Programme Index

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Introduced by John Timpson
Including at 6.50 and 7.56 Travel news, What's on, and (6.50 only) Keep Fit: Weather and programme news at 6.55 and 7.55.
At 7.11 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.

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson

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Robert Morley , actor, dramatist, raconteur and lover of good food and wine, is your guest this morning.
Ring him for his views and comments on his career, on the theatre today, on life in Britain, its younger generation, its food and its way of life. Call [number removed]from 8.0 am

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Morley

Officers and Gentlemen by GILLIAN HOOD
Read by Martin Jarvis
In his mind, the two-up two-down terraced house of his childhood had long ago been transformed into ' our place in the country,' and his naturally flattened vowels had been . rounded into those suitable for an officer.
Producer DAVID SHUTE

Contributors

Unknown:
Gillian Hood
Read By:
Martin Jarvis
Producer:
David Shute

Introduced from Birmingham by Maureen Staffer
Battered Wives: Gwyn Richards investigates.
2.0-2.2 News
Restaurant - under the covers: Janice Dickerson enquires into some of the fiddles.
Letter Bomb: Kathleen Hyde's story with a happy ending.
Name Dropping: written and read by Michael Pertwee (5)

Contributors

Presenter:
Maureen Staffer
Reporter:
Gwyn Richards
Reporter:
Janice Dickerson
Speaker:
Kathleen Hyde
Writer/Reader:
Michael Pertwee

Selected for Friday
At Nunappleton House by DON TAYLOR
Barry Foster as the Man and Gary Watson as Andrew Marvell David March , Ellen Dryden
A modern man sits in a small room with gunfire outside. While reading Andrew Marvell , his life and the poet's interact.
Music composed and conducted by h. R. CHAPPELL and played by THE SIDNEY SAX QUARTET. Producer RICHARD WORTLEY (1971)

Contributors

Unknown:
Don Taylor
Unknown:
Barry Foster
Unknown:
Gary Watson
Unknown:
Andrew Marvell
Unknown:
David March
Unknown:
Ellen Dryden
Unknown:
Andrew Marvell
Conducted By:
H. R. Chappell
Producer:
Richard Wortley
Yorkshire workman/Lambert:
Patrick Toll
General Sir Thomas Fairfax:
David March
Lady Fairfax:
Ellen Dryden
Mary:
Jean Rogers
Robert:
John Ruddock

The true story of the Atlantic Wall in Normandy and the plot to destroy it: by ROBERT BARR adapted from RICHARD COLLIER 'S book Ten Thousand Eyes
Garard Green as the Storyteller 3: The Wall has Eyes
Marcel Girard. FREDERICK TREVES
Other parts
YVONNE GILAN , GODFREY KENTON Producer CHARLES MAXWELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Barr
Unknown:
Richard Collier
Unknown:
Garard Green
Unknown:
Marcel Girard.
Unknown:
Frederick Treves
Unknown:
Yvonne Gilan
Unknown:
Godfrey Kenton
Producer:
Charles Maxwell
Eugene Meslin:
John Cabriel
René Duchez:
Victor Lucas
Robert Thomas.:
Derek Seaton
Jacques Moulines.:
John Baddeley
Adolphe Francke.:
John Graham

[n this special edition from the 28th Edinburgh International Festival Nigel Rees takes a close look at the Fringe, rounds off the Film Festival and reviews this week's new productions. Producer LOUISE PURSLOW Another visit: 6 September
9.59 Weather

It is... a brand new comedy show. It is... the voices of Mary Adams, Jeremy Browne, Jonathan Canter, John Lloyd, Griffith Rhys Jones... the music of Nic Rowley, Nigel Hess, Tim Brutton, Julian Smedley... and the words of John Lloyd, Jeremy Browne, Adams-Smith-Adams and others.

Contributors

Performer:
Mary Adams
Performer/Writer:
Jeremy Browne
Performer:
Jonathan Canter
Performer/Writer:
John Lloyd
Performer:
Griffith Rhys Jones
Music:
Nic Rowley
Music:
Nigel Hess
Music:
Tim Brutton
Music:
Julian Smedley
Writers:
Adams-Smith-Adams [Douglas Adams, Martin Smith, Will Adams]
Producer:
Simon Brett

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