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Presenters John Timpson and Chris Lowe
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With METROPOLITAN ANTHONY, Archbishop of Sourozh
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND

Contributors

Presenters:
John Timpson
Presenters:
Chris Lowe
Read By:
Colin Doran
Editor:
Julian Holland

A Question of Money
As part of Radio 4's East Anglian Week the Money Box team takes to the road to answer questions on personal finance put by listeners in Cambridge. The panel
Louise Botting
Philip Hardman
Christopher Gilchrlst Vincent Duggleby A Financial World Tonight production long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Louise Botting
Unknown:
Philip Hardman
Unknown:
Christopher Gilchrlst
Unknown:
Vincent Duggleby

Brian Johnston visits Glemsford. Suffolk
Set in the luscious Suffolk countrvside. Glemsford is a pretty and industrious village. It boasts a unique horsehair factory, a silk mill and a brand-new village hall.
Producer SARAII PITT BBC Bristol
long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Johnston

Terry Wogan , mindful of his mother's warnings on the uncertainties of showbusiness. searches for a secure day job - preferably one with prospects and a late-morning start.
Conscious that Wogan's Winner more often enriches the bookmaker than the punter. Terry tries his hand as a turf accountant at Ncwburv Races.
Research LIBBY SPURRIER Producer IIELEN FRY
U.55 Weather: travel; programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Terry Wogan
Unknown:
Libby Spurrier

Introduced by Sue MacGregor including during the week some Talking Point discussions. Your Letters and other topics.
Among these today
Beaky, the General and 350: BURTON-PAGEROBIN PAGE meets just a few of the deliberatelyoi accidentally-mutilated swans that LEN BAKER restores to health in Norfolk.
Gadgets Galore: DAPHNE METLAND looks at ice-cream makers.
Remembering Louise by ANNA GILBERT abridged in 11 parts by MADGE HART Read by CORINNA MARLOWE (4) Editor WYN KROWLES long wave only

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Introduced By:
Robin Page
Unknown:
Len Baker
Unknown:
Madge Hart Read
Unknown:
Corinna Marlowe
Editor:
Wyn Krowles

by John Ashe
Being the wife of an up-and-coming junior minister, Julie is vulnerable to blackmail, and is caught in the net of a master blackmailer over her affair with Peter Drewe. Then a fellow blackmail victim proposes that they join forces...
BBC Bristol

Contributors

Writer:
John Ashe
Director:
Brian Miller
Julie:
Susan Penhaligon
Bowen:
Peter Miles
Mrs Lyne:
Pip Hinton
Cadle:
Peter Copley
Philip:
James Cosmo
Drewe:
Nick Chilbers
Cooper:
Stanley Lebor
Lawrence:
Roger Bizley

Three programmes of poetry and prose compilod and presented by JOHN CARROLL
2: The Battle of Waterloo Readers
MICHAEL TUDOR BARNES
MIRANDA FORBES
DAVID MCALISTER
Producer ALEC REID

Contributors

Presented By:
John Carroll
Readers:
Michael Tudor Barnes
Readers:
Miranda Forbes
Readers:
David McAlister
Producer:
Alec Reid

A Night Out with the Boys by FREDERICK HARRISON 9 December 1980.
John Lennon has been shot in New York. Chris phones his mate Charlie in Hull and suggests a reunion of the lads.
Lennon, the acknowledged leader of their generation is dead. Will their night out turn into a wake or a celebration of a new age?
Directed by PAT TRUEMAN BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Frederick Harrison
Unknown:
John Lennon
Directed By:
Pat Trueman
Chris:
Alec Sabin
Charlie:
Christian Rodska
Ronnie:
Joseph Peters
Ernie:
Edward Peel
Janice:
Sally Gibson
Gary:
Ian Mercer
DOriS:
Mary Cunningham
Ticket collector/Barman:
Roger Phillips
Policeman/Security man:
Brian Southwood
Ambulance man:
Tim Barker

includes reviews of A
Night Out with the Boys, Radio 4's Monday Play; The Life and Times of Gregori Rasputin by Alex de Jonge; and a report from New York on the Tony Awards. Broadway's version of the Oscars, which were announced last night.
Presenter Natalie Wheen Producer
CLARE SELERIE-GREY
Editor ROSEMARY HART

Contributors

Presenter:
Natalie Wheen
Unknown:
Clare Selerie-Grey
Editor:
Rosemary Hart

A quite probable story written and read by Leonard Barras
' One day Kenneth Tully founded the Ilereward
Appreciation Association, and in case nobody noticed, he also took over the moribund Agnostic Society, restoring it to a healthy state of vacillation, when it had for years been beset by beliefs.'
Producer GILLIAN HUSH
BBC Manchester long wave only

Contributors

Read By:
Leonard Barras
Unknown:
Kenneth Tully
Producer:
Gillian Hush

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