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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
6.50
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
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

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I have a beastie in my loft, It seems to have one leg,
It thuds slow across the ceiling, When I'm safe tucked up in bed Yes, one of our listeners has
. burst into verse this week - but the team will probably confine their replies to prose. Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer DILYS BREESE (Bristol)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Dilys Breese

medium wave only from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Consultation: DR TREVOR WESTON talks to a Woman's Hour listener about coughs.
The Call of Suburbia: RICHARD MABEY finds pheasants in the East End of London.
BARBARA MITCHELL reads The Mariqold Field by DIANE PEARSON (6)
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWLES

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Talks:
Dr Trevor Weston
Unknown:
Richard Mabey
Unknown:
Barbara Mitchell
Unknown:
Diane Pearson
Editor:
Teresa McGonagle
Editor:
Wyn Knowles

Do Butlers Burgle Banks? by p. G. WODEHOUSE : abridged for radio in five parts and read by Nigel Lambert
A delightfully zany story peopled by some splendid Wodehouse characters. The butler is Horace Appleby , a master-mind of the underworld ... Producer JANE GRAHAM

Contributors

Unknown:
G. Wodehouse
Read By:
Nigel Lambert
Unknown:
Horace Appleby
Producer:
Jane Graham

The news magazine: presented by Michael Cooke 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:
Michael Cooke
Editor:
Derek Lewis
Editor:
Andrew Boyle

A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which
Derck Nimmo , Clement Freud Peter Jones. Andree Melly 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:
Derck Nimmo
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Peter Jones.
Unknown:
Andree Melly
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
Bob Oliver Rogers

Comedy by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE with Fenella Fielding, Paul Daneman Ralph Richardson , Cecil Parker Ronald Allen , Perlita Neilson Martin Jarvis. Heron Carvic and Richard Goolden
The action of the play takes place in the city of Messina, in and around the palace of Leonato the Governor, during a Spanish occupation of Sicily, many, many years ago.
The instrumentalists: DAVID MUNROW
CHR[STOPHER HOGWOOD
OLIVER BROOKES. JAMES BLADES MICHAEL LAIRD , ROGER BRENNER The singers SALLY LE SAGE
JAMES BOWMAN , NIGEL ROGERS
Music composed by DAVID CAIN with special sound by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Adapted and produced by JOHN POWELL (1969: shortened version)

Contributors

Comedy By:
William Shakespeare
Unknown:
Paul Daneman
Unknown:
Ralph Richardson
Unknown:
Cecil Parker
Unknown:
Ronald Allen
Unknown:
Perlita Neilson
Unknown:
Martin Jarvis.
Unknown:
Heron Carvic
Unknown:
Richard Goolden
Unknown:
David Munrow
Unknown:
Stopher Hogwood
Unknown:
Oliver Brookes.
Unknown:
Michael Laird
Unknown:
Roger Brenner
Singers:
Sally Le Sage
Singers:
James Bowman
Singers:
Nigel Rogers
Composed By:
David Cain
Produced By:
John Powell
Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon:
Ronald Allen
Claudio, the Prince's favourite:
Martin Jarvis
Benedick, likewise favoured:
Paul Daneman
Don Balthasar:
Nigel Lambert
Don John, Don Pedro's bastard brother:
Heron Carvic
Borachio:
John Pullen
Conrade:
David Valla
Leonato:
Cecil Parker
Antonio, his elder brother:
Malcolm Hayes
Hero, his daughter:
Perlita Neilson
Beatrice, his niece, an an orphan:
Feneila Fielding
Margaret:
Margaret Wolfit
Ursula:
Madi Hedd
Dogberry:
Ralph Richardson
Verges:
Richard Goolden
Two watchmen: Hugh Oatcake:
John Bryning
George Seacole:
Garard Green
The Sexton:
Brian Haines
Friar Francis:
Charles Simon

The Virgin and the Gipsy by D. H. LAWRENCE : adapted for radio in ten parts by JOHN RICHMOND
Read by Elizabeth Sellars
Lawrence's famous novel is set in the north of England in the years immediately after the First World War. Yvette Saywell. very young, very middle-class and expensively educated, is thrown by fate and natural disaster into the arms of a man from an utterly different way of life. Producer JOHN CARDY

Contributors

Unknown:
D. H. Lawrence
Unknown:
John Richmond
Read By:
Elizabeth Sellars
Producer:
John Cardy

Jack Charlton , footballing hero of many a schoolboy. talks to MELVYN BRAGG about his own heroes, both in real life and in literature. Producer ALAN JONES
(for BBC World Service)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Charlton
Unknown:
Melvyn Bragg
Producer:
Alan Jones

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