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Presenters Brian Redhead and Libby Purves
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV NEIL HEAVISIDES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presenters:
Brian Redhead
Presenters:
Libby Purves
Unknown:
Neil Heavisides
Unknown:
Peter Donaldson

Introduced by Chris Mohr
Guest of the Week Michael Montague ,
Chairman of the English Tourist Board.
A Calculating Life:
NORMAN TOZER helpS to CUt the cost of living.
Do You Know Britain (I): SONIA BEESLEY Visits the Scilly Isles.
Growing the Best (3): courgettes and sweetcorn - tips from CLAY JONES.
The Crimson Chalice (2) long wave only

Contributors

Introduced By:
Chris Mohr
Unknown:
Michael Montague
Unknown:
Norman Tozer
Unknown:
Sonia Beesley

The Trotlinen by TED WALKER with ' Missus at death's door
Just had a babby and struck with purple fever,
Nothing in the house to eat. Me dole money all gone on doctor's bills and medicine.'
' Where you from? ' Brummagem.'
' Should've stayed put, mate. Coming down south, pinching our jobs off us.' The play is set on the South Coast in 1937. Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Ted Walker
George:
John Rowe
Edie:
Kathryn Hurlbutt
Gran:
Sonia Fraser
Andrew:
Rosalind Adams
Doctor:
Peter Copley
Labourer:
Tim Bentinck
Foreman:
Roger Snowdon

International zoo vet David Taylor visits animals all over the world and in the first of six programmes tells how he met Hercules, the hippo, who thought he was a crocodile. Producer
ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
David Taylor
Producer:
Anne Blair

from Gloucester Cathedral Introit: Grant we beseech thee (John Oker )
Verslcles and Responses (Herbert Sumsion)
Psalm 119, vv 73-104 (W. Davies ; J. Goss ;
W. Havergal ; J. Jones )
Lessons: Jeremiah 6, vv 9-21; John 4, vv 1-26 Canticles:
Edmund Rubbra in A flat. Anthem: Warum toben die Heiden (Mendelssohn)
Organist and Master of the Choristers JOHN SANDERS
Assistant organist ANDREW MILLINGTON BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
John Oker
Unknown:
W. Davies
Unknown:
J. Goss
Unknown:
W. Havergal
Unknown:
J. Jones
Unknown:
Edmund Rubbra
Unknown:
John Sanders

Devised by ELWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden
In the Chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE. Executive producer BOBBY JAYE
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Elward J. Mason
Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Ian Wallace
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Producer:
Bobby Jaye

A recording of yesterday morning's Tuesday Call phone-in, in which isteners' questions were answered by Hubert Lamb , Professor Emeritus of the University of East Anglia and Lionel Smith , agricultural meteorologist, with Judith Chalmers.

Contributors

Unknown:
Hubert Lamb
Unknown:
Lionel Smith
Unknown:
Judith Chalmers.

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