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The world this morning introduced by John Timpson and Robert Robinson
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: PETER WYLD
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

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Introduced By:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler
Unknown:
Peter Wyld
Editor:
Alastair Osborne
Editor:
Marshall Stewart

Caterpillars in the snow; badgers on top of a hedge; monkeys in swimming pools - some of the odd situations discussed by the panel this week. Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE
Questions (on a postcard) to Wildlife. BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Dilys Breese

Sea Fever by DAVID MIDDLETON Read by Norman Shelley
Lord. how 1 loved those heaving oceans. Soft ripples slipping up a Pacific beach, the grey surge of the Atlantic - gales gusting down across Cape Cod! I never tired of simply watching the sea ...

Contributors

Unknown:
David Middleton
Read By:
Norman Shelley

Another chance to hear Slings and Arrows
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. with music and popular songs of the period.
Narrator Michael Flanders Written and produced by JOHN BRIDGES

Contributors

Narrator:
Michael Flanders
Produced By:
John Bridges

Presenter George Luce Work and Money
Nobody Wants to Employ Me: JANE FINNIS finds out about an agency which specialises in finding jobs for disabled workers.
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:
George Luce
Unknown:
Jane Finnis

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two
2.0-2.2 News
A Splash of Colour: ALTHEA MCNISH. the Trinidadian textile designer, talks about her work and inspiration.
Grassroot Action: BARONESS PHILLIPS'S advice on preserving the environment.
Diary of an Engagement - 2: RITA MARCHAM and DAVID BRADY on their forthcoming marriage. ANNA BARRY reads The Nightingale by RICHARD CHURCH (10)
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLI Editor WYN KNOWLES

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Althea McNish.
Unknown:
David Brady
Editor:
Teresa McGonagli
Editor:
Wyn Knowles

Operation Midas by ANNEO GRADT abridged for radio in five parts by ALARIC COTTER
Read by Trader Faulkner
Part 1: ' There was an instant when all the rocks hung black among the tatters of mist: Three miles away loomed the monolith bulk of Auckland Island, dominating the seascape. I disliked it on sight. It seemed to me a sinister mass, hostile, unknowable.'
Producer HERBERT SMITH (from Manchester)

Contributors

Unknown:
Alaric Cotter
Producer:
Herbert Smith

The news magazine: presented by Robert Williams with PM's reporting team Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.56 mediam wave only Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
Robert Williams
Editor:
Derek Lewis
Editor:
Andrew Boyle

A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which
Derek Nimmo. Clement Freud Peter Jones , David Jacobs try to talk for just a minute en 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

The Home and investigates the humour of the subject with the help of Alfred Marks
With the voices of BOB NEWHART MICHAEL FLANDERS and DONALD SWANN , TONY HANCOCK AI.AN BENNETT and others
Producers SIMON BRETT and BOB OLIVER ROGERS
Humorist Frank Muir is featured in RADIO TIMES Anniversary Special on sale 13 September, SOp

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Newhart
Unknown:
Michael Flanders
Unknown:
Donald Swann
Unknown:
Tony Hancock
Producers:
Simon Brett
Producers:
Bob Oliver Rogers
Unknown:
Frank Muir

by Thornton Wilder, adapted by Muriel Levy
[Starring] Rosalie Crutchley, Aimee Delamain, John Justin, John Glen
Peru, 1714. The famous osier bridge, more than a century old, snapped without apparent cause, and plunged five people to their deaths. Brother Juniper, a Franciscan missionary, set out to find a reason - why those five; why that particular moment?

Contributors

Author:
Thornton Wilder
Adapted by:
Muriel Levy
Producer:
Margaret Etall
Narrator:
John Glen
Camila, La Perichole:
Rosalie Crutchley
Marquesa Maria:
Aimee Delamain
Uncle Pio:
John Justin
Brother Juniper:
Timothy Bateson
Dona Clara:
Bonnie Hurren
Count Vicente:
William Sleigh
Abbess:
Hilda Schroder
Pepita:
Julie Hallam
Manuel:
Robin Browne
Esteban:
David Gooderson
Capt Alvarado:
David Sinclair

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, JOY HATWOOD ALAN HAYDOCK, MIRIAM RAPP

Contributors

Unknown:
Miriam Rapp

' Once you've spent time with Black Country people, it's odds-on you'll afterwards be a bit dissatisfied with a few of your friends when you gat back to your cities ...'
Archie Hill gives the first of five talks on Black Country people - their crafts, their pastimes and their character. Producer MICHELL RAPER

Contributors

Unknown:
Archie Hill
Producer:
Michell Raper

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