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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 Desmond Lynam 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. Thought for the Day, a book of selections, 40p, from bookshops

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Introduced By:
Desmond Lynam
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler

Aided by Harriet Crawley , Sheridan Morley , Lance Perci val, Esther Rantzen , Kenneth Rebinson , Fritz Spiegl and other Monday morning regulars, he takes a lively look round.
Producer HUGH PURCELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Harriet Crawley
Unknown:
Sheridan Morley
Unknown:
Lance Perci
Unknown:
Esther Rantzen
Unknown:
Kenneth Rebinson
Unknown:
Fritz Spiegl
Producer:
Hugh Purcell

We have a plague of blue tits! They come in the windows, peck the wallpaper, strip the paint and shred the ceiling tiles - but why?
Just one of the problems discussed by the team in another Question Session.
Introduced by Derek Jones
(Bristol) Questions to: Wildlife, BBC, [address removed]

Contributors

Presenter:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Dilys Breese

An Object of Interest by STUART CLOETE
Read by Garard Green
'My God,' Zigli said, ' we had an attraction here all the time. A descendant of the Emperor ... Why did you not tell me? ' Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

Contributors

Read By:
Garard Green
Producer:
Barbara Crowther

from 2.0 Presenter Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Christmas Presents - Make or Break!: ANDY PRICE reviews some construction kits in the shops this year.
A Second Chance: GWEN CLARKE has made a new life after a coronary.
ANN MORRISH reads Angel (8)
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWLES

Contributors

Unknown:
Gwen Clarke
Unknown:
Ann Morrish
Editor:
Teresa McGonagle
Editor:
Wyn Knowles

Fatu-Hiva- Back to Nature by THOR HEYERDAHL abridged in 15 parts by NEVILLE TELLER. Read by Andrew Sachs In the years immediately before the Second World War, Thor Heyerdahl and his young wife Liv set out to make a romantically inspired but scientifically based attempt to return to nature. It was their intention to re-create, as far as possible, the life of primitive Polynesian man on Fatu-Hiva, an island in the Marquesas. 1: Farewell to Civilisation Producer ROGER PINE
Desert island risks: page 5

Contributors

Unknown:
Neville Teller.
Read By:
Andrew Sachs
Unknown:
Thor Heyerdahl

A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons with Derek Nimmo , Clement Freud Peter Jones , Sheila Hancock 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:
Sheila Hancock
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
David Hatch
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo

A comedy and a philosophy by BERNARD SHAW
with and
Producer JOHN TYDEMAN
(Norman Rodway is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Co)
(The 'Don Juan in Hell' scene: tomorrow, 10.15 pm, Radio 3)

Contributors

Author:
Bernard Shaw
Producer:
John Tydeman
John Tanner:
Alec McCowen
Ann Whitefield:
Anna Massey
Roebuck Ramsden:
Michael Denison
Mrs Whitefield:
Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
Octavius Robinson:
Gary Bond
Mr Malone:
Norman Rodway
Henry Straker:
Nigel Anthony
Miss Ramsden:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Violet Robinson:
Carole Boyd
Hector Malone:
Peter Whitman
The Maid:
Norma Ronald
The Narrator:
Denys Hawthorne

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