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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

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

10.30 Art and Experience
The Commonplace and the Remarkable: compiled by STUART EVANS
11.9 Time and Tune
24: presented by JOHN CAMBURN
11.20 Man. 4: In the village by MARGERY MORRIS
Narrator BARRY FOSTER
11.40 Geography
Nigeria - oil, by PADDY FEENY

Contributors

Unknown:
Stuart Evans
Presented By:
John Camburn
Narrator:
Margery Morris
Unknown:
Paddy Feeny

Presenter George Luce Health and Welfare
Petit Mal and Grand Mal: MARGARET HOWARD enquires into epilepsy - a handicap suffered by, among others, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Tchaikovsky.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Howard
Unknown:
Julius Caesar

with Kenneth Williams
Richard Caldicot as Sir Charles Prattle
Josephine Tewson as Maisie Aubrey Woods as Big Brother Caroline Blakiston as Miss Gibbs Leslie Heritage as Tomkins Treachery in High Places
Top people inexplicably turning traitor -and always after a stay at a particular Health Farm. Can Sir Charles withstand whatever evil influence is at work? Can Kenneth withstand 'the treatment in order to find out?
Other parts JOHN HOLLIS
KATE BINCHY , DAVID GOODERSON Script by R. D. WINGFIELD Producer KEITH WILLIAMS
(Kenneth Williams is in My Fat Friend' at the Globe; Richard Caldicot in ' No Sex, Please - We're British ' at the Strand Theatre, London)
12.55
Weather, programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Richard Caldicot
Unknown:
Sir Charles Prattle
Unknown:
Josephine Tewson
Unknown:
Maisie Aubrey Woods
Unknown:
Caroline Blakiston
Unknown:
Miss Gibbs Leslie Heritage
Unknown:
John Hollis
Unknown:
Kate Binchy
Unknown:
David Gooderson
Script By:
R. D. Wingfield
Producer:
Keith Williams
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams

2.Living Language
Many Moods: a unit of three poetry programmes arranged by DAVID GRUGEON and ELIZABETH GRUGEON 3: Summer and Sea
Producer JOAN GRIFFITHS
2.20 Movement and Music II by JAMES DOOOING
2.40 Life Cycle. Bricks and mortar, by LEWIS JONES
Presented by ALAN BARRY

Contributors

Arranged By:
David Grugeon
Unknown:
Elizabeth Grugeon
Producer:
Joan Griffiths
Unknown:
James Doooing
Presented By:
Alan Barry

starring Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler in Monkey Business
LAMB: We mustn'fall out, even if we have both applied for the same post. Let's just say ' May the best man win! '
LENNOX-BROWN: Quite. And when I've got the job, I'll still talk to you.
With NORMA RONALD
RONALD BADDILEY , JOHN GRAHAM Written by EDWARD TAYLOR and JOHN GRAHAM
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR

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

(Repeated: Friday, 1.30 pm)

Contributors

Written By:
Brian Hayles
Dan Archer:
Edgar Harrison
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Laura Archer:
Gwenda Wilson
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
John Tregorran:
Philip Morant
Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Nora McAuley:
Julia Mark
Zebedee Tring:
Graham Rigby
Martha Woodford:
Mollie Harris
Joby Woodford:
George Woolley
Joe Grundy:
Reg Johnston
Haydn Evans:
Charles Williams
Neil Carter:
Brian Hewlett

Winston Churchill was a prodigious letter-writer even from his earliest days. This first of four programmes follows his life through his letters from his schooldays to his arrival at Sandhurst as a cavalry cadet. with Clive Swift as Winston Valerie Colgan as Lady Randolph Churchill Gabriel Woolf as Narrator
Other parts by SANDRA CLARK and WILLIAM SLEIGH
Compiled and produced by ROBERT CRADOCK from the book Winston S. Churchill by RANDOLPH CHURCHILL and MARTIN GILBERT

Contributors

Unknown:
Winston Churchill
Unknown:
Clive Swift
Unknown:
Winston Valerie Colgan
Unknown:
Lady Randolph Churchill
Unknown:
Gabriel Woolf
Unknown:
Sandra Clark
Unknown:
William Sleigh
Produced By:
Robert Cradock
Unknown:
Winston S. Churchill
Unknown:
Randolph Churchill
Unknown:
Martin Gilbert

A Charter for Trade
Sir Alec Cairncross , Master of St Peter's College, Oxford, discusses the future balance of trade between the major blocs of the Free World with: DR PAUL MCCRACKEN , former chairman of President Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers; RT HON SIR CHRISTOPHER SOAMES , Vice-President of the EEC Commission for External Affairs; J. ROBERT SCHAETZEL. former US Ambassador to the European Communities. Producer ROLAND CHALLIS
9.29 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Alec Cairncross
Unknown:
Dr Paul McCracken
Unknown:
Sir Christopher Soames
Unknown:
J. Robert Schaetzel.
Producer:
Roland Challis

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