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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 7.2'i and 8.25; Today's Papers at 7.35* and 8.35*; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50. Editor ALASTAIR OSBCRNE

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler
Editor:
Alastair Osbcrne

Aided by Harriet Crawley, Lance Percival, Esther Rantzen, 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.

Contributors

Presenter:
Richard Baker
Panellist:
Harriet Crawley
Panellist:
Lance Percival
Panellist:
Esther Rantzen
Panellist:
Kenneth Robinson
Panellist:
Fritz Spiegl
Producer:
Hugh Purcell

Our cat frequently catches moles: how does he manage itt Can you tell me about a bird's third eyelid? How long can a spider live without foodt Three of the questions discussed by the Wildlife team. Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Dilys Breese

Stop Me If You've Heard It by NOKL COWARD
Read by Carmel McSharry
The truth suddenly became clear to her ... the answer to this riddle was one vulgar, piteous word, ' Jealousy ' ... As though people ever had the courage to stop anyone. No one in the whole agonised world was brave enough to say, ' Yes. I have heard it. It is dull and unfunny.'
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

Contributors

Read By:
Carmel McSharry
Producer:
Barbara Crowther

Presenter Nigel Murphy
The Computer in Your Life-friend, foe or just another mysterious bit of modern bureaucracy? Today TED HARRISON looks at its role as ... your master.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Edited by ELIZABETH SMITH

Contributors

Presenter:
Nigel Murphy
Unknown:
Ted Harrison
Edited By:
Elizabeth Smith

from 2.0 Introduced from Cardiff by Teleri Bevan
Guest of the Week: Gareth Edwards
2.0-2.2 News
New Term, New School: a new comprehensive school opened in Newport in September: GERRY MONTÉ talks to staff and pupils
Interpreter in Berlin: MARGARET CAIN recalls her work with Herr Willy Brandt.
Daniel Come to Judgement by MARY HOCKING abridged by JANET QUIGLEY v SHEILA MITCHELL (last instalment;

Contributors

Unknown:
Teleri Bevan
Unknown:
Gareth Edwards
Talks:
Gerry Monté
Unknown:
Margaret Cain
Unknown:
Herr Willy Brandt.
Unknown:
Mary Hocking
Abridged By:
Janet Quigley
Unknown:
Sheila Mitchell

A Raft of Swords by DUNCAN KYLE: abridged in ten parts by BERTHA LONSDALE Read by Geoffrey Wheeler
When barnacles, limpets and other marine life fouled up secret underwater missiles in the Pacific, a rescue mission was organised which gradually enmeshed unsuspecting people from three continents. 1: Secret Missiles at Risk Producer HERBERT SMITH (Manchester)

Contributors

Read By:
Geoffrey Wheeler

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

David Niven reads from his bestseller autobiography
3: Yells, Bells and Smells
After happy years at Stowe School and a not-so-happy period at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he is commissioned into the Highland Light Infantry and sent to Malta.

Contributors

Unknown:
David Niven

The General of the Dead Army dramatised by FREDERICK BRADNUM from the Albaniannovelby ISMAlLKADARE translated by DEREK COLTMAN
'Like a proud and solitary bird you will fly over those silent and tragic mountains in order to wrest our poor young men from their jagged rocky grip.'
This ironic and macabre comedy is based on a true incident when a General of one of the armies which invaded Albania during the Second World War returned to collect the bodies of the soldiers who died there. with and With ERIC ALLEN , DIANA BISHOP SAM DASTOR , FRASER KERR
SION PROBERT , HILDA SCHRODER and WILLIAM SLEIGH
Incidental music composed and directed by TERENCE ALLBRIGHT with JACK ROTHSTEIN (violin) KEITH PUDDY (clarinet)
JOHN R. MITCHELL (percussion) Producer IAN COTTERELL
(Repeated: next Sunday, 2.30)

Contributors

Dramatised By:
Frederick Bradnum
Translated By:
Derek Coltman
Unknown:
Eric Allen
Unknown:
Diana Bishop
Unknown:
Sam Dastor
Unknown:
Fraser Kerr
Unknown:
Sion Probert
Unknown:
Hilda Schroder
Unknown:
William Sleigh
Directed By:
Terence Allbright
Violin:
Jack Rothstein
Clarinet:
Keith Puddy
Clarinet:
John R. Mitchell
Producer:
Ian Cotterell
the Italian General:
Maurice Denham
the Italian Priest:
Rolf Lefebvre
the Albanian Expert:
John Moffatt
the German General:
David March

Five people who have left the town for the country when it wasn't 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. Series written and presented by JEANINE MCMULLEN
Producer FRANCES DONNELLY
(Postponed from last month)

Contributors

Presented By:
Jeanine McMullen
Producer:
Frances Donnelly

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