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presenters Libby Purvcs and Paul Burden
6 45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.1, 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.30 8.30 News headlines
7.45. Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presenters:
Libby Purvcs
Presenters:
Paul Burden
Unknown:
Richard Harries
Read By:
Colin Doran

A personal account of a journey to the source of the Ganges, written and presented by Charles Allen
For 430 million Hindus, the River Ganges is an object of worship and pilgrimage. In April this year. CHARLES ALLEN became the first Westerner for many years to make the difficult journey to its source, deep in the Himalayas. Producer
SALLY THOMPSON

Contributors

Presented By:
Charles Allen
Unknown:
Charles Allen
Unknown:
Sally Thompson

Introduced from Manchester by Marjorie Lofthouse
Actor Bernard Cribbins talks about his varied career in films, television, theatre, radio and advertising.
A Day at the Fair; no roundabouts here, but plenty of junketing at one of the major events in the gypsy calendar. Phil Smith reports from the Appleby Horse Fair.
High Street Literacy: the adult literacy campaign is becoming even more accessible as Sue Margolis discovered when she went to a reading shop in Leeds.
BBC Manchester
With Scarlet Majors (2)

Contributors

Unknown:
Marjorie Lofthouse
Talks:
Bernard Cribbins
Unknown:
Phil Smith

by Elaine Feinstein

Marika, a political refugee from Czechoslovakia, is living in a Cambridge suburb. The musical boxes, chiming clocks and stories of another world make a striking contrast to a council estate in the Fens. To a 12-year-old boy, she is both frightening and fascinating and a strange friendship begins.

Contributors

Writer:
Elaine Feinstein
Director:
Liane Aukin
Marika:
Linda Polan
Jimmy:
Richard Proctor
Shopkeeper:
Lolly Cockerell
Mrs Price:
Sonia Fraser
Child:
Elinor Jason
Child:
Benjamin Midgley
Clive:
Ian Hoare
Mother:
Diana Bishop
Father:
Simon Coady
Jan:
Leonard Fenton
Fireman:
John Bott
Fireman:
Gordon Reid

The story of Harry Frasson Brian Haines and Peter Cotes tell the extraordinary tale of the Music-Hall star who was equally popular in England and France and whose ' lady friend ' was the cause of his tragic death as the result of a crime of passion. Producer BRIAN COOK

Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Frasson
Unknown:
Brian Haines
Unknown:
Peter Cotes
Producer:
Brian Cook

with Richard Hudson-Evans
With the school holidays just around the corner. Going Places examines the pitfalls of travelling to the Continent, including how to cope with breakdowns, the mysteries of foreign rail timetables, and airport delays.
With the usual round-up of up-to-the-minute Continental Travel Information Producer DEBORAH CHRISTIE Editor ROGER MACDONALD

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Hudson-Evans
Producer:
Deborah Christie
Editor:
Roger MacDonald

Lord Thorneycroft, The Rt Hon Denis Healey, MP, Dame Josephine Barnes and Sir Ieuan Maddock tackle the issues raised by the audience in Luton, Bedfordshire. Chairman David Jacobs
BBC Bristol
(Rptd: tomorrow 1.10 pm)
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers?, Thursday 4.15, to Any Answers?, [address removed]

Contributors

Panellist:
Lord Thorneycroft
Panellist:
Denis Healey
Panellist:
Dame Josephine Barnes
Panellist:
Sir Ieuan Maddock
Chairman:
David Jacobs
Producer:
Carole Stone

The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
How do you write about a plan to turn people into picsf Do you use the fingers, the elbows - what do you use' When you're stuck with writing a lyric - get specific!
Stephen Sondheim has turned these unsavoury ingredients into an award-winning musical, Sweeney Todd , which opens in London next week. Sheridan Morley goes behind the scenes at Drury Lane to meet the composer, STEPHEN SONDHEIM ; the Director, Hal Prince: and the stars of the show, Sheila Hancock and Denis Quilley.
Producer JOHN BOUNDY
Sheridan's Films: page 7

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Sondheim
Musical:
Sweeney Todd
Unknown:
Stephen Sondheim
Unknown:
Sheila Hancock
Unknown:
Denis Quilley.
Producer:
John Boundy

An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with Bill Wallis , David Tate
Sheila Steafel , Jon Glover and THE DAVID FIRMAN TRIO Written by GUY JENKIN. JOHN LANGDON ,
JEREMY BROWNE , ANDY WILSON , RICHARD QUICK, BRIAN BETHELL and BOB SINFIELD Producer JIMMY MULVILLE (Kptd: tomorrow 5.25 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
David Tate
Unknown:
Sheila Steafel
Unknown:
Jon Glover
Unknown:
John Langdon
Unknown:
Jeremy Browne
Unknown:
Andy Wilson
Unknown:
Brian Bethell
Unknown:
Bob Sinfield
Producer:
Jimmy Mulville

Staying On by PAUL SCOTT abridged for radio in 15 parts by DAVID H. GODFREY Read by GARARD GREEN < 15) Producer TREVOR HILL BBC Manchester
(Starting on Monday: 'A Diary Without Dates ' by Enid Bagnold ) long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Scott
Unknown:
David H. Godfrey
Unknown:
Enid Bagnold

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