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Presenters John Timpson with HUGH SYKES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day With THE REV BROOKE LANE
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presenters:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Hugh Sykes
Unknown:
Brooke Lane
Read By:
Harriet Cass

A panel game whose unruly members are occasionally kept in disorder by the Chairman Nicholas Parsons and in which Kenneth Williams Peter Jones
Derek Nimmo and Tim Rice endeavour to prevent each other from talking for just a minute on this - or that Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer DAVID HATCH (Repeal)
12.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Peter Jones
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo
Unknown:
Tim Rice
Unknown:
Ian Messiter

Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: John Wells , humorist and actor. Still Crying Wolf: following the serial ' Never Cry Wolf' by Farley Mowat , JANET BARBER , World Wildlife Fund, and GEORGE COWLEY , Canadian High Commission, discuss the plight of the wolf today. Reading Your Letters.
Be a Better Gardener!.' JILL BURRIDGE visits Capel Manor Institute of Horticulture and Field Studies, one of many centres offering courses for amateur and craft gardeners. The Europe That Was 3: Kindly Stranger long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
John Wells
Unknown:
Farley Mowat
Unknown:
Janet Barber
Unknown:
George Cowley
Unknown:
Jill Burridge

A Great Day for Bonzo by H. EX, BATES, adapted for radio by DAVID h. GODFREY
A day of near despair for adults is for three children a day of adventure in the ponds, barns and woods of the countryside - and above all its a great day for Bonzo.
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON

Contributors

Directed By:
David Johnston
Bonzo:
Percy Edwards
Janey:
Natalie Ceeney
Biff:
Piers Eady
John:
Timothy Stark
Man:
Brian Carroll
Gill:
Lolly Cockerell
Girl's Father:
John Bott
Farm Labourer / First:
Denys Hawthorne
John's father / Second Stonemason.:
Patrick Barr

from Magdalen College, Oxford
Introit: Haec Dies (Wood) Responses (Stewart)
Psalms: 11, 42, 43 (Buck, Turle)
First Lesson: Ruth 1, vv 1-18
Canticles (Gray in F minor)
Second Lesson: St John 20, vv 11-23
Anthem: 'Tis the day of Resurrection (Wood)

Contributors

Organist and Informator Choristarum (choirmaster):
Dr Bernard Rose
Organ scholar:
Simon Lawford

A Judicial Reverse by ROBERT OVERTON
Read by John Clegg
' seemed a long haul back to my hotel. Stepping out of the sleet to get my breath back for a minute, I looked up and found myself at the entrance to the Mayfair Marriage Bureau - on an impulse I rang the bell and went inside... Oh, so you're a judge!" the Receptionist dimpled. "Which is your bench? Where do you sit? " " In the desert," I answered.

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Overton
Read By:
John Clegg

Being the ponderous pedallings of Tom Vernon from Muswell .Hill to the Mediterranean and what befell him in the land of the French.
Part The Sixth (of 6): The Pyramids of the Sun How our Hero Rode into the Mountains, what Manner of Place They were and how He Came Down rapidly on the Other Side; His Journey through Occitania; The Sentiments of a Poet and the Ambitions of an Architect; The Nymphs of the Mediterranean and How They Showed Themselves; and How a Cyclist was Weighed in the Balance and Found not Wanting. Producer joy HATWOOD

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Vernon

Two thousand ' dangerous ' mental patients are held in four maximum security hospitals-Broad-moor. Moss Side, Park Lane and Rampton. Even the authorities believe 200 of them should not be there.
Eric Robson is the first reporter allowed to record the tensions of daily routine inside a ' special hospital
Producer GERRY NORTHAM Editor COLIN ADAMS BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Robson
Producer:
Gerry Northam
Editor:
Colin Adams

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