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John Timpson at the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton
In London. Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day with DOM ROBERT GIBBONS
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45. Prayer for the Day

Contributors

Unknown:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Dom Robert Gibbons
Read By:
Pauline Bushnell

Visits Wiltshire where members of the West Dean Village Hall Committee put their questions to GEOFFREY SMITH
BILL SOWERBUTTS and PROFESSOR ALAN GEMMELL Questionmaster KEN FORD BBC Manchester
long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Smith
Unknown:
Bill Sowerbutts
Unknown:
Professor Alan Gemmell
Unknown:
Questionmaster Ken Ford

Introduced by Chris Mohr Guest of the Week: Helene Hanff , author and Woman's Hour New York correspondent.
Reading Your Letters,
Fashionable Froth: RON ALLDRIDGE takes a look at the history of hats.
Diary of a Country Parish: ROBIN PAGE talks about last month in his Cambridgeshire village, Love for Lydia (10) long wave only

Contributors

Introduced By:
Chris Mohr
Unknown:
Helene Hanff
Unknown:
Ron Alldridge

A Tentative Maybe byBONwebb
Blandy's is a firm who manufacture toiletries. They are worried that their sales are dropping. They have a new product which could change their image, and boost their sales.
But there's more to launching a new product than meets the eye.
Directed by CAROLINE SMITH
BBC Manchester

Contributors

Directed By:
Caroline Smith
Payton:
Carard Green
Gates:
Christopher Godwin
West/Good:
David Ross
Smith:
Kate Lee
Robinson/Pollock:
Simon Molloy
Pitt/Tonks:
John Branwell
Glover/Lisa:
Angela Catherall

from
Winchester Cathedral
Introit: 0 Lord, the maker of al thynge (Mundy)
Responses (Reading)
Psalms 41, 42, 43 (Woods, Rogers)
Canticles (Service in five parts; Weelkes)
Lessons: Job 6; Hebrews
Anthem: Laudibus in sanctis (Byrd)
Organist and Master of the Music MARTIN NEARY Sub-organist
JAMES LANCELOT BBC Bristol

Contributors

Music:
Martin Neary

The new mini Metro is designed to revolutionise BL's lame-duck image. But it's already led to a revolution on the shop floor, where the car is built by robots and working practices have been radically changed. How has BL achieved this breakthrough in industrial relations?
On the day the mini Metro is launched. David Henshaw talks to workers and management at Long-bridge about what the Government is calling ' the outbreak of reality on the shop floor
Producer BRIAN PHELAN Editor COLIN ADAMS
(Repeated: Thurs 11.5am)

Contributors

Talks:
David Henshaw
Producer:
Brian Phelan
Editor:
Colin Adams

Lord Zuckerman. former Chief Scientific Adviser to the British Government, will propose and Admiral of the Fleet Lord Hill-Norton, former Chief of Defence Staff and Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, will opposetheproposition: The West Must Halt the Nuclear Arms Race Now Supporting the proposition: Herbert Scoville Jr. Chairman of SALT II Group and former Scientific Advisor to the American Presidency and The Rt Hon Dr David Owen , MP, former Foreign Secretary.
Opposing the proposition:' Lord Chalfont. former Minister of State at the Foreign Office and Dr G. D. Martin , Director for Nuclear Planning, NATO. Chairman Dick Taverne , qc Producer
HUGH PURCELL ,

Contributors

Unknown:
Herbert Scoville Jr.
Unknown:
Dr David Owen
Unknown:
Dr G. D. Martin
Unknown:
Dick Taverne
Unknown:
Hugh Purcell

and the Perils of the Sea The 12th in a series of 13 plays by JOHN MORTIMER in which Horace Rumpole, barrister-at-law, leaves London to sit behind his Head of Chambers in a provincial Court and is faced with mysterious happenings among the weekend sailors, with and Directed by IAN COTTERELL

Contributors

Unknown:
John Mortimer
Directed By:
Ian Cotterell
Rumpole:
Maurice Denham
Hilda:
Margot Boyd
Henry:
Haydn Wood
Guthrie Featherstone:
Michael Spice
Mr Tonkin:
Christopher Scott
Jackie Jason:
Dilys Lave
Sam:
Sion Probert
Dora:
Eve Karpf
Buster:
Graham Faulkner
Rosemary:
Jenny Lee
Henry Arthur Spong:
Brian Haines
Gerald Gaunt:
John Bott
Inspector Salter:
Michael McStay
Judge:
Norman Shelley
Frederick Jason:
Gordon Reid

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