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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 medium wuve only 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

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Jimmy Young , the housewives' friend and adviser, is your guest this morning. He'll be answering your questions about his work as an influential dj, his other interests, his likes and his dislikes.
Producer WALTER WALLICH
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am
In three weeks' time Jimmy is the RADIO TIMES cower star

Contributors

Unknown:
Jimmy Young
Producer:
Walter Wallich

The Price of Coal by JOHN FARRIMOND
Read by Geoffrey Banks
If the cops should come, drop yo' bag, and run, lass! Lose yo' pickin's if yo' must, but keep yo' character.'
Producer HERBERT SMITH (from Manchester)

Contributors

Read By:
Geoffrey Banks
Producer:
Herbert Smith

Presenter Jeanine McMullen You and the Law
Can you claim on your employer? BRYON QUIGLEY looks into the increase in petty theft in offices and work premises. With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?

Contributors

Presenter:
Jeanine McMullen
Unknown:
Bryon Quigley

Introduced from Leamington Spa by Maureen Staffer
Kitchen Design: a live discussion with a manufacturer and a designer confronted by a Women's Institute.
2.0-2.2 News
Lighthouse Keeper: A. J. LANE with some hilarious happenings. Photobus: EILEEN TOTTEN meets
DANIEL MEADOWS, a young photographer on tour to capture life-styles and faces of today.
MARVIN KANE reads
The Man Who Loved Cat
Dancing by MARILYN DURHAM (2)

Contributors

Unknown:
A. J. Lane
Unknown:
Eileen Totten
Unknown:
Marvin Kane

Selected for Friday The Gay Lothario in The Fair Penitent by NICHOLAS ROWE (1703)
This is the play in which ' The Gay Lothario ' first appeared, and the phrase has since passed into history for a laughing, amorous rogue. Adapted for radio by RAYMOND RAIKES with music by STEPHEN DODGSON The Prologue and Epilogue spoken by MARJORIE WESTBURY
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA organ and harpsichord WILLIAM DAVIES conducted by KENNETH ALWYN Producer RAYMOND RAIKES

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Rowe
Unknown:
Raymond Raikes
Music By:
Stephen Dodgson
Spoken By:
Marjorie Westbury
Harpsichord:
William Davies
Conducted By:
Kenneth Alwyn
Producer:
Raymond Raikes
Altamont:
Gabriel Woolf
Horatio, his friend:
Victor Lucas
Sciolto, father to Calista:
Norman Shelley
Lothario:
John Justin
Rossano, his friend:
Denis McCarthy
Lucilla, maid to Calista:
Gudrun Ure
Lavinia, wife to Horatio:
Marjorie Westbury
Calista, ' the fair Penitent:
Barbara 'Mitchell

Marghanita Laski introduces her selection of the poems illustrating Kipling's intoxication with the history of England.
4: Tommy Atkins and the years before Armageddon Readers GARY WATSON
MONTY MODLYN , JOSEPH O'CONOR JOHN SAMSON. ROSAMUND NELSON BOB COPPER. TONY HALL Producer HELEN FRY

Contributors

Introduces:
Marghanita Laski
Unknown:
Tommy Atkins
Readers:
Gary Watson
Readers:
Monty Modlyn
Readers:
Joseph O'Conor
Readers:
John Samson.
Readers:
Rosamund Nelson

A nightly review of the arts and science
People, ideas, events - opinion and discussion. Introduced tonight by Paul Vaughan. With at
10.45
Week Ending.... DAVID JASON , BILL WALLIS NIGEL REES and BILL MCGUFFIE at the piano take a late night look back over the week's news and illustrate the funny side.
Script by CHRIS MILLER and COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH
Producer BOB OLIVER ROGERS
(David Jason is in ' No Sex, Please - We're British ' at the Strand Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan.
Unknown:
David Jason
Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
Nigel Rees
Unknown:
Bill McGuffie
Script By:
Chris Miller
Script By:
Colin Bostock-Smith
Producer:
Bob Oliver Rogers
Unknown:
David Jason

In the last of his five talks about the men of the Black Country, ARCHIE HILL looks at the way they spend their spare time, now and in the past - from the peace and quiet of a garden allotment to pigeon-racing and bare-fisted boxing.

Contributors

Unknown:
Archie Hill

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