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Presented by John Timpson at the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton, with LIBBY PURVES in London including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day with RATTI HEILBRON
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER JEFFERSOM
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presented By:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Libby Purves
Read By:
Peter Jeffersom

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A Touching Memory by DAPHNE FAE GLAZER
Read by Sonia Elliman
' As she sipped her mug of tea and listened to the spluttering of the gas fire, she imagined him sitting in the house next door. Odd, she couldn't even remember what he was called. That must be a trick of the unconscious.'
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Daphne Fae Glazer
Read By:
Sonia Elliman

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Picture restoring is still In many cases literally a matter of spit and polish, but there have been great scientific developments in bringing old masters back to life. The world's major art galleries now use equipment from lasers to nuclear reactors to examine and restore paintings. These studies are providing new insight into the way artists worked and are revealing new facts about paintings, as well as helping to identify fakes more easily.
Presented by James Wilkinson BBC Science Correspondent A Radio News production Producer JOHN WILLIAMS

Contributors

Presented By:
James Wilkinson
Producer:
John Williams

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A book you loved In childhood - how well do you remember It now? Arthur Scargill, president of the Yorkshire miners, in conversation with JEAN DAVIS, recalls one of his own favourites. Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Scargill
Unknown:
Jean Davis
Producer:
Barbara Crowther

medium only from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Talk Till Two: a discussion OB a matter of current concern.
1.0-2.2 News
Thirteen: TONY BARNFIELD. wary of tomorrow, chooses Thursday the 12th to look at some of the superstitions surrounding the unluckiest number.
New Term in a New Town: DAVIS HAWKSWORTH talks tO t student about to start at university,
Hand Made for Christmas: BARBARA MYERS gets practical advice from LAYE ANDREW on money-saving gifts. 4: Pressed flowers and leaves. Ruined City (11)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Tony Barnfield.
Unknown:
Barbara Myers
Unknown:
Laye Andrew

Hush Hush by JACKY GILLOTT with Deryck Guyler as Harold and Barbara Mullen as Hilda
' Hush, hush whisper who dares, old Harold Sutdiffe 's not saying his prayers ... I'd rather talk to you. Anyway, there's no one to say prayers to. Pathetic spectacle I'd make talking to myself ... Talk to yourself and they take you away. Well, I'm not going. Not yet. I've things to attend to.'
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Jacky Gillott
Unknown:
Deryck Guyler
Unknown:
Barbara Mullen
Unknown:
Harold Sutdiffe
Directed By:
Brian Miller
Rose:
Allison Hancock
Dilys:
Kathleen Michael
George:
Philip Manikum
EriC:
David March
James:
Nicholas Orchard
Anna:
Carole Mowlam

'Nothing had ever been built like the radio telescope before, so that it is no wonder that I overspent ... The university thought that there would be a court case against me and that I was certain to go to prison, then the Russians launched Sputnik I, and that saved me completely!'
In conversation with Arthur Garratt, Sir Bernard Lovell, Professor of Radio Astronomy and Director of the Nuffield Experimental Station at Jodrell Bank, recalls the many vicissitudes experienced during his struggle to build what was then the world's largest steerable radio telescope.

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Garratt
Unknown:
Sir Bernard Lovell
Producer:
John Knight

Written by KEITH MILES
(Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Written By:
Keith Miles
Dan Archer:
Edgar Harrison
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Peggy Arcner:
June Spencer
Jennifer Aldridge:
Angela Piper
Aldridge:
Charles Collingwood
Adam Macy:
Barnaby Williams
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Pat Archer:
Patricia Gallimore
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Shula Archer:
Judy Bennett
Christine:
Lesley Saweard
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Polly Perks:
Hilary Newcombe
Joe Grundy:
Haydn Jones
Jethro Larkin:
George Hart
Neil Carter:
Brian Hewlett
Harry Booker:
Gareth Armstrong
Mike Tucker:
Terry Molloy
Betty Tucker:
Pamela Craig
Jackie Smith:
Maggie McCarthy
Arnold Lucas:
George Woolley

with Frank Lincoln
A selection of love poems including The Good-Morrote by JOHN DONNE and To Lizbie Browne by THOMAS HARDT Reader SIÖN PROBERT
Producer HERBERT Williams
(Repeated: Saturday 11.20 am, medium only)

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Lincoln
Unknown:
John Donne
Unknown:
Lizbie Browne
Producer:
Herbert Williams

A play about a play within the play by John Arden
With Elizabeth Bell, Peter Jeffrey, David Calder

'I find nowt now in the whole of England fit for the tip of my pen. We spoke once to the whole people. But these days we have rejected the home-spun jackets, the square-toed shoes, and the forthright word of the godly tradesmen. And by God, they've rejected us. There are those in Parliament have said openly they'd close down every playhouse if they once attained full power. And I want them to attain full power.'

BBC Manchester
(Stereo) (Repeat)

Contributors

Writer:
John Arden
Music composed by:
Stephen Boxer
Musician (Cornetto):
Julian Drake
Musician (Crumhorns, flutes, recorders):
John Turner
Musician (Viols, cittern, lute):
Ephraim Segerman
Musician (Percussion):
Bill Nickson
Musician (Psaltery, lyre, dulcimer):
Stephen Boxer
Director:
Alfred Bradley
Pearl:
Elizabeth Bell
Mother Bumroll:
Paula Tilbrook
Barnabas:
David Mahlowe
Stage-Manager:
John Jardine
Gideon Grip:
Geoffrey Banks
Dr Sowse:
Ronald Herdman
Grimscar:
Peter Jeffrey
Backhouse:
David Calder
Belladonna:
Lynda Marchal
Duchess:
Kathleen Helme
Catso:
Kenneth Alan Taylor
Katerina:
Jane Knowles
Ahasuerus:
Robert Morton

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