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Presenter Brian Redhead
With Mike Wooldridge
6.45* Prayer for the Day with The Rev R.T. Brooks
7.0, 8.9 Today's News
Read by Laurie MacMillan
7.30, 8.30 News headlines ,
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presenter:
Brian Redhead
Presenter:
Mike Wooldridge
Speaker (Prayer for the Day):
The Rev R.T. Brooks
Newsreader:
Laurie MacMillan

Pakistan is the new front line in the global power game. With Soviet tanks on his doorstep President Zia claims to be the best insurance against a Russian drive to the Indian Ocean.
With refugees flocking across the border from Afghanistan and the danger of Russia 'hot pursuit', Pakistan wants massive aid to modernise its armed forces. How should the West respond?
A File on 4 report from Pakistan by Steve Bradshaw
BBC Manchester
(Broadcast Sun 10.15 pm)
(long wave only)

Contributors

Reporter:
Steve Bradshaw
Producer:
Stuart Simon

Poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners.
Presented by D. M. Thomas
Readers Jill Balcon and Hugh Dickson
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
Requests to: Poetry Please!, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR long wave only

Contributors

Presented By:
D. M. Thomas
Presented By:
Readers Jill Balcon
Presented By:
Hugh Dickson
Producer:
Brian Patten

News, views and advice for consumers, including Job News and MOLLY PRICE-OWEN with World or Work: ideas on careers and training.
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
Editor DAVID HARDING
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Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Breckon
Editor:
David Harding

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On Holiday in Britain (1): :
MABY travels on the steam railways of industrial Wales
Reading Your letters.
Entertainment Round-up: GORBON cow reporting.
' Get them Young, Treat them Rough ':' the infant LEM TUTT had school-mistresses he'll never forget.
In the Highlands from The Weather in Africa by MARTHA GELLHORN , abridged in six parts by MADGE HART Read by GEOFFREY BEEVERS (6)
(Music: Jacob's Five Pieces for harmonica and strings)
Editor WYN KNOWLES tong wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Martha Gellhorn
Unknown:
Madge Hart
Editor:
Wyn Knowles

sfurinprnavid Raper us'Sarri Baker and Sharon Duce as his wife Annabel also featuring
Bill Owen as Fred Patsy Rowlands as Rose with this week
JOHN HORSLEY , JOHN CLIVE JON GLOVER , JOHN BOTT and MAGGIE SHEVLIN
Theme music JIM PARKER Producer
JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
(Repeated: Wed 10.30 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sarri Baker
Unknown:
Sharon Duce
Unknown:
Bill Owen
Unknown:
Fred Patsy Rowlands
Unknown:
John Horsley
Unknown:
John Clive
Unknown:
Jon Glover
Unknown:
John Bott
Unknown:
Maggie Shevlin
Music:
Jim Parker
Unknown:
John Fawcett Wilson

A Little Bit of Heaven by MAURICE LEITCH
GERRY: There's a Hitch-cock film with this bit in it of a tennis crowd.... and all the heads In the crowd are following the play.... but smack in the middle of them there's this one guy who's staring straight ahead.
LINDA: . . . sounds kind of lonely.
After 20 years, Gerry Mahood comes home to Ulster to find his only friends are nostalgia and whiskey.
Directed by ROBERT COOPER
BBC Northern Ireland

Contributors

Unknown:
Maurice Leitch
Unknown:
Gerry Mahood
Directed By:
Robert Cooper
Gerry Mahood:
Ian Hendry
Linda:
Jane Knowles
Charley:
J G Devlin
Wilbur:
Mark Mulholland
Georgie:
Trudy Kelly
Mrs Mahood/Brenda:
Doreen Hepburn
Actor:
Stella McCusker
Actor:
Maurice O'Callaghan
Tom/Radio announcer:
Desmond McAleer
Pub woman:
Catherine Gibson
Sid:
Patrick Brannigan

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