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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 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.
Editor:
Alastair Osborne

Aided by David Jessel, Sheridan Morley, Mavis Nicholson, Lance Percival, Esther Rantzen, Kenneth Robinson and Fritz Spiegl
Enjoy a mixture of argument, humour and music as they meet the personalities, preview the poputar arts and discuss a theme of the week ahead.

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jessel
Unknown:
Sheridan Morley
Unknown:
Mavis Nicholson
Unknown:
Lance Percival
Unknown:
Kenneth Robinson
Unknown:
Fritz Spiegl
Producer:
Hugh Purcell

Could you fit a dozen extra families into your loftf
Families of swifts, of course! Advice on how to help solve the swifts' housing shortage-a.nd all the regular fea.tures of our monthly magazine edition, including the wildlife sound competition.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer JOHN HARRISON
Senies producer DILYS BREESE (Bristol)

Contributors

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

Driving Home by ROY BOLITHO
Read by John Graham
A figure ran from a group of oak trees into the middle of the road and stood there with outstretched arms. Suddenly there was a face in the headlights-a face disembodied, whirling towards the windscreen ..
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

Contributors

Read By:
John Graham
Producer:
Barbara Crowther

Presenter Jeanine McMullen Dear, Dirty and Dangerous
All this week You and Yours concentrates on giving up smoking. Why not join in? Today JAMES WILKINSON , the BBC's Science Correspondent, asks PROFESSOR PATRICK LAWTHER to give us good reasons for wanting to kick the habit.
Is the direct debit system a good way for you to pay? NIGEL MURPHY investigates. Editor DENNIS LOWER

Contributors

Presenter:
Jeanine McMullen
Unknown:
James Wilkinson
Unknown:
Professor Patrick Lawther
Unknown:
Nigel Murphy

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
In and Out of School: PAT CALLAGHAN visits children at work on an archaeological dig at Nantwich.
Reading your letters.
Consumer Commentary: NORMAN TOZER with a round-up of consumer news at home and abroad.
Sanditon by JANE AUSTEN and ANOTHER LADY (11)
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWLES

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Pat Callaghan
Unknown:
Jane Austen
Editor:
Teresa McGonagle
Editor:
Wyn Knowles

Fairy Tales and Stories of Hans Andersen translated by ERIK RAUGAARD abridged and read by David Davis
The Philosopher's Stone
Producer TONY CLIFF (Leeds)
(The Shadow: Wednesday 9.0 pm BBC2)

Contributors

Stories Of:
Hans Andersen
Translated By:
Erik Raugaard
Read By:
David Davis

starring Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler in A Merry Dance with NORMA RONALD , RONALD BADDILEY and JOHN GRAHAM
Written by EDWARD TAYLOR and JOHN GRAHAM
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Murdoch
Unknown:
Deryck Guyler
Unknown:
Norma Ronald
Unknown:
Ronald Baddiley
Unknown:
John Graham
Written By:
Edward Taylor
Written By:
John Graham
Producer:
Edward Taylor

Alee McCowen. Judi Dench and Maxine Audley in Ivanov by ANTON CHEKBOV
English version by JOHN GIELGUD based on a translation by ARIADNE NICOLAEFF with David March , Maurice Denham Jean Anderson , Denys Haw thorne and John Castle
A district in central Russia in the late 19th century.
Adapted and produced by RONALD MASON
(Broadcast in 19671

Contributors

Unknown:
Alee McCowen.
Unknown:
Judi Dench
Unknown:
John Gielgud
Translation By:
Ariadne Nicolaeff
Unknown:
David March
Unknown:
Maurice Denham
Unknown:
Jean Anderson
Unknown:
Denys Haw
Produced By:
Ronald Mason
Borkin:
Denys Hawthorne
Ivanov:
Alec McCowen
Count Shabelsky:
David March
Anna Petrovna:
Maxine Audley
Lvov:
John Castle
First guest:
Ian Thompson
Second guest:
Nigel Clayton
Zinaida Savishna:
Jean Anderson
Babakina:
Barbara Mitchell
Kossyth:
Haydn Jones
Third guest:
John Justin
Avdotya Nazarovna:
Noel Hood
Lebedev:
Maurice Denham
Sasha:
Judi Dench

Cabbages and Kings by O. HENRY abridged for radio in ten parts and read by Ramsay Williams (1)
O. Henry 's saga of life in the banana republics of Latin America at the turn of the century. It relates the flight of President Mirflores of Anchuria with his beautiful mistress and a large quantity of state treasure, and also the fate of those American expatriates, fortune-hunters and beachcombers who inhabited the coastal towns of those exotic lands washed by the Caribbean. Producer STUART GRIFFITHS

Contributors

Unknown:
O. Henry
Read By:
Ramsay Williams
Read By:
O. Henry
Producer:
Stuart Griffiths

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