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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 VHF Regional news and weather; at
6.55 and 7.55 Weather and programme news.
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 7.27 and 8.27; Today's Papers at 7.35' and 8.35*; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50. Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
English Regions: see column 5

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Introduced By:
Desmond Lynam.
Editor:
Alastair Osborne

aided by Harriet Crawley , Sheridan Morley. Lance Perci val. Esther Rantzen , Kenneth Robinson. Fritz Spiegl.
Enjoy a mixture of argument. humour and music as they meet the personalities, preview the popular arts and discuss a theme of the week ahead. Producer HUGH PURCELL

Contributors

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

Many people feel that they are doing a service to our wild birds by putting out food for them during the winter. But may we not be damaging the health of birds by offering them the wrong sort of food? One of the seasonal questions answered today by the Wildlife team.
Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer DILYS BREESE (Bristol) Questions to: Wildlife, BBC, Bristol BSS 2LR

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Dilys Breese

The Dog by SEAN LINDEY
Read by Margot van der Burgh Mrs Elliott had taken a package tour - it was easier than arguing ... In the ruins of Pompeii, weary of the guide, she sat down, alone - and was quite certain she was being watched....
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Sean Lindey
Read By:
Margot van Der Burgh
Read By:
Mrs Elliott
Producer:
Barbara Crowther

Presenter George Luce
An Income from Your Home: RONALD BEALE explains how old people can add to their income by using the value of their home.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Editor DENNIS LOWER

Contributors

Presenter:
George Luce
Editor:
Dennis Lower

from 2.0 Presenter Sue MacGregor Talk till Two
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Top to Toe: a series of weekly exercises with ESTHER FAIRFAX to help you look and feel better Country Scene, with PHIL DRABBLE. 3: Informers in feathers. Holidays in Britain (2) ' Never a dull moment PATSY KUMM looks at special-interest holidays from painting to study and sport.
ALEXANDER JOHN reads Let Sleeping Vets Lie by JAMES HERRIOT. (Music: Milhaud's Suite francaise)
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWLES
Tomorrow Simon Ward recallt his experiences while filming All Creatures Great and Small, which is based on the novels of James Herrtot : 11.45 am

Contributors

Unknown:
Esther Fairfax
Unknown:
Alexander John
Unknown:
James Herriot.
Editor:
Teresa McGonagle
Editor:
Wyn Knowles
Unknown:
Simon Ward
Unknown:
James Herrtot

In a Marmalade Saloon by PATRICK O'CONNOR abridged in five parts by the author
Read by Michael Deacon
The continuing story of Patrick O'Connor , a young Scots boy of Irish extraction last heard of in Dotrn the Bath Rocks. Patrick, now 16, unable to continue his education for lack of money, finds his escapism in the cinema and snooker halls of slumland Ayrshire during the depression. 1: The Den
Producer ROGER PINE

Contributors

Unknown:
Patrick O'Connor
Read By:
Michael Deacon
Unknown:
Patrick O'Connor
Producer:
Roger Pine

A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams Derek Nimmo
Clement Freud , 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:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Barry Cryer
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
David Hatch
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo

The Traverse Theatre Company in Schippel: a comedy by Carl Sternreim adapted by Cecil P. Taylor from the translation by Ruth Michaelis-Jena

'We want your voice. Schippel. In return, we are willing to offer you certain rewards... a new frock-coat, a small retainer. But we are certainly not prepared to embrace plumbers as equals. We are your superiors. Do you understand me, now?'
The setting: Germany in 1913
Directed by MIKE OCKRENT
Musical adviser DAVID JOHNSON
Producer STEWART CONN
(Repeated: Sunday 2.30 pm)

Contributors

Comedy By:
Carl Sternreim
Adapted By:
Cecil P. Taylor
Unknown:
Ruth Michaelis-Jena
Directed By:
Mike Ockrent
Unknown:
David Johnson
Producer:
Stewart Conn
Tilman Hiketier:
Roger Kemp
Heinrich Krey:
David Bedard
Thekla Hiketier:
Janet Amsden
Andreas Wolke:
James Snell
Jenny Hiketier:
Susan Carpenter
Paul Schippel:
Roy Marsden
Crown Prince Maximilian:
Simon Callow

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