Programme Index

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Introduced by John Timpson
Including 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 8.27; Today's
Papers at 7.35* and 8.35*: and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50 Editor MIKE CHANEY
English Regions; see column 5

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Editor:
Mike Chaney

Courage by FORREST REID
Read by Pitt Wilkinson
The house, whose chimneys he caught a glimpse of through the trees, had been empty for years and years. Long ago a lady lived there, but she had been very wicked and very unhappy, and even now could find no rest in her grave. Producer PAUL MULDOON BBC Northern Ireland

Contributors

Read By:
Pitt Wilkinson

starring Kenneth Williams with Lance Percival Miriam Margolyes and the Nic Rowley Trio
Script by PETER SPENCE , with additional material by COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH and DAVID RENWICK Producer SIMON BRETT
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Lance Percival
Unknown:
Miriam Margolyes
Script By:
Peter Spence
Unknown:
Colin Bostock-Smith
Unknown:
David Renwick
Producer:
Simon Brett

from 2.0
Introduced from Birmingham by Maureen Staffer
Like Father. Like Son: PETER WINDOWS investigates what happens when boys follow their fathers' footsteps - and when they don't.
2.0-2.2 News
The Phobics: SUSAN MCKENZIE meets a group at Nottingham who help each other.
Local Studies Library: EILEEN TOTTEN explores a part of a library that deals with very recent history.
Sewing Snips and Tips from BETTY FOSTER - 5: up-dating old clothes.
Studio guest: playwright David Edgar , with successes in Bristol and London, whose newest offering opens in Birmingham next week. MARTIN JARVIS reads Lucky Jim by KINGSLEY AMIS (10)

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan McKenzie
Unknown:
Eileen Totten
Unknown:
Betty Foster
Unknown:
David Edgar
Unknown:
Martin Jarvis
Unknown:
Lucky Jim

Story: Mr Arthur Stocking in Space by MARY CALVERT Presenters
GLADYS WHJTRED (Music) TONY AITKEN (drama)
Written by AVERIL coult
Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
Listen with Mother Stories, £2.00 from bookshops

Contributors

Unknown:
Mr Arthur Stocking
Unknown:
Mary Calvert
Music:
Tony Aitken
Written By:
Averil Coult
Producer:
Jenyth Worsley

by A. A. Beeching
With Barry Foster, Penelope Lee and Steven Pacey
"Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom" (Edmund Burke)
Producer
MICHAEL ROLFE BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Writer:
A. A. Beeching
Producer:
Michael Rolfe
Don Simpson:
Barry Foster
Nicola Simpson:
Penelope Lee
Richard Simpson:
Steven Pacey
Headmaster:
Stephen Thorne
Secretary/Junior boy:
Elizabeth Revill
Mr Beresford:
Roger Milner
Ian/Radio commentator:
Anthony Smee
Arthur Preece:
Ralph Lawton
Fred Micklethwaite:
Michael Deacon
Reporter/Reginald Proctor:
Michael Shannon

A Murder of Quality by JOHN IE CARRE
Read by GEOFFREY BANKS 5: The End of the Chase
(Starting next Monday: The House of Gair by Eric Link -later, read by John Shedden )

Contributors

Read By:
Geoffrey Banks
Unknown:
Eric Link
Read By:
John Shedden

A spontaneous discussion by Lady Barnett Hugh Scanfon
Sir Monty Finniston
Phillip Whitehead. mp
Chairman David Jacobs from Derbyshire
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
(Rptd: Sat, 1.15; Afon, 11.5am)
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? (Thursday at
7.30 pm) to: Any Answerst, BBC, Bristol BS8 ZLR

Contributors

Unknown:
Lady Barnett Hugh Scanfon
Unknown:
Sir Monty Finniston
Unknown:
Phillip Whitehead.
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Producer:
Michael Bowen

A Declaration of Independence The American voice in the novel and on the stage. In this bicentennial year. MALCOLM BRADBURY , TONY TANNER and BRENDAN GILL discuss with PAUL BAILEY the development of fiction and drama in America,

Contributors

Unknown:
Malcolm Bradbury
Unknown:
Tony Tanner
Unknown:
Brendan Gill
Unknown:
Paul Bailey

David Jason. Bill Wallis Nigel Rees and Bill McGuffie at the piano take a late-night look back over the week's news and illustrate the funny side.
Script by COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH ANDREW MARSHALL and others Producer MARTIN FISHER

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jason.
Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
Nigel Rees
Unknown:
Bill McGuffie
Script By:
Colin Bostock-Smith
Script By:
Andrew Marshall
Producer:
Martin Fisher

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