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Dilys Breese

9.30 History in Evidence Stuart Britain
2: The Siege of Farnham Castle written by HUGH WOODHOUSE Producer DAVID LYTTLE
9.45 Listening and Reading III Melon City: a dervish story adapted by DAVID WADE
9.55 Nous y sommes!
2: Ajoutez un peu de sel written by ARIEL DAIGRE
(IV year French: age 11-12)
10.5 Poetry Corner Fish in the Flood

Contributors

Written By:
Hugh Woodhouse
Producer:
David Lyttle
Adapted By:
David Wade
Written By:
Ariel Daigre

10.30 Music Workshop II
Another Shore: a continued story of international relations by JOHN PARRY and MICHAEL JESSETT
11.0 Inquiry
Unit V: Science in Society
2: Made to kill by IAN SHUREY
11.20 Discovery. Prime movers 2: Watt and the steam engine by ARTHUR VIALLS
Presented by RICHARD BEBB

Contributors

Unknown:
John Parry
Unknown:
Michael Jessett
Unknown:
Ian Shurey
Unknown:
Arthur Vialls
Presented By:
Richard Bebb

Mick McManus , in the world of wrestling, is the equivalent of the pantomime demon king - cunning, malevolent, ruthless and unscrupulous.
He talks to RITA DANDO about the hazards of his profession and why he fosters the image of the man they love to hate. Producer MICHELL RAPER
(Repeated: Friday, 2.20 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Mick McManus
Unknown:
Rita Dando
Producer:
Michell Raper

Presenter Jeanine McMullen Consumer Style
Trimmed or Cut? FRANCES BER THELSEN investigates whether one really gets what one pays for when going to the hairdresser's.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?

Contributors

Presenter:
Jeanine McMullen
Unknown:
Frances Ber

2.0 Movement. Mime and Music I for 'he 7-9-year-olds by JAMES DODDING
2.20 Books, Plays, Poems
A Man in his Time. Marking Time' a programme of poetry and jazz with VERNON SCANNELL and the MICHAEL GARRICK TRIO
2.45 Nature. Starbeasts written by ANTHEA DAVIES
Narrated by GARARD GREEN

Contributors

Unknown:
James Dodding
Unknown:
Vernon Scannell
Unknown:
Michael Garrick
Written By:
Anthea Davies
Unknown:
Garard Green

Square Three by BERYL WHITAKER with Glyn Owen and Katherine Parr
' There's a lot of men like me. Stella - quite conscientious. faithful, fairly hard-working. Only trouble is. we're so bloody bad-tempered from morning to night. we make life hell for everybody around us. Particularly our wives and children. They're so much easier to bully, because the poor fools love us.'
Producer JOHN CARDY

Contributors

Unknown:
Beryl Whitaker
Unknown:
Glyn Owen
Unknown:
Katherine Parr
Producer:
John Cardy
Frank Denton:
Glyn Owen
Stella Denton:
Katherine Parr
Katie Denton:
Julie Hallam
Jake:
William Eedle
Inspector:
Clive Swift
Wally:
David Gooderson
Ricky:
Anthony Hall

Anona Winn. Joy
Adamson Norman Hackforth , Peter Glaze with a mystery guest
DAVID NIXON in the chair Producer JOHN CASSELS
(Repeated: Friday, 12.25 p...-)

Contributors

Unknown:
Anona Winn.
Unknown:
Adamson Norman Hackforth
Unknown:
Peter Glaze
Unknown:
David Nixon
Producer:
John Cassels

by Rudyard Kipling
dramatised by A.R. Rawlinson
with David Spenser and Gary Watson

'It was against every rule and order, for she was a Mussulman's daughter. But for Holden she was the whole world and all that it contained.'
A city in the Punjab in the 1890s.

(Repeated: Thursday, 3.0 pm)

Contributors

Author:
Rudyard Kipling
Dramatist:
A.R. Rawlinson
Producer:
John Tydeman
Rudyard Kipling:
David Spenser
Holden:
Gary Watson
Ameera:
Heather Emmanuel
Ameera's mother:
Zohra Segal
Pir Khan:
Sam Dastor
Club secretary:
William Eedle
First club member:
William Fox
Second club member:
Terry Scully
Butler:
Anthony Hall
Durga Dass:
Garard Green

London v Wales: Round 1

London: Anthony Quinton (chairman) with Irene Thomas, Professor John Mays

Wales: Jack Longland (chairman) with Dr Mostyn Lewis, Fred Nicholls

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Quinton
Unknown:
Irene Thomas
Unknown:
Professor John Mays
Unknown:
Jack Longland
Unknown:
Dr Mostyn Lewis
Unknown:
Fred Nicholls
Producer:
Trevor Hill

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