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Brian Redhead with LIBBY PURVES including at
( 45* Prayer for the Day
With THE REV ALEC GILMORE 7 8.0 Today's News
Read by peter DONALDSON 7 30, 8. JO News headlines
7.45. Thought for the Day

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Libby Purves
Unknown:
Alec Gilmore
Read By:
Peter Donaldson

A Tale at Tea Break by CLIVE RICHE
Read by William Eedle
' And then this new master appears. He's just like an ancient crow, with one of those flat hats with a tassel, a black gown and a walking stick, staring at us. And his head's completely bald! Bald and shining like the polished brass handle on an office door.'
Producer MITCH RAPER

Contributors

Read By:
William Eedle
Producer:
Mitch Raper

Chairman Robert Robinson 25: Semi-final (1)
London and the Home Counties
David goddard, librarian (London); OLGA EVANS (London); JOHN WINDUS, tax inspector (Hertfordshire); GEOFFREY REYNOLDS , engineer (Surrey)
The programme includes Beat the Brains
Devised by JOHN P. WYNN Questions set by )AN (III. LIES and JOAN CLARK Producer RICHARD EDIS
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Olga Evans
Unknown:
Geoffrey Reynolds
Unknown:
John P. Wynn
Unknown:
Joan Clark
Producer:
Richard Edis

Introduced by Sue
MacGregor Medicair : christabel KING has been flying with DR ANNE SPOERRY - One Of Kenya's flying doctors.
Public Face, Private Philosophy: patricsmoore. Reading Your Letters.
A Tarantula Called Patricial: RON alldridge has been meeting some unusual pets - and pet-owners.
Dr Nina and the Panther by SHIRLEY P. WHEELER read by faith BROOK abridged in 14 parts by SALLY SKRIMSHIRE (14)
(Music: Thomson's Suite The River)
Editor WYN KNOWLES

Contributors

Unknown:
MacGregor Medicair
Unknown:
Dr Anne Spoerry
Unknown:
Ron Alldridge
Unknown:
Shirley P. Wheeler
Editor:
Wyn Knowles

Blockbuster by STEPHEN BARLAY , based on the author's novel
Other policemen played by DAVID GILLIES and EDWARD HALSTEAD

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Barlay
Played By:
David Gillies
Played By:
Edward Halstead
Maxine:
Frances Jeater
Colonel Wade:
Ian Lindsay
Winnie Cutter-Smith:
Hilda Kriseman
Sarah:
Lolly Cockerell
MacDougal:
Philip Fox
Commander Allerton:
Allan McClelland
Carron:
John Rye
Linley:
Michael Goldie
Car Hire receptionist:
Liza Flanagan
Sergeant Patel:
Sam Dastor
River police sergeant:
Jo Dunlop

A Rooted Sorrow by P. M. HUBBARD abridged in five parts by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by Noel Johnson (1) Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles o/ the brain,
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heartt (MACBETn)
Producer STEPHEN RILEY BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
P. M. Hubbard
Read By:
Noel Johnson
Producer:
Stephen Riley

Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden grapple intermittently with Tim Brooke-Taylor and Denise Coffey Chaired by Humphrey Lyttelton Accompanied by COLIN SELL Producer
GEOFFREY PERKINS
(Rptd: Wed 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Cryer
Unknown:
Graeme Garden
Unknown:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Unknown:
Denise Coffey
Unknown:
Humphrey Lyttelton
Accompanied By:
Colin Sell
Unknown:
Geoffrey Perkins

by Brian Thompson
When a group of people in an evening class set out to discover history on the ground they uncover rather more about themselves than the subject seems to warrant...
BBC Manchester
(The cast are members of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round at Scarborough) (Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Brian Thompson
Director:
Alan Ayckbourn
Producer:
Alfred Bradley
Dr Rupert Salmon:
Geoffrey Banks
Harry Goodenough:
John Arthur
Jack Hemsworth:
Robin Herford
Jenny Ellis:
Alison Skilbeck
Molly Frankland/Milly Frankland:
Shelagh Stuttle
Renate Burgholz:
Lavinia Bertram
Other parts played by:
Heather Stoney

A series in which June Knox-Mawer asks travellers and travel-writers about the place, the book and the music, to which, given the chance, they return most often. Today's guest:
Jonathan Hewat , record holder for the world's longest overland journey. Producer PETER ESTALL

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Hewat
Producer:
Peter Estall

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