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The world this morning: what Britain's getting up to, plus the news from anywhere on earth, introduced by Robert Robinson and John Timpson
6.45 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 7.40 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
Robert Robinson's Choice: p 5

Contributors

Introduced By:
Robert Robinson
Introduced By:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler

This month's items include:
What is the connection between barn owls and bicycles? Odd - but even odder, perhaps is a bird which controls the temperature of its own nest. Also advice on the best ways to help hedgehogs and further suggestions for the title of ' most beautiful wildlife sound.' Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE (from Bristol)
Questions (on a postcard) to Wildlife, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Dilys Breese

All Mod Cons by PIERS SIMPSON Read by Betty Hardy
The attendant at the ladies' convenience was carrying on a desultory affair with her male counterpart ' the other side of the laurel bushes. Then she discovered that someone had decided to brighten up her premises ...

Contributors

Read By:
Betty Hardy

Marriage Now
Nigel Murphy presents the programme and looks into where the money goes.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Editor DENNIS LOWER
Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 1AA

Contributors

Editor:
Dennis Lower

from 2.0 Introduced by Telerl Bevan
Guest Col Harry Llewellyn, CBE who savs:
2.0-2.2 News
Teachers of East and West: MARION GLASTONBURY on an English course for teachers in Poland.
Diary of an Engagement: RITA MARCHAM and DAVID BRADY on their forthcoming marriage. ANNA CROPPER reads
Wiiidyridge by w. RILEY (6)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Telerl Bevan
Unknown:
W. Riley

Spanish Gold by GEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM adapted for radio in five parts by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by Alan Barry (1)
Does the treasure hoard of a wrecked Armada galleon lie buried on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland? The local Anglican curate is convinced it does, and dragging in his wake a retired English major, he sets out to find it in the early years of this century Producer JOHN SCOTNEY

Contributors

Unknown:
George A. Birmingham
Unknown:
Neville Teller
Read By:
Alan Barry
Producer:
John Scotney

A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which
Kenneth Williams
Clement Freud , Peter Jones Alfred Marks try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer DAVID HATCH
(Rptd: Wednesday, 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Peter Jones
Unknown:
Alfred Marks
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
David Hatch

with the voices ofPETER COOK, DAVID HATCH. GRAEME GARDEN, TIM BROOKE-TAYLOR , JO KENDALL , JOHN CLEESE , DUDLEY MOORE , KENNETH Williams and others.
Producers SIMON BRETT and BOB OLIVER ROGERS

Contributors

Unknown:
David Hatch.
Unknown:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Unknown:
Jo Kendall
Unknown:
John Cleese
Unknown:
Dudley Moore
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Producers:
Simon Brett
Producers:
Bob Oliver Rogers

A series of plays which have had a major influence on the development of the theatre during the past 100 years. The Lower Depths by MAXIM GORKY translated by DAVID MAGARSHACK adapted by BENNETT MAXWELL
MAXIM GORKY 'S famous play, which deals with the life of the down-and-outs in a Moscow doss-house, introduced an entirely new set of characters in Russian drama. It was first performed by the Moscow Art Theatre on 18 December 1902, with immediate sucess.
Accordion music composed and played by HENRY KREIN
Producer RICHARD WORTLEY

Contributors

Translated By:
David Magarshack
Adapted By:
Bennett Maxwell
Adapted By:
Maxim Gorky
Played By:
Henry Krein
Producer:
Richard Wortley
Mikhail Ivanovieh Kostylyov, keeper of a doss-house:
Malcolm Hayes
Vassilisa Karpovna, his wife:
Elizabeth Morgan
Natasha, her sister:
Julie Hallam
Abram Medvedev, their uncte, a policeman ........:
Brian Haines
Vassily Pepel:
Sean Barrett
Andrey Mitrich Kleshch, a locksmith:
Kevin Flood
Anna, his wife:
Hilda Schroder
Nastya, a girl:
Patricia Gallimore
Bubnov, hatter:
Alexander John
The Baron:
John Rowe
Satin:
Terry Scully
The Actor:
David March
Luka, a pilgrim:
Timothy Bateson
Alyoshka, a shoemaker:
Nigel Anthony
The Tartar:
Godfrey Kenton
Kvashnya, meat-dumpling seller:
Diana Olsson
Zob/Narrator:
David Timson

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 Kenneth Robinson Producers this week
LOUISE PURSLOW. ALAN HAYDOCK MIRIAM RAPP , RICHARD GILBERT

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Robinson
Unknown:
Louise Purslow.
Unknown:
Alan Haydock
Unknown:
Miriam Rapp
Unknown:
Richard Gilbert

At next month's State Opening of Parliament, the Queen's Speech from the Throne will mark the beginning of the last full Session of Parliament for the present Government. For those Members who have decided not to stand at the next General Election the ceremony will have special significance. In five late-night talks this week some of the retiring elder statesmen talk to Robert McKenzie about their years in the Commons and the changes they have seen.
1: Robert McKenzie talks to Dame Irene Ward, MP, Conservative member for Tynemouth
Producer Gerry Monte

Contributors

Interviewer:
Robert McKenzie
Interviewee:
Dame Irene Ward
Producer:
Gerry Monte

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