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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
Including at 6.50 and 7.50 med wave only Travel news. What's on. and (6.50 only) Keep Fit with EILEEN FOWLER : Weather and prog news at 6.55 and 7.55 At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 7.25 and 8.25; Today's Papers at 7.35* and 8.35*; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50 Deputy editor ALASTAIR OSSORNE Editor MARSHALL STEWART

Contributors

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

Aided by Harriet Crawley , Benny Green , Lance Percival , Esther Rantzen , Kenneth Rob inson, Fritz Spiegl and other Monday morning regulars, he takes a lively look round ana meets surprise guests.
Producer MICHAEL EMBER

Contributors

Unknown:
Harriet Crawley
Unknown:
Benny Green
Unknown:
Lance Percival
Unknown:
Esther Rantzen
Unknown:
Kenneth Rob
Unknown:
Fritz Spiegl
Producer:
Michael Ember

A programme of wildlife topics prompted by listeners' letters, including: why some stoats in winter put on ermine coats; some suggestions for your bird-bookshelf: what to look for on your winter walks; and what must surely be the most peculiar wildlife sound.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE

Contributors

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

The Hunter and the Hunted by ADRIAN VINCENT
Read by Francis de Wolff
When the bear did start chasing him, it would come like an express train, covering the miles in a quarter of the time he had taken ... Then, he saw the wolves ...

Contributors

Unknown:
Adrian Vincent
Read By:
Francis de Wolff

from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two
2.0-2.2 News
Woman in Crisis: MICHAEL SMEE talks to a woman facing divorce plus the problems of a teenage 'drop-out ' daughter.
Where to go in 1974-5: Italy. RENE CUTFORTH and MAEVE BINCHY answer questions devised and set by TOM SAVAGE.
Stockpiler: an investment game for schools - follow-up. Richard BRIERS reads The Complete Steel by CATHERINE AIRD (6)
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWLES

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Richard Briers
Editor:
Teresa McGonagle
Editor:
Wyn Knowles

The news magazine: presented by Robert Williams 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:
Robert Williams
Editor:
Derek Lewis
Editor:
Andrew Boyle

from the original TV series by Jimmy Perry and David Croft
starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn
The determination of Captain Mainwaring and his platoon to fight to the last man in defence of our island shores is marred only by one small detail - a total lack of weapons
featuring John Laurie, James Beck, Ian Lavender and Eric Woodburn
With John Snagge
(Rptd: Wednesday, 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Jimmy Perry
Writer:
David Croft
Adapted for radio by:
Harold Snoad
Adapted for radio by:
Michael Knowles
Producer:
John Dyas
Captain Mainwaring:
Arthur Lowe
Sgt Wilson:
John Le Mesurier
L/Cpl Jones:
Clive Dunn
Pte Fraser:
John Laurie
Pte Walker:
James Beck
Pte Pike:
Ian Lavender
Unknown:
Eric Woodburn
Announcer:
John Snagge

by JOHN FOWLES : abridged In seven parts by MOLLIE HARDWICK Read by GARY WATSON
Part 2: For one terrible moment he thought he had stumbled on a corpse. But it was a woman asleep. She had chosen the strangest position: a broad sloping ledge of grass some five feet beneath the level of the plateau and which hid her from the view of any but one who came. as Charles had, to the very edge ...
Producer BRIAN MILLER (Bristol)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Fowles
Unknown:
Mollie Hardwick
Read By:
Gary Watson
Producer:
Brian Miller

The Red Cockerel Crows by HENRY I.IVINGS : freely adapted from Der rote Hahn by GERHART HAUPTMANN
'Mrs Feeley , there's certain things that've come to light ... You know who I'm getting at? You know, whoever set fire to your house. Of course I didn' mean you when I said that; you didn' think that did you? '
Producer ALFRED BRADLEY (Leeds) (Rptd: next Sunday afternoon)
9.29 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Henry I.Ivings
Unknown:
Gerhart Hauptmann
Unknown:
Mrs Feeley
Producer:
Alfred Bradley
Feeley:
Wilfred Pickles
Mrs Feeley:
Kathleen Relme
Wilshaw:
David Mahlowe
rackstraw:
John Franklyn-Robbins
Leontine:
Susan Littler
Lutman:
Geoffrey Hinsliff
Ede:
Henry Livings
Burman:
Bernard Gallagher
Mrs Scholes:
Elizabeth McKenzie
GOStOn/GuS:
Tony Robinson
Simmonds/Scholes:
Brian Miller

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