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Presenters John Timpson and Wendy Jones
6.450 Prayer for the Day With SIR ROBERT RIETTY
6.35, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25\ 8.25. Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45. Thought for the Daw

Contributors

Presenters:
John Timpson
Presenters:
Wendy Jones
Unknown:
Sir Robert Rietty
Read By:
Peter Donaldson

The Purple Patches of Provence
Lavender is grown as a crop in SE France where the scented fields provide food and shelter for masses of butterflies and other wildlife.
Stephen Sutton leads
Derek Jones on a radio nature trail.
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Sutton
Unknown:
Derek Jones
Producer:
John Harrison

Gerry Monté talks to six people who, though not Welsh, have chosen to makes Wales their home. Terry Hawkes came from Birmingham to study for his degree in Wales and ever since he's never really left the academic cloisters of University
College, Cardiff. Except perhaps to perform as a jazz drummer in one of the clubs In the Principality.
Producer eifion evans BBC Wales

Contributors

Unknown:
Terry Hawkes

"Don't call it a raid, call it a reconnaissance in force." (WINSTON CHURCHILL)
In August 1942, 5,000 Canadian troops, with support from the British Commandos, the Royal Navy and the RAF, crossed the English Channel to raid the German-occupied town of Dieppe. Over 3,000 Canadians were killed, wounded or taken prisoner during nine hours of intensive fighting. It was one of the bloodiest and most controversial episodes of the Second World War. Frank Gillard, who was the BBC War Correspondent assigned to report the operation, recalls the events of the Dieppe raid which took place 40 years ago today.
Producer Roy Hayward BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Gillard

We all have queries, quibbles and quandaries which we mean to resolve but which always lie unanswered at the back of our minds.
Let Neil Landor , together with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC Reference Library, sort out queries.
Producerkatefenton

Contributors

Unknown:
Neil Landor

Old and Blue A comedy by ALLEN SADDLER
A moviemaker comes to live in the village and proceeds to turn his manor house into a film-set for a rather dubious epic. What are the local leading tradesmen to do? Spurn him or support him?
Other parts played by BRIAN GEAR and HUBERT TUCKER
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol

Contributors

Comedy By:
Allen Saddler
Played By:
Brian Gear
Played By:
Hubert Tucker
Directed By:
Brian Miller
Actor:
Nicholas Courtney
Billy:
Steve Hodson
David:
John Warner
JOSle:
Patience Tomlinson
Albert:
Hedley Goodall
Moira:
Carol Howard
Audrey:
Pat Field
MalSie:
Ann Morris!!
Millie:
Patricia Gibson

Terry Wogan , mindful of his mother's warnings on the uncertainties of show business, 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 Newbury Races.
Research LIBBY SPURRIER Producer HELEN FRY

Contributors

Unknown:
Terry Wogan
Unknown:
Libby Spurrier
Producer:
Helen Fry

Written by WATSON GOULD (Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Written By:
Watson Gould
Jennifer:
Angela Piper
Tony:
Colin Skipp
Phil:
Norman Painting
Jill:
Patricia Greene
David Archer:
Timothy Bentinck
Elizabeth Archer:
Nicolette G Orton
Laura:
Betty McDowall
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Nelson:
Jack May
Joe Grundy:
Haydn Jones
Eddie:
Trevor Harrison
Clarrle:
Heather Bell
Jethro Larkin:
George Hart
Richard Adamson:
Richard Carrington
Caroline Bone:
Sara Coward
Mark Hebden:
Richard Derrington
Jackie Woodstock:
Lou W Akepield
Det Sgt Barry:
David Vann
Julie:
Kathryn Hurlbutt
Ben:
Ðon Henderson

by ROWAN ATKINSON and RICHARD CURTIS
The last of three satirical, wry. parodic and startling investigations into the lives of imaginary great men. George Dupont
1Frenchphilosopher: rough translation, George of the bridge - man or myth? Or man of mystery? France, of course, is the country that spawned many great Frenchmen,acountry that has flourished since the war Into a force to be reckoned with in world-class philosoph V with Rowan Atkinson Hugh Thomas Peter Wilson
Hilda Krtseman Producer
GRIFF RHYS JONES
(First broadcast on R3)

Contributors

Unknown:
Rowan Atkinson
Unknown:
Richard Curtis
Unknown:
George Dupont
Unknown:
Rowan Atkinson
Unknown:
Hugh Thomas
Unknown:
Peter Wilson
Unknown:
Hilda Krtseman
Producer:
Griff Rhys

includes reviews of Way Upstream by Alan Ayckbourn , set aboard a cabin cruiser on an English river during a summer holiday, starring Susan Fleetwood and Tony Haygarth at the Lyttelton Theatre, London; and two tales of intrepid lady explorers - Travels in West Africa by Mary Kingsley and A Lady's Life in the Rocky
Mountains by Isabella Bird.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer ROSEMARY hart

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Ayckbourn
Unknown:
Susan Fleetwood
Unknown:
Tony Haygarth
Unknown:
Mary Kingsley
Unknown:
Isabella Bird.
Presenter:
Paul Vaughan
Producer:
Rosemary Hart

Julian Lloyd Webber talks to Margaret Howard about his musical life and plays records of some of the musicians who have influenced him. ' I started playing the cello when I was 6 but ... I think one of the reasons I took it up was to get out of practising the piano.' Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
(First broadcast on World Service) long wave only

Contributors

Talks:
Julian Lloyd Webber
Unknown:
Margaret Howard
Producer:
Brian Patten

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