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The world this morning introduced by John Timpsoa and Douglas Cameron
6.50
Travel news, What's on, and Keep Fit with EILEEN FOWLER
S.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 Timpsoa
Introduced By:
Douglas Cameron
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler

9.30 Foreign Correspondent
A weekly study of a topic of international significance presented by ALAN EREIRA
9.45 Music Workshop I
Colour me Cornwall: introduction to a contemporary ghost story. Libretto by PETER PORTER. Music composed and arranged by GORDON KEMBER
Scripts by WILLIAM MURPHY

Contributors

Presented By:
Alan Ereira
Unknown:
Peter Porter.
Arranged By:
Gordon Kember
Unknown:
William Murphy

10.39 Unos minutos nada mil 13: Qué bien anda el coche! written by HARRY LAWSON
14: La senorita Julia encuentra habitaci6n written by ROBERT p. CLARKE
(For secondary school pupils in their third year of Spanish)
10.5* A Corner for Music by ALBERT CHATTERLEY
Music for dancing shoes

Contributors

Written By:
Harry Lawson
Written By:
Robert P. Clarke
Music By:
Albert Chatterley

in conversation with DENNIS GOODWIN
When the veteran American entertainer bought a Stradivarius he told a famous concert violinist on his television show, If this is not a Strad, then I'm out$110.'
JACK BENNY takes time out from his concert tour of Britain to give one of his rare interviews, in the vain hope of recovering a little of his money! Producer JOHN KNIGHT (Jack Benny is in ' The Jack Benny Show ')

Contributors

Unknown:
Dennis Goodwin
Unknown:
Jack Benny
Unknown:
Jack Benny
Unknown:
Jack Benny Show

Presenter Nigel Murphy You and the Law
The Law Society: a Trade Union for Solicitors, or an organisation to protect the public? Can the Society do both jobs successfully?
FRANCES BERTHELSEN reports

Contributors

Presenter:
Nigel Murphy
Unknown:
Frances Berthelsen

by Barry Hines
Selected for Friday

'Let's get this straight once and for all. I'm holding this shovel, they've employed me to do the job and they're paying me when it's done. I've got a job and you haven't. I'm working and you're watching; and now you're offering me a partnership in my own job.'
With Arthur Lowe as Billy and Ronald Baddiley as Darkly
(from Leeds)

Contributors

Writer:
Barry Hines
Producer:
Alfred Bradley
Billy:
Arthur Lowe
Darkly:
Ronald Baddiley

A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain.
Chairman ROBERT Robinson Second Round
5: North of England
Including Beat the Brains
Questions set and programme devised by JOHN p. WYNN Producer MARTIN FISHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Producer:
Martin Fisher

A spontaneous discussion by Rt Hon Denis Healey. MP
Peter Kirk , kip, Antony Hopkims Jacky Gillott
Chairman David Jacobs Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Ludlow. Shropshire
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers! should be addressed to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Unknown:
Denis Healey.
Unknown:
Peter Kirk
Unknown:
Antony Hopkims
Unknown:
Jacky Gillott
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Producer:
Michael Bowen

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 Peter France.
With at 18.45 Week Ending ...
DAVID JASON , BILL WALLIS NIGEL REES and BILL MCGUFFIE at the piano take a late night look back over the week's news and illustrate the funny side. Script by CHRIS MILLER and FRED METCALF
Producers DAVID HATCH and BOB OLIVER ROGERS
(David Jason is in 'No Sex, Please - We're British' at the Strand Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter France
Unknown:
David Jason
Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
Nigel Rees
Unknown:
Bill McGuffie
Script:
Chris Miller
Script:
Fred Metcalf
Producer:
David Hatch
Producer:
Bob Oliver Rogers

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