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The world this morning introduced by Robert Robinson and John Timpson
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: HUGH KAY
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:
Robert Robinson
Introduced By:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler
Editor:
Alastair Osborne
Editor:
Marshall Stewart

by RONALD KIRKBRIDE abridged by HONOR WYATT Read by Gary Watson
Handsome Johnny Galahad from ' Tonbridge Village.' Delicious, determined Miss Yuki Okano from Japan. They would make such a beautiful pair if only they could meet up again. But Johnny was proving so elusive....
Producer JOHN CARDY. (First of 10 instalments: broadcast as ' A Book at Bedtime ' in 1971)

Contributors

Abridged By:
Honor Wyatt
Read By:
Gary Watson
Unknown:
Johnny Galahad
Unknown:
Miss Yuki Okano
Producer:
John Cardy.

Aided by Linda Blandford , Harriet Crawley , Lance Perci val, Kenneth Robinson , Fritz Spiegl and other Monday morning regulars, he takes a lively look round and meets sunprise guests for whom this week promises to be special. Producer MICHAEL EMBER

Contributors

Unknown:
Linda Blandford
Unknown:
Harriet Crawley
Unknown:
Lance Perci
Unknown:
Kenneth Robinson
Unknown:
Fritz Spiegl
Producer:
Michael Ember

' A pair of blackbirds In our garden have already had three broods and now they're feeding yet another family.' The team comment on this and other letters sent in by listeners.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE (from Bristol)
Questions (on a postcard) to Wildlife, BBC. Bristol BSS 2LR

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Dilys Breese

Happy by CARL TAYLOR
Read by Preston Lockwood
Like all mature characters, Happy had once had a wild and tempestuous youth. He was the former lover and hero of every bitch in the neighbourhood, and now an old warrior in the autumn of his days . , .

Contributors

Read By:
Preston Lockwood

Megan du Boisson
' Multiple sclerosis/ they mid But low
And deep Within me 1 keep
Saying No '
MEGAN DU BOISSON, founder of the Disablement Income Group, was killed in a car crash nearly four years ago. She had suffered for some time from multiple sclerosis, an illness for which there is no known cure This programme tells the story of the housewife and mother who became champion of the disabled.
Presented by SUE MACGREGOR Producer MICHAEL GREEN (from Manchester)

Presenter Nancy Wise Work and Money
School-leavers at work: what sort of jobs have the summer school-leavers found - or failed to find? What are they getting paid? BRYON QUIGLEY reports.
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

Unknown:
Bryon Quigley

from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two
2.0-2.2 News
Reading Your Letters.
And a Good Job Too: MARGARET KORVING looks at opportunities for women starting work later in life. This week: jobs in the hotel and catering business.
The merchants tried to dynamite me: JÚLIAN LATHAM helps the Peruvian Indians become self-sufficient.
MARVIN KANE reads
The Man Who Loved Cat
Dancing by MARILYN DURHAM (3) Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWLES

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Marvin Kane
Editor:
Teresa McGonagle
Editor:
Wyn Knowles

Down the Bath Rocks by PATRICK O'CONNOR : abridged in five parts by the author Read by Michael Deacon
An impressionistic account of an Ayrshire childhood from the security of infancy to the doubts of adolescence.
1: A Funeral and the Pictures Producer ROGER PINE

Contributors

Unknown:
Patrick O'Connor
Read By:
Michael Deacon

The news magazine: presented by Robert Williams with PM's reporting team Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50 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
Clement Freud , Peter Jones Warren Mitchell , Jean Marsh try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer JOHN CASSELS
(Rptd: Wednesday, 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Peter Jones
Unknown:
Warren Mitchell
Unknown:
Jean Marsh
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
John Cassels

and investigates the humour of the subject with the help of Alfred Marks
With the voices of RONNIE BARKER , RONNIE CORBETT KEN GOODWIN , STEPTOE AND SON WOODY ALLEN , JOHN CLEESE and others
Producers SIMON BRETT and BOB OLIVER ROGERS
Humorist Frank Muir is featured in RADIO TIMES Anniversary Souvenir on tale now at SOp

Contributors

Unknown:
Ronnie Barker
Unknown:
Ronnie Corbett
Unknown:
Ken Goodwin
Unknown:
Woody Allen
Unknown:
John Cleese
Producers:
Simon Brett
Producers:
Bob Oliver Rogers
Unknown:
Frank Muir

by John Wain
adapted for radio by C. J. Stephenson
With Robert Lang, Hugh Dickson and Stephanie Bidmead.
Arthur Geary found that the only way he could escape from the drums in his head was to leave his home and job and live in Paddington Station.

Contributors

Author:
John Wain
Adapted by:
C. J. Stephenson
Drums:
Gary Kettel
Producer:
Jane Graham
Philip Robinson:
John Forrest
Jennifer Robinson:
Elizabeth Morgan
Arthur Geary:
Hugh Dickson
Elizabeth Geary:
Stephanie Bidmead
Angela:
Julie Hallam
David:
Simon Thorne
Adrian Swarthmore:
Robert Lang
Julian Robinson:
Nicky Locise
Old man:
Malcolm Hayes
Paddy:
Nigel Graham
Sir Ben Warble:
Peter Williams
Dr Maurice Blakeney:
Godfrey Kenton
Station porter:
Anthony Hall
Bob:
Nigel Anthony
Stewart:
David Timson
[Actress]:
Diana Bishop
[Actress]:
Sandra Clark
[Actor]:
Sam Dastor

God Made Sunday by WALTER MACKEN: abridged in 7 parts by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN Read by Cyril Cusack
' Since God Himself started work on Monday. I will begin there, because the old people have a telling that everything happens to a man on a working day since God made Sunday for rest and peace.'
An Aran Islander tells the story of his life.

Contributors

Read By:
Cyril Cusack
Unknown:
God Himself
Unknown:
Aran Islander

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