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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 GEORGE TAHGET
7.5* Travel news
7.55 Weather, programme newt
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

10.30 Art and Experience
Robbe-Grillet: a critical study of the novelist and film-maker by STUART EVANS. Series edited and produced by STUART EVANS
11.0 Time and Tune
28: British Wildlife and Conservation Concert. Written and produced by DOUGLAS cooubes
11.20 Man
8: Your work and ideas Narrator BARRY FOSTER Producer DAVID LYTTLE
11.40 Geography
Sri Lanka by MICHAEL PICKSTOCK Producer ALEX HUNTER

Contributors

Unknown:
Stuart Evans.
Produced By:
Stuart Evans
Produced By:
Douglas Cooubes
Narrator:
Barry Foster
Producer:
David Lyttle
Unknown:
Michael Pickstock
Producer:
Alex Hunter

Presenter Derek Cooper Health and Welfare
Male, Female or ... ?: OLGA FRANKLIN watches chickens being caponised. Good farming, maybe, but what is the effect on our health?
With other items and your letters in What's On Your MindT

Contributors

Presenter:
Derek Cooper
Unknown:
Olga Franklin

with Kenneth Williams
Richard Caldicot as Sir Charles Prattle
Josephine Tewson as Malsle Aubrey Woods as Big Brother Caroline Blakiston as Miss Gibbs Leslie Heritage as Tomkins John Hollis as Olaf in Fife Graves to Westminster
Big Brother strikes at the very heart of the country - the Palace of Westminster no less. The spirit of Guy Fawkes stirs again. Will Kenneth Williams live to see the green fields of King's Cross again?
Script by R. D. WINGFIELD Producer KEITH WILLIAMS
(Richard Caldicot is 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:
Malsle Aubrey Woods
Unknown:
Caroline Blakiston
Unknown:
Miss Gibbs Leslie Heritage
Unknown:
Tomkins John Hollis
Unknown:
Fife Graves
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Script By:
R. D. Wingfield
Producer:
Keith Williams

2.0 Living Language - Writing by Listeners
Poems written by listeners to Living Language, selected and presented by ELIZABETH GRUGEON
2.20 Movement and Music II by JAMES DODDING
2.40 Life Cycle.
Feedback: answers to questions asked by children who have listened to the series. Presented by ALAN BARRY Producer ARTHUR VIALLS

Contributors

Presented By:
Elizabeth Grugeon
Unknown:
James Dodding
Presented By:
Alan Barry
Producer:
Arthur Vialls

by P.G. Wodehouse
starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves and Richard Briers as Bertie Wooster
with Denise Bryer as Blumenfield Jr., Robin Browne as Blumenfield, Haydn Jones as George Caffyn and this week's guest Peter Jones as Cyril Bassington-Bassington.
Adapted by Chris Miller from the book "The Inimitable Jeeves".

Contributors

Author:
P.G. Wodehouse
Adapter:
Chris Miller
Pianist:
John Gould
Producer:
David Hatch
Jeeves:
Michael Hordern
Bertie Wooster:
Richard Briers
Blumenfield Jnr.:
Denise Bryer
Blumenfield:
Robin Browne
George Caffyn:
Haydn Jones
Cyril Bassington-Bassington:
Peter Jones

A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion heard In last Friday's Any Questionst Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD
(Repeated: Friday, 4.0 pm)
Write to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Introduced By:
David Jacobs
Producer:
Roy Hayward

A portrait of Lady Ottoline Morrell, born 100 years ago this month.
Ottoline was a mass of splendid materials - paint, powder, pearls and great nodding plumes ' - eccentric and magnificent, her literary salons were legendary in her lifetime. She entertained such eminent figures as W. B. Yeats. T. S. Eliot , Henry James. Aldous Huxley , Bertrand Russell, D. H. Lawrence , Augustus John , and many more. and here she is affectionately recalled by some of the people who attended those salons, including: DILYS POWELL
PROFESSOR QUENTIN BELL
ROSAMOND LEHMANN , JOHN LEHMANN WILLIAM PLOMER and Lady Ottoline's daughter JULIAN VINOGRADOFF with readings by GARARD GREEN
Compiled and narrated by DEREK PARKER
Producer MIRIAM RAPP

Contributors

Unknown:
B. Yeats.
Unknown:
T. S. Eliot
Unknown:
Henry James.
Unknown:
Aldous Huxley
Unknown:
D. H. Lawrence
Unknown:
Augustus John
Unknown:
Dilys Powell
Unknown:
Professor Quentin Bell
Unknown:
Rosamond Lehmann
Unknown:
John Lehmann
Unknown:
William Plomer
Unknown:
Julian Vinogradoff
Unknown:
Derek Parker
Producer:
Miriam Rapp

Security is Development
Robert S. McNamara. President of the World Bank Group, in conversation with IAN MCINTYRE about the main problems and policy issues faced by the Bank in its various fields of operation.
Producer ANTHONY RENDELL
9.29 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert S. McNamara.
Unknown:
Ian McIntyre
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 Ranald Harwood

Contributors

Unknown:
Ranald Harwood

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