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with John Timpson in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today, including Sports News and. Today's Papers: at 7.25* and 8.25" VHF Regional News and Weather; and Thought for the Day at 7.45*
English Regions: see column 5

Contributors

Unknown:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Brian Redhead

I have heard it said that birds only sing. to mark out their territories. Don't they ever sing just for the pleasure and beauty of it!
The team voice their thoughts on another selection of your wildlife questions.
Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol

Contributors

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

Charlie Chester reads from
A Circular Tour by w. w. JACOBS Keep your hair on ' says the cabman; ' It'll be three-and-six for the fare. and I'll take the money now.'
'You'll 'ave it when you get there,' says Ginger.
' I'll 'ave it now,' says the cabman. ' 1 'ad a fare die on the way once before.' Producer
JOANNA SCOTT-MONCRIEFP

Contributors

Unknown:
Charlie Chester
Unknown:
Joanna Scott-Moncriefp

(medium wave only from 2.0)
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Basic Principles of Photography: advice for beginners from Reg Mason, Editor of Amateur Photographer. Arts Notebook.
Family Units by Ruth Finch (11)

Contributors

Presenter:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Reg Mason
Unknown:
Ruth Finch
Editor:
Wyn Knowles

by Josephine Tey, abridged in ten parts by P.M. Wilson
Read by Bernard Hepton
A 15-year-old schoolgirl kidnapped and ill-treated by two apparently respectable women - that's Betty Kane's story. And when Robert Blair, solicitor, is called to the house named 'The Franchise', he's set the task of proving the girl a liar.
Producer Pamela Howe

BBC Bristol

Contributors

Author:
Josephine Tey
Abridged by:
P.M. Wilson
Read By:
Bernard Hepton
Producer:
Pamela Howe

A radio happening with Jimmy Edwards, Ted Ray, Arthur Askey, Cyril Fletcher
In the Chair McDonald Hobley
Special guest Thora Hird
From an idea by Jimmy Edwards
Producer Edward Taylor
(McDonald Hobley is in "No Sex, Please - We're British!" at the Strand Theatre, London)

Contributors

Panellist:
Jimmy Edwards.
Panellist:
Ted Ray.
Panellist:
Arthur Askey
Panellist:
Cyril Fletcher
Special guest:
Thora Hird
From an idea by:
Jimmy Edwards
Producer:
Edward Taylor

Strong Poison by DOROTHY L. SAYERS , adapted in six parts by CHRIS MILLER with and 2: Ten Minutes in Bloomsbun/ Marjorie Phelps ROSALIND ADAMS
Producer SIMON BRETT

Contributors

Unknown:
Dorothy L. Sayers
Unknown:
Chris Miller
Unknown:
Rosalind Adams
Producer:
Simon Brett
Lord Peter:
Starring Ian Carmichael
Miss Climpson:
Ambrosine Phillpotts
Harriet Vane:
Ann Bell
Chief Inspector Parker:
Gabriel Woolf
Ryland Vaughan:
Christopher Bidmead
Nina Kropotky:
Margaret Robertson

Anna Calder-Marshall
Isabel Dean , John Phillips Paul Seed and John Rowe in Like the Leaves by GIUSEPPE GIACOSA , translated by HENRY REED
' These are people who can't stand up to a blizzard - the first puff of wind, and they're blown away, Blown away, like the leaves from a tree.'
Produced and directed by DAVID SPENSER

Contributors

Unknown:
Anna Calder-Marshall
Unknown:
Isabel Dean
Unknown:
John Phillips
Unknown:
Paul Seed
Unknown:
John Rowe
Unknown:
Giuseppe Giacosa
Translated By:
Henry Reed
Directed By:
David Spenser
Nennele:
Anna Calder-Marshall
Lucia:
Marjorie Westbury
Tommy:
Paul Seed
Andrea:
Malcolm Reid
Gaspare:
Peter Craze
Madame Lablanche:
Eva Haddon
Giovanni:
John Phillips
Massimo:
John Rowe
Signora Lauri:
Hilda Schröder
Signora Irene:
Janet Burnell
A painter:
Malcolm Hayes
Groom:
Anthony Smee
Helmer Strile:
Christopher Bidmead

by Ian Hay
Abridged for radio in ten parts by Nigel Lambert
Read by Peter Williams
Sir John Brent, a consultant surgeon, falls in love with Eve Angela Bingley Jessup , a society schoolgirl. They marry and are very happy, but Eve soon hankers after adventure...
Producer David H. Godfrey

Contributors

Author:
Ian Hay
Abridged for radio by:
Nigel Lambert
Read by:
Peter Williams
Producer:
David H. Godfrey

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