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6.27 Farming Today6.45 Prayer for the Day
6.50-7.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
: Today
7.0 NewsThe world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anywhere on earth introduced by John Timpson and Robert Robinson
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the day
7.58-8.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
8.0 News and more of Today
(including, in the Midlands and E Anglia, iRegional Extra; and Today in the South and West introduced by DEREK JONES ) VHF East Anglia: see below
8.40 Today's Papers
Contributors
Introduced By:
John
Timpson
Introduced By:
Robert
Robinson
Introduced By:
Derek
Jones
: News
: The Living World
Water-builders and silk-spinnersTheir larvae build elaborate homes out of leaves and stones, or spin nets to catch their food: the adults provide the model for the angler's fly ... A look at that inoffensive and intriguing creature, -the caddis. Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE
(from Bristol: shortened version of Sunday's broadcast)
Contributors
Introduced By:
Derek
Jones
Introduced By:
Dilys
Breese
: For Schools
9.30 History in EvidenceRoman Britain 5: Agricola recalled from northern Scotland Written by BRENDA RALPH LEWIS
9.45 Listening and Reading The Thingummyjig by R. C. SCRIVEN : read by HUGH DICKSON and CYRIL SHAPS
Contributors
Written By:
Brenda Ralph
Lewis
Unknown:
R. C.
Scriven
Read By:
Hugh
Dickson
Read By:
Cyril
Shaps
: For Schools
Poetry Corner: There's a Hole in the Middle of the Sea: Daily Service
NEM p 72; 0 God, thou art my God alone (BBC HB 468); Canticle 4; 1 Peter 3, vv 13-22; 0 brother man, fold to thy heart thy brother! (BBC HB 376): For Schools
10.30 Music Workshop 211.0 Inquiry
Unit 1: Waste and Want - 5 Written by DAVE ROBBINS (15-16 age group)
11.20 Discovery
The Unseen World
2: Fleming discovers Penicillin by JO MANTON
11.40 Guitar School
Written and introduced by MICHAEL JESSETT (9)
Contributors
Written By:
Dave
Robbins
Unknown:
Jo
Manton
Introduced By:
Michael
Jessett
: You and Yours
Nancy Wise presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you Today's main feature: Your Rights and ResponsibilitiesBail: When should bt be given and when can it be refused' What does standing bail for someone involve?
ELIZABETH MITCHELL explains Other topical items too. and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind"
(Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA; or phone [number removed], extension 3030, and record your letter)
VHF South West: see col 2
Contributors
Unknown:
Elizabeth
Mitchell
: Life Is What Yer Make It
starring ' The Things ' with A weekly, fearless, down .to-earth report on Britair: today through the eyes of yer typical average listening family. 8: Environment an' that Written by TONY BILBOW and MIKE FENTIMAN Producer MARTIN FISHER12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
Contributors
Written By:
Tony
Bilbow
Written By:
Mike
Fentiman
Producer:
Martin
Fisher
Dad:
Michael
Robbins
Mum:
Pat
Coombs
Beryl:
Liz
Gebhardt
Len:
Frank
Abbott
Himself:
Ronald
Fletcher
: The World at One: News
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William HardcastleContributors
Introduced By:
William
Hardcastle
: Listen with Mother
Story: Tom Tabby and his Sonp by CONSTANCE MAUNSELLContributors
Unknown:
Tom
Tabby
Unknown:
Constance
Maunsell
: For Schools
2.0 Movement, Mime and Music 1 by JAMES DODDING2.20 Books. Plays, Poems Don Quixote by CERVANTES
A new adaptation for radio in six parts by VERNON SCANNELL-2 Music by MICHAEL GARRICK
DAvio MARCH as Don Quixote
JOHN HOLLIS as Sancha Panza
2.45 Nature
A Visit to an Aquarium by FLEUR ADCOCK
Contributors
Music By:
James
Dodding
Unknown:
Don
Quixote
Music By:
Michael
Garrick
Unknown:
Don
Quixote
Unknown:
John
Hollis
Unknown:
Sancha
Panza
Unknown:
Fleur
Adcock
: Afternoon Theatre: A Thin Man Screaming
A comedy by W.G. Stanton with Timothy Bateson as Cyril MeggittFat, fortyish Cyril Meggitt is at last given opportunities to release the thin man within him.
