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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 t.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
7.59 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:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler

Families from all over Britain talk about their beliefs, feelings. and practice when it comes to behaviour and appearance. How important are please' and ' thank you '? Does the way the children dress and behave reflect on their parents?
Introduced by Jan Brookes
Research by JANICE DICKERSON Producer JOCELYN RYDER-SMITH (Birmingham)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jan Brookes
Unknown:
Janice Dickerson
Producer:
Jocelyn Ryder-Smith

A Point of View by DOUGLAS RAILTON
Read by Geoffrey Matthews
'I'd never been to a fight before. I spent half the night mugging up the jargon so I wouldn'let Erik and Mike down ... and then I got to thinking about the humiliation of the bulls and the horses, the reckless tyranny of the mob, the futility....'

Contributors

Read By:
Geoffrey Matthews

A panel game for four hands
Leader of the pack and chairman is David Nixon who deals to June
Whitfield Patrick Moore , William Rushton Devised and shuffled by IAN MESSITER. Produced and cut by RICHARD WILLCOX

Contributors

Unknown:
David Nixon
Unknown:
Whitfield Patrick Moore
Unknown:
William Rushton
Unknown:
Ian Messiter.
Unknown:
Richard Willcox

Make Like Slaves by RICHARD RIVE
A Cape-Coloured poet and a liberal-minded white girl confront one another.
The prize-winning play from the BBC African Service Radio Playwriting Competition, introduced by GWVNETH HENDERSON who organised it.
Producer CHARLES LEFEAUX * followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Gwvneth Henderson
Producer:
Charles Lefeaux
The Man:
Leonard Dixon
The Girl:
Mary Miller

Presenter George Luce Consumer style
Toys for Christmas: How good value are science sets and how do you choose a safe toy? The consumer team investigates.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 1AA

Contributors

Presenter:
George Luce

from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the week:
Derek Dougan of Wolverhampton Wanderers and Northern Ireland. Chairman of the Professional Footballers' Association
2.0-2.2 News
Christmas: parcels-a guide on packing them.
Leisure and Pleasure: pursuits, entertainments, places to go. SHEILA MITCHELL reads The Passing Star (3)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Derek Dougan
Unknown:
Sheila Mitchell

Dancer's Escape by BILL NICHOLSON
'I have another life you see, sir, in my daydream in a world I've built; I'm only happy when I'm living that life, when I'm in that world.'
Producer HARRY CATLIN

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Nicholson
Producer:
Harry Catlin
Dancer:
Brian Hewlett
Stein/Bingley:
Nigel Anthony
de Brissac:
Christopher Guard
Headmaster/Mr Bennet:
Timothy Bateson
Miss Wilbur/Lydia:
Eva Stuart
Titheridge:
Crispin Gillbard
Elizabeth Darcy:
Carol Marsh
Jane Bingley:
Diana Bishop
MacGibbon:
Anthony Hall
Robbins/Wickham:
Brian Haines
Mrs Bennet:
Hilda Schroder
Doctor:
Godfrey Kenton

To mark his 70th birthday, which he celebrated this year, Arthur Negus invites three friends - HUGH SCULLY , JULIAN THOMPSON , and ROGER WARNER - to join him in a conversation about the world of antiques. He has known this world all his life. but in the last eight years he has shared its pleasures with the millions of people who enjoy his television and radio programmes.
Producer PAMELA HOWE (Bristol)

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh Scully
Unknown:
Julian Thompson
Producer:
Pamela Howe

The questions and ideas you send are discussed this week by Benee Houston, Bettv Marsden Nancy Wise , Dee Annan In the chair Anona Winn
Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER. Producer
ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
(Repeated: Friday, 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Bettv Marsden
Unknown:
Nancy Wise
Unknown:
Dee Annan
Unknown:
Anona Winn
Unknown:
Ian Messiter.
Unknown:
Alastair Scott Johnston

Maria Callas
(WALTER LEGGE)
John Amis celebrates the greatest diva of our time.
Producer DENYS GUEROULT
Return of Maria Callas : it is hoped to broadcast a recording next Sunday, R3/BBC2

Contributors

Unknown:
Maria Callas
Unknown:
John Amis
Producer:
Denys Gueroult
Unknown:
Maria Callas

Change Without War
Six talks about the shifting structures of world power by Alastair Buchan , Professor of International Relations, Oxford University.
4: The Asian Quadrilateral
The Sino-Soviet conflict has been one of the main reasons for the changing focus of world politics. Will it erupt into open conflict or can it be healed? But the area of their conflict. North East Asia, also contains another influential country. Japan, with close links to the United States.
PROFESSOR BUCHAN examines the interaction of these four countries whose values and interests are so unlike.
Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF

Contributors

Unknown:
Alastair Buchan
Producer:
Anthony Moncrieff

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