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Presented by Brian Redhead
With LIBBY PURVES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day with FR ERIC DOYLE
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:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
With Libby Purves
Unknown:
Fr Eric Doyle
Read By:
Colin Doran

when he and the regulars, Mavis Nicholson , Dr Rob Buckman and Kenneth Robinson , are among those helping to find antidotes to that Monday morning feeling as they talk to some of the personalities who will be making the news in the forthcoming week - and sometimes make the news themselves.
Producer IAN r. GANDHOUSE Kenneth Robinson 's Priview: page 27

Contributors

Unknown:
Mavis Nicholson
Unknown:
Dr Rob Buckman
Unknown:
Kenneth Robinson
Producer:
Ian R. Gandhouse
Producer:
Kenneth Robinson

A Final Fling by CLIVE RICHE
Read by Elizabeth Proud ' I got married because I wanted sympathy and understanding. And whenever anyone saw me with me husband, well, that's what I got.'
Producer MITCH RAPER

Contributors

Unknown:
Clive Riche
Read By:
Elizabeth Proud
Producer:
Mitch Raper

Including Margaret Korving's World of Work with ideas on careers and training and a selection of current job vacancies around the country. Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce.

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Korving
Presenter:
Sue Cook
Presenter:
George Luce
Editor:
John Turtle

A nationwide general knowledge contest.
Chairman Robert Robinson 13: Home Counties (1)
LESLIE KILLIP , computer programmer (Surrey); ANGELA ALVES , former teacher (Essex); GEOFFREY REYNOLDS , engineer (Surrey); HUMPHREY WYNN, air historian (Surrey)
Including Beat the Brains, in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants,
Devised by JOHN r. WYNN Questions set by IAN GILLIES and JOAN CLARK Producer RICHARD EDIG
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Leslie Killip
Unknown:
Angela Alves
Unknown:
Geoffrey Reynolds
Unknown:
John R. Wynn
Unknown:
Ian Gillies
Unknown:
Joan Clark
Producer:
Richard Edig

Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Portrait of a Family: 5-MARY REDCLIFFI Visits the MARRIOTTS, with three generations in the family. Reading Your Letters.
Tomtits for Tea!: MOLLY EADY feeds wild birds by hand.
From Those Who Know ... MAUREEN GALVIN talks to some women who have had mastectomy operations.
Definitely Not Cricket!: IAN CRICHTON reports that In New Caledonia bats-women, among other differences, have their own ' runners
Beware of Pity (9) long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Redcliffi
Unknown:
Molly Eady
Talks:
Maureen Galvin
Unknown:
Ian Crichton

Mrs 'Arris by CLIFFORD B. POULTNEY abridged and read in five parts by Jo Anderson (1) Clapham, south of the Thames, in the early 1920s ... some slices of low life and high spirits. Producer PAMELA HOWE. BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Clifford B. Poultney
Unknown:
Jo Anderson
Producer:
Pamela Howe.

Presented by Gordon Clough and Jean Bakewell EdlitOr DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
Gordon Clough
Presented By:
Jean Bakewell
Unknown:
Derek Lewis

The Hardman by TOM MCGRATH and jimmy BOYLE adapted for radio by TOM MCGRATH with Peter Kelly as Johnnie Byrne
' I'm speaking to you from a Scottish prison where I am serving a life sentence for murder. What you are going to hearismylireasI remember it. My version of my story.'
A violent play recounting a savagely criminal career which ends in degradation - and the remarkable survival of the human spirit.
Percussion by RONNIE GOODMAN Directed by TOM KINNINMONT BBC Scotland

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom McGrath
Unknown:
Jimmy Boyle
Unknown:
Tom McGrath
Unknown:
Peter Kelly
Unknown:
Johnnie Byrne
Unknown:
Ronnie Goodman
Directed By:
Tom Kinninmont
Bandit/Renfrew:
Tony Roper
Slugger:
David Bannerman
Maggie/Maw/Didi:
Anne Scott- Jones
Carole/Lizzie:
Frances Low
Big Danny/Lawyer:
Alex Norton
Michael/Mochan/Archie/Kelly:
James Kennedy
Commando/Paisley:
Carey Wilson
Johnstone:
Benny Young

The first in an occasional series of selections from the diaries of The Rev Francis Kilvert who died 100 years ago this year, reflecting the seasonal variations of his beloved countryside.
Complied and introduced by H. Colin Davis with readings by DAVID DAVIS 1: Spring
Producer BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Francis Kilvert
Introduced By:
H. Colin Davis
Unknown:
David Davis
Producer:
Brian Miller

' Learning to perform in public is in a very real cense learning to live with fear - gracefully and, if possible, completely invisibly.'
SueMacGregortalksto the American violinist, Isaac Stern , about his life and work.
ProducerGILLIAN HUSH 'BBC Manchester

Contributors

Violinist:
Isaac Stern
Producer:
Gillian Hush

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