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Presented by Brian Redhead
With LIBBY PURVES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day with TONY BLACK
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
Libby Purves
Unknown:
Brian Perkins

When he and the regulars, Mavis Nicholson , Dr Rob Buckman and Kenneth Robinson are among those helping to find antidotes to that Monday morning feeling as they talk to some of the personalities who will be making the news in the forthcoming week - and sometimes make the news themselves - in Radio 4's live-liest and most unpredictable talk show.
Producer IAN R. GARDHOUSE long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Mavis Nicholson
Unknown:
Dr Rob Buckman
Unknown:
Kenneth Robinson
Producer:
Ian R. Gardhouse

Fishing for Worms by CLIVE RICHE
Read by Peter Craze
' He was still smiling, but there was menace coming from somewhere in his voice. And I saw his eyes looking at me, in the samewaythatafisherman looks at the worm he's threading-detached, cool, deadly and single-minded.'
Producer MITCH RAPER long wave only

Contributors

Read By:
Peter Craze
Producer:
Mitch Raper

A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain.
Chairman Robert Robinson 3: Scotland (1)
MICHAEL KERR , Actuary (Edinburgh); ERIC worm-ALD, Teacher (Perthshire); JOHN WIDDOWSON , Head-master (Dumbarton); MONICA ClOUGH. , Writer I Perthshire)
Including Beat the Brains in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants. Devised by JOHH P. WYNN
Questions set by IAN GILLIES and JOAN CLARK Producer RICHARD EDIS
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news: Ions wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Michael Kerr
Unknown:
John Widdowson
Unknown:
Monica Clough.
Unknown:
Johh P. Wynn
Unknown:
Ian Gillies
Unknown:
Joan Clark
Producer:
Richard Edis

Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Bald But Beautiful: MAUREEN GALVIN looks at three ways in which men can cope with baldness, encore: JACK DE MANIO meets again a guest from Jack de Manio Precisely. 2: GILL BRASON ,ex-park-keeper.
Talking Point: opinions and ideas.
A Day Away In ... 1: a Welsh valley with MEURIG JENKINS.
The Hiding Place by CORRIE TEN BOOM abridged in ten parts by ANGELA JESSON Read by Marjorie Westbury (1)
Corrie ten Boom was born in Haarlem in 1892. into a family of staunch Dutch Christians. Their steadfast faith in God made it imperative that they should help Jews and other fugitives from the obscenities of Nazism; it was to sustain Corrie and her sister Betsie in hell itself - Ravensbruck.
(Music: Alwyn's Second Symphony)
Editor WYN KNOWLES long wave only

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Reen Galvin
Unknown:
Jack de Manio
Unknown:
Jack de Manio
Unknown:
Gill Brason
Unknown:
Meurig Jenkins.
Unknown:
Corrie Ten Boom
Unknown:
Angela Jesson
Read By:
Marjorie Westbury
Editor:
Wyn Knowles

Risk by DICK FRANCIS abridged and produced in ten parts by MICHAEL BOWEN Read by Robert Hardy (1) I was lying tied up In the dark and on a sort of shelf near an electric generator. Cold, sick and frightened... And where? As to how I'd got there ... well, I knew that, up to a point. The most shattering questions were those to which I could think of no answer at all. Why? What for? And what next?-* BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Dick Francis
Unknown:
Michael Bowen
Read By:
Robert Hardy

Presented by Gordon Clough and Joan Bakewell Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
Gordon Clough
Presented By:
Joan Bakewell
Editor:
Derek Lewis

Tim Brooke-Taylor in Hobson and Jobson withi
PATRICIA BAYES , KENNETH CONNOR , JOHN GRAHAM , MOLLY WEIR and "LOLLY COCKERELL
Written by DONALD BULL
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR (Repeated: Wed at 1-2.27)

Contributors

Unknown:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Unknown:
Patricia Bayes
Unknown:
Kenneth Connor
Unknown:
John Graham
Unknown:
Molly Weir
Unknown:
Lolly Cockerell
Written By:
Donald Bull
Producer:
Edward Taylor

by MALCOLM LOWRY
Narrated by Paul Scofield
with Norman Rodway, June Tobin and Denys Hawthorne
in a radio version by Eric Ewens with music by Graham Collier
A radio adaptation of Lowry's classic study of a man, an ex-Consul, who struggles against the powers of darkness and of light. It is also a moving and tragic love story. Mexico at the time of the fiesta for the Day of the Dead, November 1939 and 1938.
(Norman Rodway is a member of the RSC)
(Broadcast last Friday. Repeated on Thursday at 7.30pm)

Contributors

Author:
Malcolm Lowry
Radio version by:
Eric Kwens
Music By:
Graham Collier
Director:
John Tydeman
Narrator:
Paul Scofield
Dr Arturo Vigil:
William Fox
Jacques Laruelle:
David March
Signor Bustamente:
Trader Faulkner
Consul:
Norman Rodway
Yvonne, his ex-wife:
June Tobin
Hugh, his half-brother:
Denys Hawthorne
Everard:
Gordon Dulieu
Cervantes:
Gregory De Polnay
Dios:
Andrew Branch
Policeman/Voice 2:
John Bull
Maria:
Eva Stuart
Voice 1:
Leonard Fenton

In tracing some of the political and social trends in Britain since the last war. George Scott talks to the people who were central to the most significant changes and invites them to view, with the benefit of hindsight, their personal part in events.
Jimmy Hill , first Chairman of the Professional Footballers' Association, and now soccer administrator and television personality, talks about the early struggle to improve the lot of the professional footballer and its implications for other sportsmen and women.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Talks:
George Scott
Unknown:
Jimmy Hill
Producer:
Jock Gallagher

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