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The world this morning: what Britain's getting up to, plus the news from anywhere on earth, introduced by John Timpson and Robert Robinson
6.50 medium trace only
Travel news, What's on, and Keep Fit with EILEEN FOWLER
1.55 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 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
Regional VHF: see lost column

Contributors

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

This is a programme made by listeners who are interested in wildlife the sounds you want to know more about, your own observations on wildlife.
Today we do some detective work beneath the trees, suggest ways of encouraging wildlife into your garden, and investigate those huge spiders in the bath.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE
Requests to: Wildlife, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
John Harrison
Producer:
Dilys Breese

mt'dium wave only Thora Hird reads
The Spring Hat by H. E. BATES
'I had in mind something rather in the way of a plain velour.'
'Velour?' Miss Manktelow said. ' I wouldn'think velour was you.'
(Thora Hird is in ' No, No, Nanette at Drury Lane, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Thora Hird
Unknown:
H. E. Bates
Unknown:
Thora Hird

Presenter Jeanine McMullen Work and Money
Agency Nurses: is the growing trend for hospitals to use fewer staff nurses Rood for the patient, good for the nurses or good for anyone? KAY ALEXANDER investigates.
Editor DENNIS LOWER

Contributors

Presenter:
Jeanine McMullen
Unknown:
Kay Alexander

from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two
2.0-2.2 News
Stockpiler: an investment game for schools.
A Tune with a Tale: recalled by IRENE THOMAS
Ski and Snow Holidays 73/74: Where to go? When? How much to pay?
DELIA PATON reads
The Life of Charlotte Bronte by MRS GASKELL (3)
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWLES

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Recalled By:
Irene Thomas
Unknown:
Delia Paton
Unknown:
Mrs Gaskell
Editor:
Teresa McGonagle
Editor:
Wyn Knowles

The news magazine: presented by Michael Cooke with PM's reporting team Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50 Stock Market report
S.55 Weather, programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
Michael Cooke
Editor:
Derek Lewis
Editor:
Andrew Boyle

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

A series of plays which have had a major influence on the development of the theatre during the past 100 years.
Presented in Vienna in 1904. this sensitive play of delicate half-lights encouraged dramatists to write with greater subtlety and understatement. The Lonely Road by ARTHUR SCHNITZI. ER translated by RONALD ADAM with Michael Hordern , Coral Browne Jennie Linden and Frank Barrie
' Do any of you men know how many children you have running about the world? At least I know that I never had one. Can you be certain? ' ' Even if I did know ...'
' What? Have you really got one? Go on. You can tell me, Julian ...'
Producer GUY VAESEN (1971) (Rptd: next Sunday afternoon)
9.29 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Schnitzi.
Translated By:
Ronald Adam
Unknown:
Michael Hordern
Unknown:
Coral Browne
Unknown:
Jennie Linden
Unknown:
Frank Barrie
Professor Wengrath:
Douglas Blackwell
Gabrielle:
Pauline Letts
FeliX:
Frank Barrie
Johanna:
Jennie Linden
Julian Fall:
Michael Hordern
Stephan Von Sala:
Anthony Pedley
Irene Harman:
Coral Browns
Dr Franz Redman:
Ronald Adam
Fall's manservant:
Douglas Blackwell
Sala's servant:
Pauline Letts

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 Paul Vaughan
Producers this week
RICHARD GILBERT , ROSEMARY HART LOUISE PURSLOW , JOY HATWOOD MIRIAM RAPP

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Unknown:
Richard Gilbert
Unknown:
Rosemary Hart
Unknown:
Louise Purslow
Unknown:
Hatwood Miriam Rapp

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