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6.45* Prayer for the Dall THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presented By:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Michael Vestet
Unknown:
Richard Harries
Read By:
Colin Doran

by John W.A. Roberts
Read by Mark Mulholland

"We calculate the time from Greenwich by allowing four minutes for each degree of longitude". Our new teacher Mr Hare was explaining to us the mysteries of something called Greenwich Mean Time ...

(BBC Northern Ireland)
(long wave only)

Contributors

Writer:
John W.A. Roberts
Reader:
Mark Mulholland
Producer:
Judith Elliott

Story: Black Beetle and his Friends - Aunt Hetty 's Spring Song by JOYCE WILLIAMS
Presenters LUCY SKEAPING and TONY AITKEN
Written by TONY AITKEN
Producer JENYTH WORSLEY long ware only

Contributors

Unknown:
Black Beetle
Unknown:
Aunt Hetty
Unknown:
Joyce Williams
Unknown:
Tony Aitken
Written By:
Tony Aitken
Producer:
Jenyth Worsley

Introduced from Cardiff by Noreen Bray
Welsh Guest: Stuart Burrows, tenor, appearing in Don Pasquale at Covent Garden.
(Don Pasquale can be heard tomorrow on R3)
School Meanz Jobz: a discussion on a proposed plan by the Confederation of the National Association of Head Teachers to use advertising techniques.
Romany Rights: a report by Katherine Edwards on gypsy sites.
With a Painter's Eye: how Ron Lowe sees the Welsh landscape.
BBC Wales
The Last Place Left (9) (long wave only)

Contributors

Unknown:
Noreen Bray
Unknown:
Stuart Burrows
Unknown:
Katherine Edwards
Unknown:
Ron Lowe

by John Stevenson

POGG: Don't keep calling me 'm'lord'. They haven't put me on the slag-heap yet.'
But in this wild political satire many other strange things happen to Sir Joseph Pogg, including a false funeral.

(Stereo)

Contributors

Writer:
John Stevenson
Director:
Richard Wortley
Sir Joseph Pogg:
Maurice Denham
Lady Pogg:
Jennifer Piercey
Jeremy Neasdale:
Clifford Rose
Prime Minister:
Edward Kelsey
Sir Anthony Duncan:
Philip Voss
Councillor Samuel Fisher:
Douglas Blackwell
Dr James Warren/Jakes:
John Baddeley
Mrs Barbara Grosvenor-Hayworth/Returning Officer:
Heather Bell
Andrew Dale:
Gregory de Polnay
Jack Stropp/Michael Anderson:
Peter Wickham
Claude:
Graham Seed

Presenters Gordon Clougb and Susannah Simons Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Presenters:
Gordon Clougb
Presenters:
Susannah Simons
Editor:
Derek Lewis

A spontaneous discussion by Michael Barratt
Sally Oppenheim , up Bernard Dineen Tom McNally
Chairman David Jacobs from Harrogate
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat at 1.10 pm) Listeners' views for use in Any Answers?, on Thursday at 10.30, to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol [Postcode removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Barratt
Unknown:
Sally Oppenheim
Unknown:
Bernard Dineen
Unknown:
Tom McNally
Unknown:
David Jacobs

An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with David Jason. Bill Wallis David Tate , Sheila Steafel and the DAVID FIRMAN TRIO
Written by GUY JENKIN . JOHN LANGDON , RICHARD QUICK , ROGER WODDIS , JEREMY BROWNE , BARRY BOWES Producer GRIFF RHYS JONES (Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm) Woddis on ... : page 11

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jason.
Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
David Tate
Unknown:
Sheila Steafel
Written By:
Guy Jenkin
Written By:
. John Langdon
Written By:
Richard Quick
Written By:
Roger Woddis
Written By:
Jeremy Browne
Written By:
Barry Bowes
Producer:
Griff Rhys

by Ben Steed
A series of plays for late-night listening
with Michael Cochrane as John Davidson and Roy Montague as Gustav Fulke

John Davidson is about to return home from Berlin when he has trouble over his passport. Why should the police be so suspicious about him?

Contributors

Writer:
Ben Steed
Director:
Christopher Venning
John Davidson:
Michael Cochrane
Gustav Fulke:
Roy Montague
Frau Hoffman:
Hilda Kriseman
Josef Keplo:
John Rapley
Herr Schiller:
Wolf Kahler
Airport announcer:
Fleur Chandler

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