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with Michael Cooke in Manchester and John Timpson 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 and Weather;
Thought for the Day at 7.45* Editor MIKE CHANEY
English Regions: see column 5

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Cooke
Unknown:
John Timpson
Editor:
Mike Chaney

Maggie and the Angel by ANNE-MARIE GWYNN
Read by Gladys Spencer
' " Good morning! " Maggie called in a high, thin voice to the angel. " Are we going today? " It was terrible the way they watched you here, and worse the way they kept you when you were all ready to go.'
(Gladys Spencer is a National Theatre player)

Contributors

Unknown:
Anne-Marie Gwynn
Read By:
Gladys Spencer
Unknown:
Gladys Spencer

Your health and general well-being are the concern of our Friday presenter Bill Breckon ; With, of course, your views in What's On Your Mind?
Bill Breckon 's book: You Are What You Eat, £1.90, from bookshops

Contributors

Presenter:
Bill Breckon
Unknown:
Bill Breckon

Introduced from Manchester by June Knox-Mawer

Northern Guest: Irvine Hunt, poet and humorist

2.0-2.2 News

Not a Bit Like School: Catherine Turner teaches prisoners to read and write.

Not for One, But for All: Judi Goodwin meets the youngsters behind a new newspaper

BBC Manchester

Anna Massey reads The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham (9)

Commercial Break by GILLIAN FREEMAN
Simon gets his first break in a television commercial when he's filmed in his pram in the park. It gives his mother big ideas for his future.
Produced and directed by HARRY CATLIN

Contributors

Unknown:
Gillian Freeman
Directed By:
Harry Catlin
Pat Warren:
Elizabeth Proud
Ruth:
Kate Coleridge
Mrs Porter:
Hazel Coppen
John Warren:
John Samson
Evelyn Anderson:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Mr Buckleigh:
Michael Deacon
Chris:
Peter Marinker
Miss Armitage:
Elizabeth Morgan
Mrs Purvis:
Norma Ronald
Roger Bellingham:
Paul Gaymon
Simon, aged 14:
Ian Sharrock

A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questionst Introduced by david JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol
Write to: Any Answersf, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Introduced By:
David Jacobs
Producer:
Roy Hayward

The news magazine: presented by Gordon Clough with PM's reporting team Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
Gordon Clough
Editor:
Derek Lewis

A spontaneous discussion by Malcolm Muggeridge
Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone Katharine Whitehorn Lord Cudllpp
Chairman David Jacobs from East Sussex
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
(Rptd: Sat 1.15; Mon 11.5 am)
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? (Thursday at
7.30 pm) to: Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Unknown:
Malcolm Muggeridge
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Producer:
Michael Bowen

David Jason. Bill Wallis and Bill McGufBe at the piano take a late-night look back over the week's news and illustrate the funny side. Script by CHRIS MILLER and ANDREW MARSHALL Producer JOHN LLOYD

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jason.
Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
Bill McGufbe
Script By:
Chris Miller
Script By:
Andrew Marshall
Producer:
John Lloyd

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