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Presenters Libby Purves and Paul Burden
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presenters:
Libby Purves
Presenters:
Paul Burden
Unknown:
Richard Harries
Read By:
Bryan Martin

John Morgan takes up your comments about BBC programmes and policy with producers ana management.
Producer JOHN SKRINE
(Repeated: Sun 5.0 pm)
Please send questions, criticisms or praise about radio or television 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
Producer:
John Skrine

Introduced from Northern Ireland by Margaret Percy Studio Guest: Stewart Parker. internationally acclaimed Belfast-born playwright.
A Thin Linet: a report on the problems facing people living on the border between the north and \south of Ireland.
The Secret of Mourne Water: SEAN RAFFERTY talks to a Norwegian woman and her daughter, famous for their woven tweed materials made in Ulster's Mountains of Mourne.
BBC Northern Ireland
The Opportunity of a Lifetime (4) long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Percy
Unknown:
Stewart Parker.
Talks:
Sean Rafferty

Death of an Echo by LAWRENCE SAIL
David cannot resist meeting an old school friend of 30 years before, but finds the encounter dim-cult to reconcile with his memory.... with and Directed by BRUN MILLER BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Lawrence Sail
Directed By:
Brun Miller
Mary:
Jennie Linden
David:
David Savile
ChriS:
David March
Annie:
Catherine Owen
Lucas/Clergyman:
Alexander John
Young David:
Paul Locrwood

A series of eight talks in which a memory is triggered off by a sight, sound, smell, taste or touch.
Alison Grant was in Ibiza in 1932, before the Spanish Civil War. She met an artist who appeared deaf and mute. She saw a face illuminated in the dark. Many years later there was a trial in the US and a face in a newspaper...

Contributors

Speaker:
Alison Grant
Producer:
Barbara Crowther

A series of seven programmes about the changing status and role of women and men.
2: Girls' Work, Boys' Work 'Men go in for things like mechanics.'
' Women are designed to look after children.'
Many teenagers hold traditional views about the adult roles that await them, yet girls in particular also expect new types of work and career opportunities. In what ways is a person's sex likely to determine his or her career aspirations? Presented by Helen Weinreich-Haste
ProducerDANIEL SNOWMAN For a leaflet containing suggestions for further reading, study courses, etc, send an sae to: [address removed]

Contributors

Presented By:
Helen Weinreich-Haste
Producer:
Daniel Snowman

The One that Got Away by BERT PARNABY
Read by Russell Dixon
' Emsworth didn't relish the thought of the task ahead. It wasn't so much the dishonesty of the thing, but its utter daft-ness.'
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Bert Parnaby
Read By:
Russell Dixon

Written by BRUNO MILNA
(Repeated. Mon 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Written By:
Bruno Milna
Dan Archer:
Edgar Harrison
Peggy:
June Spencer
Jennifer Aldridge:
Angela Piper
Brian:
Charles Collingwood
Lilian Bellamy:
Elizabeth Marlow
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Pat:
Patricia Gallimore
Phil:
Norman Painting
Jill:
Patricia Greene
David:
Nigel Carrivick
Laura:
Betty McDowall
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Jack Woolley:
Arnold Peters
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Nelson Gabriel:
Jack May
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville
Joe Grundy:
Havdn Jones
Eddie:
Trevor Harrison
Mary Pound:
Ysanne Churchman
Jethro Larkin:
George Hart
Clarrie:
Heather Bell
Neil Carter:
Brian Hewlett
Richard Adamson:
Richard Carrington

Detta O'Cathain (live
Jenkins Graham Dowson Dick Taverne , QC tackle the issues raised by an audience from Hampton-in-Ardcn, West Midlands
Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Detta O'Cathain
Unknown:
Jenkins Graham Dowson
Unknown:
Dick Taverne
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 music by DAVID FIRMAN
Written by guy JENKIN, JOHN LANGDON , RICHARD QUICK, ANDY WILSON , BOB SINFIELD , BRIAN BETHELL , JEREMY BROWNE , CHRIS STRATFORD, DAVE MORLEY
Producer JIMMY MULVILLE

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jason.
Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
David Tate
Unknown:
Sheila Steafel
Music By:
David Firman
Unknown:
John Langdon
Unknown:
Andy Wilson
Unknown:
Bob Sinfield
Unknown:
Brian Bethell
Unknown:
Jeremy Browne
Unknown:
Dave Morley
Producer:
Jimmy Mulville

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