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The world this morning: what Britain's getting up to, plus the news from anywhere on earth, introduced by Douglas Cameron 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:
REV KENNETH SIMS , ReCtOr Of Dymchurch, Kent
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:
Douglas Cameron
Introduced By:
Michael Clayton
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler
Unknown:
Kenneth Sims
Editor:
Alastair Osborne
Editor:
Marshall Stewart

Aided by Linda Blandford , Harriet Crawley , Lance Perci val, 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.
Producer MICHAEL EMBER

Contributors

Unknown:
Linda Blandford
Unknown:
Harriet Crawley
Unknown:
Lance Perci
Unknown:
Fritz Spiegl
Producer:
Michael Ember

From badgers to blackbirds, honeysuckle to honeybees, eels to elephants - all your questions are welcome for discussion by the Wildlife team. 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

Look at the Horses by GRAHAM SEAL
Read by David Spenser
' Mother would roam around our house in a Russian way, waving her hands and crying: " I'm just thoroughly selfish ... your father's doing his best and all I can think of is myself... " '.
Producers BARBARA CROWTHER and MICHELL RAPER

Contributors

Read By:
David Spenser
Producers:
Barbara Crowther
Producers:
Michell Raper

Sir John Betjeman the Poet Laureate introduces and reads with Jill Balcon and Gary Watson a programme of verse which was in the air at the birth of broadcasting in 1922. The programme includes: Edward Thomas Old Man W. B. Yeats Easter. 1916
T. S. Eliot Rhapsody on a Windy Night
Thomas Hardy Last Words to a Dumb Friend
Wilfred Owen Dulce et Decorum Est
D. H. Lawrence Tortoise Family Connections
John Betjeman A Subaltern's Love Song
Recorded before an invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House. London. Producer GEORGE MACBETH
Sir John introduces another Poetry Prom: Tuesday 21 Aug

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir John Betjeman
Producer:
George MacBeth

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two
2.0-2.2 News
Religion by Phone: a new way of spreading the ' message.
Le Quick Lunch: JOHN ARDAGH reports on new trends in eating out in France.
Breaking the Barrier: how easy is it to become an mp if you're a woman? ANNA COOTE investigates.
PETER BARKWORTH reads Love and Mr Lewisham by H. G. WELLS (3)
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWLES

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
John Ardagh
Unknown:
Mr Lewisham
Unknown:
H. G. Wells
Editor:
Teresa McGonagle
Editor:
Wyn Knowles

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

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Peter Jones
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
John Cassels

Bill Oddie. when not being a Goodie, is an enthusiastic birdwatcher - and chooses some bird recordings from the BBC Sound Archives to prove it, assisted by DEREK JONES. Producer JOHN BURTON (from Bristol)

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Oddie.
Assisted By:
Derek Jones.
Producer:
John Burton

Intimate Relations by JEAN COCTEAU translated by CHARLES FRANK with Coral Browne and Maureen Pryor
Secret parental guilts are forced into light in this forerunner of modern black comedy.
The play was first produced In Paris in 1948: this production commemorates the tenth anniversary of Cocteau's death.
Producer GUY VAESEN
(Christopher Good is In ' Habeas Corpus ' at the Lyric Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean Cocteau
Translated By:
Charles Frank
Unknown:
Coral Browne
Unknown:
Maureen Pryor
George:
Clive Swift
Léonie:
Coral Browne
Yvonne:
Maureen Pryor
Michael:
Christopher Good
Madeleine:
Sandra Clark

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 Peter France
Producers this week
MICHAEL BRIGHT, ROSEMARY HART , JOY HATWOOD, ALAN HAYDOCK

Contributors

Unknown:
Rosemary Hart
Unknown:
Alan Haydock

A series of five programmes based on old sea songs and legends.
1: Pirates
PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER LLOYD talks to JANE FINNIS about sailing under the skull and crossbones.
Producer SUSAN SNAILUM

Contributors

Talks:
Professor Christopher Lloyd
Unknown:
Jane Finnis
Producer:
Susan Snailum

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