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Presented by John Timpson with LIBBY PURVES including at
6.45" Prayer for the Day With RABBI JOHN RAYNER
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by JOHN MARSH
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45' Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presented By:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Libby Purves
Unknown:
John Rayner
Read By:
John Marsh

plus regulars Angela Rippon , Dr Anthony Clare , Frank Delaney Fran Morrison In Edinburgh, and Gerry Monte in Cardiff. A live talk show that each week features a celebrity birthday interview and the intriguing personal story or unusual views of other studio guests.
Live musical interludes and punctuations by THE BOWLES BROTHERS
Producer MICHAEL EMBER long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Angela Rippon
Unknown:
Dr Anthony Clare
Unknown:
Frank Delaney
Unknown:
Fran Morrison
Unknown:
Gerry Monte
Producer:
Michael Ember

Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Portrait of a Family: 3-JILL COCHRANE Visits widower MIKE SULLIVAN and his two sons.
Reading Your Letters.
Talking Point: opinions and ideas.
Dame Ngaio Marsh: in conversation with EDWARD COLE at home in Christ-church, New Zealand. Beware of Pity (7) long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Jill Cochrane
Unknown:
Mike Sullivan
Unknown:
Edward Cole

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 ' Butler, a key member of the Tory Cabinets of Churchill, Eden, Macmillan and Home, talks about the effects of his 1944 Education Act. Suez and the post-war industrial boom. Producer JOCK GALLAGHER
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Talks:
George Scott
Producer:
Jock Gallagher

I'm a Dreamer Montreal by STEWART PARKER
'It's the stuff of life really, isn't it? That's what we're all about in the music business. Happiness-and sweet success. Emotion - and deep devotion. Some may say that our love is borrowed - but tomorrow sad sorrow will fly away. Take my hand - understand - how grand it can be. And don't go - our love will grow so stow - but oh ..
Music played by CLUBSOUND and the BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA, conducted by HAVELOCK NELSON Directed by MICHAEL HEFFERNAN
BBC Northern Ireland
(First broadcast in 1977)

Contributors

Unknown:
Stewart Parker
Unknown:
Havelock Nelson
Directed By:
Michael Heffernan
Nelson Glover:
John Hewitt
Uncle Henry:
William Hunter
Dickie:
Mark Mulholland
Gaye:
Joe McPartland
Mr Hackctt:
Harold Goldblatt
Dance Organiser:
J. G. Devlin
Sandra Carse:
Kate McClay
Detective:
Wolsey Gracey
Sergeant:
Eoin White
Secretary:
Carolyn Taylor
Scottish soldier:
Derek Halligan
Mortuary attendant:
Liam Neeson
Bus conductor:
Tony McAuley

Written by BRUNO MlLNA
Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Written By:
Bruno Mllna
Dan:
Edgar Harrison
Doris:
Gwen Berryman
Peggy:
June Spencer
Jennifer Aldridge:
Angela Piper
Brian Aldridge:
Charles Collingwood
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Pat:
Patricia Gallimore
Philip:
Norman Painting
Jill:
Patricia Greene
Shula Archer:
Judy Bennett
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Jack Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Polly Perks:
Hilary Newcoube
Joe Grundy:
Haydn Jones
Jethro Larkin:
George Bart
Nell Carter:
Brian Hewlett
Richard Adamson:
Richard Carrington
Harry Booker:
Gareth Armstrong
Betty Tucker:
Pamela Craig
Col Danby:
Norman Shelley
Eva Lenz:
Hedli Niklaus
Jim Coverdale:
Leon Tanner
Caroline Bone:
Sara Coward

First Impressions
The poet Jenny Joseph presents the first of two selections of the poetry which fired her imagination In her formative years.
Readers
John Franklyn Robbins and Frances Horovitz Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Sat 11.20 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jenny Joseph
Readers:
John Franklyn Robbins
Readers:
Frances Horovitz
Producer:
Fraser Steel

6: Volumes of Romance
John Julius Norwich narrates the last of six programmes tracing the travelling habits of the English abroad, from Tudor times to the 19th century.
Readers LEONARD FENTON PHILIP SULLY and BRENDA KAYE Written by MARY ANNE EVANS
Producer BRIAN cook

Contributors

Unknown:
John Julius Norwich
Readers:
Leonard Fenton
Readers:
Philip Sully
Readers:
Brenda Kaye
Written By:
Mary Anne Evans
Producer:
Brian Cook

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