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with John Timpson In London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
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 (or the Day at 7.45*
English Regions: see column 5

Contributors

Unknown:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Brian Redhead

Good Health
There's a world of difference between the absence of disease and positive health; but keepIng fit doesn't mean a routine of discipline and denial. How can we keep our bodies and our minds healthy in today's hectic world?
Bill Breckon Investigates
Medical adviser DAVID DELVIN Producers SUSAN SNAILUM and PAT TAYLOR

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Breckon
Unknown:
David Delvin
Producers:
Susan Snailum
Unknown:
Pat Taylor

C'est La Guerre by PAT GARROD
Read by Margaret TyzacK
" Were you a Jerrybag In the war, Gran? . , . Instead of facing my 18-year-old grandchild in my London flat, I was back In 1940 in my lovely home in Guernsey just before the German occupation

Contributors

Unknown:
Pat Garrod
Read By:
Margaret Tyzack

Old Love by ROBERT HUXTER
' She used the soap you use. she set the tablecloth for tea, put milk in my cup. We really tasted our food , . , knobs of butter in a porcelain dtsh .. salad cream made her cough ]and ... she didn't just dip the teapot in the water, she scoured it out! She said, " You'll find my hairs in your bed long after I'm . , , " '
Produced and directed by ROBERT COOPER
BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Huxter
Directed By:
Robert Cooper
Mrs Croft:
Daphne Oxenford
Bill:
Graham Roberts
Reg:
Ronald Herdman
Sarah:
Kathleen Helme

Chairman Robert Robinson Round 2
18: Home Counties
RANDOLPH STOW (Essex), writer
DR VALERIE STEWART (Surrey), Industrial psychologist
FRANCIS MILES (Hertfordshire), sales executive
JAMES EAST (Essex), chartered surveyor
Including Bent the Brains
Programme devised by JOHN R. WYNN , who, with IAN GILLIES , sets the questions. Producer TONY LUKE
(Repeated: Friday 6.15 pm)
11.55
Weather, programme news
VHF Regional news and weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Dr Valerie Stewart
Unknown:
John R. Wynn
Unknown:
Ian Gillies

from 2.0
Introduced by Sue
MacGregor Guest of the Week? Alan Pascoe. mbe, Commonwealth and European 400 metres Hurdle Gold Medallists
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Living Folklore - 2: a look at folk customs around England.
Let's Play Some Music: ANDY PRICE fiddles a few notes on the violin.
One Step at a Time (3)

Contributors

Unknown:
MacGregor Guest
Unknown:
Alan Pascoe.

by BRIAN LEE
With Anthony Since as Colin and Glynis Brooks as Shirley

"Just take your opportunities, that's all the stars say. If you don't, it's your look-out . , And a bit of fly-pitching will show me vou can actually graft for a living .. you got to make an early start when you're working the markets."

Contributors

Writer:
Brian Lee
Producer/Director:
Piers Plowright
Composer (Eric's Tune):
Magee MacNamara
Lily Flanders:
Irene Sutcliffe
Eric:
Michael Shannon
Regina:
Shirley Dixon
Zodie:
John Hollis
Dusty:
David Graham
Stalky:
Paul Meier
Tessa:
Joy Harrison
Fat girl:
Deborah Paige
Policemen:
David Neal
Policemen:
William Ashley
Mrs Flanders:
Grizelda Hervey
Violinist:
Jack Bell
Musician:
Magee MacNamara

A series of four programmes
2:The Owl and the NightingaleRobert Dougall Invites you to listen to the music of birds and to some of the music, poetry and prose which they have Inspire in man. Reader GARY WATSON
Producer PETER DE ROSA

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Dougall
Reader:
Gary Watson
Producer:
Peter de Rosa

by Michael Brett

Jeff: "There's been an accident, It wasn't my fault, Lucy. I swear it wasn't, All right, I hated Eleanor but I would never..."
(Repeat)

followed by an interlude

Contributors

Writer:
Michael Brett
Producer/Director:
David H. Godfrey
Jeff Lancaster:
Frederick Treves
Lucy Dent:
Carole Boyd
Logan:
Michael Shannon
George:
Malcolm Hayes
Coroner:
Denis McCarthy
Peter Dent:
Nigel Lambert
Insp Bullock:
Clifford Norgate
Insp Blake:
Alan Dudley
Fielding:
Trader Faulkner
Mary Page:
Emily Richard
Joe Storey:
David Ryall
Landlord:
Peter Whitman
Rita Wells:
Margaret Robertson
Jenkins:
Paul Gaymon

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More