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The Bridge
Written by ALLEN WEEDON Read by Roger Hume
4 He earned a lot of money but he didn't believe in keeping it for himself. He quite simply deducted from his earnings £3.000 a year, which he kept, and the rest he sent to the Collector.'
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Written By:
Allen Weedon
Read By:
Roger Hume
Producer:
Jane Marshall

Archie Hill reads from his prize-winning book.
5: ' Do Not Go Gentle ...
The house seemed empty without him, his wheelchair in the corner of the room and with him not sitting in it. Then the hospital phoned to say they wanted to operate , , ," Abridged in six parts by EILEEN HOTS
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Archie Hill
Producer:
Barbara Crowther

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk Till Two
2.0-2.2 News
Reading Your Letters.
Collectors and Their Enthusiasms: JENNIFER MAY talks to EILEEN PINNEGAR about her collection of costumes.
Brown, But Not Burnt: CHRIS RILEY looks at the sun-tanning products on the market.
The Dog Who Wouldn't Be by FARLEY MOWAT abridged in seven parts by DELIA PATON
Read by Peter Whitman (1) First of seven installments.
' I suspect that at some early moment of his existence. Mutt concluded there was no future in being a dog. And so he set himself to become something else.'
(Music: Joplin's Sunflower Slow Drag)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Talks:
Jennifer May
Unknown:
Eileen Pinnegar
Unknown:
Chris Riley
Unknown:
Delia Paton
Read By:
Peter Whitman

by Caroline Graham
with Roy North and Karen Archer

Confusion at Radio Fosdyke when their leading advertiser threatens to pull out unless audience figures double...

Musical links by Roger Limb of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Contributors

Writer:
Caroline Graham
Musical links:
Roger Limb, BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Director:
Piers Plowright
Gilly:
Karen Archer
Alan Pharoah:
Roy North
Joanna Finch:
Jennifer Piercey
Clive Oliver:
Douglas Blackwell
Agnes Remnant:
Margot Boyd
Mr Posting:
Alan Dudley
Mr Harding:
Harold Kasket
Sailor:
Carol Hopkin

Singers in 78 Alan Blyth looks back to the era of the 78 rpm record and introduces singers, some familiar and some less so, in excerpts of operettas by Offenbach.
Producer PETER TANNER
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Blyth
Producer:
Peter Tanner

Chairman Robert Robinson 14: Scotland (2)
PHILIP BAKER (Isle Of Mull), retired scientist; ELIZABETH MC-LEOD (Glasgow), lecturer;
WILLIAM H. SMITH (Renfrewshire), deputy head teacher; NOREEN DRINKWATER (Aberdeen), zoologist
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN , who, with IAN GILLIES , set the questions. Producer MARTIN FISHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Philip Baker
Unknown:
William H. Smith
Unknown:
Noreen Drinkwater
Unknown:
John P. Wynn
Unknown:
Ian Gillies
Producer:
Martin Fisher

The Two Scotlands (2)
In the second of two programmes on Scotland, Mary Goldring examines the differences. material and social, between the two extremes of depressed industrial West Scotland. and the oil-rich areas of the North East. What do these differences mean to Scottish development as a whole? Producer TOM READ

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Goldring

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