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The world this morning introduced by John Timpson and Douglas Cameron «.5O mediumwaveonly
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 7.351 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
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler

Johnny is starting school this week: what can I do to prepare him?
What are the signs of a good school?
My child cries every time I leave him at school: what should I do?
Mary is being bullied at her new comprehensive school: should I complain?

Laurie Green, headmaster of a primary school, and Margaret Bradley, headmistress of a girls' secondary school, discuss your questions on starting and changing schools, with Judith Chalmers In the chair

Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed] from 8.0 am

Contributors

Unknown:
Laurie Green
Unknown:
Margaret Bradley
Unknown:
Judith Chalmers

The Ghost Ship by RICHARD MIDDLETON Reader David Davis
One afternoon I met the land-lord on the green. ' I wish vou'd come and have a look at that ship in my field; it seems to me it's leaning real hard on the turnips ...'

Contributors

Reader:
Richard Middleton
Reader:
David Davis

Richard Sorge by MIKE STOTT
Secret Message to Moscow, October 1941: If negotiations with America fail before end of October Japanese Navy will act against USA at once. If Germany wins, Japan can just take what she wants in the Far East, and so it is unnecessary for Japan to fight Russia.
(Tokyo - R. sorge)
Rene Cutforth as narrator and Denys Hawthorne as Richard Sorge Producer
JOHN THEOCHARIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Sorge
Unknown:
Mike Stott
Unknown:
Rene Cutforth
Unknown:
Denys Hawthorne
Unknown:
Richard Sorge
Unknown:
John Theocharis
Japanese Procurator:
Timothy Bateson
German Ambassador:
Clive Swift

Presenter Nancy Wise Home and Family
Holiday for Pensioners: PAT ROWE looks at what is available. With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Write to You and Yours. BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA

Contributors

Unknown:
Pat Rowe

by P.G. Wodehouse
starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves and Richard Briers as Bertie Wooster
with Rex Garner as Gussie Fink-Nottle, Bridget Armstrong as Madeline Bassett
Adapted by Chris Miller from the book "Right Ho, Jeeves"

(Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pm)
(Richard Briers is in "Absurd Person Singular" at the Criterion Theatre, London)

12.55 Weather, programme news

Contributors

Writer:
P. G. Wodehouse
Adapter:
Chris Miller
Producer:
David Hatch
Jeeves:
Michael Hordern
Bertie Wooster:
Richard Briers
Gussie Fink-Nottle:
Rex Garner
Madeline Bassett:
Bridget Armstrong

Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Shopping Test: NORMAN TOZER quizzes ZENA SKINNER and PETER WHELPTON about their consumer knowledge.
1.0-2.2 News
Hobby Horses and Football Crowds: SUE JENNINGS, an anthropologist, describes music and movement in Malaya.
As I See It: PAUL ROCHE on the role of the poet.
Oasis in an Urban Desert: an organisation which helps homeless young people in London.
ANNA BARRY reads The Nightingale by RICHARD CHURCH (6)

Contributors

Presenter:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Norman Tozer
Unknown:
Zena Skinner
Unknown:
Peter Whelpton
Unknown:
Sue Jennings
Unknown:
Paul Roche
Read By:
Anna Barry
Written By:
Richard Church

by ANTHONY TROLLOPE adapted for radio in 20 parts from six of his novels Book 6:
The Last Chronicle of Barset 16: Mr Crawley Stands Firm dramatised by PETER RUSSELL
Executive producer NORMAN WRIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
Mr Crawley
Dramatised By:
Peter Russell
Producer:
Norman Wright
Trollope:
Godfrey Kenton
Archdeacon Grantly:
Robert Harris
Major Henry Grantly:
Michael McClain
Bishop Proudie:
George Howe
Mrs Proudie:
Margot Boyd
Josiah Crawley:
Hugh Manning
Mrs Crawley:
Kathleen Helme
Grace Crawley:
Elizabeth Proud
Jane Crawley:
Julie Hallam
Dr Thorne:
Roger Delgado
Mrs Thorne:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Lady Lufton:
Sheelah Wilcocks
Lord Lufton:
Sean Arnold
Mr Walker:
Philip Morant
Mr Thumble:
Peter Tuddenham
Mark Robarts:
John Pullen
Farmer Mangle:
David Sinclair

visits Gloucestershire
Members of Norton Women's Institute put their questions to FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL
Questionmaster MICHAEL BARRAIT Producer KENNETH FORD

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Sowerbutts
Unknown:
Alan Gemmell
Unknown:
Questionmaster Michael Barrait
Producer:
Kenneth Ford

[number removed]
Ring George Scott to put your question on transport and trafc in person to
Rt Hon John Peyton , mp, Minister for Transport Industries Producer WALTER WALLICH
To promote a maximum flow of questions [number removed](16 lines) will take them from 6.0 pm onward until the end of the programme

Contributors

Unknown:
George Scott
Unknown:
John Peyton
Producer:
Walter Wallich

The recorded voices of men and women recalling experiences at home and abroad during a year that marked the nadir of Britain's fortunes in the Second World War. Including Rt Hon Ernest Bevin, Rt Hon Winston Churchill, Noel Coward, General Sir Michael Carver, Vera Lynn, Carmen Miranda, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, and a score of anonymous heroes and heroines, with music and popular songs of the period.
Narrator Michael Flanders

(Repeated: next Mon, 11.05 am)

9.29 Weather

Contributors

Narrator:
Michael Flanders
Research Assistant:
Colin Reid
Writer/Producer:
John Bridges

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