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presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6 45' Prayer for the Day THE REV GEORGE MULRAIN
6.55,7.55 Weather forecast
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS 7 25*. 8.25* Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45 ; Thought tor the Day

Contributors

Presenters:
John Timpson
Presenters:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
George Mulrain
Read By:
Brian Perkins

Six different sides of life across the Channel.
5: Drivers in Europe - the Safe and the Sorry
Who are the worst drivers in Europe? The Belgians with their minimal driving test? The 'aggressive ' Germans? Are the Italians really the best? How to avoid the traffic jams on the Parisian ring-road-tips and insights for anyone venturing on to the right side of the road. Producer JULIAN HALE

Contributors

Producer:
Julian Hale

Mrs Rees of Aberclydach by NICK YAPP
Read by Hubert Rees . The real reason why families returned to the chalet was Mrs Rees herself. To her visitors she was a character.
They don't make em like that any more," said Andrew.'
Producer HERBERT Williams
BBC Wales

Contributors

Unknown:
Mrs Rees
Unknown:
Nick Yapp
Read By:
Hubert Rees
Producer:
Herbert Williams

Seven features about practical attempts to create the ideal society 5: Our Heads with the Stars by PETER FRAENKEL
The story of the Whiteway Commune in Gloucestershire - one commune among a dozen founded in the 1890s to build the New Jerusalem on England's soil with Rosemary Leach as Nellie Shaw
' At Whiteway ideas were not simply debated. They were put to the test of practical experience. Every one of Tolstoy's thoughts was tested: the abolition of private property, non-violence, sexual abstinence, the abolition of money and of every form of authority. We had a simple child-like belief in the inherent goodness of human nature, and imagined that. given good conditions, equal and loving treatment, people would respond and give of their best.'
With JOHN LIVESEY and KATHERINE PARR Songs arranged and conducted by DOUG WOOTTON and sung by the BBC SINGERS Directed by JOHN TIIEOCHARIS
(Rosemary Leach is in '84 Charino Cross Road ' at the Ambassadors Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Fraenkel
Unknown:
New Jerusalem
Unknown:
Rosemary Leach
Unknown:
Nellie Shaw
Unknown:
John Livesey
Unknown:
Katherine Parr
Conducted By:
Doug Wootton
Directed By:
John Tiieocharis
Directed By:
Rosemary Leach
Historian:
John Rowe
John C Kenworthy:
Stephen Thorne
William Sinclair:
David Gooderson
Edward Carpenter:
John Warner
Joseph Burtt:
Richard Gold-Parry

Introduced by Sue MacGregor , including Please Remember the Grotto ...': the old custom of ' minding the grotto ' on St James 's Day has not yet died out - in people's memories at least. The Women of the Pits: BILL WILLIAMSON talks about the women of the mining villages.
Tea and Tranquillisers - the Diary of a Happy Housewife (3)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
St James

The Manilla Galleon by DAVID FISHER with John Woodvlne as William Dampier
A great Spanish treasure ship Is sailing from the Philippines to Acapulco with buccaneers and privateers lying in wait. William Dampier , pirate, naturalist, author and explorer, who lived in the late 17th century, is determined to pull off the Great Train Robbery of his day and take The Manilla Galleon. tony MCVEY (drums) Directed by MICHAEL BARTLETT

Contributors

Unknown:
David Fisher
Unknown:
John Woodvlne
Unknown:
William Dampier
Unknown:
William Dampier
Directed By:
Michael Bartlett
Judith/Grace:
Miranda Forbes
Mr Hobby/Capt Swann:
Michael Miller
Basil Rlngrose:
John Rye
Capt Rogers:
Martyn Read
Esteourt:
Peter Tuddenham
Old sailor:
James Kerry
Cook/Sloane:
Paul Whitworth
Capt Sharp/Dr Dover:
Jim Reid

includes the National
Theatre's new production on the Olivier stage of Buchner's Danton's Death, in a new version by Howard Brenton , directed by Peter Gill ; and Swans Reflecting Elephants by Edward James , the recollections of one of the great British eccentrics, edited by George Melly.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Howard Brenton
Directed By:
Peter Gill
Unknown:
Edward James
Edited By:
George Melly.
Presenter:
Paul Vaughan
Producer:
Richard Bannerman

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