(from Birmingham)
Contributors
Writer:
W.G.
Stanton
Producer:
James
Duckett
Cyril Meggitt:
Timothy
Bateson
Daemon:
John
Baddeley
Lilian:
Peggy
Hughes
Prunella:
Patricia
Greene
Mainwaring:
David
Glover
Simpson:
Jack
Holloway
: Plane Crash
High over the desolate and bitterly cold Alaskan landscape the engine of Ralph Flores 's tiny aircraft began to splutter. When it plunged to earth he and his passenger, Helen Kla ben, faced the long ordeal from which they could hardly expect to escape alive.Written by MARY-JEAN HASLER Producer ALAN BURGESS
Contributors
Unknown:
Ralph
Flores
Unknown:
Helen
Kla
Written By:
Mary-Jean
Hasler
Producer:
Alan
Burgess
Helen Klaben:
Llz
Whiting
Ralph Flores:
Peter
Marinker
Jack:
Robin
Browne
Chuck:
David
Gooderson
: Story Time
The Blue Field by JOHN MOORE Read by KEITH BANKS (3)Contributors
Unknown:
John
Moore
Read By:
Keith
Banks
: PM
The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening. Presented by William Hardcastle and Steve Race5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
Contributors
Presented By:
William
Hardcastle
Presented By:
Steve
Race
: News
: Petticoat Line
The questions and ideas you send are discussed today by Renee Houston , Beryl ReidSylvia Anderson , Renny Lister In the chair Anona Winn Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER
Producer CHRISTOPHER SERLE
Contributors
Unknown:
Renee
Houston
Unknown:
Beryl
Reid
Unknown:
Sylvia
Anderson
Unknown:
Renny
Lister
Unknown:
Anona
Winn
Unknown:
Anona
Winn
Unknown:
Ian
Messiter
Producer:
Christopher
Serle
: Down Your Way
lverFRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited lver, Buckinghamshire Producer PHYLLIS Robinson
Contributors
Unknown:
Franklin
Engelmann
Producer:
Phyllis
Robinson
: Midweek Theatre
Cul-de-sac by JOHN TARRANT with Sean Barrett and Frances Jeater1 If anybody starts obstructing roads in this part of the world, he's got to be nailed quickly and hit very hard indeed. We close public highways for all sorts of sporting events: the TT. Manx Grand Prix, half-a-dozen International Rallies for cars, scooters, bicycles, the lot. And they all depend on good, clear, unobstructed roads.'
Producer HARRY CATLIN
Contributors
Unknown:
John
Tarrant
Unknown:
Sean
Barrett
Unknown:
Frances
Jeater
Producer:
Harry
Catlin
Ian Cringle:
Sean
Barrett
Valerie Kinrade:
Frances
Jeater
Morris:
Edward
Kelsey
Steve Crellin:
Ronald
Herdman
Nicholson:
John
Bentley
pc Lomas:
Robin
Browne
: Now Read On
with Clive JamesIRIS MURDOCH talks about her latest novel An Accidental Man c. P. SNOW on his essavs, Public Affairs
NOEL ANNAN takes a new look at Lytton Strachey, the man and the biographer
DAVID PIPER considers Albrecht DURER in the light of three studies of his life and drawings Producers JOCELYN FERGUSON MIRIAM RAPP
Contributors
Unknown:
Clive
James
Talks:
Iris
Murdoch
Unknown:
Noel
Annan
Unknown:
Albrecht
Durer
Producers:
Jocelyn
Ferguson
Producers:
Miriam
Rapp
: The English Poets
from Chaucer to YeatsAn anthology in 26 programmes 5: Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) and Edmund Spenser 1552-1599) Introduced by ANTHONY THWAITE Reader GARY WATSON
Producer GEORGE MACBETH
Contributors
Unknown:
Sir Philip
Sidney
Unknown:
Edmund
Spenser
Introduced By:
Anthony
Thwaite
Reader:
Gary
Watson
Producer:
George
MacBeth
: Weather
: The World Tonight: News
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the worldContributors
Unknown:
Douglas
Stuart
: A Book at Bedtime
Pride and Prejudice by JANE ACSTENRead by EILEEN ATKINS (26)
Contributors
Unknown:
Jane
Acsten
Read By:
Eileen
Atkins
: News
All the day's news preceded by Weather11.31 Market Trends
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