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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 8.27s Today's Papers at 7.35* and 8.35*; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50 by CANON RICHARD BUCK. Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Thought for the Day, a book of selections, 40p, from bookshops. English Regions: see column 5

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Introduced By:
Desmond Lynam.
Unknown:
Canon Richard Buck.
Editor:
Alastair Osborne

aided by Harriet Crawley, Sheridan Morley, Lance Percival, Esther Rantzen, Kenneth Robinson and 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.

(Tonight Lance Percival says Be My Guest: 7.2 Radio 2)

Contributors

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

Can you explain why a male blackbird keeps trying to mate with the dog's bone on my lawnt
One of the fascinating problems put to the Wildlife team in another question session. Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE
Questions to: Wildlife, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

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

Presenter George Luce
Windpower Now: would it be worth your while changing to some of the alternative sources of power? TED HARRISON gives details of costs and where to buy equipment.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Editor DENNIS LOWER
Write to You and Yours, BBC. Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA

Contributors

Presenter:
George Luce
Unknown:
Ted Harrison

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

Story: The Biggest Cream Bun in the World by MARY CALVERT Presenters this week:
JEAN ROGERS and TONY AITKEN Written by MICHAEL RICHMOND Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
Listen with Mother Stories, £2.00 from bookshops

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Calvert
Unknown:
Jean Rogers
Unknown:
Tony Aitken
Written By:
Michael Richmond
Producer:
Jenyth Worsley

Harlequin by MORRIS WEST abridged for radio in ten parts by STUART EVANS
Read by Denis Lill
Set against a background of international high finance, Harlequin is the story of Paul Desmond , a skilled, vastly experienced banker who, suddenly confronted with extortion, terror and possible ruin. discovers he is. after all, an ethical man.
Producer MICHAEL ROLFE

Contributors

Read By:
Denis Lill
Unknown:
Paul Desmond
Producer:
Michael Rolfe

A panel game controlled (1) by Nicholas Parsons in which
Derek Nimmo , Clement Freud Peter Jones , Sheila Hancock 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:
Sheila Hancock
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
David Hatch
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo

Another chance to hear Caste by T. W. ROBERTSON adapted for radio and produced by NORMAN WRIGHT
Presented in 1867, when spectacle and scenic wonders called for song rather than speech, Caste, a realistic straight play, marked the eclipse of burlesque and a new era of theatre fare began, with Tom Robertson acknowledged as the first modern English dramatist. with Narrator William SLEIGH Pianist ANNA BERENSKA

Contributors

Unknown:
T. W. Robertson
Produced By:
Norman Wright
Unknown:
Tom Robertson
Narrator:
William Sleigh
Pianist:
Anna Berenska
Polly Eccles:
Frances Jeatcr
Captain Hawtree:
John Rve
Esther Eccles:
Susan Maudslay
George D'Alroy:
Michael McClain
Marquise de Saint Maur:
Fabia Drake
Eccles:
Geoffrey Wincott
Sam Gerridge:
Fobin Browne

French Leave by E. Œ. SOMERVILLE and MARTIN ROSS abridged in 15 instalment* by ELIZABETH ROWLEY Read by Kate Binchy
'I know I can paint! ' cried Patricia. ' I know it's in me, but it'll never come out of me if I'm to stay here - Just waiting till father can marry me off. I want to go and study in Paris! '
Nineteenth-century Ireland, and Sir Ingram Kirwen 's daughter Patricia is determined to have her way.
Producer DENYS HAWTHORNE Presence of mind: page 4

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Ross
Unknown:
Elizabeth Rowley
Read By:
Kate Binchy
Read By:
Sir Ingram Kirwen
Producer:
Denys Hawthorne

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