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6.45* Prayer for the Day With THE REV DAVID CAINK
7.8. 9.0 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:
Libby Purves
Unknown:
David Caink
Read By:
Colin Doran

Throughout the General Election campaign, you can put your questions live by telephone to leading politicians. As the campaign progresses, you can raise the issues you feel are the most important.
Ring Robin Day to put your questions to spokesmen for the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru on their policies and their views of the major parties' policies.
Producers WALTER WALLICH and JOCK EditorGALLAGHER BERNARD TATE
Lines are open from 8.0 am

Contributors

Producers:
Walter Wallich
Editor:
Gallagher Bernard Tate

A chance for network listeners to hear some of the material from local and regional broadcasting, selected and presented by Francis Matthews
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Francis Matthews
Producer:
Jane Marshall

Reflections of a Well-conditioned Madman: or Mind Over Matter by JACK QUARTER with and Harrington and Themidy, better known as 012948 and 012950, are laboratory rats used by Dr Professor Wilhelm Rein holt for demonstration purposes during his lecture on Management Efficiency. However, Harrington has a sense of humour, and he's getting fed up pressing a bar on demand ...
Other parts played by PETER BALDWIN BILL MONKS and BLAIN FAIRMAN
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Quarter
Unknown:
Dr Professor Wilhelm Rein
Played By:
Peter Baldwin
Played By:
Blain Fairman
Directed By:
Glyn Dearman
Harrington:
Kenneth Shanley
Themidy:
Liza Ross
Reinholt:
David March

Chirp, the Bold Bad
Chick!
A Listen with Mother play for Easter by BARBARA LLOYD EVANS
Chirp finds himself falling down, down, down into a rabbit hole - a rabbit hole with a difference! Cast:
JEAN ROGERS , AURIOL SMITH TONY AITKEN , SEAN BARRETT Producer JANET BOULDING

Contributors

Unknown:
Barbara Lloyd Evans
Unknown:
Jean Rogers
Unknown:
Auriol Smith
Unknown:
Tony Aitken
Unknown:
Sean Barrett
Producer:
Janet Boulding

Introduced by June Knox-Mawer
The Tradescant Trust: BERNARD JACKSON Visits St Mary-at -Lambeth where the Trust, in saving the derelict church, is establishing a centre for gardeners and a museum of Garden History.
April Showers: Helen PALMER has collected music, poetry and assorted noises to appease an ancient enemy -rain.
Findino a New Voice.-MAUREEN GALVIN finds out about help for postlaryngectomy patients.
Regrets, I've Had A Few: FRANK ARTHUR , BARBARA BUCHANAN and BASIL BANKS reflect on things they wished they'd said.
Stories of Uncle Eugenia 4: Dona Rosa 's Spy

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Jackson
Unknown:
St Mary-At
Unknown:
Helen Palmer
Unknown:
Maureen Galvin
Unknown:
Frank Arthur
Unknown:
Barbara Buchanan
Stories Of:
Uncle Eugenia
Stories Of:
Dona Rosa

Another chance to hear the late and much-loved Barbara Mullen's conversation with Derek Jones about her experiences watching wildlife in Ireland,and on location in Scotland during the making of episodes for Dr Finlay's Casebook, illustrated with wildlife recordings from the BBC's Sound Archives.
Producer JOHN BURTON
BBC Bristol
(First broadcast in 1972)

Contributors

Unknown:
Barbara Mullen
Unknown:
Derek Jonds
Producer:
John Burton

by CHARLES KINCSLEY dramatised for radio In six parts by BARRY CAMPBELL with William Squire Tim Woodward Richard Greene Julie Dawn Cole Brian Jackson
1: The Call of the Sea
Fired by tales of returning adventurers from the Spanish Main in 1575, young Amyas Leigh of Bideford, in Devon, is determined on his own voyage of discovery and riches ...
Other parts played by JUNE MARLOW, ANNA NYGH and DAVID PONTING
Music composed and conducted by NICHOLAS MARSHALL
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
4.30 Announcements

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Kincsley
Unknown:
Barry Campbell
Unknown:
William Squire
Unknown:
Tim Woodward
Unknown:
Richard Greene
Unknown:
Julie Dawn Cole
Unknown:
Brian Jackson
Unknown:
Amyas Leigh
Unknown:
David Ponting
Unknown:
Nicholas Marshall
Directed By:
Brian Miller
Narrator:
William Squire
Oxenham:
Trevor Martin
Yeo:
Brian Jackson
Amyas:
Tim Woodward
Richard Grenville:
Richard Greene
Mr Leigh:
Barry Jackson
Mrs Leigh:
Ann Queensberry
Brimblecombe:
Danny Schiller
Yeo's Mother:
Daphne Heard
Will Cary:
Cornelius Garrett
Frank Leigh:
Richard Warwick
Salterne:
Hedley Goodall
Eustace Leigh:
Peter Baldwin
Ostler:
Fred Bryant
Fr Campion:
John Linstrum
Eustace's Father:
Phillip Manikum
Fr Parsons:
Michael Tudor Barnes
Rose:
Julie Dawn Cole
Lucy Passmore:
Constance Chapmam

1066 And All That by W. C. SELLAR and R. J. YEATMAN abridged in four instalments by DONALD BANCROFT Read by Arthur Marshall and Barrv Justice (1)
A Memorable History of England, comprising all the parts you can remember including 103 Good Things, Five Bad Kings, and Two Genuine Dates. Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
W. C. Sellar
Unknown:
R. J. Yeatman
Unknown:
Donald Bancroft
Read By:
Arthur Marshall

'twixt
Eleanor Summerfield Gillian Reynolds and David Nixon Tim Rice
Tune Twisters from Steve Race
In the Chair Roy Plomley Devised and written by IAN MESSITER
Producer MARTIN FISHER
(First broadcast last June)

Contributors

Unknown:
Eleanor Summerfield
Unknown:
Gillian Reynolds
Unknown:
David Nixon
Unknown:
Tim Rice
Unknown:
Roy Plomley
Written By:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
Martin Fisher

Presented by Peter Oppenheimer
Current events, attitudes and opinions, at home and abroad - with reports by STEVE BRADSHAW and DAVID HENSHAW.
Editor COLIN ADAMS BBC Manchester

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Oppenheimer
Unknown:
Steve Bradshaw
Unknown:
David Henshaw.

In Glasgow there exists a computer capable of predicting the survival prospects of people with serious head injuries. In Leeds a similar machine is bedng used to diagnose the causes of abdominal pain. Do these developments signal a profound change in medical thought? Do they threaten the doctor-patient relationship?
Geoff Watts talks to the doctors in Leeds and Glasgow about the medical and moral implications of these computer systems.
Producer FIONA GOOIDALL

Contributors

Talks:
Geoff Watts
Producer:
Fiona Gooidall

Hollywood Now
' Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids ... It'll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop across the sands.' (DAVID 0. SELZNICK) Hollywood's future has been written off many times bitt it continues to adapt and prosper.
AlexanderWalkertalksto some of the people working in the film industry today.
Producer DAVID FERRY
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