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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

Contributors

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

The Braidley Bomber by GEOFF PERKINS
Read by Frank Windsor
A new chapter in the saga of the characters around the Chainmakers Arms. Producer DAVID SHUTE (from Birmingham)

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoff Perkins
Read By:
Frank Windsor
Producer:
David Shute

Winston Churchill was a prodigious letter-writer even from his earliest days.
The first of this series of four programmes, now being repeated, 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
Produced By:
Robert Cradock
Unknown:
Winston S. Churchill
Unknown:
Randolph Churchill
Unknown:
Martin Gilbert

A radio happening with Jimmy Edwards. Ted Ray
Arthur Askey. Cardew Robinson In the chair MCDONALD ROBLEY Special guest Rey Plemley
From an idea by JIMMY EDWARDS Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(BroadcastlastDecember: R2)
12.55
Weather, programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Jimmy Edwards.
Unknown:
Ted Ray
Unknown:
Arthur Askey.
Unknown:
Cardew Robinson
Unknown:
Jimmy Edwards
Producer:
Edward Taylor

Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Talk till Two: with DULCIE JONES , SALLY OPFENHEIM , MP, and MARION GIORDAN
2.0-2.2 News
No Two are the Same: GILL PREECE talks to a couple about their mixed marriage.
Parliamentary Notebook: NORMAN SHRAPNEL.
Arts Notebook: a monthly look at work in progress. ALAN BADEL reads
Clash of Generations (4)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Dulcie Jones
Unknown:
Sally Opfenheim
Unknown:
Marion Giordan
Unknown:
Alan Badel

In Confidence by JAMES FAIRFAX
Producer ALFRED BRADLEY (from Leeds)

Contributors

Unknown:
James Fairfax
Producer:
Alfred Bradley
Harry Kingsley, QC:
Geoffrey Banks
Adrian Hull:
Malcolm Terris
Bill Paterson:
Graham Roberts
Gisela Kaye:
Joanna Tope
Patrick Norris:
Peter Wheeler
George Filton:
John Linstrum
Det-Insp Garnett:
Ronald Harvi
Mr Justice Roberts):
Ronald Harvi

by P.G. Wodehouse
starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves and Richard Briers as Bertie Wooster, Jonathan Cecil as Bingo Little, Richard O'Callaghan as Comrade Butt, Ann Davies as Charlotte, Nigel Anthony as Old Rowbotham, other parts Nigel Anthony and this week's guest Ronald Fraser as Lord Bittlesham.
Adapted by Chris Miller from the book "The Inimitable Jeeves".

Contributors

Author:
P.G. Wodehouse
Adapted by:
Chris Miller
Producer:
David Hatch
Jeeves:
Michael Hordern
Bertie Wooster:
Richard Briers
Bingo Little:
Jonathan Cecil
Comrade Butt:
Richard O'Callaghan
Charlotte:
Ann Davies
Old Rowbotham:
Nigel Anthony
Lord Bittlesham:
Ronald Fraser

A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion heard in last Friday's Any Questioner Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD
(Repeated: Friday, 4.5 pm)
Write to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Introduced By:
David Jacobs
Producer:
Roy Hayward

A series of six programmes
1:ThePenkovskyRiddle by CHARLOTTE and DENIS PLIMMER René Cutforth as Narrator and Paul Hardwick as Oleg Penkovsky
' Some disease or Infection Is gnawing and eating at Russia... That is why I am joining the ranks of active fighters for a better future. The leaders of the Soviet State are conscious frovocateurs of an atomic war. must defeat these men. They are destroying the Russian people.' With
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Hardwick
Unknown:
Oleg Penkovsky
Producer:
John Theocharis
Russian Prosecutor:
Michael Kilgarriff
The Judge:
Godfrey Kenton
The Judge:
David Brierley
The Judge:
Sam Dastor
The Judge:
William Eedle
The Judge:
Nicholas Evans
The Judge:
Denis McCarthy
The Judge:
John Samson
The Judge:
Hilda Schroder
The Judge:
William Sleigh

Iceland
The cod war keeps Iceland In the news, but how much do we know about our adversary? Who are the Icelanders? What are their national problems, beliefs, and preoccupations? How do they see themselves, and the rest of the world?
Christopher Serpell has visited Iceland for Analysis.
Producer ANTHONY RENDELL
9.29 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Serpell
Producer:
Anthony Rendell

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