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Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day With PEGGY MAKINS
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7 3t. 8.30 News headlines 7 45* Thought for the Day Book, Thoughts, Prayers, Reflections, £1.35, arailable from bookshops

Contributors

Presenters:
John Timpson
Presenters:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Peggy Makins
Read By:
Bryan Martin

Let Neil Landor , together with his specialised experts and the help of the BBC Reference Library, sort out your queries. Producer SIMON ELMES
Questions, on a postcard please, to: Enquire Within BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW

Contributors

Unknown:
Neil Landor
Producer:
Simon Elmes

Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Talking Point: opinions and ideas....
Hercules of Exeter: David Rayvern Allen discovers how Brian Varley combines comedy with strength, and social work for the blind with supervision of the delinquent.
Runes and Isms: Frances Cairncross explains a piece of economic jargon.
Towards a Creative Career: Jill Cochrane reports on a scheme to encourage crafts in schools.
The Snow Kitten by Nina Warner Hooke abridged in four instalments by Pat McLoughlin Read by Brenda Bruce (1) ' The campers had gone. Slyly and silently they had stolen away in the night ... leaving behind them a straw mattress, a heap of empty tins, a debt of over two pounds for eggs and vegetables from Mr Trim - and the striped kitten.'
(Music: Francaix's Wind Quintet)
(Brenda Bruce is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
David Ravvern Allen
Unknown:
Brian Varley
Unknown:
Frances Cairncross
Unknown:
Jill Cochrane
Unknown:
Pat McLoughlin
Read By:
Brenda Bruce
Unknown:
Mr Trim
Unknown:
Brenda Bruce

Bobby Wants to Meet Me by JANEY PREGER
Summer 1978 and Bob Dylan is due to give a concert at Earls Court. In the north of England in the offices of a rather seedy music magazine called Changes, the life of one Neville Morris is about to be transformed utterly by this event.
Directed by KAY PATRICK BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Dylan
Unknown:
Neville Morris
Directed By:
Kay Patrick
Neville Morris:
Jimmy Hibbert
Frankie ' Lee' Palmer:
David Beames
Suze:
Annette Robertson
Baz Whiston:
John Wheatley
Vera:
John Talbot
Customer/Bouncer:
Andy Rashleicb

Written by MARY CUTLER (Repeated: Fri 1.40 pin) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Written By:
Mary Cutler
Dan Archer:
Edgar Harrison
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer Aldridge:
Angela Piper
Brian Aldridge:
Charles Collingwood
Adam Macy:
Barnaby Williams
Shula Archer:
Judy Bennett
Christine Barford:
Lesley Saweard
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Nelson Gabriel:
Jack May
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Polly Perks:
Hilary Newcombe
Martha Woodford:
Mollie Harris
Joe Grundy:
Haydn Jones
Eddie Grundy:
Trevor Harrison
Jethro Larkin:
George Hart
Clarrie Larkin:
Heather Bell
Neil:
Carter-Brian Hewlett
Mark Hebden:
Richard Derrington

Arthur Lowe introduces a programme of music and words for Christmas direct from the Town Hall, Birmingham with Alan Sinclair (tuba)
Heathfield and Lezells Primary School Choirs conductor SYLVIA BAILEY C'BSO Chorus assistant chorus-master PETER KING. and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra leader FELIX KOK conducted by Guy Wolfenden

Contributors

Introduces:
Arthur Lowe
Unknown:
Alan Sinclair
Conductor:
Sylvia Bailey
Chorus-Master:
Peter King.
Leader:
Felix Kok
Conducted By:
Guy Wolfenden

Nearly 30 years ago, the young and newly-married June Knox-Mawer found herself plunged for five years into the heart of Arab society in the British Protectorate of Aden, soon to become the Peoples' Republic of South Yemen.
In the last of four talks she describes her life both in and outside the confines of a colonial society in its declining years.
The Kingdom in the Clouds

Tales of the Supernatural Man-size in Marble by E. NESBIT
Adapted by MICHAEL ELDER Reader John Shedden
' The path was called "the bier-walk ", for it had long been the way by which the corpses had been carried to burial.' Producer PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
E. Nesbit
Adapted By:
Michael Elder
Reader:
John Shedden
Producer:
Patrick Rayner

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