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The world this morning introduced by John Timpson and Michael Clayton
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, FATHER HUBERT RICHARDS visits places of interest in the Holy Land
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

Duced By:
John Timpson
Duced By:
Michael Clayton
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler
Unknown:
Father Hubert Richards
Editor:
Alastair Osborne
Editor:
Marshall Stewart

by Herman Wouk: abridged in 25 parts by Barry Campbell
Read by Peter Marinker

'It was not a mutiny in the old-time sense, of course, with flashing of cutlasses, a captain in chains, and desperate sailors turning outlaws. After all, it happened in 1944 in the United States Navy...'

Contributors

Author:
Herman Wouk
Abridged by:
Barry Campbell
Reader:
Peter Marinker
Producer:
Piers Plowright

Aided by Linda Blandford , Harriet Crawley , Lance Percival, Kenneth Robinson , Fritz Spiegl and other Monday morning regulars, he takes a lively look round and meets surprise guests.
Producers LYN MACDONALD and RITCHIE COGAN

Contributors

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

My cat gets very excited when I play my harmonica or whistle a tune. Do other cats behave this way? Do birds make any use of the combs on their heads? Why do farmers hang moles on barbed wirer
Today the panel of experts will be trying to solve these and other problems posed by you. Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE (from Bristol)
Questions (on a postcard) to Wildlife, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Dilys Breese

The Only Man in his Field by JANE WHITE
Read by David March
' The idea had come quite suddenly. He wanted to do something great, he was restless... who was this visitor, to upset the course of literary history? '

Contributors

Unknown:
Jane White
Read By:
David March

IAN GRIMBLE introduces Sir John Haringlon , one of the brightest adornments of the court of Queen Elizabeth I - when he wasn'banished from it.
But was he too witty for his own good? Was he too clever by half? A man who could invent the water-closet in the 16th century clearly heeded watching.

Contributors

Introduces:
Ian Grimble
Unknown:
Sir John Haringlon

Presenter Joan Yorke Work and Money
What Price Your Insurance Policy.... if you can'keep it up? GEORGE LUCE finds out. With other items and your letters in What's on Your Mind? Editor DENNIS LOWER
Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA

Contributors

Presenter:
Joan Yorke
Unknown:
George Luce

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two
2.0-2.2 News
The Professional Novelist:
MORRIS WEST on the craft of the storyteller.
Reading your letters.
Two and Two make Four - but the teaching is different: PAT BENNETT on maths today. KERRY FRANCIS reads
Sitting Duck by BRYCE FRASER (2) Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWLES

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Pat Bennett
Unknown:
Kerry Francis
Unknown:
Bryce Fraser
Editor:
Teresa McGonagle
Editor:
Wyn Knowles

Duel in the Snow by HANS MEISSNER : abridged for radio in five parts by ARCHIE CAMPBELL
In the summer of 1944 a small group of Japanese guerrillas is dropped into remote Alaska to radio back vital weather data needed for the planning of Japanese bomber strikes.
This novel, based partly on fact, tells of a struggle of men and nature in a war to the death.
Read by Geoffrey Matthews (1) Producer CAROLE STONE (from Bristol)

Contributors

Unknown:
Hans Meissner
Unknown:
Archie Campbell
Read By:
Geoffrey Matthews

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

A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams
Derek Nimmo , Clement Freud Peter Jones try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer DAVID HATCH
(Rptd: Wednesday, 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Peter Jones
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
David Hatch

With the help of recordings from the BBC's Sound Archives, James Robertson Justice talks to DEREK JONES about his enthusiasm for butterflies and moths, birds and falconry. Producer JOHN BURTON (from Bristol)
Justice for the birds: page 5

Contributors

Unknown:
James Robertson
Unknown:
Derek Jones
Producer:
John Burton

A series of plays which have had a major influence on the development of the theatre during the past 100 years. Damaged Goods by EUGÈNE BRIEUX: translated by JOHN POLLOCK and adapted for radio by GERRY JONES with Alan Dobie , Martin Jarvis Pauline Letts , Jane Knowles
When Damaged Goods was first given a private performance in February 1914 several leading newspapers, alarmed at its controversial subject matter, refused to send their representatives. However, Shaw wrote that Brieux must rank with the greatest of the theatre's crafts-men. and that a public danger needed a public warning.
Producer GERRY JONES
9.29 Weather

Contributors

Translated By:
John Pollock
Unknown:
Gerry Jones
Unknown:
Alan Dobie
Unknown:
Martin Jarvis
Unknown:
Pauline Letts
Unknown:
Jane Knowles
Producer:
Gerry Jones
Doctor:
Alan Dobie
George Dupont:
Martin Jarvis
Henriette Dupont:
Jane Knowles
Mme Dupont:
Pauline Letts
Loches:
Rolf Lefebvre
A Man:
Timothy Bateson
A Woman:
Diana Bishop
A Young Girl:
Sandra Clark
A Student:
Sam Dastor
The Nurse:
Diana Olsson

A nightly review of the arts and science
People, ideas, events - opinion and discussion. Introduced tonight by Paul Vaughan Producers this week
ROSEMARY HART , MICHAEL BRIGHT LOUISE PURSLOW , JOY HATWOOD

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Unknown:
Rosemary Hart
Unknown:
Michael Bright
Unknown:
Louise Purslow

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