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Presented hv
Brian Redhead
With LIBBY PUBVES
6.45, Prayer for the Day With ROBERT RIETTY
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7-30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
With Libby Pubves
Read By:
Colin Doran

Studio guests join Mavis Nicholson, Kenneth Robinson and Fritz Spiegl for an unpredictable 55 minutes of argument, humour and some music, all of which is intended to Start your week off in fine style.
(long wave only from 9.25)

Contributors

Presenter:
Richard Baker
Unknown:
Mavis Nicholson
Unknown:
Kenneth Robinson
Unknown:
Fritz Spiegl
Producer:
Ian R. Gardhouse

You'll Be Back ... Written and read by Shirley Cooklln
' In the hall, he knew at once that something was wrong. The place was in darkness. Smelled cold. Perhaps she was just sleeping in. Course yes, that was it.'
Producer MITCH RAPER long wave only

Contributors

Read By:
Shirley Cooklln
Producer:
Mitch Raper

The quotations game in which
James Burke , P. D. James , Robert Lacey and Kenneth Williams are quizzed on sayings funny and fatuous - taken from books, journals and walls, or simply overheard.
. Quatation is a national vice.' (EVELYN WAUGH) Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher
Devised and presented by Nigel Rees
Producers JOHN LLOYD and GEOFFREY PERKINS
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30 pm)
12.55Weather: programme news: long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
James Burke
Unknown:
P. D. James
Unknown:
Robert Lacey
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Read By:
Ronald Fletcher
Presented By:
Nigel Rees
Producers:
John Lloyd
Producers:
Geoffrey Perkins

Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Arabian Days and Nights: Woman's Hour visits some places on the Queen's forthcoming tour.
Throwing Your Weight AbOUt: JENNIFER MAY looks at methods of self-defence. Entertainment Round-up: GORDON cow reporting. William Makepeace Thackeray (10)
Editor WYN KNOWLES long wave only

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
William Makepeace
Editor:
Wyn Knowles

The Space Machine by CHRISTOPHER PRIEST abridged in ten parts by PAUL NICHOLSON
Read by Martin Jarvis (1) 'Time and Space are inherently the same. I walk across this room, and I have travelled in Space a few yards and through Time a few seconds. I am working now to separate the two ... to facilitate travel through Space discrete from Time and through Time discrete from Space. Let me show you what I mean.'
As the inventor began to demonstrate, Edward Turnbull , commercial traveller aged 23, born 1870, began the most fantastic adventure of any creature on this planet. Producer JOHN CARDY

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Nicholson
Read By:
Martin Jarvis
Unknown:
Edward Turnbull
Producer:
John Cardy

Murder Must Advertise by DOROTHY L. SAYERS adapted in six episodes
6: Appropriate Exit of an Unskilled Murderer ALISTAIR BEATON
Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Wed 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dorothy L. Sayers
Producer:
Martin Fisher
Lord Peter:
Ian Carmichael
Chief Inspector Parker:
Allan Cuthbertson
Mr Tallboy:
Edward Desouza
Miss Meteyard:
Frances Jeater
Miss Rossiter:
Joanna Wake
Mr Brotherhood:
Norman Shelley

A new stereophonic production of Henry Reed's radio version of the novel by Herman Melville

Music by ANTONY HOPKINS
Music played by the BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA with the BBC NORTHERN SINGERS, conducted by the composer
Produced and directed by JOHN TYDEMAN and IAN COTTERELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Henry Reed
Novel By:
Herman Melville
Music By:
Antony Hopkins
Directed By:
John Tydeman
Directed By:
Ian Cotterell
Captain Ahab:
Colin Blakely
Ishmael:
Philip Sully
Father Mapple:
Marius Goring
Starbuck:
Malcolm Hayes
Pip:
Adam Godley
Stubb:
Sean Barrett
Flask:
John Hollis
Captain Peleg:
Geoffrey Matthews
Elijah:
Lewis Stringer
The Manxman:
Bill Monks
Queequeg:
Mark Heath
Captain Mayhew:
Denys Hawthorne
Captain Gardiner:
Manning Wilson
Fedallah:
Saeed Jaffrey
Tashtegp:
Danny Schiller
Daggoo:
Roger Hammond
Doughboy:
Andrew Branch
Archy:
Tim Bentinck
Cabaco:
John Bull

In tracing some of the political and social trends in Britain since the last war, George Scott talks to the people who were central to the most significant changes and invites them to view, with the benefit of hindsight, their personal part in events.

Lord Wolfenden discusses the Permissive Society and his committee's report on homosexual offences and prostitution and its effects on public attitudes.

BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Presenter:
George Scott
Producer:
Jock Gallagher

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