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Presenters Libuy Purves and Hugh Sykes
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV LESLIE STOKES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by JOHN MARSH
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presenters:
Libuy Purves
Presenters:
Hugh Sykes
Unknown:
Leslie Stokes
Read By:
John Marsh

Battle of Britain Pilot by CHRISTOPHER MATTHEW
On 3 September 1940, Richard Hillary was shot down in flames over the North Sea. He was rescued, badly burnt, and brought to East Grinstead Hospital where the famous surgeon Archibald Mclndoe. began a series of operations to put his face and hands together again. Out of the pain.
Hillary wrote a book, The last Enemy, which has since become a classic.
He went back to flying In November 1942 and on the night of 7 January 1943 his Blenheim crashed. Hillary and his navigator were killed. with Michael Cochrane as Richard Binary and Peter Vaughan as Eric Kennington and the voices of LOVAT DICKSON, PAUL HART , PAT HOLLENDER BILL SIMPSON and BETT WESTMACOTT. Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT (Repeated: Sat 10.15 pm) See also 10.30 pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Matthew
Unknown:
Richard Hillary
Unknown:
Archibald McLndoe.
Unknown:
Michael Cochrane
Unknown:
Richard Binary
Unknown:
Peter Vaughan
Unknown:
Eric Kennington
Unknown:
Paul Hart
Unknown:
Pat Hollender
Unknown:
Bett WestmacOtt.
Producer:
Piers Plowright

Listeners' poetry requests Presenter P. J. Kavanagh Readers HUGH DICKSON and BRENDA KAYE
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol Stereo
Requests: Poetry Please!, BBC Bristol, BSS 2LR

Contributors

Unknown:
J. Kavanagh
Unknown:
Readers Hugh Dickson
Unknown:
Brenda Kaye
Producer:
Brian Patten

Brian Johnston invites you to join him in some humorous moments; including the voices of CICELY COURTNEIDGE, GERARD HOFFNUNG. STANLEY HOLLO-WAY, and MAX MILLER.
Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON (Revised repeat)
12.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Johnston
Unknown:
Gerard Hoffnung.
Unknown:
Max Miller.
Producer:
Phyllis Robinson

with Sue MacGregor
Other People's Cast-offs: DIANA STENSON looks at the trend for nearly new ' clothes.
Reading Your Letters.
Talking Point; opinions and ideas
A Hebridean Voice (5):
FINLAY I. MACDONALD investigates Indian summers.
Hitching by Water: ROB BAYLY travels the Norfolk Broads.
The Day of the Triffids(13) Editor WYN KNOWLES

Contributors

Unknown:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Diana Stenson
Unknown:
Finlay I. MacDonald
Unknown:
Rob Bayly
Editor:
Wyn Knowles

by David Baume
Off the coast of South Wales the gas rig Trinity is drilling deep. The parent company is impatient with the work rate from Trinity and this impatience could lead to a disaster they'll be powerless to prevent.

Contributors

Writer:
David Baume
Director:
Gerry Jones
Brian Blundell:
Neville Smith
Ken Dunn:
Sean Arnold
Carlos Estimar:
Gregory de Polnay
Peter Harries:
John Rowe
John McIver:
Michael Deacon
Ed Moss:
Henry Knowles
Sis:
Nona Shepphard
Beth Wickham:
Jenny Lee
Helen Harries:
Jan Edwards
Radio operator:
Christopher Scott
Drilling engineer:
Anthony Hyde
Drilling supervisor:
Don Fellows
Drilling technician:
Leonard Fenton
Sub-diving supervisor:
Gordon Reid
TV newsreader:
John Church
Newspaper reporter:
Haydn Wood

The news magazine' .
Presenters Gorden Clough and Joan Bakewell Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Ship.ping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; progratnmenews

Contributors

Presenters:
Gorden Clough
Presenters:
Joan Bakewell
Editor:
Derek Lewis

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

Special Edition Th Mary Rose Sunk off Portsmouth Harbqur on 19 July 1545. this warship, -complete with ' guns and many artefacts promises to, provide a unique social history of the Navy ih 16th century Britain. After, ten years of surveys and trial ex- cavations, the vessel will be lifted in 1982. Using special underwater communication equipment developed by the BBC's research, depart-, ment, Jonathan" Adams talks from the wreck, 50 . feet below the surface of the, sea, describing the conditions experienced by the undersea archaeologists. The Mary Hose. Trust's Archaeological Director, Margaret Rule and President, HRH The Prince of Wales fill in' details of this exciting rescue, for Malcolm Billings.
Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Tues 4.10 pm) '

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Hose.
Director:
Margaret Rule
Unknown:
Malcolm Billings.

A soliloquy in verse by Group Captain Barry Sutton DFC a fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain.
Read by Martin Jarvis
In this soliloquy, a pilot descending in his parachute after having been shot down five miles above the fields of Kent, the author evokes the thoughts, fears, and emotions of the young man he then was.
Producer Sally Thompson

Contributors

Reader:
Martin Jarvis
Producer:
Sally Thompson

Can You Forgive Her? by ANTONY TROLLOPE abrftiged in 20 parts by MICHAEL HARDWICK Read by Timothy Bateson (1)
The question in the title refers to an apparently sensible admirable girl who has rejected the man she truly loves in favour of another who is unworthy of her. In this, the first of the Palliser novels, political life plays a comparatively small part, but in the social and domestic scene Trollope proves, as always his own view that the novelist must create ' human- beings in whose existence one is forced to believe
Producer MARGARET ETALL

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Hardwick
Read By:
Timothy Bateson
Producer:
Margaret Etall

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