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John Timpson in London and Brian Redhead at the Conservative Party Conference 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* English Regions; see column 5

Contributors

Unknown:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Source: Radio Times
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All Hope Gone by RICHARD KERR Read by Harriet Buchan
' After three days of no drink and very little food, he had saved enough to buy the poster of his favourite pop star, and there it was on the wall of the doss house. But now the missionaries had come in and they had a poster of a man with long hair like the hippies.... ' Producer ALLAN G. ROGERS BBC Scotland

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Kerr
Read By:
Harriet Buchan
Producer:
Allan G. Rogers
Source: Radio Times
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mediumwaveonly
It's 100 years since Richard Jefferies wrote Hodge and his Masters. Hugh Barrett compares the characters of the 1870s with their successors of today. 4: The Country Newspaper and Its Editor. Producer ANTHONY PARKIN. BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Jefferies
Unknown:
Hugh Barrett
Producer:
Anthony Parkin.
Source: Radio Times
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(medium wave only from 2.0)
with Sue MacGregor celebrates its 30th birthday by looking hack over the years with the help of its listeners; looking forward to the year 2086; and considering the age of 30 - one of life's landmarks? the end of youth? the age when a girl becomes a woman? when a physicist has passed his prime? and a programme is as young as it feels?
Marjorie Anderson reads "Princess September" by Somerset Maugham abridged by Delia Paton

Contributors

Presenter:
Sue MacGregor
Author (Princess September):
Somerset Maugham
Reader (Princess September):
Marjorie Anderson
Abridged by (Princess September):
Delia Paton
Source: Radio Times
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and in A Whisper in the Ear by Sheila Hodgson, based on an idea by M.R.James
I have told many stories, ghost stories. only ghost stories, I never cared to tell any other kind and the question arises: Do I believe in ghosts? - Well I am prepared to consider evidence. Take for example, the curious business of the train companion.....
Produced and directed by David Johnston

Contributors

Writer:
Sheila Hodgson
Director:
David Johnston
M R James:
David March
Robert Stafford:
Steve Hodson
Madame Blanche Angier:
Grizelda Hervey
Madame Louise Angier:
Mandy Cuthbert
Hotel Manager/Anstey Guthrie:
Jeffrey Segal
Waiter:
Douglas Blackwell
Source: Radio Times
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Winnie-the-Pooh
A 50th Birthday Celebration Told by Bernard Cribbins
4: An Expedition to the North Pole, and Pooh and Piglet nearly catch a Woozle
In which it only goes to show that it's possible to find something, even if you aren't quite certain what it is and that Woozles may be less frightening than you expect.
(Tomorrow: In which a House is built at Pooh Corner for Eeyore, and Tigger comes to the Forest and has Breakfast)

Contributors

Read By:
Bernard Cribbins
Source: Radio Times
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(Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Keith Miles
Dan Archer:
Edgar Harrison
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Pat Archer:
Patricia Gallimore
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Shula Archer:
Judy Bennett
Christine:
Lesley Saweard
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Polly Perks:
Hilary Newcombe
Nora McAuley:
Julia Mark
Martha Woodford:
Mollie Harris
Joby Woodford:
George Woolley
Haydn Evans:
Charles Williams
George Barford:
Graham Roberts
Dorothy:
Heather Barrett
Barney Lee:
Douglas Ditta
Aunt Gwyneth:
Margaret John
Source: Radio Times
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James Cameron 's personal account of post-war Britain in ten programmes covering 1945-56. 6: ' The ordinary person in the street wanted to be able to live the free life that they hoped would come quickly after the war and here we are five years after the war still living not quite under siege conditions but nevertheless near enough.' (ALFRED ROBENS) So in 1950 the ordinary person in the street, tired of controls, voted Labour back into power, but only just. Producers HELEN FRY and GWYNETH HENDERSON

Contributors

Unknown:
James Cameron
Producers:
Helen Fry
Producers:
Gwyneth Henderson
Source: Radio Times
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A Thought for Your Pennies Presented by Mary Goldring
There seem to be as many views on the state of the British economy as there are economists, but it is on these views and forecasts that the policies which determine our standards of living are based. Just how serious is our plight? Are the Government's counter-inflation measures really working? Is industry investing enough in the right way? Producer GREVILLE HAVENHAND

Contributors

Presented By:
Mary Goldring
Source: Radio Times

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