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Presenters Brian Redhead and John Timpson including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day with CHERIDA CAMPION
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Unknown:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Cherida Campion
Read By:
Laurie MacMillan

visits Warwickshire, where members of the Falcon Lodge Allotments and Gardeners' Association put their questions to CLAY JONES bill SOWERBUTTS and PROFESSOR ALAN GEMMELL
Questionmaster KEN FORD BBC Manchester
long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Alan Gemmell
Unknown:
Questionmaster Ken Ford

A panel game whose unruly members are occasionally kept in disorder by the Chairman Nicholas Parsons and in which
Kenneth Williams Clement Freud Derek Nimmo and Barry Cryer endeavour to prevent each other from talking for just a minute on this - or that. Devised by IAN MESSITER
Producer DAVID HATCH
12.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo
Unknown:
Barry Cryer
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
David Hatch

with Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Brian Cant, actor and presenter of BBC tv's Play Away
Any Other Business: JANET COHEN reviews domestic issues recently raised at Westminster
Wanted! Odours: for JOHN LINCOLN who mourns some passing smells.
Charity Begins Abroad: or so BARBARA MYERS discovered in the village of Rusper in Sussex.
A Small Country by SiAN JAMES , abridged in ten parts by JANET QUIGLEY
Read by SIAN PHILLIPS (10) i Music: Moeran's Violin Concerto) long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Janet Cohen
Unknown:
John Lincoln
Unknown:
Barbara Myers
Unknown:
Sian James
Unknown:
Janet Quigley
Read By:
Sian Phillips

from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge
Introit: Laudate nomen (Tye)
Responses (Byrd)
Psalms: 56, 60, 61 (Turle, Crotch)
First Lesson: Isaiah 42, vv 5-12
Office Hymn: The son of consolation (EH 222)
Canticles (Saunders in D) Second Lesson: Acts 9, vv 26-31
Anthem: Alleluia. I heard a voice (Weelkes) Director of Music PHILIP LEDGER Organ scholar
ADRIAN PARTINGTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Adrian Partington

A Love of Pearls by EILEEN HOTS
Read by Delia Paton
Old Aunt Leila had died and left Eleanor a legacy. But more wonderful than the money, Aunt Leila had left Eleanor the pearl necklace.

Contributors

Read By:
Delia Paton
Read By:
Old Aunt Leila
Unknown:
Aunt Leila

A musical quiz 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

[number removed]Derek Robinson chairs the weekly phone-in discussion and invites you to exchange views with guests who directly influence your lives and attitudes. Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
Lines open from 6.30 pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Robinson
Producer:
Jane Marshall

of Progress
David Jason looks back on what everyone can look forward to tomorrow ... if there is a tomorrow!
Further projections provided by Sheila Steafel Malcolm Terris and Mike Grady.
Music by DAVE COOKE
Lyrics by ALISTAIR BEATON Script by colin BOSTOCK-SMITH , ANDY HAMILTON , GUY JENKIN , RORY MCGRATH. BARRY PILTON , MARTIN BERGMAN , OWEN BRENMAN and BRIAN BETHELL
Producer JIMMY MULVILLE

Contributors

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

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