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Presenters John Timpson and Margaret Howard including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With CANON ERIC DAVENPORT
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presenters:
John Timpson
Presenters:
Margaret Howard
Unknown:
Canon Eric Davenport
Read By:
Harriet Cass
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

medium only Autumn Rose by GEORGE GRANT
Read by Harry Landis
'Never in her whole life has Rosie Goldberg met a man with such wonderful manners. The ' French ' captain bows low and kisses her hand. She would like it known that she is a married woman, but she can't speak.... '
Producer ALLAN c. ROGER' BBC Scotland

Contributors

Read By:
Harry Landis
Unknown:
Rosie Goldberg
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

medium only from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
The Shape of Things to Come: on H. G. Wells 's birthday KIT PEDLER and PETER HUNOT wonder what the man who foresaw the atomic age would be prophesing now if he were still alive .
2.0-2.2 News
Bending the President's Ear: .JUDY" CARTER in conversation With SOMA BEESLEY.
Open Letter to the XVI: from ANNE JONES.
Communication by Culture: taking culture, to deprived groups - such as dossers, or the handicapped - might suggest wrong priorities but SHAPE is an organisation which does just that and is being asked to do more, as ROSEMARY HARTIU discovers.
Dr Wortle's School (9)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
H. G. Wells
Unknown:
Peter Hunot
Unknown:
Soma Beesley.
Unknown:
Anne Jones.
Unknown:
Rosemary Hartiu
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

Nightingale's Defence by PETER WHALLEY
'You may feel I have missed out a step somewhere. I mean the one that takes us from my abject failure as a computer suitor to my decision to betray my country. I mean, not everyone who is made a fool of by the opposite sex immediately goes and commits treason So let me explain.'
Directed by ROGER PINE BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Whalley
Directed By:
Roger Pine
Lawrence Nightingale:
John Rowe
Mother:
Paullne Letts
Father:
Jack Holloway
Gloria:
Hearmer Barrett
Games master/First boy at party/Russian operator/Pat:
Terry Mollot
The Girlfriend/Little girl:
Redlf Niklaus
Interviewer/Second boy at party /Policeman/Dancing teacher:
Michael Harbour
Foster/Man in loo/Religious fanatic.:
Stanley Page
Gillian/ Anita:
Patricia Gullmore
Jocasta/Anita/Librarian:
Elizabeth Reviu
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

What's on at the Empire? Presented by Peter Pratt
While Gilbert and Sullivan icigned at The Savoy, what other entertainment delighted the late Victorian and Edwardian public ?
Producer RONALD COOK
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Pratt
Unknown:
Edwardian Public
Producer:
Ronald Cook
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

Cast for the week: [see below]
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Writer:
Tessa Diamond
Dan Archer:
Edgar Harrison
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Jennifer Aldridge:
Angela Piper
Brian Aldridge:
Charles Collingwood
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting,
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Shula Archer:
Judy Bennett
Christine:
Lesley Saweard
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Martha Woodford:
Mollie Harris
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville
Polly Perks:
Hilary Newcombe
Joe Grundy:
Haydn Jones
Neil Carter:
Brian Hewlett
George Barford:
Graham Roberts
Jackie Smith:
Maggie McCarthy
Bernard Hill:
Graham Rigby
Eva Lenz:
Hedli Niklaus
Arnold Lucas:
George Woolley
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

Frank Wright tells the story of a pilgrimage to Lourdes, a week when I went so vividly through the whole gamut of human emotions '. what do pilgrims expect and how do they feel if nothing happens? Is Lourdes just superstition behind a respectable facade? To find out he followed the fortunes of four pilgrims and reflects on his own Pilgrim's Tale '.
Producer LESLIE MITCHELL BBC Manchester '

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Wright
Producer:
Leslie Mitchell
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

How the Snake Lost its Sting Presented hy Mary Goldring
Following the summer's sharp fluctuations in the value of the dollar, the international money market has been swept with nostalgia for the old days of fixed exchange rates, when everyone knew precisely what a pound and a dollar was worth. And in Common Market circles there is pressure once again for a single European currency. Should these trends be encouraged? Would life in Britain be easier or tougher if we joined the move to give a new lease of life to the European currency snake? Can the West restore some form of monetary order?
Producer TOM READ
(Rptd: Fri 11.5 am med only)

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Goldring
Source: Radio Times

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