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with John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day
with THE REV JOHN CONGDON
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Unknown:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
John Congdon
Unknown:
Pauline Bushnell

with Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: Lord Briggs, recently appointed Vice-Chancellor of the Open University, which celebrates its tenth anniversary this year.
Reading Your Letters.
Family Forum: Dr DAVID HARVEY discusses dexterity in childhood with Jill Burridge and a Woman's Hour listener.
Famous Women Gardeners -1: Gertrude Jekyll 's ideas and influence, described by Betty Massingham.
It's Been a Hard Day's Work ... : 3- Last night Richard Whitmore was keeping us up with the Late News, and afterwards Helen Palmer kept him up for a behind-the-screen chat.
North and South by Mrs Gaskell abridged in 20 parts by Jack Singleton
Read by Prunella Scales 1) When her father's crisis of conscience transports Margaret Hale from the Southern softness of The New Forest to the Industrial North, she feels she can never come to terms with the alien way of life - personified in the mill-owner John Thornton. (Music: Bridge's Suite for String Orchestra) long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr David Harvey
Unknown:
Jill Burridge
Unknown:
Gertrude Jekyll
Unknown:
Betty Massincham.
Unknown:
Richard Whitmore
Unknown:
Helen Palmer
Unknown:
Jack Singleton
Read By:
Pruneua Scales
Unknown:
Margaret Hale
Unknown:
John Thornton.

Election of a Member byPHILIP HONEYWELL with Anton Rodgers Caroline Blakiston Neville Jason and Jennifer Piercey
The third and final play about the lives and loves of three government whips is set against a general election. Will Orvill win his marginal sea,t? Will he be helped or hindered by extra canvassing support from his old enemy, PiUman? And is Pillman really more interested in OrviU's wife?
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Philip Honeywell
Unknown:
Anton Rodgers
Unknown:
Caroline Blakiston
Unknown:
Neville Jason
Unknown:
Jennifer Piercey
Unknown:
Will Orvill
Directed By:
Cherry Cookson
Wilfred Pillman:
Anton Rodgers
Helen Bosworth:
Caroline Blakiston
Simon Orvill:
Neville Jason
Linda OrviU:
Jennifer Piercey
Mrs Quick margot boyd Canvasser/Train guard/Returning officer:
Peter Baldwin
Mrs Trott/Announcer/ Audrey Treadwell:
Jo Manning Wilson

from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge
Introit: 0 bone Jesu (Radcliffe)
Responses (Ayleward)
Psalms: 69, 70 (Chard, Attwood)
First Lesson: 2 Chronicles 2, vv 1-10
Canticles: Second Service (Leighton)
Second Lesson: Acts 5, vr 26-40
Anthem: Vidi turbam magnam ( Palestrina) Organ scholar THOMAS TROTTER
Director of Music
PHILIP LEDGER

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Trotter

Tennis games, in fiction if not always in fact, can prove to involve much more than hitting a ball from one side of a court to another. Peter White has been examining the way in which poets and novelists have used tennis games and players to portray a variety of emotions and situations; he presents the results of his researches with the help of Hugh Dickson Carole Hayman and Alison Draper
Producer thena HESHEL

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter White
Unknown:
Hugh Dickson
Unknown:
Carole Hayman
Unknown:
Alison Draper

In this second of a pair of programmes, Leslie Smith presents some of the evidence submitted to the Royal Commission on Legal Services in England and Wales, whose report will be published shortly; and in the second part of the programme, discusses the recommendations which might he made with Lord Gardiner, James
Lemkin and Michael Shanks.
Research Tom SUTCLIFFE
Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF

Contributors

Unknown:
Leslie Smith
Researcher:
Tom Sutcliffe
Producer:
Anthony Moncrieff

Round 2
England v France
(End of Round 1 scores: ENGLAND 12, FRANCE 135) England:
Anthony Quinton (Chairman) with Irene Thomas and John Julius Norwich France:
Gordon Clough
(Chairman), with Professor Henry Appia and Professor Paul-uubrie] Boute of the University of Paris
Question researcher BERNICE CIX'PI
Producer trevor BILL BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Quinton
Unknown:
Gordon Clough
Unknown:
Professor Henry Appia
Producer:
Trevor Bill

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