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with Brian Redhead in Manchester and Michael Cooke in London
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today, including Sports News and Today's Papers: at 7.25* and 8.25* VHF Regional News. Weather; and Thought for the Day at 7.45*
English Regions: see column 5

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Michael Cooke

Interviews, discussion, argument and a dash of humour to help you face Monday.
Mavis Nicholson. Kenneth Robinson and Fritz Spiegl review some of the events in the forthcoming week and talk with some of the personalities for whom the next six days have a special importance. Producer IAN GARDHOUSE

Contributors

Unknown:
Mavis Nicholson.
Unknown:
Kenneth Robinson
Unknown:
Fritz Spiegl
Producer:
Ian Gardhouse

Any hedgehog I've ever met has been covered with fleas - but what happens to all those fleas when the hedgehog is hibernating?
Just one of the ticklish problems tackled today by the Wildlife team.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Dilys Breese

Five from the North
1: The Great Aeroplane Race by SID CHAPLIN
Read by Ronald Herdman
Kids' wooden hoops like they have down south are only for playing with: but boolers are not only made of steel but call for steel to guide them. With the right lad behind them they could be the fastest thing on earth.
Producer ALFRED BRADLEY BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Sid Chaplin
Read By:
Ronald Herdman
Producer:
Alfred Bradley

from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
The Cave People of the Rain Forest: HARRIET CRAWLEY recently returned from visiting the Tasaday people of Mindanao in the Philippines who, until 1972, had had no contact with the outside world for
1.000 years.
Consumer Notes: NORMAN TOZER. Whatever Lola Wants: MAEVE BINCHY , ALISON BRUCE , MARTINE LEGGE reveal the way they get their own way by guile. Requiem for a Wren (8) Editor WYN KNOWLES

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Harriet Crawley
Unknown:
Norman Tozer.
Unknown:
Maeve Binchy
Unknown:
Alison Bruce
Unknown:
Martine Legge
Editor:
Wyn Knowles

Strong Poison by DOROTHY L. SAYERS , adapted in six parts by CHRIS MILLER starringwith 5: Pongo Producer
SIMON BRETT

Contributors

Unknown:
Dorothy L. Sayers
Unknown:
Chris Miller
Unknown:
Simon Brett
Lord Peter:
Ian Carmichael
Miss Climpson:
Ambrosine Phillpotts
Nurse Booth:
Joan Hickson
Freddy Arbuthnot:
Christopher Scoular

in The Road to Oxford by JEAN MORRIS
Cranmer's many recantations notwithstanding, he will always be remembered as the originator and mainstay of the English Reformation. Tonight's play follows the inner struggles which led him from obscurity to martyrdom.
Produced and directed by MARGARET ETALL

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean Morris
Directed By:
Margaret Etall
Thomas Cranmer:
Patrick Barr
James Alexander:
David March
Ralph Morice:
John Pullen
Queen Mary:
Mary Wimbush
Reginald, Cardinal Pole:
Peter Woodthorpe
Fray Juan de Villa Garcia:
David Graham
Nicholas Hawkins Archdeacon Of Ely:
Stephen Thorne
Ned Cressy:
Peter Wickham
Jack Fenton:
Christopher Bidmead
Peter, a page:
Patricia Trueman
Hugh Latimer:
Stephen Bateman
Marquis of Northampton:
Nigel Graham
Lord Darcy:
Noel Iliff
King Edward VI:
Peter Craze
Nicholas Woodson:
Clifford Norgate
Henry Sidall noel howlett Henry Cole:
Alexander John
Pedro de Soto:
Neville Jason
Anne Roberts, born Cranmer:
Margaret Robertson
Captain of Escort:
Walter Hall
Soldier:
Paul Meier

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