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Introduced by Robert Robinson and John Timpson
Including at 6.50 and 7.50 med wave only Travel news. What's on, and (6.50 only) Keep Fit with EILEEN FOWLER ; Weather and prog news at 6.55 and 7.55.
At 7.0 and 8.9 News and more of Today with Sportsdesk at 7.25 and 8.25; Today's Papers at 7.35* and 8.35*; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50

Contributors

Introduced By:
Robert Robinson
Introduced By:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler

Aided by Harriet Crawley , Benny Green. Barry Norman , Lance Percival. Esther Rantzen , Kenneth Robinson , Fritz Spiegl Producer MICHAEL EMBER

Contributors

Unknown:
Harriet Crawley
Unknown:
Benny Green.
Unknown:
Barry Norman
Unknown:
Lance Percival.
Unknown:
Esther Rantzen
Unknown:
Kenneth Robinson
Unknown:
Fritz Spiegl
Producer:
Michael Ember

I have been told that Eider Duck lose their power to fly during each year and congregate in one area until flying power is restored.
True or false? Why and how? The answers to this and other questions will be given by the Wildlife team of experts.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer ROBIN PRYTHERCH
Series producer DILYS BREESE
Questions to: Wildlife, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Robin Prytherch
Producer:
Dilys Breese

The Girl and the Live Bird by MARCUS GRANT
Read by Lockwood West
The box was on the table In front of him in the railway compartment: On the lid was written Lice Bird. ' I think it's shameful.' said the girl, ' Cooped up ... it should have the freedom of the skies.'
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
(Lockwood West is in ' Billy at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London)

Contributors

Producer:
Barbara Crowther

Presenter Nancy Wise Work and Money
Perhaps you can afford it after all - or £500 off. The mortgage famine and subsequent collapse of the land market have led many builders to make special offers to would-be buyers of new houses, so it csuld be just the right time to get on the bandwagon and buy your own home. CLIVE JACOBS reports.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Editor DENNIS LOWER
Write to You and Yours. BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 1AA '

Contributors

Presenter:
Nancy Wise
Unknown:
Clive Jacobs

Presenter Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Back to Britain: after 12 years in Canada, an English family return to live in the UK and receive some shocks.
Not only with eggs but also , .. : some other ways of using bacon.
Midsummer Magic: poems read by SANDRA CLARK and sam DASTOR.
RICHARD LEECH reads Anthony Trollope by JAMES POPE-HENNESSY (9)
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWLES

Contributors

Read By:
Sandra Clark
Read By:
Sam Dastor.
Unknown:
Richard Leech
Unknown:
Anthony Trollope
Unknown:
James Pope-Hennessy
Editor:
Teresa McGonagle
Editor:
Wyn Knowles

Slay-Ride by DICK FRANCIS abridged for radio in five parts by NIGEL LAMBERT
Read by Timothy West (1)
After the last race of the day at 0vrevoll in Norway, jockey Bob Sherman had been expected to catch the late flight to Heathrow. He had not caught it. He had disappeared. So had the day's takings at the racecourse. David Cleveland, Chief Investigator of the Jockey Club, flies to Norway to help find him. And the money.
Producer HARRY CATLIN
Broken back slay-ride: page 4

Contributors

Unknown:
Dick Francis
Unknown:
Nigel Lambert
Read By:
Timothy West
Producer:
Harry Catlin

starring
Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler
LAMB: These bulbs must go somewhere quiet, where they won't be disturbed.
LENNOX-BROWN: Let's get some earth and plant a few in my in-tray. with Norma Ronald, Ronald Baddiley, John Graham, Hilary Pritchard

Contributors

Writer:
Edward Taylor
Writer:
John Graham
Producer:
Edward Taylor
Lamb:
Richard Murdoch
Lennox-Brown:
Deryck Guyler
Mildred:
Norma Ronald
Sir Gregory:
Ronald Baddiley
[Actor]:
John Graham
[Actress]:
Hilary Pritchard

Karenin has discovered his wife's affair with Count Vronsky and is threatening divorce. The destructive passion between the Count and Anna contrasts strongly with the growing love between Kitty and Levin.
Special effects by BBC Radiophonic Workshop
(Rptd: Sunday, 2.30 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Leo Tolstoy
Dramatised for radio in two parts by:
Liane Aukin
Translation by:
Rosemary Edmonds
Special effects:
Mary Barrett
Special effects:
Carol McShane
Technical presentation:
Gordon Bowen
Producer:
Kay Patrick
Karenin:
Anthony Newlands
Anna:
Sarah Badel
Vronsky:
John Rowe
Levin:
Sean Arnold
Oblonsky:
Neville Jason
Dolly:
Sheila Grant
Kitty:
Joanna Wake
Countess Vronsky:
Eva Stuart
Princess Betsey:
Norma Ronald
Princess Myagky:
Virginia Balfour
Lydia Ivanovna:
Betty Baskcomb
Koznyshev:
Manning Wilson
Lawyer:
Timothy Bateson
Yashvin:
David Sinclair
Kdndraty:
Martin Friend
Seriozha:
Cordelia Mansall
Tushkevich:
Fraser Kerr
Serpuhovskoy:
John Bull
Princess Shcherbatsky:
Iris Mitchell
Lizaveta:
Sandra Clark

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