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What Britain is getting up to. Two hours of news and views from home and around the world. Presented by John Timpson
With MICHAEL VESTEY Including at
'.45. Prayer for the Day CANON ERIC JAMES
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by SUSAN BENNY
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presented By:
John Timpson
Presented By:
With Michael Vestey
Unknown:
Canon Eric James
Read By:
Susan Benny

plus Angela Rippon with a birthday interview of the week, and other familiar names playing unfamiliar roles in this live miscellany of reassuring entertainment, disturbing oddities, and serious arguments.
From Glasgow, Fran Morrison: from Cardiff, Gerry Monte: and from Dublin Frank Delaney, tell true stories of popular interest. Live musical interludes and punctuations by THE BOWLES BROTHERS
A Stop and Start the Week team production long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Angela Rippon

by B.G. Bryant
Read by Gaynor Morgan Reei
This is a story of a young boy's first encounter with love, sensitively written and. for all the talk of permissiveness, probably as true of many a young couple today as ever it was.
BBC Wales (long wave only)

Contributors

Unknown:
B. G. Bryant
Read By:
Gaynor Morgan Reei
Producer:
Harri Gwynn

Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Flights of Fancy: darts - once fit only for the public bar - has gone respectable. BERNARD JACKSON Investigates the growth of the sport.
Talking Point; opinions and ideas.
20th-century Afona Lisa : RACHEL ANDERSON finds her face committed to canvas. Maybe I Can Help ... : WENDY GREENGROSS With some of your problems. The Last Place Left (8) long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Jackson
Unknown:
Afona Lisa
Unknown:
Rachel Anderson
Unknown:
Wendy Greengross

The Survivor
An Uncertain Comedy by JACK GERSON with ' Only one place would I leave Poland for. Eretz Israel. Would your shiksa countess take us to Israel? You ask her that.... you ask her ... as for the Germans ... what would they want with Poland?
Directed by STEWARI CONN BBC Scotland

Contributors

Comedy By:
Jack Gerson
Directed By:
Stewari Conn
Siggy Mayer:
John Shedden
ChriS:
Martin Cochrane
Mama:
Katy Gardner
Marie/Helga:
Diana Olsson
Steiner:
Clement Ashby
Kaminski:
Alec Linstead
Guard/Publisher:
Arthur Boland
Mrs Cutcheon:
Jan Wilson
Margaret:
Esther Leitch

(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm)
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Writer:
Keith Miles
Dan Archer:
Edgar Harrison
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer Aldridge:
Angela Piper
Brian Aldridge:
Charles Collingwood
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Shula Archer:
Judy Bennett
Christine Johnson:
Lesley Saweard
Laura Archer:
Betty McDowall
Pat Archer:
Patricia Gallimore
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Jack Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Polly Perks:
Hilary Newcombe
Neil Carter:
Brian Hewlett
George Barford:
Graham Roberts
Col Danby:
Norman Shelley
Jackie Smith:
Maggie McCarthy

IAqin Verse
The 12th of 13 programmes introduced by Kingsley Amis in which he selects poems from The New Oxford Book of Light Verse. The poems in this programme are by HENRY REED , CHARLES CAUSLEY and TED PAUKER.
Readers HUGH DICKSON and DAVID BRIERLEY Producer ALEC REID

Contributors

Unknown:
Henry Reed
Unknown:
Charles Causley
Readers:
Ted Pauker.
Readers:
Hugh Dickson
Producer:
Alec Reid

BBC Radio 4 FM

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