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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
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.

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler

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The Radio Hustings
Throughout the General Election campaign you can put your questions live by telephone to leading politicians. As the campaign progresses you can raise the issues you feel are the most important,
Ring Robin Day to put your questions to the Conservatives on their policies and their views of the other parties' policies.
Producers WALTER WALLICH and MARTIN cox. Executive producer BERNARD TATE
[number removed](16 lines) will take questions from 8.0 am

Contributors

Producers:
Walter Wallich
Producer:
Bernard Tate

Pink frogs - no, not In a nightmare but living wild in England! The spider's secret weapon, which caused an invasfon scare in the last war; and a new Wildlife sound competition. Also, your favourite sounds and, of course, your letters - all in this month's special edition.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer JOHN HARRISON Series producer
DILYS BREESE (Bristol)

Contributors

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

Baby's Bath by ARNOLD BENNETT abridged and read by Gabriel Woolf
Mrs Blackshaw , after a day spent in being a mother, reconstituted herself a wife, and began to beautify herself for her husband - and with Mr Blackshaw the tragedy of the bath commences ...
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Arnold Bennett
Read By:
Gabriel Woolf
Read By:
Mrs Blackshaw
Unknown:
Mr Blackshaw
Producer:
Barbara Crowther

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
11.50 Announcements

Contributors

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

Presenter Jranine McMullen
The Computer in Your Life: friend, foe or just another mysterious bit of modern bureaucracy? TED HARRISON looks at its role as ... your servant.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?

Contributors

Presenter:
Jranine McMullen
Unknown:
Ted Harrison

medium wave from 2.0
Presenter Sue MacGregor
Who Said That? (6): a quiz compiled and presented by IRENE THOMAS. Answering questions this week: VALERIE JEN KINS and ROY HUDD
2.0-2.2 News
Starting a Garden (1): Making a lawn. tending and keeping the turf in good condition.
The Woman's Hour baby is three years old: JOYCE PHILPOT talks to a paediatrician about her daughter Sharon. Reading your letters. SHEILA MITCHELL reads
Daniel Come to Judgement (6) by MARY HOCKING
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWLES

Contributors

Presented By:
Irene Thomas.
Unknown:
Valerie Jen
Unknown:
Roy Hudd
Talks:
Joyce Philpot
Unknown:
Sheila Mitchell
Unknown:
Mary Hocking
Editor:
Teresa McGonagle
Editor:
Wyn Knowles

A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams
Derek Nimmo , Peter Jones Jean Marsh try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer JOHN LLOYD
(Rptd: Wednesday, 12.27 pm)
(Derek Nimmo is in ' Why Not Stay for Breakfast? ' at the Apollo Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo
Unknown:
Peter Jones
Unknown:
Jean Marsh
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
John Lloyd
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo

David Niven reads from his bestseller autobiography 2: Nessie
Expelled from school at ten-and-a-half for playing a practical joke which misfires, failing the examination to become a naval cadet, the young Niven finally gains a place at a public school, Stowe, and meets a very special friend!

Contributors

Unknown:
David Niven

A black comedy by Jennifer Phillips
with Freddie Jones as Henry
Henry, a 50-year-old bachelor on holiday with his mother in a Scarborough hotel, is determined to enjoy himself, but at whose expense? Certainly not his indomitable mother's.
(Repeated: next Sunday, 2.30)

Contributors

Writer:
Jennifer Phillips
Producer:
Richard Wortley
Henry:
Freddie Jones
Mrs Gamble:
Noel Hood
Alice:
Stephanie Turner
Police Constable:
Peter Pacey
Doris:
Kate Coleridge
Audrey:
Frances Jeater
Mr Evans:
David Brierley
Mrs Delaney:
Betty Hardy
Albert:
Stephen Thorne
Police Insp:
Vernon Joyner

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