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Brian Redhead with LIBBY PURVES Including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day With ROBERT RIETTY
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by HARRIET CASS
7.30, 8.30 News Headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Libby Purves
Unknown:
Robert Rietty
Read By:
Harriet Cass

A chance for network listeners to hear some of the material from local and regional broadcasting selected and presented by Bob Langley
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham long wave only

Contributors

Presented By:
Bob Langley
Producer:
Jane Marshall

Photo of a Loved One by ALEX BARBER
Having rescued Karen from drowning, George faces an even more daunting task ...
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Alex Barber
Directed By:
Brian Miller
George,:
Gregory De Polnay
Karen:
Liza Flanagan
Mrs Raines:
Margot Boyd
Wanda ,:
Sonia Elliman

with Sue MacGregor
It's Been a Hard Day's Work....; for those familiar faces on your TV screen (2). Last night Valerie Singleton, hot from the Tonight studio, had a behind-the-screen chat with Helen Palmer.
A Plain Woman's Guide to the Church Commissioners: as explained by Clifford Longley, Religious Affairs Correspondent of The Times.
Egyptian Renaissance: from Cairo, Christabel King reports that the new art 'is all smiles'.
'... not to look backwards, only forward': part of Sir Robert Mayer's hope for 100 years of active life. Sir Robert talks to Lynn Ten Kate.
Chelsea Child (6)

(long wave only)

Contributors

Presenter:
Sue MacGregor
Interviewer:
Helen Palmer
Interviewee:
Valerie Singleton
Speaker:
Clifford Longley
Reporter:
Christabel King
Interviewer:
Lynn Ten Kate
Interviewee:
Sir Robert Mayer

by GEORGE MEREDITH
1: In Search of My Father
Narrator JAMES AUBREY
(Broadcast: Sunday at 9.3)

4.30 Announcements

Contributors

Unknown:
George Meredith
Narrator:
James Aubrey
Sewis:
Brian Carroll
Richmond Roy:
Anthony Newlands
Squire Bettham:
Sebastian Shaw
Harry, as a boy:
Howard Taylor
Aunt Dorothy:
Gwen Watford
Janet, as a girl:
Katherines Hughes
Tempte, as a boy:
David Wilson
Flo:
Jacqui Burin
Amy:
Jo Manning Wilson
Joe Double:
Ronald Baddley
Capt Welsh:
Haydn Jones
Clara Goodwin:
Roberta Symes
Col Goodwin:
Garard Green
Otti)ia, as a girl:
Gina Bellman
The Margravine von Rippau:
Brenda Bruce
Burgomeister:
Milo Sperber
Miss Sibley:
Elaine Mitchell

The quotations game in which Martin Jarvis, John Mortimer, Molly Parkin and William Rushton are quizzed on sayings funny and fatuous - taken from books, journals and walls, or simply overheard.
'" Where shall I begin, please, your Majesty?" he asked.
"Begin at the beginning" the King said, gravely," and go on till you come to the end: then stop."' (LEWIS CARROLL)
(Repeated: Thurs 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Panellist:
Martin Jarvis
Panellist:
John Mortimer
Panellist:
Molly Parkin
Panellist:
William Rushton
Quotations read by:
Ronald Fletcher
Devised and presented by:
Nigel Rees
Producer:
Geoffrey Perkins

Witt the recent accident on Three Mi)e !s)and near Harrisburg. Pennsy)-vania sound 'the death kneil of nuclear power 7 Or was it merely a 'hiccup that wi)i be forgotten in Sve years'or MM 'the best thing for the nuclear industry since the discovery ef fission? These interpretations were offered to JehnMaddexonhisre cent visit to Washington to examine the consequencesfornuctear power of the most spectacular'incident'so far. Producer ALAN STENNETT

Contributors

Producer:
Alan Stennett

A sequential entertainment for radio starring Ronnie Barker also featuring Terence Brady and Pauline Yates with Gordon Langford at the piano
The lines are contributed by TONY BILBOW and MIKE FENTIMAN . TERENCE BRADY , JOHN GRAHAM , HAROLD PINTER . MILES RUDGE , TED DICKS and GERALD WILEY
Producer
JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
(First broadcast in 1971)

Contributors

Unknown:
Ronnie Barker
Unknown:
Terence Brady
Unknown:
Pauline Yates
Unknown:
Gordon Langford
Unknown:
Tony Bilbow
Unknown:
Mike Fentiman
Unknown:
Terence Brady
Unknown:
John Graham
Unknown:
Harold Pinter
Unknown:
Miles Rudge
Unknown:
Ted Dicks
Unknown:
Gerald Wiley
Unknown:
John Fawcett Wilson

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