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Presented by Brian Redhead
With LJBBY PURVES
6.45. Prayer for the Day BISHOP GEORGE APPLETON
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.30 8.30 News headlines
7.45. Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
With Ljbby Purves
Unknown:
George Appleton
Read By:
Peter Donaldson

by NIGEL BALCHIN abridged in ten parts by MICHAEL BOWEN Read by Geoffrey Matthews (1)
Professor Mair's research section is working on weapon research during the Second World war; the Germans are dropping mysterious booby-trap bombs; and Sammy Rice has his own private battle to fight.
Producer PAMELA HOWE. BBC Bristol long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Balchin
Unknown:
Michael Bowen
Read By:
Geoffrey Matthews
Unknown:
Sammy Rice
Producer:
Pamela Howe.

Introduced by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas

Robert Powell is shown the harvesting machinery of 100 years ago by Martyn Brown, curator of the Abbey Barn Museum, Glastonbury. Kenneth Cooke, former head keener at Weston Park, Shropshire, recalls the pleasures and problems of a gamekeepers life in the shooting season.
Mollie Harris admires the work of her local Oxfordshire taxidermist.
Is the glory of Britain's autumn foliage in danger from neglect?
Keith Allan talks to John James of the Woodland Trust. Eric Simms watches the birds of the mid-Wales coast at the RSPB reserve at Ynys Hir. Martin Muncaster goes salmon fishing on the River Tweed with Lord Home.

(Long wave only)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Wynford Vaughan-Thomas
Introduced By:
Robert Powell
Unknown:
Martyn Brown
Talks:
Keith Allan
Unknown:
John James
Unknown:
Eric Simms
Producer:
John Haslam

A general knowledge contest between schools in England, Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland.

Derby School v. Ilkeston School, Derbyshire

Questionmasters Tim Gudgin and Paddy Feeny

(Rptd: Thurs 6.30 pm)

12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only

Contributors

Questionmaster:
Tim Gudgin
Questionmaster:
Paddy Feeny
Questions set by:
Roy Smith
Questions set by:
Paul Livesey
Producer:
Paul Mayhew-Archer

Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Talking Point: opinions and ideas....
You Pays Your Money ... Or Else!: debt-collecting and the debt collectors. RON ALLDRIDGE reporting.
Herbal Cures: ANN MAC-NAMARA investigates the claims.
Look Back with Mixed Feelings by DODIE SMITH , abridged in 13 parts by JANET HICKSON Read by PATRICIA ROUTLEDGE (8) Editor WYN KNOWLES long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Ron Alldridge
Unknown:
Dodie Smith
Unknown:
Janet Hickson
Read By:
Patricia Routledge
Editor:
Wyn Knowles

The Cake Shop by CLlVE RICHE
Read by Timothy Earle
1 I'd never stayed long at the top of Slackston Hill, until the day we went to Miss Feather-light's cake shop. You see, for folks like me, it just wasn't the place to go. It was posh...
Producer MITCH RAPER

Contributors

Read By:
Timothy Earle
Producer:
Mitch Raper

The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author
Starring Ian Carmichael as Gerald C. Potter and Charlotte Mitchell as his wife with Brian Carroll, Danny Schiller
Written by Basil Boothroyd
(Repeated: Wed 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Basil Boothroyd
Producer:
Bobby Jaye
Gerald C. Potter:
Ian Carmichael
His wife:
Charlotte Mitchell
[Actor]:
Brian Carroll
[Actor]:
Danny Schiller

by Dick Francis, dramatised by Barry Campbell, with Tony Osoba, Robert Lang Jack May, Selina Cadell
Being warned off Newmarket Heath is like being struck off the medical register only more so. When Kelly Hughes loses his licence as a jockey he loses his job, his home, and his whole reason for living and as it's for something he didn't do, he's determined to fight back and find out who framed him and why.
Technical presentation DAVID GREENWOOD, assisted by DAVID MITCHINSON and DIANA BARKHAM
Special effects recorded at Hereford Race Course and Lethorries, Berkshire
Directed by JANE MORGAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Dick Francis
Dramatised By:
Barry Campbell
Unknown:
Tony Osoba
Unknown:
Robert Lang
Unknown:
Jack May
Unknown:
Selina Cadell
Unknown:
Kelly Hughes
Unknown:
David Greenwood
Assisted By:
David Mitchinson
Unknown:
Diana Barkham
Directed By:
Jane Morgan
Kelly Hughes:
Tony Osoba
Lord Gowery:
Jack May
Dexter Cranfield:
Philip Vors
Lord Ferth:
Robert Lang
Charlie West:
William Nighy
Mr Newtonnards:
John Ronane
David Oakley:
Michael Graham-Cox
Tony:
David Savile
Roberta Cranfield:
Selina Cadell
Archie:
Michael McKevitt
Mrs Cranfield:
Eva Stuart
Mrs West:
Jenny Twigge
Secretary,:
Lolly Cockerell
Dewar:
Gordon Reid
Grace Roxford:
Thelma Whitely
Jack Roxford:
David Sinclair
Doctor:
Brian Carroll
Derek Hickson:
Philip Fox

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