Listings
: Today
Introduced by Barry Norman and Malcolm BillingsIncluding at 6.50 and 7.50 VHF Regional news and weather; at
6.55 and 7.55 Weather and programme news.
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 7.27 and 8.17: Today's Papers at 7.35* and 8.35*; and Thought for the Day 7.45 7.50. English Regions: see column 5
Contributors
Introduced By:
Barry
Norman
: News
: Frank Muir goes into ... Heroism
with the help of Alfred Marks and the voices of BOB NEWHART , PETER COOK. JONATHAN MILLER. JOHN GIELGUD , TONY HANCOCK and KENNETH WILLIAMSProducers SIMON BRETT and JOHN LLOYD
Contributors
Unknown:
Alfred
Marks
Unknown:
Bob
Newhart
Unknown:
Peter
Cook.
Unknown:
Jonathan
Miller.
Unknown:
John
Gielgud
Unknown:
Tony
Hancock
Unknown:
Kenneth
Williams
Producers:
Simon
Brett
Unknown:
John
Lloyd
: News
: In Britain Now
BBC Home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories.Introduced by PAULINE BUSHNELL Producer TOM READ
Contributors
Introduced By:
Pauline
Bushnell
Producer:
Tom
Read
: Daily Service
NEM, p 122: There Is a land of pure delight (BBC HB 254); Psalm 34, vv 11-22; Romans 3, vv 29-31 and 4, vv 1-3, 20-25 (Jerusalem Bible); Jerusalem the golden (BBC HB 248): Morning Story
On the Road by DOUGLAS RAILTONRead by Clive Merrison
The dog stared after the car, then it ran hard the way the car had gone ... Hennig hurried on down the hill, angered at the bleak little act of rejection.
(Clive Merrison is in Saturday, Sunday, Monday' at the Queen's Theatre, London)
Contributors
Read By:
Clive
Merrison
Unknown:
Clive
Merrison
: News
: Thirty-Minute Theatre
medium only The Green Machine by FRANCES WILLISI never had a friend until I met Elsie. She's the green machine I operate in the factory. When I talk to her she makes such a soothing noise< A lullaby almost. It's very human, this machine.
Producer ALFRED BRADLEY (Leeds)
Contributors
Unknown:
Frances
Willis
Producer:
Alfred
Bradley
Bill Barton:
Tony
Robinson
Mr Friar:
George A
Cooper
Jack Edwards:
Ray
Mort
Harry:
James
Warrior
: News
: You and Yours
Presenter (ieorge LuceProtection for the Pedestrian: moves are afoot to focus more attention on the needs of pedestrians in our busy towns and highways. ANDY PRICE takes a look at the steps being taken.
: Brain of Britain 1975
A nationwide general knowledge contest.Chairman Robert Robinson
5: Midlands and East Anulia (i) TREVOR LEWIS , marketing manager
MARK BROADHEAD. insurance clerk MRS SHEILA BARNES , teacher
PETER TURTON , sales representative including ' Beat the Brains
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN , Who, with IAN GILLIES , sets the questions.
Producer CHRISTOPHER SERLE (Repeated: Friday 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Contributors
Unknown:
Robert
Robinson
Unknown:
Trevor
Lewis
Unknown:
Mark
Broadhead.
Unknown:
Mrs Sheila
Barnes
Unknown:
Peter
Turton
Unknown:
John P.
Wynn
Unknown:
Ian
Gillies
Producer:
Christopher
Serle
: The World at One: News
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William HardcastleContributors
Introduced By:
William
Hardcastle
: Woman's Hour
from 2.0Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
John Forbes. London Assay Master.
2.0-2.2 News
Womoney: MAVIS MOULLlN looks at the sixth of the financial ages of women.
A Mysterious Gift: ELIZABETH WEBB examines the practical evidence of two cases of healing by GORDON TURNER. Mrs Beer 's House
Read by PENELOPE LEE (8)
Contributors
Introduced By:
Sue
MacGregor
Unknown:
John
Forbes.
Unknown:
Mavis
Moullln
Unknown:
Elizabeth
Webb
Unknown:
Gordon
Turner.
