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Presenter Brian Redhead With LIBBY PURVES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day With FR JOHN MCCULLAGH
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by CHRISTOPHER SLADE
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Dag Thoughts, Prayers. Reflections: a collection of short talks, £1.35, from bookshops

Contributors

Unknown:
Libby Purves
Unknown:
Fr John McCullagh
Read By:
Christopher Slade

The Children of Dynmouth, by WILLIAM TREVOR abridged in 15 parts by BARRY CAMPBELL. ..',
Read by Johnny Morris (5) Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
William Trevor
Unknown:
Barry Campbell.
Read By:
Johnny Morris
Producer:
Pamela Howe

The first of two programmes written and narrated by June Knox Mawer 1: Paradise Found
The South Sea Islands and their people have held a special place tn the European imagination ever since the English discovery of Tahiti in 1767. June Knox-Mawer consulted diaries and contemporary accounts to discover some of the turning-points in a long and sometimes stormy relationship.
Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING
(Repeated: Sat 11.15 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
June Knox Mawer
Directed By:
Christopher Venning
Fijian man:
Joseph Charles
Tongan/Fijian woman:
Jumoke Debayo
Robertson / Bougainville Williamson:
John Church
Joe Banks:
Stephen Kemble
Capt Cook/Horace Walpole:
Geoffrey Matthews
Midshipman Ibbott / Lt Burney / Boswell / Verge, Reader:
Michael Maloney
Capt Wallis/Lockerby:
Christopher Scoular
Sarah Banks:
Amanda Murray
Fanny Burney:
Helen Ryan
Craddock/Dr Johnson:
Patrick Barr
Will Mariner:
Nicholas Reditia.

Presented by ' Charles Tomlinson
Readers Gabriel Woolf and Elizabeth Havelock * Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
Requests: Poetry Pleasel. BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Readers:
Charles Tomlinson
Readers:
Gabriel Woolf
Readers:
Elizabeth Havelock
Producer:
Brian Patten

Chairman Robert Robinson 10: North of England
. Betty Evans
(Schoolteacher) Richard Boam (Male nurse)
Sheila Ramsden
(Hospital domestic) lail Spafford
(Solicitor)
Including Beat the ' Programme devised by JOHN P WYNN Questions set by IAN GILLES Producer RICHARDS EDIS (Repeated Thurs 6.30 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Betty Evans
Unknown:
Richard Boam
Unknown:
Sheila Ramsden
Unknown:
John P Wynn
Unknown:
Ian Gilles
Producer:
Richards Edis

Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Make it Your business: can a hobby, or a dream become a successful small business? Ron Alldridge reports
Professional Ethics: James Anderton, Chief Constable of Greater Manchester, discusses his personal moral standpoint.
Parents' Night: and a ray of hope for Margaret Korving and son.
Portrait of Islay: Doreen Taylor has visited this island in the south of the Hebrides.
'An Unlessoned Girl' by Margaret Maddocks, abridged in seven episodes by Doreen Estall
Read by Clare Horne (1)
Margaret Maddocks's parents come from very different stock: her mother from a handsome and easy-going Worcestershire family; her father's birthplace was Kettering - a world very similar to Arnold Bennett's Five Towns. 'There was the same provincial integrity, the same stifling convention, the same yearning for the stars.'
(Music: Grainger's Youthful Suite)

Contributors

Presenter:
Sue MacGregor
Reporter:
Ron Alldridge
Speaker:
James Anderton
Speaker:
Margaret Korving
Reporter:
Doreen Taylor
Author (An Unlessoned Girl):
Margaret Maddocks
Abridger (An Unlessoned Girl):
Doreen Estall
Reader:
Clare Horne
Editor:
Wyn Knowles

Canonising Sykes by DORIS BAILEY
Road by Sheila Mitchell
'It wasn't that people didn't Itke Uncle Sykes-there was nothing much-to like or dislike about him, but during the 30 years I knew him, I can only remember him opening his mouth to eat, drink, and to utter some utterly pessimistic comment oh tt'hat he considered to be his children's headlong flight into a life of sin.
Producer FRANCES DONNELLY

Contributors

Unknown:
Doris Bailey
Producer:
Frances Donnelly

A Love Match
(on ne badine pas avec l'Amour)
by ALFRED DE MUSSET in an English version by DEREK COLTMAN with Marian Diamond and Simon Cadell Camille and Pedican were obviously made for each other and their marriage has long been planned. The fact that they're cousins is a slight snag, but one that can surely be got round, but Camille's desire to become a nun is a rather bigger obstacle. '
With ANTHONY HYDE and DAVID TIMSON
Directed'by JANE MORGAN (Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Alfred de Musset
Unknown:
Derek Coltman
Unknown:
Marian Diamond
Unknown:
Simon Cadell
Unknown:
Anthony Hyde
Unknown:
David Timson
Directed By:
Jane Morgan
Chorus:
Brian Haines
Blazius:
Peter Woodthohpe
Dame Pluche:
Eva Stuart
Baron:
Christopher Benjamin
The Rev Bridaine:
Denys Hawthorne
Perdican:
Simon Cadell
Camille:
Marian Diamond
Rosette:
Joanne Pearce

The Death of the Heart by ELIZABETH BOWEN abridged for, radio in 15 parts by ANGELA THOMAE .Read by Jane Asher (1)
In London during the 30s,'
16 year-old Portia is sent to live with her wealthy half-brother, Thomas, after the death of her mother: She Is made to feel quite out,of place in the fashionable world of high society and Thomas's 'wife is remote and cold towards her. Her sense Of isolation leads to a pain-, ful first love affair Producer CHERRY COOKSON long' wove only
(Jane Asher is in ' Before the Partyj at the Queen's Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth Bowen
Unknown:
Angela Thomae
Read By:
Jane Asher
Producer:
Cherry Cookson
Unknown:
Jane Asher

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