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Presenter Brian Redhead with LIBBY PURVES
6.45* Prayer for the Day With JEAN RICHARDSON
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.30,8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presenter:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Libby Purves
Unknown:
Jean Richardson
Read By:
Peter Donaldson

Celia Haddon
Graeme Garden Peter Porter and Dick Vosburgh 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 : long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Celia Haddon
Unknown:
Graeme Garden
Unknown:
Peter Porter
Unknown:
Dick Vosburgh
Read By:
Ronald Fletcher
Presented By:
Nigel Rees
Producer:
Geoffrey Perkins

Derek Robinson digs out some success stories.
6: Dr Alec Dickson , CBE
Eighteen years ago,
Alec Dickson the founder of Voluntary Service Overseas, saw the need for a comparable service in Britain to enable young people to respond to problems right across the social spectrum. The result was Community Service Volunteers. Since then, 20.000 young people, whose average age is 18, have both given and gained in situations which would daunt the professionally qualified adult. Producer MICHAEL GANDON BBC Birmingham long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Robinson
Unknown:
Dr Alec Dickson
Unknown:
Alec Dickson

of the 60s
David Jason puts on the beads and grows his hair for this far-out look at the 60s. Added flower power provided by Sheila Steafel Malcolm Terris and Jon Glover
Music by DAVE COOK Lyrics by ALISTAIR BEATON Script by COLIN BOSTOCK - SMITH, ANDY HAMILTON , GUY JENKIN RORY MCGRATH , BARRY
PILTON, MARTIN BERGMAlf , OWEN BRENMAN and BRIAN BETHELL
Producer JIMMY MULVILLE
12.55Weather; programme news: long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jason
Provided By:
Sheila Steafel
Provided By:
Malcolm Terris
Provided By:
Jon Glover
Music By:
Dave Cook
Unknown:
Alistair Beaton
Script By:
Colin Bostock
Unknown:
Andy Hamilton
Unknown:
Jenkin Rory McGrath
Unknown:
Martin Bergmalf
Unknown:
Brian Bethell
Producer:
Jimmy Mulville

Introduced by Sue MacGregor
April in Paris: attracted TONY BARNFIELD for a weekend away.
Talking Point: opinions and ideas
Reading Your Letters.
You Get So Jealous: MAUREEN GALVIN investigates the problems of childless couples and treatments available. Never Cry-Wolf (2) long wave only

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Tony Barnfield
Unknown:
Maureen Galvin

There is No God in Godalming by SIMON CARR
As Robin Bentley is rowing out on a lonely lake, he reaches a decision. The water is cold; but his mind dwells on the suffocating heat and noise of India, where ne went as a small child. It was in India that he first experienced stillness, inner strangeness and light. But Robin Bentley believes he has been mad for 25 years.
Directed by DAVID SPENSER

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Carr
Unknown:
Robin Bentley
Unknown:
Robin Bentley
Directed By:
David Spenser
Robin Bentley:
Christopher Guard
Robin as a child:
Bernadette Windsor
Mr Bentley:
John Pullen
Mrs Bentley:
Carole Boyd
Victoria:
Jamila Massey
Mrs Midway-West:
Pauline Letts
Mr Johnson:
Christopher Scott
Mrs Johnson:
Rowena Roberts
Amajeet:
Garard Green
Tas:
Renu Setna
Rutherford:
Anthony Hyde
Nun:
Amanda Murray

Eve's Matinee by JEAN MCKENZIE
Read by Judith Davis
Rita wanted to go to the Saturday matinée; her little brother wanted an apple. Their pocket money would not stretch to both treats, but the fruit stall was unattended ...
Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean McKenzie
Read By:
Judith Davis
Producer:
Diana Stenson

(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Written by MARY CUTLER Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Written By:
Mary Cutler
Dan Archer:
Edgar Harrison
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Jennifer Aidridge:
Angela Piper
Brian:
Charles Collingwood
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Shula Archer:
Judy Bennett
Laura:
Betty McDowall
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Carol Tregorran:
Anne Cullen
John:
Roger Hume
Nelson Gabriel:
Jack May
Joe Grundy:
Haydn Jones
Eddie Grundy:
Trevor Harrison
Mary Pound:
Ysanne Churchman
Clarrie Larkin:
Heather Bell
Richard Adamson:
Richard Carrington
Dorothy Adamson:
Heather Barrett
Col Danby:
Norman Shelley
Eva Lenz:
Hedli Niklaus
Caroline Bone:
Sara Coward

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