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The world this morning: what Britain's getting up to. plus the news from anywhere on earth 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 7.35* Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day All this week:
DAVID SCOTT BLACKHALL
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
Deputy editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE Editor MARSHALL STEWART
Regional VHF: see last column

Contributors

Introduced By:
Robert Robinson
Introduced By:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler
Unknown:
David Scott Blackhall
Editor:
Alastair Osborne
Editor:
Marshall Stewart

Aided by Linda Blandford , Harriet Crawley , Lance Perci. val. Kenneth Robinson , Fritz Spiegl and other Monday morning regulars, he takes a lively look round and meets surprise guests for whom this week promises to be special.
Producers LYN MACDONALD and RITCHIE COGAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Linda Blandford
Unknown:
Harriet Crawley
Unknown:
Lance Perci.
Unknown:
Kenneth Robinson
Unknown:
Fritz Spiegl
Producers:
Lyn MacDonald
Producers:
Ritchie Cogan

Do birds ever get drunk? Why do animals' eyes shine in the dark? How can a fly recover after being frozen in an ice cube?
Every week piles of intriguing questions like this pour into The Living World office. So far there's only been time to answer a few of them on the air, but now the panel of experts is meeting once a week to discuss wildlife subjects suggested by you.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE (from Bristol)
Questions to Wildlife, BBC Bristol BS8 2LR.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Dilys Breese

Cambridge and wanders round the university town remembering his student days there 45 years ago.
He recalls the music he first heard there and introduces recordings of his distinguished contemporaries including: ALISTAIR COOKE , LORD SOPER and KENNETH ADAM
Producer HELEN FRY

Contributors

Unknown:
Alistair Cooke
Unknown:
Kenneth Adam
Producer:
Helen Fry

Presenter Jeanine McMullen Work and Money
Cremation - the financial background: by FRANCES BERTHELSEN. Moving with the Job: a case-study by MIKE HARTLEY-BREWER . With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Editor DENNIS LOWER

Contributors

Presenter:
Jeanine McMullen
Unknown:
Frances Berthelsen.
Unknown:
Mike Hartley-Brewer

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two
2.0-2.2 News
' Except as a little child words misheard are sweeter.
' We thought she'd ruined her life': a father's reaction to his unmarried daughter's pregnancy.
Leisure and Pleasure: pursuits, entertainments and places to go.
MONICA GREY reads
In a Summer Season by ELIZABETH TAYLOR (4)
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWLES

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Elizabeth Taylor
Editor:
Teresa McGonagle
Editor:
Wyn Knowles

Little Big Man
The novel by THOMAS BERGER abridged in ten parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by Bob Sherman
There was a man, born white, brought up Cheyenne, who lived through Custer's Last Stand. Well, so he said ... 1: Whisky and Indians Producer TONY CLIFF (from Leeds)

Contributors

Novel By:
Thomas Berger
Unknown:
Donald Bancroft
Read By:
Bob Sherman

The news magazine: presented by Michael Cooke with PM's reporting team Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50 Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
Michael Cooke
Editor:
Derek Lewis
Editor:
Andrew Boyle

The antidote to panel games from Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie under the supervision of Humphrey Lyttelton in the chair and Dave Lee at the piano.
(Repeated: Wed, 12.27 pm)
Tim, Graeme and Bill (above) - The Goodies again: Thurs BBC1

Contributors

Panellist:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Panellist:
Barry Cryer
Panellist:
Graeme Garden
Panellist:
Bill Oddie
Chairman:
Humphrey Lyttelton
Pianist:
Dave Lee
Producer:
John Cassels

Dame Flora Robson discusses with DEREK JONES her interest in wildlife and the countryside, and chooses some wildlife recordings from the BBC Sound Archives.
Producer JOHN BURTON (from Bristol)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dame Flora Robson
Unknown:
Derek Jones
Producer:
John Burton

Oil and Water by CECIL P. TAYLOR
'He's like his parents. They live like hermits. You want to know whose fault it is, he doesn'mix with Jewish people? I'll tell you: his mother and father's. The only Jews that come to this house are relations and communists.
Producer STEWART CONN (from Glasgow)

Contributors

Unknown:
Cecil P. Taylor
Producer:
Stewart Conn
David Kaplan:
Christopher Connor
Max, his father:
Malcolm Hayes
Fay his mother:
Ida Schuster
Joseph, his grandfather:
John Barrard
Joyce:
Kate Stark

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 Angela Huth
Producers this week
MICHAEL BRIGHT, ROSEMARY HART JOY HATWOOD, LOUISE PURSLOW

Contributors

Unknown:
Angela Huth
Unknown:
Rosemary Hart
Unknown:
Louise Purslow

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