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Presenter Brian Redhead With LIBBY PURVES including at
C 45* Proper for the uay THE REV BARRIE ALLCOTT
7.0, 8 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Unknown:
Libby Purves
Read By:
Brian Perkins

Marital black comedies starring Betty Marsden and Hugh Paddick
2: The Charity Shop with Tammy Ustinov Sheila Steafel
Diana King and Pat Hayes Written by BARRY PILTON
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
12.55 Weather: programme news: long nave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Betty Marsden
Unknown:
Hugh Paddick
Unknown:
Tammy Ustinov
Unknown:
Sheila Steafel
Unknown:
Diana King
Unknown:
Pat Hayes
Written By:
Barry Pilton
Producer:
Geoffrey Perkins

Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: the novelist Mary Burchell
Women and Advertising: a report by ANNA PERRY. Reading Your Letters.
A Yell for Help: ANNE WEST describes a scheme offering support for parents of screaming babies.
Skin Deep. stories by EDITH REVELEY , abridged by JACK SINGLETON 0
Read by MARGARET ROBERT -SON. 7: A Birthday
(Music: Ravel's String Quartet in F major)

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Burchell
Unknown:
Anna Perry.
Stories By:
Edith Reveley
Abridged By:
Jack Singleton
Read By:
Margaret Robert

with Judi Dench as Julia Vladek Sheybal as Henri in Notre Dame at Noon by VLADEK SHEYBAL and HALLAM TENNYSON
When you have made 15 pilgrimages to the scene of your first love affair, it is undoubtedly time for some kind of exorcism. On the 15th occasion Julia meets someone who may initiate the big kill she needs.
Paris: July 1979
Directed by RONALD MASON
(Judi Dench is a member of the RSC)

Contributors

Unknown:
Judi Dench
Unknown:
Julia Vladek Sheybal
Unknown:
Hallam Tennyson
Directed By:
Ronald Mason
Unknown:
Judi Dench
Madame Falaise:
Nicolette Bernard
Poet:
Ann Heffehnan
Medium:
Gladys Spencer
Walter/Porter:
Andre Maranne
Rodger:
Gordon Dulieu
Veronica:
Jenny Twigge

from St Michael's Abbey. Farnborough
Versicle/Rcsponse (Plainsong)
Psalms: 110, 113, 122, 127 (Plainsong)
Canticle: Ephesians 1, vv 3-10 (Plainsong)
Lesson: Proverbs 31, vv 10-31 (RSV)
Responsory (Plainsong) Homily
Hymn: Fortem virili pectore (Plainsong)
Magnificat (Plainsong) Prayer and Blessing Precentor
DOM DAVID BIGHAM Preacher
DOM ROBERT GIBBONS
Organist JOHN SLATER
The Office is introduced by FR CHRISTOPHER PEMBERTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Dom David Bigham
Organist:
Dom Robert Gibbons
Organist:
John Slater
Introduced By:
Fr Christopher Pemberton

Wet by JILL HAWES
Read by Anne Clements
I only had one cousin, and I only saw him four times in my youth. Each time 1 reckoned that it couldn't be as bad as before, and each time it was worse - until the day that made up for all the others.
Producer SALLY THOMPSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Jill Hawes
Read By:
Anne Clements
Producer:
Sally Thompson

Sounds and scenes from a past year challenge the memories of residents: Terry Wogan and Ann Meo
Guests: Brian Johnston and Irene Thomas
Chairman Richard Stilgoe Questions set by MARGARET HOWARD
Producer HELEN FRY
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Terry Wogan
Unknown:
Ann Meo
Unknown:
Brian Johnston
Unknown:
Irene Thomas
Unknown:
Chairman Richard Stilgoe
Unknown:
Margaret Howard
Producer:
Helen Fry

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

Contributors

Written By:
Mary Cutler
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Pat:
Patricia Gallimore
David:
Nigel Carrivick
Christine Barford:
Lesley Saweard
Laura:
Betty McDowall
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Jack Woolley:
Arnold Peters
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Nelson Gabriel:
Jack May
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Joe Grundy:
Haydn Jones
Eddie:
Trevor Harrison
Clarrie Larkin:
Heather Bell
Mike Tucker:
Terry Molloy
Betty Tucker:
Pamela Craig
Col Danby:
Norman Shelley
Caroline Bone:
Sara Coward
Jackie Woodstock:
Anne Louise Wakefield

Thirteen days ago - at
4.0 pm on 14 August - employment officers throughout Britain totted up the jobless on their books. Today those individual cases emerge as the national unemployment statistics.
Michael Cooke has been to Stoke-on-Trent investigating the stories of those registered at one Job Centre, and assessing their chances of getting off the dole.
Producer MICHAEL GANDON Editor COLIN ADAMS BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Cooke
Producer:
Michael Gandon
Editor:
Colin Adams

and the Defence of Guthrie Featherstone
The sixth in a series of 13 plays by JOHN MORTIMER in which Horace Rumpole , barrister at law, puts his talents as a defender at the disposal of his Head of Chambers, who faces serious charges before an implacable tribunal.
Directed by PETER KING

Contributors

Unknown:
Guthrie Featherstone
Unknown:
John Mortimer
Unknown:
Horace Rumpole
Directed By:
Peter King
Rumpole:
Maurice Denham
Hilda:
Margot Boyd
Phillida Trant:
Amanda Murray
Guthrie Featherstone:
Michael Spice
Bertie Timson:
Michael Elphick
Marigold Featherstone:
Angela Thorne
Mr Keith:
Lockwood West
Mr Justice Vosper:
Robert Harris

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