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The world this morning: what Britain's getting up to. plus the news from anywhere on earth, introduced by John Timpson and James Burke.
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. John Carson on life with a keep-fit expert: Woman's Hour.
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 7.45-7.5*. Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Introduced By:
James Burke.
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler
Unknown:
John Carson
Editor:
Alastair Osborne

Aided by Harriet Crawley , Lance Percival. Esther Rant-zen, 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 HUGH PURCELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Harriet Crawley
Unknown:
Lance Percival.
Unknown:
Kenneth Robinson
Unknown:
Fritz Spiegl
Producer:
Hugh Purcell

medium uave onto
Do toadstools catch flies? The ones I mean are tube-like with a brown, sticky substance on top: they smell like a decomposed body ... Gruesome! But, nevertheless, safely identified by the Wildlife team. Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer DILYS BREESE (Bristol)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Dilys Breese

by E.M. Delafield

Read by Joyce Grenfell
Sunday - the day that Father spent at home - was always the least successful day of the week. The Easter weekend - practically amounting to four Sundays in succession - taxed all Mrs Awdry's spiritual resources to the utmost...

(medium wave only)

Contributors

Author:
E.M. Delafield
Reader:
Joyce Grenfell
Producer:
Joanna Scott-Moncrieff

A series edited by c. H. ROLPH The Case of Lord St Leonards written by DAVID WILLIAMS
HAWKINS: Now, Miss Sugden, I come to the crucial point, What did you do when it became plain that the will-box contained no will? charlotte: I simply sat down and wrote out my father's will of 1870 from memory. with the voices of JILL BALCON. DOUGLAS BLACKWELL DAVID BRIERLEY, GERALD CROSS WILLIAM EEDLE , MARTIN FRIEND SIÔN FROBERT, MANNING WILSON Producer MAURICE LEITCH
11.56 Announcements

Contributors

Unknown:
H. Rolph
Written By:
David Williams
Unknown:
Jill Balcon.
Unknown:
Gerald Cross
Unknown:
William Eedle
Unknown:
Manning Wilson
Producer:
Maurice Leitch

(medium wave only from 2.0)
Presenter Sue MacGregor
Who Said That? (4): a quiz compiled and presented by Irene Thomas. Answering questions this week: Moira Shearer and Ludovic Kennedy.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Husband of - Eileen Fowler: John Carson talks about himself and life with a keep-fit expert.
If it's of value, Don't!: Bruce Wightman on how to clean a water colour.
Douglas Blackwell reads Dead Letters 16) by Jonathan George

Contributors

Presenter:
Sue MacGregor
Presenter (Who Said That?):
Irene Thomas.
Contestant (Who Said That?):
Moira Shearer
Contestant (Who Said That?):
Ludovic Kennedy.
Speaker (Husband of):
John Carson
Speaker (If It's of Value, Don't!):
Bruce Wightman
Reader:
Douglas Blackwell
Author (Dead Letters):
Jonathan George
Deputy Editor:
Teresa McGonagle
Editor:
Wyn Knowles

Late into the Night: a modern spy-thriller. set mainly in Germany, by WILLIAM KEENAN
' Crawley is in my room. He has a neat hole in his head and is clutching the Oxford Book of English Verse.'
Theme composed by MAT CAMISON and arranged by DAVID FLEMING-WILLIAMS Producer TREVOR HILL
(from the North of England)

Contributors

Unknown:
William Keenan
Composed By:
Mat Camison
Arranged By:
David Fleming-Williams
Producer:
Trevor Hill
Miss Doris Wickham:
With Anna Cropper
Michael Heywood:
John Bennett
Dave Thomas:
Peter Ellis
Mrs Clare O'Connell:
Elizabeth Kelly
Boris Balakeff:
David Mahlowe
Insp Mayer, Essen Police:
Ronald Herdman
Charles Crawley, British Consulate Staff:
Graham Tennant
Robson, British Intelligence agent:
John Linstrum
Helga:
Janet Dale
Frau Langerman:
Juliet Cooke
The Stranger, ' Jim ':
Geoffrey Banks
The Occupant from Room 409:
Paul Webster

A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which
Derek Nimmo , Clement Freud Peter Jones. Barry Cryer try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer DAVID HATCH
(Rptd: Wednesday, 12.27 pm)
(Derek Nimmo is in 'Why Not Stay for Breakfast? ' at the Apollo Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Peter Jones.
Unknown:
Barry Cryer
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
David Hatch
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo

Written by Anne Jones
Starring Mollie Sugden and Deryck Guyler as Mr and Mrs Wheeler

Mrs Wheeler: "Oh yes. Yes. If I've got any annoying little habits that get on your nerves, Father, yes, it's better to... As a matter of fact, you've got one or two Annoying Little Habits yourself."
(Birmingham)
(Deryck Guyler's Sketchbook: tomorrow night at 6.15)

Contributors

Writer:
Anne Jones
"Home to Roost" theme by:
Alex Welsh
"Home to Roost" theme played by:
Alex Welsh and his Band
Producer:
Richard Maddock
Producer:
Peter Titheradge
Mr Wheeler:
Deryck Guyler
Mrs Wheeler:
Mollie Sugden
Jack Bailey:
Norman Rossington
Nev:
John Baddeley
Ange:
Ysanne Churchman

The Balkan Trilogy by OLIVIA MANNING : dramatised for radio by ERIC EWENS with Anna Massey. Jack Shepherd and Aubrey Woods
3: Friends and Heroes
War in the Balkans has forced Harriet Pringle , married to Guy, a young university lecturer, to escape from Rumania to Athens. She has had to leave her husband in Bucharest and has only one friend in Greece - Prince Yakimov!
Producer JOHN TYDEMAN
(Repeated: next Sunday. 2.30)

Contributors

Unknown:
Olivia Manning
Radio By:
Eric Ewens
Unknown:
Anna Massey.
Unknown:
Jack Shepherd
Unknown:
Aubrey Woods
Unknown:
Harriet Pringle
Producer:
John Tydeman
Harriet:
Anna Massey
Guy:
Jack Shepherd
Yakimov:
Aubrey Woods
Charles Warden:
Christopher Good
Lord Pinkrose:
Gerald Cross
Alan Frewen:
William Fox
Clarence:
John Rye
Archie Cattard:
Peter Pacey
Gracey:
Rolf Lefebvre
Ben Phipps:
Sean Arnold
Major Cookson:
Alan Dudley
Sasha:
Peter Pacey
Dubedat:
Anthony Daniels
Toby Lush:
Nigel Lambert

Five people who have left the town for the country when it wasn'as fashionable as it is now and who, through their contact with animals, have changed their attitude to life itself.
1: Beryl Rutherford - from a secretary's desk in London to owning one of the biggest Dexter dairy herds in the country. Beryl Rutherford jomed the land army because she wanted to drive a tractor and ended up liking the animals more. Born, bred and raised in London, she's now determined to make her Devon acres into a model farm.
Series written and presented by JEANINE MCMULLEN
Producer FRANCES DONNELLY

Contributors

Presented By:
Jeanine McMullen
Producer:
Frances Donnelly

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