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presenter Brian Redhead
With LIBBY PURVCS
With Prayer for the Day
THE REV JOHN DUNLOP
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.308.30 News headlines
Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presenter:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
With Libby
Unknown:
John Dunlop
Read By:
Eugene Fraser

Tom Vernon in France
Part the Sixth (Of 6)
The Pyramids of the Sun
How Our Hero Rode into the Mountains. What Man"er of Place They Were and How He Came Down
Rapidly on the Other Side; His Journey Through Occitania; The Sentiments of a Poet and the Ambi"ons of an Architect; The Nymphs of the Mediterranean and How They flowed Themselves; and How a Cyclist was Weighed in the Balance and Found not Wanting.
Producer JOY HATWOOD long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Vernon

A series of 13 programmes written by Robert Barr

(12.55 Weather; programme news - long wave only)

Contributors

Written by:
Robert Barr
Producer:
Martin Fisher
Detective-Sergeant Brook:
Ray Brooks
Detective-Constable Maxton:
Christopher Blake
Chief Inspector Roach:
David Daker
Jimmy Lowrie:
Tom Bowles
Hughie Crerand:
Michael Packer
Station Officer:
Gordon Reid
Mr Evans:
Philip Voss
Jane Miller:
Clare Clifford
Mrs Stevenson:
Betty Alberge

Introduced by Sue
MacGregor Spendaholics : some people in Los Angeles have up to 14 credit cards and an average debt of £6,000. MIKE SHEILS talks to the agency that helps them. Talking Point.
Desert Island People: NIGEL DEMPSTER gives his choice of castaway companions.
Unwillingly to Schoolr: MAUREEN CALVIN looks at some recent ideas about the causes and treatment of truancy.
The Grass Harp (8) long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
MacGregor Spendaholics
Unknown:
Nigel Dempster
Unknown:
Maureen Calvin

A Home of our Own by MARTIN STANIFORTH withand
Bill Carol and their two children live in cramped, run-down flat in central London: no garden, no room to play, no room to live. When they are offered the chance to move to the remote countryside, they decide to seize it despite all the hazards.
Directed by PENNY GOLD

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Staniforth
Unknown:
Bill Carol
Directed By:
Penny Gold
Bill:
James Bolam
Carol:
Penelope Lee
John:
Ian Barker
Lisa:
Lisa Coleman
Doctor:
Patrick Barr
Spencer:
Brian Carroll
Bank manager:
Brian Haines
Solicitor:
Danny Schiller
Factory supervisor:
Josie Kidd
Gateman:
Peter Tuddenham

Strong Poison by DOROTHY L. SAYERS , adapted in six parts by CHRIS MILLER starring andand
6: Turkish Delight
Producer SIMON BRETT

Contributors

Unknown:
Dorothy L. Sayers
Unknown:
Chris Miller
Producer:
Simon Brett
Lord Peter:
Ian Carmichael
Bunter:
Peter Jones
Harriet Vane:
Ann Bell
Chief Inspector Parker:
Gabriel Woolf
Miss Murchison:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Freddy Arbuthnot:
Christopher Scoular
Norman Urquhart:
John Pullen
Attorney-General / Gerald, Duke of Denver:
Stephen Thorne
Sir Impey Biggs:
Robert Gillespie
Marjorie Phelps:
Rosalind Adams

Written by TESSA DIAMOND
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Written By:
Tessa Diamond
DoriS:
Gwen Berryman
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer Aldridge:
Angela Piper
Brian Aldridge:
Charles Collingwood
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipf
Pat Archer:
Patricia Gallimore
Philip:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Shula Archer:
Judy Bennett
Laura Archer:
Betty McDowall
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Carol Tregorran:
Anne Cullen
John Tregorran:
Roger Hume
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Polly Perks:
Hilary Newcombe
Martha Woodford:
Mollie Harris
Eddie Grundy:
Trevor Harrison
Jethro Larkin:
George Hart
Clarrie Larkin:
Heather Bell
Neil Carter:
Brian Hewlett
Col Danby:
Norman Shelley
Eva Lenz:
Hedli Niklaus
Caroline Bone:
Sara Coward

The Orchestral Hall concert at which Klaus Tenn stedt, who has since become chief conductor of the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra, made his Chicago début. The soloist was
Henryk Szeryng (violin)
Boris Blacher Concertante - music
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D major

Contributors

Unknown:
Klaus Tenn
Violin:
Henryk Szeryng
Violin:
Boris Blacher Concertante

June Knox-Mawer talks to our most distinguished biographers.
Winifred Gérin, winner of the Whitbread Biographers Award, describes her long stay in the company of that most enigmatic of the Brontë sisters, Emily.

Contributors

Interviewer:
June Knox-Mawer
Interviewee:
Winifred Gérin
Producer:
Frances Donnelly

The Pineapple House in Stirlingshire, a Martello Tower in Suffolk and the Gothic Temple at Stowe are just three of 60 unusual buildings owned by the Landmark Trust.
Founder John Smith talks about his unusual approach to preservation, which now attracts 10,000 people a year to stay in Landmark properties. Producer NICK HUGHES

Contributors

Talks:
John Smith
Producer:
Nick Hughes

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More