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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 Barry Norman. 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 English Regions: see column 5

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Introduced By:
Barry Norman.

As Allies can run as fast as colts - and often beat them- why can't girls run as fast as jellersr
Opinions from the team on the need for speed in animals-and other wildlife topics in this questions 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

Last Train to a Meeting by SETH SUHSAN
Read by Noel Johnson
The regular clieketty-clack of the wheels and the warmth of the sun were too much ... The woman was now sagging against him. She did not awaken when he tried to ease her body away from his ... Presently, through his perambulating imagination there crept an uneasy awareness that something was different, and wrong ... They were now travelling very fast....
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

Contributors

Read By:
Noel Johnson
Producer:
Barbara Crowther

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Give Blood, Save Life!: DR KEITH ROGERS explains the ' A ' and ' O ' of the Blood Transfusion Service, and mLDA WAITT tells how it helped her. Reading your letters. Arts Notebook. Sarah Whitman by DIANE PEARSON abridged by EVANGELINE BANKS Read by BARBARA MITCHELL (Final instalment)
Editor WYN KNOWLES

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Dr Keith Rogers
Unknown:
Mlda Waitt
Unknown:
Sarah Whitman
Unknown:
Diane Pearson
Abridged By:
Evangeline Banks
Read By:
Barbara Mitchell
Editor:
Wyn Knowles

Double Snare by ROSEMARY HARRIS , abridged in ten parts by THE AUTHOR Read by Miriam Margolyes 1: Lost Memory
-' The nurse puts me to bed ... I lie and think of the cypresses and the vault and the hill - the only bits of my past I've remembered in five weeks . , Producer KAY PATRICK

Contributors

Unknown:
Rosemary Harris
Read By:
Miriam Margolyes
Producer:
Kay Patrick

A panel game for four hands Leader of the pack and Chairman is David Nixon who deals to
June Whitfield Patrick Moore
William Rushton
Devised and shuffled by IAN MESSITER
Produced and cut by RICHARD WILLCOX

Contributors

Unknown:
David Nixon
Unknown:
Whitfield Patrick Moore
Unknown:
William Rushton
Unknown:
Richard Willcox

Frank Muir and Alfred Marks investigate the humour of the subject. and the voices of MICHAEL BENTINE
PETER COOK and DUDLEY MOORE ERIC SYKES and HATTIE JACQUES BENNY HILL and WOODY ALLEN Producers
SIMON BRETT and JOHN DAVIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Michael Bentine
Unknown:
Peter Cook
Unknown:
Dudley Moore
Unknown:
Eric Sykes
Unknown:
Hattie Jacques
Unknown:
Benny Hill
Unknown:
Woody Allen
Producers:
Simon Brett
Unknown:
John Davis

An Enemy of the People by HENRIK IBSEN translated from the Norwegian by MICHAEL. MEYER with Freddie Jones and Maurice Denham
A coastal town in southern Norway towards the end of the 19th century. However, a similar situation could all too easily arise in any community at the present time.
Adapted for radio and produced by JOHN TYDEMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Henrik Ibsen
Unknown:
Michael. Meyer
Unknown:
Freddie Jones
Unknown:
Maurice Denham
Produced By:
John Tydeman
Dr Thomas Stockmann, medical officer at the Baths:
Freddie Jones
Mrs Stockmann, his wife:
Pauline Letts
Petra, their daughter, a school-teacher:
Elizabeth Proud
Eilif and Morten, their sons:
David Howe
Eilif and Morten, their sons:
Jo Manning Wilson
Peter Stockmann, the Mayor and the Doctor's elder brother:
Maurice Denham
Morten Kiil foster-father to Mrs Stockmann:
John Gabriel
Hovstad, Editor of the People's Tribune:
Sean Barrett
Billing, an employee on the newspaper:
Leslie Heritage
Horster, a sea captain:
John Rye
Aslaksen, a printer:
Lewis Stringer
Citizens:
Sean Arnold
Citizens:
Ronald Porpar
Citizens:
Richard Griffiths
Citizens:
Nigel Lambert
Citizens:
Kerry Francis
Citizens:
Sara Coward
Citizens:
Jane Knowles

Thunder on Sunday by KAREN CAMPBELL. abridged in 15 parts by MADGE HART
Read by John Graham (1)
A violent storm forces a passenger plane to land on the remote Hebridean island of Ardnabegh. Cut off from the world outside, these refugees discover a place peopled by souls more ominous than thunder, more dangerous than the forked lightning.
Producer JOHN CARDY

Contributors

Unknown:
Karen Campbell.
Read By:
John Graham
Producer:
John Cardy

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