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Presenters John Tlmpson and Libby Purves
6 45* Prayer /or the Day With DR JOHN NEWTON 7 0, 8.0 Today's News
Read bv CHRISTOPHER SLADE 7 30 8 30 News headlines 7!45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presenters:
John Tlmpson
Presenters:
Libby Purves
Unknown:
Dr John Newton
Unknown:
Christopher Slade
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners.
Presented by P. J. Kavanagh
Readers Dame Celia Johnson and John Carson
BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Fri 4.5 pm)
(long wave only)

Contributors

Presenter:
P.J. Kavanagh
Reader:
Dame Celia Johnson
Reader:
John Carson
Producer:
Brian Patten
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

Introduced by Chris Mohr
Including during the week some Talking Point discussions, your letters and other topics.
Amons these today The Language of Courtship: cindy selby considers old and new ways of wooing among humans, and takes a passing look at the ways some members of the animal kingdom find a mate.
Blood on the Snow by EMANUEL LITVINOFr abridged in 15 parti by JACK SINGLETON
Read by JOHN BENNETT (5) Editor WYN KNOWLES
(John Bennett is in ' The Sound of Music ' at the Apollo Victoria Theatre, London) lona wave only

Contributors

Introduced By:
Chris Mohr
Unknown:
Jack Singleton
Read By:
John Bennett
Editor:
Wyn Knowles
Editor:
John Bennett
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

What is it like to be disliked for a living?
An occasional series of programmes about people whose jobs bring them directly, or indirectly, into confrontation with the world at larse.
2: Gordon Bragg, funeral director
Producer JOHN STANLEY BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Producer:
John Stanley
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

The Dark Horse by MICHAEL ABBENSETTS A black mp? Why not? Blake Grant , barrister, life-long Party member, caring local councillor, is about to find out.
Directed by penny gold (Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm) (Paul Hardwick is in ' Overheard ' at the Haymarket Theatre Royal, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Abbensetts
Unknown:
Blake Grant
Directed By:
Penny Gold
Unknown:
Paul Hardwick
Blake Grant:
Malcolm Fredericks
Annabelle:
Angela Bruce
David Gold:
David Swift
Jim Daker:
Paul Hardwick
Margaret,:
Sara Kestelman
Mr Chase:
Anton Phillips
Lockstey:
Trevor Laird
Hakim:
Rudolph Walker
Mr Rawlings/Policeman:
John Livesey
Inspector/Man in flat:
Hugh Dickson
Victor:
Trevor Butler
Black youth:
Brian Bovell
Returning Officer:
Nicholas Courtney
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

Paul Vaughan talks to the American soprano Jessye Norman, prior to her two concert performances this week, and the conductor Maxim Shostakovich, son of the Russian composer, who is in London for a concert to mark the 75th anniversary of his father's birth.

(Jessye Norman in Die Meistersinger next Sunday afternoon, Radio 3)

Contributors

Interviewer:
Paul Vaughan
Interviewee:
Jessye Norman
Interviewee:
Maxim Shostakovich
Producer:
Clare Selerie-Gret
Editor:
Rosemary Hart
Source: Radio Times

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