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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
Regional VHF: see last column

Contributors

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

' Before the break of day '
The first sleepy twitters of the dawn chorus penetrate the darkness, then gradually one bird after another adds its voice to the choir.
BRUCE CAMPBELL follows the sequence of the dawn chorus in a country garden in Oxfordshire.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE
(from Bristol: shortened version of Sunday's broadcast)

Contributors

Unknown:
Bruce Campbell
Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Dilys Breese

9.30 History in Evidence: Stuart Britain: 3: The Trial of Charles I written by Zoe Bailey

9.45 Listening and Reading III: Tuppenny Rush: from "Joby" by Stan Barstow, read by George Layton

9.55 Nous y sommes!
3: Argent de poche pour etudiant written by Ariel Diagre
(IV year French: aged 11-12)

10.5 Poetry Corner
Whistle, daughter, whistle

Contributors

Unknown:
Stuart Britain
Read By:
George Layton
Written By:
Ariel Daigre

10.30 Music Workshop II
Another Shore: a continued story of international relations written by JOHN PARRY and MICHAEL JESSETT
11.0 Inquiry
Unit V: Science in Society 3: Future of life by HARVEY HALL
11.20 Discovery. Prime Movers 3: The Wheel Turns by CHRISTINE WADE
Presented by RICHARD BEBB

Contributors

Written By:
John Parry
Written By:
Michael Jessett
Unknown:
Harvey Hall
Unknown:
Christine Wade
Presented By:
Richard Bebb

Owen Currington has done time for safe-breaking. Now, going straight, he has found another side to his character - as a successful poet.
He talks about his two lives on the right and the wrong side of the law.
Producer MICHELL RAPER
(Repeated: Friday, 2.20 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Owen Currington
Producer:
Michell Raper

2.0Movement. Mime and Muslcl for the 7-9-year-olds by JAMES DODDING
2.211 Books. Plays. Poems A Man in his Time
The Face of Time: a programme of poetry and jazz with VERNON SCANNELL and the MICHAEL GARRICK TRIO
2.45 Nature. Grasshoppers written and presented by JOHN SANKEY

Contributors

Unknown:
James Dodding
Unknown:
Vernon Scannell
Unknown:
Michael Garrick
Presented By:
John Sankey

The Queen Pawn Gambit by KEN METHOLD
Jeffrey Hardy finds that although there may be room at the top, it's sometimes very hard to get there. He tries out a scheme that is guaranteed to ease his path - at least, that was the intention....
Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING

Contributors

Unknown:
Ken Methold
Unknown:
Jeffrey Hardy
Producer:
Christopher Venning
Jeffrey Hardy:
Basil Moss
Edward Bates:
Michael Shannon
Marion Simpson:
Nicolette McKenzie
Malcolm MacDuncan:
Fraser Kerb
Sir William MacDuncan:
Nigel Graham
Betty:
Chrissy Iddon
Mary:
Sandra Clark
Mr Johnson:
Tony McEwan
Waiter:
Steven Dawson
Operator:
Bonnie Hurren

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

Contributors

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

Three Love Stories by RUDYARD KIPLING adapted by A. R. RAWLINSON 2: Love 0' Women with David Spenser , Hugh Dickson and Kevin Flood
1 The first horror and confusion of the murder were over before I arrived. There only remained on the barrack square the blood of a man, dried by the heat.'
An Army cantonment in India in the 1890s.
Producer JOHN TYDEMAN
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.0 pm)

Contributors

Adapted By:
A. R. Rawlinson
Unknown:
David Spenser
Unknown:
Hugh Dickson
Producer:
John Tydeman
Rudyard Kipling:
David Spenser
Pte Ortheris:
Anthony Hall
Pte Mulvaney:
Kevin Flood
Pte Tighe:
Hugh Dickson
Capt Crook:
Robin Browne
Subaltern:
Sam Dastor
Dr Lowndes:
Rolf Lefebvre
Orderly:
Nigel Anthony
Dinah:
Hilda Schroder
Egypt:
Sheila Grant

London v Dublin London:
Anthony Quinton (chairman) with Irene Thomas
Professor John Mays Dublin:
Jack Longland (chairman) with Brian Callinan Irwin Stewart
Producer TREVOR HILL

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Quinton
Unknown:
Irene Thomas
Unknown:
John Mays
Unknown:
Jack Longland
Unknown:
Brian Callinan
Unknown:
Irwin Stewart
Producer:
Trevor Hill

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