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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 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 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:
Robert Robinson

Aided by Benny Green , Lance Percival , Esther Ranlzen , Kenneth Robinson. Fritz Spiegl and other Monday morning regulars, he takes a lively look round and meets surprise guests for whom this week promises to be special. Producer MICHAEL EMBER

Contributors

Unknown:
Benny Green
Unknown:
Lance Percival
Unknown:
Esther Ranlzen
Unknown:
Kenneth Robinson.
Unknown:
Fritz Spiegl
Producer:
Michael Ember

Since seals spend part of their lives on land and part in the water, does their hearing differ from ours? Seals, squirrels and spiders are among the animals discussed by the team today.
Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer DILYS BREESE (Bristol) Questions (on a postcard) to Wildlife, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Dilys Breese

Can'Help Loving by PAT GARROD
Read by Annette Crosbie
' " It's no use asking you to help me do my shoes up, is it? " I felt so ashamed ... so that was Janie Lee ! I can hear her, I can see her toddling off, but I can'see her face

Contributors

Unknown:
Pat Garrod
Read By:
Annette Crosbie
Unknown:
Janie Lee

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
A Man Alone: a widower describes his housekeeping problems.
Into the Now: HELEN HADEKEL meditates.
Not all deck quoits and dances: MARGARET NEWCOMBE is Social Directress of the QE2.
The Passing Star by JEAN STUBBS abridged by MYRA BEATON read by SHEILA MITCHELL (6)
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWLES

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Margaret Newcombe
Unknown:
Jean Stubbs
Abridged By:
Myra Beaton
Read By:
Sheila Mitchell
Editor:
Teresa McGonagle
Editor:
Wyn Knowles

by Erskine Childers
Abridged for radio by Donald Bancroft in ten parts
Read by Nigel Anthony
A fashionable young man leaves London for a yachting holiday. But instead of the comfort and gracious company he expected, he finds hardship, mystery and, finally, danger.
1: A Letter from the Blue
Producer Tony Cliff (Leeds)

Contributors

Author:
Erskine Childers
Abridged by:
Donald Bancroft
Reader:
Nigel Anthony
Producer:
Tony Cliff

A panel game controlled (!) by, Nicholas Parsons in which
Kenneth Williams. Derek Nimmo Clement Freud. Aimi Macdonald try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER
Producer BOB OLIVER ROGERS
(Rptd: Wednesday, 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams.
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo
Unknown:
Clement Freud.
Unknown:
Aimi MacDonald
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
Bob Oliver Rogers

Elsie and Doris Waters look back on an eventful and happy life and recall their many friends including, this week: BING CROSBY the cast of ITMA
CHARLIE KUNZ. HARRY JAMES ' MONSEWER ' EDDIE GRAY
CHARLES TRENET , SOPHIE TUCKER FRANKIE HOWERD Producer
ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
Second of six programmes

Contributors

Unknown:
Doris Waters
Unknown:
Bing Crosby
Unknown:
Charlie Kunz.
Unknown:
Harry James
Unknown:
Eddie Gray
Unknown:
Charles Trenet
Unknown:
Sophie Tucker
Unknown:
Frankie Howerd
Unknown:
Alastair Scott Johnston

The Voysey Inheritance by HARLEY GRANVILLE-BARKER adapted by KERI LEWIS with David Andrews and Norman Shelley
My dear boy, if I knew that you were going to inform the next client you met of what I've told you, and that I should find myself in prison tomorrow, I wouldn'wish a single thing undone.'
Producer R. D. SMITH (1969)
9.29 Weather

Contributors

Adapted By:
Keri Lewis
Unknown:
David Andrews
Unknown:
Norman Shelley
Producer:
R. D. Smith
Peacey:
Haydn Jones
Voysey:
Norman Shelley
Edward:
David Andrews
Booth:
Patrick Newell
George Booth:
George Merritt
Colpus:
Noel Iliff
Alice:
Penelope Lee
Honor:
Pauline Wynn
Beatrice:
Anne Jameson
Mrs Voysey:
Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Mary:
Joan Alcorn
Phoebe:
Lynn Carson
Emily:
Dorit Welles
Trenchard:
Brian Haines
Hugh Voysey:
Christopher Bidmead

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