Unknown:
Mrs
Beer
Read By:
Penelope
Lee
: Listen with Mother
Stories: Auntie Bel's Garden Path by Jill ROWE and Mr Pea -body's Squeak by MARGARET JOYContributors
Unknown:
Jill
Rowe
Unknown:
Mr
Pea
: News
: Afternoon Theatre: The Element of Doubt
by Alec BaronWhen a small shopkeeper agrees to help the police by taking part in an identification parade, two of the witnesses pick him out as a murderer.
(Leeds)
Contributors
Writer:
Alec
Baron
Producer:
Alfred
Bradley
Louis Wolf:
David
Mahlowe
CID man:
Robert
Whelan
Det-Insp Renton:
Geoffrey
Banks
Mrs Snaith:
Lorraine
Peters
Walter Snaith:
Graham
Roberts
Mrs Ross:
Linda
Gardner
Counsel for the Defence/Harry Ross:
Michael
Latimer
Counsel for the Prosecution:
Paul
Webster
Radio announcer/Receptionist:
Penny
Casdagli
: News
: The Swanherd of Abbotsbury
Fred Lexster must have one of the most unusual jobs in the country - he's a swanherd. Like his ancestors before him. it is his duty to care for the flock of up to 1.500 swans who come to nest each year on Chcsil Beach in Dorset. Today he shows DILYS BREESE round the swannery and tells her about the family life of the swans.Contributors
Unknown:
Fred
Lexster
Unknown:
Dilys
Breese
: Story Time
Heavy Weather by P. G. WODEHOUSERead by RICHARD CARRINGTON (3)
Contributors
Unknown:
P. G.
Wodehouse
Read By:
Richard
Carrington
: PM Reports
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
Contributors
Presented By:
William
Hardcastle
: News
: Twenty Questions
In the chair Terry Wogan On the panelAnona Winn. Briaa Johnston William Rushton and Bettine le Beau
Voice GRETTA GOURIET Producer
ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
(Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)
Contributors
Unknown:
Terry
Wogan
Unknown:
Anona
Winn.
Unknown:
Briaa
Johnston
Unknown:
William
Rushton
Unknown:
Alastair Scott
Johnston
: Celebration
Danny KayeDavid Daniel Kaminsky was born in Brooklyn. New York, one year before the outbreak of the First World War. A poor immigrant boy whose parents barely spoke English. he grew up to become a living embodiment of the great American rags-to-riches dream, famous throughout the world as Danny Kaye , comedian, singer and dancer, star of the theatre, radio and television.
BARRY NORMAN introduces the musical magic of a man who has been called America's first international all-round entertainer. who. because of his work for UNICEF in the past 20 years, is now known in scores of countries as the Children's Ambassador.
Producer JOHN BRIDGES
Contributors
Unknown:
Danny
Kaye
Unknown:
David Daniel
Kaminsky
Unknown:
Danny
Kaye
Introduces:
Barry
Norman
: Midweek Theatre
Whirlpool by LAWRENCE MCDERMOTT with Smooth at first, he says. like it is now.'' Yes, then beginning to spin round, and howl like a banshee.'
'And then the hole in the middle
' Getting deeper and deeper. The sides like a black wall of spinning water.'
'He comes up out of the middle!'
Producer HARRY CATLIN (Leeds) (Repeated: Thursday 3.5 pm)
Contributors
Unknown:
Lawrence
McDermott
Producer:
Harry
Catlin
Paul:
Andrew
Harrison
Alan:
Richard
Tolan
Mrs Clarkson:
Ann
Aris
Mrs Barnes:
Elizabeth
McKenzie
Mr Clarkson:
Paul
Webster
Headmaster/Mr Barnes:
Geoffrey
Banks
Policeman:
Alan
Hockey
Miss Caldwell:
Val
Georgeson
: Paul Robeson
Some songs and a poem or two LAWRENCE BROWN at the pianoProducer BILL WORSLEY (1959) I
Contributors
Unknown:
Lawrence
Brown
: Kaleidoscope
We ne'er shull look upon his like again (Ode upon Dedicating a Building and Erecting a statue to Shakespeare by David Garrick , 1769)A special edition in celebration of Shakespeare's Birthday Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer JOHN POWELL
Contributors
Unknown:
David
Garrick
Presenter:
Paul
Vaughan
Producer:
John
Powell
: Weather
: A Book at Bedtime
The Mill on the Floss (3): News
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