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Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News
7.0.8.0 Today's News Read by CLIVE ROSLIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JUUAN HOLLAND

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Presented By:
Sue MacGregor
Read By:
Clive Roslin
Unknown:
Garry Richardson
Editor:
Juuan Holland

A Dog Like Gable byjILLNORRIS
Read by Shirley Dixon
He was a stray dog with funny, drooping ears. He reminded the mother of Clark Gable , but to the little girl he was the pet she had always dreamed of. Producer MITCH RAPER

Contributors

Read By:
Shirley Dixon
Unknown:
Clark Gable
Producer:
Mitch Raper

The World of Nature
This week: Rivers and Lakes
Frank Muir and Alfred Marks skip through the comic literature of the subject, making notes in the margin of jokes, quotes, newspaper clippings and recorded humour from STAN FREBERG. PETER COOK.
TOM LEHRER. MICHAEL FLANDERS AND DONALD SWANN. HUGH PADDICK and KENNETH WILLIAMS.
Beware! When this notice board is covered, the river is at danger level. (SIGN AT IRISH RIVERBANK) Written by SIMON BRETT Producer RICHARD EDIS
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Alfred Marks
Unknown:
Stan Freberg.
Unknown:
Peter Cook.
Unknown:
Tom Lehrer.
Unknown:
Donald Swann.
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams.
Written By:
Simon Brett
Producer:
Richard Edis

1.55 Listening Corner This week SUSANNA DAWSON and Tim munro are thinking about the seaside and ANTHONY HYDE tells the story of Oscar Wildcat and Dorothy Barker Written by LEE PRESSMAN
2.5 Playtime
2.20 Introducing Science Unit 3/1: Next to Nothing
2.40 Astronomy Space Exploration Written and presented by TIMFURNISS

Contributors

Unknown:
Susanna Dawson
Unknown:
Tim Munro
Unknown:
Anthony Hyde
Unknown:
Dorothy Barker
Written By:
Lee Pressman

Introduced by Dilly Barlow Seventy-Five Guiding Years:
As Girl Guides celebrate their 75th anniversary JENNY NEMKO meets one group and one young guide who demonstrate the strength of the movement. Exit Lady Masham by LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS abridged in eight parts by MADGE HART
Read by PATRICIA HAYES (6) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Dilly Barlow
Unknown:
Jenny Nemko
Read By:
Patricia Hayes
Editor:
Sandra Chalmers

... like Manchester Treble Bar, Edinburgh Pug or Paignton Snout? Animals are often named after the place where they were first discovered, although the Bath white butterfly is a very rare visitor and the Arran brown only lives in Scandinavia!
Presented by Denis Owen Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol

Contributors

Presented By:
Denis Owen
Producer:
Anne Blair

Sea Views
A series of stories about the sea 1: Sunfish by JOHN MOORE
Read by Ronald Herdman
When Old Tom lands a sunfish he realises he has a potential source of income ...
Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING

Contributors

Unknown:
John Moore
Read By:
Ronald Herdman
Read By:
When Old Tom
Producer:
Christopher Venning

The antidote to panel games Tim Brooke-Taylor
Willie Brooke-Rushton Bill Brooke-Tidy and Barry Brooke-Cryer join forces with Chairman
Humphrey Brooke-Lyttelton and pianist MATTHEW BROOKE. scott to increase Radio 3's listenership
Producer PAUL BROOKE-MAYHEW BROOKEARCHER
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Unknown:
Willie Brooke-Rushton
Unknown:
Bill Brooke-Tidy
Unknown:
Barry Brooke-Cryer
Unknown:
Humphrey Brooke-Lyttelton
Pianist:
Matthew Brooke.
Producer:
Paul Brooke-Mayhew

The wheat in biscuits, potatoes in chips and barley in beer are all likely to have begun life in fields alongside the Mil. In recent years the Agricultural and Food Research Council's Plant Breeding Institute near Cambridge has been very successful in developing new and popular varieties of the country's staple foods.
Colin Tudge explores what scientists and breeders are doing today to bring further improvements to crops. Producer DEBORAH COHEN

Contributors

Unknown:
Colin Tudge
Producer:
Deborah Cohen

Welcome to the Times by DAVK SHEASBY with and Fledge was a forge-hand - a skilled craftsman from one of the great steel cities of the North. But the times have changed and no one wants craftsmen any more. So Fledge must survive as best he can - even if it means working for a man like Dawlish.
Directed by ROBERT COOPER BBC Manchester Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Davk Sheasby
Directed By:
Robert Cooper
Fledge:
Malcolm Hebden
Dawlish:
Nick Stringer
Slatterthwaite:
Bert Parnaby
Celia DEBRA BURTON Joe:
Graham Roberts
Barmaid/Girl in park:
Carrie Davies
Kennedy:
Colin Starkey
Mrs Slatterthwaite:
Rosalie Williams
Mr Slatterthwaite:
Roy Barraclough
Woman on the bus:
Daphne Oxenford
Commissionaire:
Randal Herley
Hilton:
Peter Woodthorpe
Kramer:
Brian Southwood
Baxter-French:
Sean Barrett
Duggie:
Fine Time Fontayne
Singer:
Ray Ashcroft

Showing the Works
Richard Rogers , this year's winner of the Gold Medal for Architecture, established his reputation with the world's first inside-out building - the Beaubourg in Paris. Since then he has designed influential factories and houses, produced a controversial plan for the National Gallery extension and is just about to finish a E175 million headquarters for Lloyd's.
Michael Oliver presents a profile of one of Britain's most successful architects and reflects on his methods of giving modern architecture a future. Producer CARROLL MOORE Editor THOMAS SUTCUFFE

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Rogers
Unknown:
Michael Oliver
Producer:
Carroll Moore
Editor:
Thomas Sutcuffe

Foreign Affairs
(Pulitzer Prize 1985) by ALISON LURIE abridged in 12 episodes by DOREEN MAHON
Read by Helen Horton and Kerry Shale (1)
Vinnie and Fred, American academics and colleagues, are at a loose end in London, and, as sometimes happens, romance can and will develop. But in this case, not with each other. Producer MAURICE LEITCH

Contributors

Unknown:
Alison Lurie
Unknown:
Doreen Mahon
Read By:
Helen Horton
Producer:
Maurice Leitch

The Right to Roam This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Ramblers Association. MIKE HARDING talks tO TOM STEPHENSON , the man who first conceived the idea of the Pennine Way. They trace the development of the Association and some notable campaigns and achievements. Producer JUDE HOWELLS

Contributors

Talks:
Mike Harding
Unknown:
Tom Stephenson

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