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Presenter Brian Redhead With LIBBY PURVES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day With THE REV ADAM FORD
7.9. 8.0 Today's News
Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.34, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Unknown:
Libby Purves
Read By:
Brian Perkins

In five programmes lon Trewia presents a series of portraits of the creators of the clubland heroes - the forerunners of James Bond.
4: Edgar Wallace
Producer JOHN KNIGHT long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
James Bond.
Unknown:
Edgar Wallace
Producer:
John Knight

Douglas Adams Judi Dench
Russell Harty and Kenneth Robinson are quizzed on sayings funny and fatuous - taken from books, journals and walls, or simply overheard.
' Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.' (HENRY FIELDING) Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher
Devised and presented by Nigel Rees
Producer ALAN NIXON
(Russell Harty presents All About Books tonight
10.50 BBC1)
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Douglas Adams
Unknown:
Judi Dench
Unknown:
Russell Harty
Unknown:
Kenneth Robinson
Read By:
Ronald Fletcher
Presented By:
Nigel Rees
Producer:
Alan Nixon
Unknown:
Russell Harty

with Sue MacGregor
Talking Point: opinions and ideas ...
Reading Your Letters.
For Lore or For Moncuf DAVID HAWKSWORTH investigates why children steal. the End of the Affair (6) long wave only until 2.45

Contributors

Unknown:
Moncuf David Hawksworth

Another World by JAMES HANLEY with Anna Cropper as Miss Vaughan Frances Cuka as Mrs Gandell
Anthony Hall as Mr Jones William Squire as The Rev Melvyn Thomas and Rachel Thomas as Margcd Thomas
In a little seaside town in Wales, Mrs Gandell runs her boarding house, the Decent Hotel. Although it is winter, and out of season. Miss Vaughan remains a guest. Miss Vaughan is mysterious and private; Miss Vaughan lives in a world of her own - another world.
Mr Prothero. DEREK POLLITT Sarah Traton
ROWENA ROBERTS
Mr Blair. ... MICHAEL MCSTAY Mr Wills SIÔN PROBERT Directed by DAVID SPENSER

Contributors

Unknown:
James Hanley
Unknown:
Anna Cropper
Unknown:
Miss Vaughan Frances Cuka
Unknown:
Mrs Gandell
Unknown:
Anthony Hall
Unknown:
Mr Jones
Unknown:
William Squire
Unknown:
Melvyn Thomas
Unknown:
Rachel Thomas
Unknown:
Margcd Thomas
Unknown:
Mrs Gandell
Unknown:
Mr Prothero.
Unknown:
Derek Pollitt
Unknown:
Sarah Traton
Unknown:
Rowena Roberts
Unknown:
Mr Blair.
Directed By:
David Spenser

Written by TIM ROSE PRICE (Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Written By:
Tim Rose Price
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Pat:
Patricia Gallimore
Philip:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Shula Archer:
Judy Bennett
Laura:
Betty McDowall
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Nelson Gabriel:
Jack May
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville
Jethro Larkin:
George Hart
Col Danby:
Norman Shelley
Caroline:
Bone Saracoward
Mark Hebden:
Richard Derrington
Andrene:
Marian Kemmer

The Poet's Child
And then the child's voice raised the dead.
(EDWARD THOMAS)
Michael Ffinch selects some of his favourites from the vast number of poems poets have written about children.
Readers Hugh Burden andRichardPasco Producer
SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Ffinch

The West Country in the first of three programmes.
In the 1960s GEOFFREY MOORHOUSE wrote about Cornwall as a county in decline. Railway lines were about to be ' axed ', unemployment was high and the county was the only one in England with a declining population. A few weeks ago he made a return visit.
Producer PETER ESTALL

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Moorhouse
Producer:
Peter Estall

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