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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
Sartre: a critical study of the novelist and playwright by GEOFFREY BRAITHWAITE
11.0 Time and Tune
27: Introduced by JOHN CAMBURN
11.29 Man. 7: Story of Gandhi by MARGERY MORRIS
Narrator BARRY FOSTER
11.40 Geography Bangladesh -jute by ABID HUSSEIN
Producer GARRY lyli

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Braithwaite
Introduced By:
John Camburn
Narrator:
Margery Morris
Unknown:
Abid Hussein
Producer:
Garry Lyli

with Kenneth Williams Richard Caldicot as Sir Charles Prattle
Josephine Tewson as Maisie Aubrey Woods as Big Brotner. Caroline Blakiston as Miss Gibbs Leslie Heritage as Tomkins John Hollis as Olaf
In The Phantom Train of Loch McDoom
Folks do say that on a certain night each year the ghostly train from Inverhaggis thunders through Loch McDoom with a skeleton driver at the controls. Can it be true?
Other parts 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 newt

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:
Tomkins John Hollis
Unknown:
Loch McDoom
Script By:
R. D. Wingfield
Producer:
Keith Williams
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams

2.0 Living Language Marianne Dreams - 3 by CATHERINE STORR adapted by SAM LANGDON
Producer RICHARD WORTLEY
2.20 Movement and Music II by JAMES DODDING
2.40 Life Cycle. More than survival, by LEWIS JONES

Contributors

Unknown:
Catherine Storr
Adapted By:
Sam Langdon
Producer:
Richard Wortley
Unknown:
James Dodding
Unknown:
Lewis Jones

for the Feast of Corpus Christi from The Convent of Mercy Chapel, Thornhill, County Londonderry
Celebrant and Preacher:
FR VINCENT MULVEY
Music: Sean O'Riada 's Gaelic Mass; St Patrick's Breastplate; Be thou my vision
Readings: Exodus 24, vv 3-8; Hebrews 9, vv 11-15; Mark 14, v 12 and 16, vv 22-26
Organist and Choirmistresi MAUREEN HUNT
Mass introduced by FR JOHN THOMPSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Fr Vincent Mulvey
Music:
Sean O'Riada
Unknown:
Maureen Hunt
Introduced By:
Fr John Thompson

by P. G. Wodehouse
starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves and Richard Briers as Bertie Wooster
with Jonathan Cecil as Bingo Little, Joan Sanderson as Aunt Agatha, James Villiers as Lord Rainsby, Miriam Margolyes as Honoria Glossop, Denise Bryer as Oswald and Daphne Braythwayt, and this week's guest Andrew Cruickshank as Sir Roderick Glossop
Adapted by Chris Miller from the book "The Inimitable Jeeves"

(James Villiers is in "Private Lives" at the Queen's Theatre, London.)

Contributors

Author:
P.G. Wodehouse
Adapted by:
Chris Miller
Producer:
David Hatch
Jeeves:
Michael Hordern
Bertie Wooster:
Richard Briers
Bingo Little:
Jonathan Cecil
Aunt Agatha:
Joan Sanderson
Lord Rainsby:
James Villiers
Honoria Glossop:
Miriam Margolyes
Daphne Braythwayt:
Denise Bryer
Sir Roderick Glossop:
Andrew Cruickshank
Other parts:
Brian Haines

Contributors

Written By:
Bruno Milna
Dan Archer:
Edgar Harrison
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Lilian:
Elizabeth Marlowe
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Shula Archer:
Judy Bennett
Laura Archer:
Gwenda Wilson
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Carol Tregorran:
Anne Cullen
John Tregorran:
Philip Morant
Jack Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Nora McAuley:
Julia Mark
Martha Woodford:
Mollie Harris
Gordon Armstrong:
Gordon Gardner
Haydn Evans:
Charles Williams
Neil Carter:
Brian Hewlett

A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion heard in last Friday's Any Questions/ Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD
Write to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Introduced By:
David Jacobs
Producer:
Roy Hayward

President of the United States Before the Senate on Impeachment by The House of Representatives for High Crimes and Misdemeanors
Andrew Johnson 's impeachment in 1868 is unique in American history. It was a bitter and dramatic episode In the protracted struggle between Congress and President which formed the aftermath to the Civil War.
Written by KEITH HINDELL with PETER ELLIOT , JOHN FORREST HAL GALILI , BRIAN HAINES
ANTHONY JACKSON , HAYDN JONES GEOFFREY MATTHEWS
ESMOND RIDEOUT , ROY STEPHENS
STEPHEN THORNE , MANNING WILSON Producer BRIAN MILLER (from Bristol)

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Johnson
Written By:
Keith Hindell
Unknown:
Peter Elliot
Unknown:
John Forrest
Unknown:
Hal Galili
Unknown:
Brian Haines
Unknown:
Anthony Jackson
Unknown:
Haydn Jones
Unknown:
Geoffrey Matthews
Unknown:
Esmond Rideout
Unknown:
Roy Stephens
Unknown:
Stephen Thorne
Unknown:
Manning Wilson
Producer:
Brian Miller

The True Babel
Scandal is one of the oldest ills the body politic is heir to. When it erupts, some people are confirmed in their view of politicians and others in their view of human nature.
Was Robert Louis Stevenson right when he said ' the true Babel is a divergence upon morals '? What do we mean by public morality, and how free are our attitudes of humbug?
Analysis examines some of the implications of recent events on both sides of the Atlantic in a discussion between
CLAUDE BOURDET , French writer and politician
DUANE LOCKARD , Professor of Politics, Princeton
JOHN SPARROW, Warden of All Souls College, Oxford
Chairman Ian Mclntyre
Producer ANTHONY RENDELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Louis Stevenson
Unknown:
Claude Bourdet
Unknown:
Duane Lockard
Unknown:
Ian McLntyre
Producer:
Anthony Rendell

A nightly review of the arts and science
People, ideas, events - opinion and discussion. What's new in theatre, books, cinema, painting, architecture, scientific advance.... Introduced tonight by Ronald Harwood

Contributors

Unknown:
Ronald Harwood

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