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The world this morning introduced by John Timpson and Douglas Cameron
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 TARGET
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:
Douglas Cameron
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler

' One of the most bewildering. daft and stupid things that you were forever being asked as a child was: " What do you want to be ...?"'
Johnny Morris looks at this inescapable choice and tries to solve the problem with the help of the BBC Sound Archives. Producer VANESSA HARRISON

Contributors

Unknown:
Johnny Morris
Producer:
Vanessa Harrison

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: a ghost story set in a Cornish cove and told by PETER PORTER and GORDON KEMBER

Contributors

Presented By:
Alan Ereira
Told By:
Peter Porter

10.30 Unos minutos nada mis 15: Paco y el cubo written by ROBERT p. CLARKE 16: Pepe. ninera written by HARRY LAWSON
(For secondary school pupils in their third year of Spanish)
10.56 A Corner for Music by ALBERT CHATTERLEY The Dancing Shoes

Contributors

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

Selected for Friday A Day Like Sunday by COLIN FINBOW with Robert Hardy and Vivien Merchant
The characters gradually reveal themselves to us, and to themselves, within the framework of a Sunday outing and although we leave them with a question-mark, we know the simple events of the day have changed their lives.
Producer CHARLES LEFEAUX

Contributors

Unknown:
Colin Finbow
Unknown:
Robert Hardy
Producer:
Charles Lefeaux
Alison:
Cherie Lunghi
Arthur, her father:
Robert Hardy
Angela, her mother:
Vivien Merchant
The Boy:
Gerald Rowland
Deckchair-man:
Nigel Clayton

A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain.
Chairman ROBERT ROBINSON
Second Round: featuring each week winners from the first round of the contest.
6: North of Enplandand Scotland HUGH FRASER (Edinburgh) civil servant
NICHOLAS DENNIS (Ayrshire) market researcher
EDWARD BEDDARD (Westmorland) headmaster
Including Beat the Brains
Questions set and programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN Producer MARTIN FISHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Hugh Fraser
Unknown:
Nicholas Dennis
Unknown:
Edward Beddard
Unknown:
John P. Wynn
Producer:
Martin Fisher

A spontaneous discussion by David Benedictus
Viscount Walkinson David Atcenborough Sheila Scott
Chairman David Jacobs Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Nailsea, Somerset
(Repeated: Saturday 1.15 pm) Listeners' views for use in Any Answerst should be addressed to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Unknown:
David Benedictus
Unknown:
Viscount Walkinson
Unknown:
David Atcenborough
Unknown:
Sheila Scott
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Producer:
Michael Bowen

A nightly review of the are and science
People, ideas, events - opinion and discussion. What's new in theatre, books, cinema, painting. architecture, scientific advance ... Introduced tonight by Paul Vaughan. With at
10.45
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
Producer BOB OLIVER ROGERS
(David Jason is in 'No Sex. Please - We're British' at the Strand Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan.
Unknown:
David Jason.
Unknown:
Wallis Nigel Rees
Unknown:
Bill McGuffie
Script By:
Chris Miller
Script By:
Fred Metcalf
Producer:
Bob Oliver Rogers
Unknown:
David Jason

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