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with John Marsh
Headlines and weather, news for sports fans including the latest news from Argentina on the World Cup. Prayer for the Day (Mon SISTER MARTINA HAYDEN. Tues-Thurs JOHN GUNSTONE , Fri THE REV RICHARD HARRIES )

Contributors

Unknown:
John Marsh
Unknown:
Martina Hayden.
Unknown:
Tues-Thurs John Gunstone
Unknown:
Richard Harries

medium only
'I've just seen a film in which a heron swallowed a very large wriggling eel. Would the fish cause any damage to the bird or merely tickle it? '
The team digests some more of your questions.
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
Questions to: Wildlife, BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR
(Revised repeat.' Thursday
3.35 pm medium only)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
John Harrison

Chairman Robert Robinson 16: Northern Ireland
BRIAN MULHOLLAND (Belfast), trainee manager; IAN BROWN (Belfast), civil servant; PHILIP BEAGON (Co Down), school-teacher; JAMES NESBITT (Co Antrim), civil servant
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN. Who, with IAN GILLIES , set the questions. Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Thursday 6.30 pm)
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Ian Brown
Unknown:
Philip Beagon
Unknown:
James Nesbitt
Unknown:
John P. Wynn.
Unknown:
Ian Gillies
Producer:
Martin Fisher

medium only from 2.0
Introduced by Sylvia Horn Talk Till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading Your Letters.
Smile Please!: ROGER CLARK 'S tips for better photographs. 1: Holiday ' Snaps '.
Mike Sheils in America 7 with the Country and Western sounds in Nashville, Tennessee. Footnote: added to the last serial The Dog Who Wouldn't Be by its author FARLEY MOWAT. Airs Above the Ground by MARY STEWART abridged in 12 parts by JANET HICKSON
Read by Virginia Stride (1)
Vanessa March agrees to take young Tim Lacy to Vienna mainly to try and discover why her husband Lewis is in Austria whilst claiming to be in Sweden' Tim too has his own undivulged motives for going to Vienna, but soon the two of them are involved in considerable danger and intrigue involving the milk-white stallions of the Spanish Riding School, who perform the ' airs above the ground '.
(Music: Prokofiev's Sinfonietta)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sylvia Horn
Unknown:
Roger Clark
Unknown:
Mike Sheils
Unknown:
Farley Mowat.
Unknown:
Mary Stewart
Unknown:
Janet Hickson
Read By:
Virginia Stride
Unknown:
Tim Lacy

starring Bryan Pringle
A comedy serial in eight episodes by Andrew Lynch

Wilf encounters the 'yellow peril' in the shape of Hong Kong's answer to George Formby.

BBC Manchester

Contributors

Writer:
Andrew Lynch
Producer:
Bob Oliver Rogers
Doreen Hargreaves:
Kay Adshead
Wilfred Hargreaves:
Bryan Pringle
The Merry Widow:
Meg Johnson
Molly Hargreaves:
Betty Alberge
Mavis:
Christine Prentice
Ling Loo:
Geoffrey Banks
Mrs Ling Loo:
Cynthia Michaelis

or The Merited Triumph of Zebediah Grimpot Esq
A nice family play with music and a moral.

BBC Manchester

Contributors

Book and lyrics:
Clifford Hanley
Music/Musical Director:
Ian Gourlay
Director:
Alfred Bradley
Tomkins/Irish Cocklemonger:
Meg Johnson
Grimnot:
David Mahlowe
Henrietta:
Linda Gardner
Sylvia:
Carole Hayman
Amelia/Black Bertha:
Kathleen Helme
Alex:
June Barry
Torauil/Sohertike:
Peter John
Scrump:
John Franklyn-Robbins
Tom:
Russell Dixon
Shorthouse/Solario:
John Jardine
Verger/Scheider:
Kenneth Alan Taylor

The conflict between individual man and collective man Interests me - the individual humanistic value and the collective value. The collective value on its own always seems to me to be inferior to the individual value. When one goes hack to the beginning of the Western European Spirit, you see it labouring to produce a kind of individual who is capable of taking on a personal destiny and making what Is universal individual.'
In conversation with Derek Parker , the South African writer and traveller Laurens van der Post talks about his books, his philosophy, his friendship with Jung and his anxieties for the African people.
Producer JOHN KNIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Parker
Producer:
John Knight

by Karen Blixen
abridged in 15 parts by Donald Bancroft
Read by Annette Crosbie

Baroness Blixen spent several years running a farm in Kenya. On her return to Europe, she wrote this account of her life in Africa, the animals, the places and the people she knew and loved.

Contributors

Author:
Karen Blixen
Abridger:
Donald Bancroft
Reader:
Annette Crosbie
Producer:
Liane Aukin

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