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The world this morning introduced by John Timpson and Douglas Cameron
8.50
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
7.50 medium wave onlu 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:
John Timpson
Introduced By:
Douglas Cameron
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler

Poems you have chosen
A poet's work is solitary: he throws his poems, like messages in bottles, into the deep blue sea. and it is very gratifying to him if he finds that other communicationscanbemade.
(C. DAY LEWIS)
Your poems are read by Jill Balcon and Frank Windsor The programme presented by Peter Porter
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Pre-recorded requests on [number removed]

Contributors

Read By:
Jill Balcon
Presented By:
Peter Porter

The Boshomengro's Finale by JOHN AYMESTREY
Reader John Westbrook
'He needed adventure, something to make every day new and different. So it wasn'too long before he and his fiddle took to the roads

Contributors

Reader:
John Aymestrey
Reader:
John Westbrook

The Atom Spies by KEITH DARVILL with Rene Cutforth as narrator Ring-a-ring-a geranium, A pocketful of uranium, Hiroshima, All fall down
In the 40s and 50s the most damaging espionage operation to America was mounted by an atomic spy ring feeding information to the Soviets.
Scientists working at West Coast bases were involved, and in 1953 two ' links ' - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg - were arrested and eventually electrocuted.
Klaus Fuchs , described as ' the spy of the century,' was arrested after he had gone to Harwell, the English atomic base, and was sentenced to 14 years for revealing secrets. Producer MAURICE leitch

Contributors

Unknown:
Keith Darvill
Unknown:
Rene Cutforth
Unknown:
Ethel Rosenberg
Unknown:
Klaus Fuchs
Producer:
Maurice Leitch

Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Know Your Countryside?: Phil Drabble quizzes Diana Cooper and Leslie Crowther.

2.0-2.2 News

Round-the-world Voyage: the recent adventures of Colin and Rosie Swale and family.
What's New for the Home: Diana Pollock reports.
Medicine Today and Tomorrow: Dr Eric Jameson looks at new ideas and techniques.
"The Nightingale" by Richard Church, abridged by Madge Hart. Read by Anna Barry
(First of 12 instalments)
(Music: Songs my mother taught me - Dvorak)
(Leslie Crowther is in 'Crowther's in Town' at the Cliffs Pavilion Theatre, Southend)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Phil Drabble
Unknown:
Diana Cooper
Unknown:
Leslie Crowther
Unknown:
Colin Swale
Unknown:
Rosie Swale
Unknown:
Diana Pollock
Unknown:
Dr Eric Jameson
Written By:
Richard Church
Abridged By:
Madge Hart
Read By:
Anna Barry

by ANTHONY TROLLOPE adapted for radio in 20 parts from six of his novels Book 6:
The Last Chronicle of Barset Episode 15:
Faith., Hope and Charity dramatised by PETER RUSSELL
Executive producer NORMAN WRIGHT

Contributors

Dramatised By:
Peter Russell
Producer:
Norman Wright
Trollope, the narrator:
Godfrey Kenton
Archdeacon Grantly:
Robert Harris
Susan Grantly:
Marjorie Westbury
Major Henry Grantly:
Michael McClain
Josiah Crawley:
Hugh Manning
Mrs Crawley:
Kathleen Helme
Grace Crawley:
Elizabeth Proud
Jane Crawley:
Julie Hallam
Griselda, Marchioness of Hartletop:
Polly Murch
Lord Lufton:
Sean Arnold
Mr Walker:
Philip Morant
Miss Prettyman:
Hilda Schroder
Supt Thompson:
Brian Haines
Mr Fletcher:
George Raistrick
Dan Morris:
William Eedle
Mrs Morris:
Nan Marriott-Watson
Mr Soames:
Fraser Kerr

A year of Gardeners' Question Time
KENNETH FORD recalls some of the places visited and some of the questions asked during the past year
With FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL
Producer KENNETH FORD

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Ford
Unknown:
Alan Gemmell
Producer:
Kenneth Ford

The Hanratty Case
Narrated by Edgar Lustgarten Tonights programme re-examines the case which led to the execution of James Hanratty and the issues, new and old, which have ever since made this one of the most controversial cases of the century.
Interviews by TONY VAN DEN BERGH
Written and produced by ALAN BURGESS
(Shortened and revised version of the programme broadcast 18 March 1972)

Contributors

Unknown:
Edgar Lustgarten
Unknown:
James Han
Unknown:
Tony van Den Bergh
Produced By:
Alan Burgess

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