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Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day With FR ERIC DOYLE
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presenters:
John Timpson
Presenters:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Fr Eric Doyle
Read By:
Harriet Cass

Plays from the series Just Before Midnight
Out in the Midday Sun by RICK FERREIRA , With
' I will pay you £500 if you will do exactly as I say.'
Mr Partridge walking his dog on Hampstead Heath met the one person who could carry out his plan, so he made his offer. But the young coloured man on the park bench was clever - and all didn't go according to plan. Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING Chequemates by ROY RUSSELL with James Cossins and Ray Brooks
POMFREY: I'm afraid you've quite a lot to learn about fiscal matters, Mr Ross. I do know the financial rules of business and' you deviate from them at your peril.
Sound advice from a bank manager, but does he take it himself?
Directed by MICHAEL BARTLETT
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Rick Ferreira
Unknown:
Mr Partridge
Directed By:
Christopher Venning
Unknown:
Roy Russell
Unknown:
James Cossins
Unknown:
Ray Brooks
Unknown:
Mr Ross.
Directed By:
Michael Bartlett
Partridge:
John Carson
Winston:
Raul Newney
Peartree:
Leonard Fenton
Mr Pomfrey:
James Cossins
ROSS:
Ray Brooks
April:
Petha Davies
Linda:
Heather Tobias

Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Guest oj the Week: Arthur Marshall.
The Sunday Joint ... and the Weekday Treat: JILL BURRIDGE learns about meat. 3: Lamb.
Reading Your Letters.
Saving in the High Street: (4) The Insurance Company.
Sense and Sensibility (3) long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Marshall.
Unknown:
Jill Burridge

by Peter Myers
with Maureen O'Brien as Joyce Meadows
Petra Markham as Fiona
and Gabriel Woolf as Roger.

Fiona lives alone with her divorced father on a remote farm in Yorkshire. Her only friend is an imaginary small boy called Nicky - 'He'd get up to the most awful scrapes. He'd make you laugh. I'll tell you about the time he got locked in the bell tower of the church. It wasn't his fault really - well, he said it wasn't but I know better.'

(BBC Bristol)

Contributors

Writer:
Peter Myers
Director:
Shaun MacLoughlin
Joyce Meadows:
Maureen O'Brien
Fiona:
Petra Markham
Roger:
Gabriel Woolf
Beth:
Rosemary Whitfield
Man:
Rex Holdsworth
Sergeant Dye:
Brian Haines
First PC:
Bill Wallis
Second PC:
Trevor Cooper

from the Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge Preces and Responses (Byrd)
Psalms: 65. 66, 67 (Whit-lock, Hopkins, Luard Selby )
First Lesson: Exodus 16, vv 4-15
Canticles (Howells: Gloucester Service)
Second Lesson: Ephesians 4, vv 17-30
Anthem: The ways of Sion do mourn (Wise) Acting organist PETER HURFORD
Organ student IAN SHAW

Contributors

Unknown:
Luard Selby
Organist:
Peter Hurford
Unknown:
Ian Shaw

Devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden
In the Chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE. Executive producer BOBBY JAYE
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward J. Mason
Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Ian Wallace
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Producer:
Bobby Jaye

In the second of two programmes, Dr Christopher Andrew describes the evolution of the British Secret Service. 2: 1918-1945
How the ' spy ' became irrelevant, how Philby, Blunt and Co began their burrowing, and how Mr Churchill's yellow boxes helped to win the War. Producer PETER EVERETT BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Christopher Andrew
Producer:
Peter Everett

investigates the truth about ' scroungers '. As a thousand more welfare fraud officers start operations. David Henshaw reports on a Tyneside campaign against what is claimed is ' government hysteria Presenter
Peter Oppenheimer
Producer GERRY NORTHAM Editor COLIN ADAMS BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Thurs 11.5 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
David Henshaw
Unknown:
Peter Oppenheimer
Producer:
Gerry Northam
Editor:
Colin Adams

The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Having taken tea in the chashitsu (tea house) and lingered under the red lacquer torri (shrine arches), lit by a hundred lanterns, sumptuously decorated with monsho (heraldic crests). Michael Oliver and Louis Allen find their oriental quietude contrasting vividly with the sound, colour and vitality of contemporary Tokyo - all conjured up in the Japan Style exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. This is a spectacular presentation of craft and design in Japan today, where a pachinko (gambling parlour) shows gangster movies, a calculator plays classical music, and a sushiya (a raw-fish bar) displays plastic food and shows TV commercials.
Producer JOHN POWELL
9.59 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Ael Oliver
Unknown:
Louis Allen
Producer:
John Powell

A nine-part series in which Jeremy Siepmann follows the changing fortunes of the orchestra and the society whose tastes it has always mirrored.
5: Sense and Sensuality
Romantic feeling and a daring eroticism combine with new and better instruments to produce a hitherto unknown concept: the aural orgy.
Tone-painters contributing to this week's programme include Berlioz, Wagner and Debussy-with surprise appearances by Mozart and Monteverdi who protest that they were there first.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeremy Siepmann
Producer:
Arthur Johnson

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