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The world this morning introduced by John Timpson and Douglas Cameron
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
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:
John Timpson
Introduced By:
Douglas Cameron
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler

The sounds and scenes of a year in the past challenge the memories of residents James Burke and Richard Murdoch and guests Nancy Wise and Terry Wogan.
Robin Ray puts the questions aided by recordings from the BBC Sound Archives. Producer HELEN FRY

Contributors

Unknown:
James Burke
Unknown:
Richard Murdoch
Unknown:
Nancy Wise
Unknown:
Terry Wogan.
Unknown:
Robin Ray

Choc Blocks at the Taj Mahal by IRIS MACFARLANE
Reader Marjorie Westbury
' She expected an experience, the nature of which she could not precisely imagine ... something would happen, and click, her life would be changed.'
Producers Barbara crowther, and MICHELL RAPER

Contributors

Reader:
Marjorie Westbury
Unknown:
Michell Raper

by Derek Wellman
'No matter how you think you've got things organised, kids can always invent trouble. We try to think of everything but you can never be sure. Something can always go wrong.'
(From Manchester)

Contributors

Writer:
Derek Wellman
Producer:
Herbert Smith
Desmond Thorpe:
John Linstrum
Ruth Thorpe:
Ann Aris
Elsie Smith:
Ella Atkinson
Angus Smith:
Tom Harrison
Shop assistant:
Susan Moverley
Nurse:
Susan Moverley
Chemist:
Graham Roberts
Sister:
Hope Johnstone
Dr Shinde:
Paul Webster
Mrs Foster:
Mary Kilduff

Presenter Joan Yorke Consumer Style
Price or Comfort for School Shoes: what should we look for? Do parents and manufacturers have different criteria? MOLLY PRICE-OWEN investigates
With other items and your.letters in What's On Your Mind?

Contributors

Presenter:
Joan Yorke
Unknown:
Molly Price-Owen

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: Hardy Amies
2.0-2.2 News
Not in my Hearing: URSULA GHE HOPKINS on her kind of deafness.
Of Current Concern: a discussion of topics in the news. ANNA BARRY reads The Nightingale by RICHARD CHURCH (2)

Contributors

Unknown:
Hardy Amies

Stanislaus and the Witch by LEE TORRANCE with David Davis as the storyteller
Once upon a time Stanislaus married a beautiful princess-and they- were both turned into frogs ... Royal Mummy and Daddy had to do something about that.
Producer GLYN DEARMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Lee Torrance
Unknown:
David Davis
Producer:
Glyn Dearman
Queen:
Gudrun Ure
King:
Rolf Lefebvre
Goodfellow:
Aubrey Woods
Princess:
Elizabeth Proud
Stanislaus:
Frederick Treves
Witch:
Margot Boyd
Chancellor:
Brian Haines
Prince Ivan:
Timothy Bateson
Peasant:
Edward Kelsey
Peasant woman:
Betty Huntley-Wright

asks Do You Rememberf as ha looks over his years as an entertainer and the friends and colleagues among whom he has spent, and continues to spend, his very active life. He recalls:
' MONSEWER ' EDDIE GRAY and RICHARD MURDOCH GEORGE FORMBY
I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again with JOHN CLEESE and JO KENDALL MAX MILLER and the BEVERLEY SISTERS
ANNA RUSSELL , GWEN CATLEY
LESLIE CROWTHER , RONNIE BARKER and JUNE whitfield. Producer ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Eddie Gray
Unknown:
Richard Murdoch
Unknown:
George Formby
Unknown:
John Cleese
Unknown:
Jo Kendall
Unknown:
Max Miller
Unknown:
Anna Russell
Unknown:
Gwen Catley
Unknown:
Leslie Crowther
Unknown:
Ronnie Barker
Producer:
Alastair Scott Johnston

Anona Winn , Joy Adamson
Norman Hackforth , Peter Glaze with a mystery guest
PETER JONES in the chair Producer JOHN CASSELS
(Repeated: Friday, 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Anona Winn
Unknown:
Joy Adamson
Unknown:
Norman Hackforth
Unknown:
Peter Glaze
Unknown:
Peter Jones
Producer:
John Cassels

by Keith Miles
with Mark Kingston as Ben Spiggott
A tale of detection set in the days of the Bow Street Runners.
(from Birmingham)
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.5 pm)
(Janet Whiteside is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Co)

Contributors

Writer:
Keith Miles
Producer:
Anthony Cornish
Ben Spiggott:
Mark Kingston
Alice Spiggott:
Marcia Warren
Joe Glindon:
Linal Haft
Mrs Kitty Granville:
Janet Whiteside
Parkes:
David Glover
Sir Henry Longfoot:
David King
Lucan Granville:
Simon Carter
Mackenzie/Landlord:
George Woolley

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