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The world this morning introduced by John Timpson and Robert Robinson
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

Contributors

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

A weekly series of Interesting and unusual nuggets from the BBC Sound Archives. I Served a Maharajah
This week Sir Conrad Corfield speaks of the two years he spent in the service of a Maharajah and of the unique problems and diversions in His Highness's state.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Conrad Corfield

11.0 Movement and Music 1 by PENNY WHITTAM
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.55 am)
11.20 Music Club presented by GARY TAYLOR
11.40 Religion and Life
MICHAEL SHARPE visits St Albans in search of Britain's religious culture. (VI Form series)

Contributors

Presented By:
Gary Taylor
Unknown:
St Albans

starring Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler in Under the Weather
MILDRED: Something puzzles me, sir. It's officially a drought, but we've had lots of rain.
LENNOX-BROWN: Never mind the rain. Mildred. If the Met Office computer says it's a drought, then a drought it is. with NORMA RONALD
RONALD BADDILEY , JOHN GRAHAM Written by EDWARD TAYLOR and JOHN GRAHAM
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(Repeated: Thursday. 6.15 pm)
12.55 medium trace only
Weather, programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Murdoch
Unknown:
Deryck Guyler
Unknown:
Norma Ronald
Unknown:
Ronald Baddiley
Unknown:
John Graham
Written By:
Edward Taylor
Written By:
John Graham
Producer:
Edward Taylor

I couldn'do any work, so the justification for going and living alone had been taken away. All you were going to bring out was just a man alive ifyoumanagedtodothat,and it simply didn'seem worth it In conversation with ANNE SHARPLEY and BRIAN GROOM -BRIDGE, Duncan Carse tells of his ordeal alone in Antarctica when a well-planned expedition met unexpected hazards. (BBC Sound Archive recording) (Repeated: Thursday, 9.35 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Groom
Unknown:
Duncan Carse

The novel by HENRY JAMES adapted in five parts by DONALD MCWHINNIE and FRANK HAUSER Part 5
Pianist WINIFRED DAVEY Producer BETTY DAVIES
(Gary Bond is in ' Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat ' at the Albery Theatre, London)

Contributors

Novel By:
Henry James
Unknown:
Donald McWhinnie
Unknown:
Frank Hauser
Pianist:
Winifred Davey
Producer:
Betty Davies
Unknown:
Gary Bond
Gilbert Osmond:
John Carson
Isabel Osmond:
Valerie Colgan
Lord Warburton:
Gary Bond
Pansy Osmond:
Jane Knowles
Henrietta Stackpole:
Toby Robins
Caspar Goodwood:
Stephen Thorne
Ralph Touchett:
Peter Marinker
Countess Gemini:
Diana Olsson
Madame Merle:
Madi Hedd
Mother Catherine:
Nancy Nevinson
Mrs Touchett:
Bessie Love

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Ring Robin Day to put your question on the buildings we live and work in today to architect Richard Seifert. whose high-rise blocks are changing the skylines of our cities.
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:
Richard Seifert.
Producer:
Walter Wallich

The style and atmosphere of life in Britain 70-odd years ago recaptured through the words and music of the Victorians at the turn of the century.
Those who fundamentally change the world are seldom recognised early in the course upon which they are set. But in 1900 a remarkable number had already begun: Marconi, the Wright brothers, Morris, Austin, Keir Hardie, Vladimir llyich Ulyanov (Lenin).
Introduced by Michael Flanders
Research by Leslie Baily
Compiled, written and produced by John Bridges

Contributors

Introduced By:
Michael Flanders
Researcher:
Leslie Baily
Produced By:
John Bridges

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