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Presented by Brian Redhead
With LIBBY PURVES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With THE REV LESLIE STOKES
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.31, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day Book: Thoughts, Prayers. Reflections, £ 1.35, from bookshops

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
With Libby Purves
Unknown:
Leslie Stokes
Read By:
Harriet Cass

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 liveliest and most unpredictable talk show.
Producer ian r. gardhouse Kenneth Robinson 's Review: page 90

Contributors

Unknown:
Mavis Nicholson.
Unknown:
Dr Rob Buckman
Unknown:
Kenneth Robinson
Unknown:
Kenneth Robinson

Four programmes about how society and individuals have been trying to help underprivileged children.
I: Who was Pestalozzit compiled and narrated by Geoffrey Parkinson
In many respects Johann Heinrich Pistalozzi seemed like a madman. In his time few really understood him, yet he was destined to become one of the founding fathers of modern education. Why then do we know so little about this great and curious man of genius? with John Rowe Jill Balcon and Stephen Kemble also taking part:
Michael Heaffoid author of a book on Pestalozzi John Gale , Warden of the Pestalozzi Children's Village at Seddlescombe
Wynford Jones, Senior Tutor, Social Studies at Lewes Polytechnic and Dr Rhodes Boyson , MP Producer
CHRISTOPHER VENNING
(Repeated: Tuesday 8.0)

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Parkinson
Unknown:
Johann Heinrich Pistalozzi
Unknown:
John Rowe
Unknown:
Jill Balcon
Unknown:
Stephen Kemble
Unknown:
Michael Heaffoid
Unknown:
Pestalozzi John Gale
Unknown:
Dr Rhodes Boyson
Unknown:
Christopher Venning

A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain.
Chairman Robert Robinson 7: London (1)
PHILIP STEVENS , Civil Servant (London): HUGHMER-RICK, Author and Translator (London); OLGA EVANS (London): JOHN KIRKBY, Retired Director (London)
Including Beat the Brains in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
Devised by JOHN P. WYNN Questions set by IAN, GILLIES and JOAN CLARK Producer RICHARD EDIS
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Philip Stevens
Unknown:
Olga Evans
Unknown:
John P. Wynn
Unknown:
Joan Clark
Producer:
Richard Edis

Introduced by June Knox -Mawer
Whatever You Think's Right, Vicar ....: wedding music can be trad or fad, or simply bad. BOB PRIZEMAN investigates. Reading Your Letters.
Encore: JACK DE MANIO meets again a guest from Jack de Manio Precisely. 4: MARGOT TRACEY , author. Advice from a Professional: ANNE MACNAMARA asks pianist HOWARD SHELLEY what to look for when buying a piano. The Pain by PAULINE SMITH abridged and read in two parts by Margaret Inglis (1)
All their married life of nearly 50 years Juriaan Van Royen and his wife Deltje had lived in the Aangenaam valley. For his wife Deltje, Juriaan's tenderness had increased with age. and lately, with her pain.
(Music: Kalinnikovs First Symphony)
Editor WYN KNOWLES

Contributors

Introduced By:
June Knox
Unknown:
Jack de Manio
Unknown:
Jack de Manio
Unknown:
Margot Tracey
Pianist:
Howard Shelley
Unknown:
Pauline Smith
Unknown:
Margaret Inglis
Unknown:
Juriaan van Royen
Editor:
Wyn Knowles

The former radio show
Lesson 36: Rise from the Grave the Burkiss Way starring Jo Kendall
Nigel Rees , Chris Emmett Fred Harris
Written. by ANDREW MAR SHALL and DAVID RENWICK Producer DAVID HATCH
(Repeated: Wed 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jo Kendall
Unknown:
Nigel Rees
Unknown:
Chris Emmett
Unknown:
Fred Harris
Written By:
Andrew Mar
Written By:
David Renwick

by Joe Ashton, dramatised for radio by Stephen Wakelam

'Politics is us, the workers. Us who are always the ones to get the dirty end of the stick. It is always us who are expected to put up with low wages, lousy schools, poor pensions, ancient hospitals and the rotten monotonous jobs. And it is always them who will tell us what to do.'

BBC Manchester
(Rptd: Easter Day 1.39)

Contributors

Writer:
Joe Ashton
Director:
Tony Cliff
Mick:
Bobby Knutt
Brenda:
Janet Dale
Sammy:
Ronald Baddiley
Billy:
Bert Gaunt
Mrs Bradstock:
Lorraine Peters
Tasker:
Will Tacey
Pat McMahon:
Sally Gibson
Bailey:
Ronald Herdman
Jennings:
John Jardine
Halpin:
Russell Dixon
Wilding:
David Mahlowe
lane Poyser:
Fiona Walker
Sydney Prince:
Malcolm Hebden
Mayor:
Geoffrey Banks
Other parts played by:
Keith Clifford
Other parts played by:
David Fleeshuan
Other parts played by:
Andrew Jarvis
Other parts played by:
John McGregor
Other parts played by:
Kenneth Alan Taylor

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.
George Martin , record producer, whose artists included The Beatles, talks about the development of pop music from the early days of rock and skiffle, to its present status as a multi-million pound industry.
Producer jock Gallagher BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Talks:
George Scott
Unknown:
George Martin

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