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Presented by John Timpson
With LIBBY PURVES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With THE REV ROY TREVIVIAN
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:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Libby Purves
Unknown:
Roy Trevivian
Read By:
Peter Donaldson

Peter Cook. Jacky Gillott Benny Green and Ian McKellen are quizzed on sayings funny and fatuous - taken from books, journals and walls, or simply overheard.
Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher
Devised and presented by Nigel Rees
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS (Revised repeat)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Cook.
Unknown:
Jacky Gillott
Unknown:
Benny Green
Unknown:
Ian McKellen
Read By:
Ronald Fletcher
Presented By:
Nigel Rees
Producer:
Geoffrey Perkins

Old Wood of Caledon
Birch and pine wood-lands, relics of a vast ancient Caledonian forest, may once more colonise and cover the Scottish Highlands. ROBIN BAIN. PETER GLADSTONE and ADAM WATSON , visit the grouse moors around Balmoral and Loch Nagar in search of the wild-life that may be forced to choose between the heather and the trees.
Presenter Chris Lowell BBC Scotland
(Revised repeat of a programme first broadcast on Radio Scotland)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robin Bain.
Unknown:
Peter Gladstone
Unknown:
Adam Watson
Unknown:
Loch Nagar
Presenter:
Chris Lowell

Derek Robinson digs out some success stories of individuals who come out on top.
5: Peter Prior
Peter Prior slaughtered some of the sacred cows of industrial relations. He is the Chairman of the Bulmer cider company in Hereford, and his leadership style has broken down ' them and us attitudes and led to talks instead of strikes. Producer
JOCELYN RYDER-SMITH BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Robinson

This week David Jason looks back on what we can look forward to tomorrow.... if there is a tomorrow!
Further projections provided by Sheila Steafel, Malcolm Terris and Mike Grady

12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jason
Unknown:
Sheila Steafel
Unknown:
Malcolm Terris
Unknown:
Mike Grady
Music:
Dave Cooke
Lyrics:
Alistair Beaton
Script:
Colin Bostock-Smith
Script:
Andy Hamilton
Script:
Guy Jenkin
Script:
Rory McGrath
Script:
Barry Pilton
Script:
Martin Bergman
Script:
Owen Brenman
Script:
Brian Bethell
Producer:
Jimmy Mulville

Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Talking Point: opinions and ideas ...
Six Pairs of Hands: writer. Monica Dickens , describes some of her other occupations - from cook-general, to Samaritan.
Reading Your Letters.
Your Holiday in Greece: ELIZABETH DE STROUMILLO, travel correspondent. offers some advice.
When is a Secretary a Secretary!: LUCY PARKER finds out.
An Unlessoned Girt (4)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Monica Dickens
Unknown:
Lucy Parker

Don't be Cruel by ROSE TREMAIN with and The title is from an Elvis Presley number, the story that of a failing marriage, but the background is public school and what it can do to a man....
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Elvis Presley
Directed By:
Richard Wortley
Humble:
James Villiers
Joan:
Amanda Murray
Humble as boy a:
Laurence Hardiman
Tracy:
Sarah Golding
Curtis:
Peter Baldwin
Blunden:
Charles Hodgson
Marissa:
Heather Bell
Laura:
Margot Boyd

A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions? Introduced by David Jacobs
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
Address for letters: Any Answers, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Introduced By:
David Jacobs
Producer:
Michael Bowen

Stories
Written by LESLIE FENNELL Read by Alan Devereux
Bet turned to look at him. Hello Des. I'm glad to see you. I'm sure we're all glad to see you.'
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Written By:
Leslie Fennell
Read By:
Alan Devereux
Producer:
Jane Marshall

(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Written by HELEN LEADBEATER Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Written By:
Helen Leadbeater
Dan Archer:
Edgar Harrison
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer Aldridge:
Angela Piper
Brian Aldridge:
Charles Collingwood
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Pat Archer:
Patricia Gallimore
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Shula Archer:
Judy Bennett
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
John Tregorran:
Roger Hume
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville
Joe Grundy:
Haydn Jones
Eddie Grundy:
Trevor Harrison
Clarrie Larkin:
Heather Bell
Mike Tucker:
Terry Molloy
Betty Tucker:
Pamela Craig
Col Danby:
Norman Shelley
Eva Lenz:
Hedli Niklaus
Jim Coverdale:
Leon Tanner
Caroline Bone:
Sara Coward

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