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Presenters John Timpsoa and Wendy Jones
6.45* Prayer for the Day with SISTER MARTINA
7.0, 8.8 Today's News Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.30, 8.38 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presenters:
John Timpsoa
Presenters:
Wendy Jones
Read By:
Peter Donaldson

Of Business and Pleasure All listeners to this
Programme will receive a free holiday for two in Barbados and a tax rebate of £20,000, if they can spot the deliberate mistake. starring David Jason Sheila Steafel and Jon Glover
Script by LAURIE ROWLEY
ANDY HAMILTON , GUY JENKIN COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH . RORY MCGRATH. CHARLIE ADAMS and BOB SINFIELD
Music by NICK BICAT
Lyrics by ALISTAIR BEATON producer JIMMY MULVILLE
(Repeated: Tues 10.30 pin)
12.55 Weather;
Programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jason
Unknown:
Sheila Steafel
Unknown:
Jon Glover
Script By:
Laurie Rowley
Script By:
Andy Hamilton
Unknown:
Jenkin Colin Bostock-Smith
Unknown:
Rory McGrath.
Unknown:
Charlie Adams
Music By:
Nick Bicat
Unknown:
Alistair Beaton
Producer:
Jimmy Mulville

Introduced by Sue MacGregor
During the week the Programme includes some Talking Point discussions, Your letters and other items- Among these today:
Sausage. Bacon and Egg!: fRANCES DYMOCK investigates how the British breakfast is standing up to the Passage of time.
Breakthroughs: PETER SPINKS reports on new developments in asthma research
Kidnapped by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON abridged in 12 parts by ELIZABETH BRADBURY
Read by JOHN SAMSON (3) Editor WYN KNOWLES

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Peter Spinks
Unknown:
Robert Louis Stevenson
Unknown:
Elizabeth Bradbury
Read By:
John Samson
Editor:
Wyn Knowles

Annerton Pit by PETER DICKINSON abridged in nine parts by PENELOPE FARMER Read by Bernard Cribbins (11
Martin, turned down by three universities, decides to buy a motorbike to cheer himself ud. With his blind brother, Jake, he heads. for Newcastle to find his grandfather, who roams the country hunting ghosts.
Producer BRIAN DEAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Dickinson
Read By:
Bernard Cribbins
Producer:
Brian Dean

by Leigh Jackson
with Geraldine James as Kate, Maureen O'Brien as Judith, Stephen Murray as Kate's father, Pauline Letts as Kate's mother, George Baker as James, William Nighy as Peter, Sam Dastor as Kahn

Kate has fought hard to break away from her wealthy land-owning family and their world of privilege, but she finds herself back in the family circle for her much-loved younger sister's wedding. The night before the ceremony, her sister disappears. Left alone to try and find out what has happened, Kate discovers some alarming facts about her sister's life. What happened to the golden girl who was the apple of her father's eye?
(Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Leigh Jackson
Director:
Cherry Cookson
Kate:
Geraldine James
Judith:
Maureen O'Brien
Kate's father:
Stephen Murray
Kate's mother:
Pauline Letts
James:
George Baker
Peter:
William Nighy
Kahn:
Sam Dastor
[Actor]:
John Webb
[Actor]:
Christopher Scott
[Actress]:
Theresa Streatfeild
[Actor]:
George Parsons
[Actress]:
Margaret Robertson

includes a review of Rare Blood by LEIGH JACKSON. tonight's Monday Play; and a new National
Theatre production of Much Ado About Nothing by SHAKESPEARE at the Olivier Theatre.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer RICHARD DUNN Editor ROSEMARY HART

Contributors

Unknown:
Leigh Jackson.
Presenter:
Paul Vaughan
Producer:
Richard Dunn
Editor:
Rosemary Hart

Elgar String Quartet in E minor, Op 83
AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET Emanuel Hurwitz ,
Raymond Keenlyside (violins)
Margaret Major (viola) Derek Simpson (cello) (First broadcast on R3) long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Emanuel Hurwitz
Violins:
Raymond Keenlyside
Cello:
Derek Simpson

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