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with Edward Cole
Headlines and weather, a look at the papers, news for sports fans, Prayer for the Day (Mon THF. REV LESLIE STOKES , TueS-Thurs ROBERT RIETTY , Fri THE REV RICHARD HARRIES )
English Regions: see column 5
6.52 VHF
Regional news and weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Leslie Stokes
Unknown:
Robert Rietty
Unknown:
Richard Harries

medium only
Wild life on the move to evade the approaching winter chill; the competition; your letters; and should a hotchi be called a fuzzpég or a tiggyhog?
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
John Harrison

A weekly quiz on music and general knowledge in which the panel pit their wits against service teams stationed in Northern Ireland, Germany, Malta and Gibraltar.
2: The residents, Neil Durden -Smith and Ted Moult with their guest, Sue Lawley , meet a Combined Services team from West Berlin.
TONY MILLS, ROSEMARY MORGAN DICKIE BATES and JOHN QUIN
Questionmaster Desmond Lynam
Recorded on 30 June 1977 at RAF Gatow in West Berlin
(By arrangement with the British Forces Broadcasting Service)
A Radio Sport and ob production (Repeated: Thursday 6.30 pm)
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Neil Durden
Unknown:
Ted Moult
Unknown:
Sue Lawley
Unknown:
Rosemary Morgan
Unknown:
Dickie Bates
Unknown:
John Quin
Unknown:
Questionmaster Desmond Lynam

medium only from 2.0 Introduced by June Knox-Mawer
Entertainment Round- Up: con-DON gow reporting.
2.0-2.2 News
Living Together: JACKY GILLOTT and GERALD DURRELL , who live with and write about animals, discuss their importance in our understanding of ourselves.
Guildford, Surrey, to Guilford, - Connecticut: BASIL BANKS with a transatlantic comparison. Pastoral by NEVIL SHUTE abridged in 12 parts by ElVANGELINE BANKS
Read by EDWARD KELSEY (1)
' That night the aircraft took off for a bombing raid over Dortmund between 7.30 and
8.1"5. At 10.35 the first ' mission completed ' signal came through. One by one the WAAF Section Officer Gervase Robert son marked them up - D for Donald, L for London, R for Robert. That was Peter Marshall 's plane. The room seemed suddenly more cheerful.'
(Music: Glazunov's Eighth Symphony) Editor WYN KNOWLES

Contributors

Introduced By:
June Knox-Mawer
Unknown:
Don Gow
Unknown:
Jacky Gillott
Unknown:
Gerald Durrell
Unknown:
Elvangeline Banks
Read By:
Edward Kelsey
Unknown:
Gervase Robert
Unknown:
Peter Marshall
Editor:
Wyn Knowles

by Shelagh Delaney

Geoffrey: "Do you still love him?"
Jo: "I don't know. He was only a dream I had. You know, he could sing and he was so tender. Every Christmas my mother used to go off with some boyfriend or other and leave me all on my own in some sordid digs, but last Christmas I had him."
Geoffrey: "Oh well, the dream's gone, but the baby's real enough."

BBC Manchester

Preview: page 17

Contributors

Author:
Shelagh Delaney
Director:
Alfred Bradley
Helen:
Meg Johnson
Josephine:
Annette Robertson
Peter:
Ronald Baddiley
The Boy:
Joseph Charles
Geoffrey:
John Halstead

The Hanoverian Georges
Portraits of four British monarchs, drawn from the writings of Horace Walpole and W. M. Thackeray , abridged in five parts by TERENCE COOPER. 1: Memoirs of the Courts of George II (above) and George III by HORACE WALPOLE
Read by Robert Eddison Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Horace Walpole
Unknown:
W. M. Thackeray
Unknown:
Terence Cooper.
Read By:
Robert Eddison
Producer:
Pamela Howe

Professor Arthur Hutchings considers some delights - musical and otherwise - in the Sound Archives. Producer
DENYS GUEROULT
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news; weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Arthur Hutchings
Unknown:
Denys Gueroult

Beetles and Buckman with Sheridan Morley
6: A Day and a Bit at the Races Ascot 1910 and. in the cause of female emancipation. Soppy throws himself under a woman.
RUBELLA: Tell me, Mr Soppy. are you a devotee of the horse? soppy: No - prefer the bloater paste. Written by ROB BUCKMAN and CHRIS BEETLES Producer BOB OLIVER ROGERS BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Sheridan Morley
Unknown:
Mr Soppy.
Written By:
Rob Buckman
Producer:
Bob Oliver Rogers

by FAY WELDON with Peter Jeffrey as Dr Philip Bailey and Miriam Margolyes as Margot, his wife.
"My wife is certainly a stable person, good-tempered, even-natured, and never ill. Not given to any remarkable ups and downs. And yes, she is typical, I suppose."

Contributors

Writer:
Fay Weldon
Director:
Richard Wortley
Dr Philip Bailey:
Peter Jeffrey
Margot, his wife:
Miriam Margolyes
Jane:
Jane Knowles
Helen:
Elizabeth Cassidy
Martin:
Haydn Jones
Jack:
Nigel Anthony
Marianne:
Madi Hedd
Laurence:
Peter Craze
Lettice:
Jean Rogers
Hilary:
Susan Colgave
Peter:
Hector Ross
Martha:
Carole Boyd
Mortuary attendant:
Malcolm Hayes
Mortuary attendant:
Peter Pacey

Laughter in the Dark by VLADIMIR NABOKOV (1899-1977) abridged for radio in ten parts by MADGE HART Read by Hugh Burden (1)
' Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mis. tress.; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster. Producer MAURICE LEITCH Preview: page 17

Contributors

Unknown:
Vladimir Nabokov
Unknown:
Madge Hart Read
Unknown:
Hugh Burden
Producer:
Maurice Leitch

A Jubilee trip to four different communities in Britain. How has life changed for their inhabitants over the past 25 years?
1: Cumbernauld - a Scottish New Town. Reporter Jack Regan Series producer DAVID BROOKE

Contributors

Reporter:
Jack Regan
Producer:
David Brooke

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