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Presenters Libby Purves and Paul Burden
6.45. Prayer for the Day: The Rev Richard Harries
7.9. 8.0 Today's News
Read by Eugene Fraser
7.3», 8.S0 News headlines
7.4S. Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presenters:
Libby Purves
Presenters:
Paul Burden
Unknown:
Richard Harries

John Morgan takes up your comments about
BBC programmes and policy with'producers and management.
Producer JOHN skrink
(Repeated: Sun 5.0 pm)
Write to: Feedback, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW, or phone
[number removed], Friday to Sunday 7.0 to 9.0 pm long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
John Morgan

Kampuchea, formerly
Cambodia, has a terrible recent history of genocide, starvation, invasion and war. It's a country few westerners see, but the BBC's South East Asia Correspondent, Jack Thompson , was allowed inside and presents a personal view of Kampuchea today. A Radio News production by JOHN ALLEN long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Thompson
Production By:
John Allen

To mark the publication of the Alternative Service Book - the Church of England's first entirely new Prayer Book since the Reformation - Robert Foxcroft looks at the vexed question of language in worship.
What is special about the words used in church? Can these new services in contemporary language achieve for the present generation what the old Prayer Book achieved for our ancestors?
Producer DAVID WINTER long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Foxcroft

Introduced from Glasgow by Mary Marquis
Special Guest: Margaret Marshall , international opera singer.
ALISON MCLEAY visits the River Tay at Perth and reports on the pearl fisher cottage industry which exists there!
MARJORIE DALZIEL recalls the memories of an Edinburgh childhood dominated by the piano in the parlour
And JIMMY MACK takes to organic gardening.
Plus Theatre Quiz: Alec McCowen talks to Tony BARNFIELD and sets the last two questions of our competition.
BBC Scotland
Unreliable Memoirs (8) long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Marquis
Unknown:
Margaret Marshall
Singer:
Alison McLeay
Unknown:
Marjorie Dalziel
Unknown:
Jimmy MacK
Talks:
Alec McCowen

Agnus Dei by louise PAGE with Margaret Tyzack Rosalind Shanks and Philip Voss
AGNES: He called me in the same way he did to be a nun but this time I'm accused of hearing voices in my head.... What makes my certainty about being called to the priesthood so different? Except that the church won't give me a chance to test it.
Directed by VANESSA WHITBURN BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Tyzack
Unknown:
Rosalind Shanks
Unknown:
Philip Voss
Directed By:
Vanessa Whitburn
AgneS:
Margaret Tyzack
TeSS:
Rosalind Shanks
Gerald:
Philip Voss
LUCia:
Carole Hayman
Brother Simon:
John Gillett
Fr Paul:
Frank Gatliff
Nigel:
David Strawn

A series of seven programmes about the changing status and role of women and men.
1: Masculine and Feminine ' I'm a girl! '
How do you know?
' Well ... 'cos I wear dresses and have long hair! '
How do small children know what gender they are? And what effect does gender have upon their patterns of perception?
Presented by Peter Evans ProducerDANIEL SNOWMAN For a leaflet containing suggestions for further reading, study courses, etc, send an sae to: [address removed]
HELP! page 87

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Evans
Producer:
Daniel Snowman

Written by DEBBIE COOK
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:

Contributors

Written By:
Debbie Cook
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer:
Angela Piper
Brian Aldridge:
Charles Collingwood
Lilian Bellamy:
Elizabeth Marlow
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Shula Archer:
Judy Bennett
George Barford:
Graham Roberts
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Jack Woolley:
Arnold Peters
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Nelson Gabriel:
Jack May
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Martha Woodford:
Mollie Harris
Joe Grundy:
Haydn Jones
Eddie Grundy:
Trevor Harrison
Clarrie Larkin:
Heather Bell
Richard Adamson:
Richard Carrington
Caroline Bone:
Sara Coward

The Hon Kinsman Brewster, Jr. The Rt Hon Dame Judith Hart , up, Lord George-Brown, Geoffrey Johnson Smith , up tackletheissuesraised by an audience from Berkhamsted, Herts
Chairman David Jacobs Producer Carole STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? on Thursday at 6.30 to: Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Unknown:
Rt Hon Dame Judith Hart
Unknown:
Lord George-Brown,
Unknown:
Geoffrey Johnson Smith
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Producer:
Carole Stone

An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with David Jason Bill Wallis David Tate
Sheila Steafel and music by DAVID FIRMAN Written by GUY JENKIN , JOHN LANGDON ,RICHARD QUICK , ANDY WILSON , BOB SINFIELS , BRIAN BETHELL , JEREMY BROWNE , CHRIS STRATFORD , DAVE MORLEY Producer JIMMY mulvilli (Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jason
Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
David Tate
Unknown:
Sheila Steafel
Music By:
David Firman
Written By:
Guy Jenkin
Written By:
John Langdon
Written By:
Richard Quick
Written By:
Andy Wilson
Written By:
Bob Sinfiels
Written By:
Brian Bethell
Written By:
Jeremy Browne
Written By:
Chris Stratford
Written By:
Dave Morley
Producer:
Jimmy Mulvilli

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