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Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.25', 8.15* Sport
7.30,8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presenters:
John Timpson
Presenters:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Richard Harries
Read By:
Laurie MacMillan

John Mills confronts producers and management with your criticisms and comments about BBC radio and television.
Producer SUSAN SNAILUM (Repeated: Sun 6.15 pm) Please send questions, criticisms and praise to Feedback, BBC,
Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW

Contributors

Producer:
Susan Snailum

Stephen Bradshaw examines the controversy surrounding issues like nuclear power, pollution and the competing demands on the countryside, both at home and abroad.
We'd also like to know what people are doing locally about looking after their own environment.
Suggestions: Groundswell, BBC, Broadcasting House. London W1A 4WW
Producers SIMON MAJOR
GAYNOR SnUTTE , MICK WEBB long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Bradshaw
Producers:
Simon Major
Unknown:
Gaynor Snutte
Unknown:
Mick Webb

Introduced by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas Withy-making in Somerset with BOB DANVERS WALKER , mole-catching with LINCOLN SHAW In Staffordshire and knitting in Humberslde with DAVID TAVINED. ERIC SIMMS visits the RSPB headquarters in Bedfordshire and NICK SANDERS samples the Cumbria Cycleway. Producer DON MOSEY BBC Manchester
long wave onlu

Contributors

Introduced By:
Wynford Vaughan-Thomas
Unknown:
Bob Danvers Walker
Unknown:
David Tavined.
Unknown:
Eric Simms
Unknown:
Nick Sanders

Introduced from Glasgow by Mary Marquis Special Guest:
The versatile Scottish chorus-master John Currie When God made man She was only practising/
What does it mean to be a woman and an ordained minister in the Church of Scotland?
SANDY CRITCHLEY Visits THE REV
MARGARET FORRESTER in the Parish of St Michael 's, Edinburgh to find out.
Community Publishing - is more than a catch phrase, as CHRISTINE KINNEAR has discovered In a converted coach house on the outskirts of Glasgow. From Monarch of the Glen - to meat for everyman. MURIEL CLARK looks at the future for farmed venison.
Producer ELAINE MACLEAN BBC Scotland
At Freddie's (4) long wave onlu

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Marquis
Chorus-Master:
John Currie
Unknown:
Sandy Critchley
Unknown:
Margaret Forrester
Unknown:
St Michael
Unknown:
Christine Kinnear
Unknown:
Muriel Clark
Producer:
Elaine MacLean

Jutland by LEE GALLAGHER with Harold Goldblatt as the Admiral
Kilty, an orphan, visits the Admiral's home with a message but stays to play a game of draughts.
Directed by BRIAN DEAN BBC Northern Ireland

Contributors

Unknown:
Lee Gallagher
Unknown:
Harold Goldblatt
Directed By:
Brian Dean
Kitty:
Michael Clarkson
Peggy:
Brid Brennan
Mooney:
Maurice O'Callaghan
Boy:
Calvin Wilson

Six programmes narrated by Rent Cutforth
4: From London to Ladysmith:
George Steevens of the Daily Mail In 1901 George Steevens died of fever at Ladysmith. He was only 31. But his dispatches from America. the Sudan and South Africa had made him known to millions.
Producer JEREMY MORTIMER

Contributors

Unknown:
George Steevens
Unknown:
George Steevens
Producer:
Jeremy Mortimer
Steevens:
Peter Pacey
Kennedy Jones:
Henry Stamper
Winston Churchill:
Alex Jennings
Alfred Harmsworth:
Nigel Graham
Sir Herbert Kitchener/H W Nevlnson:
James Kerry

The Boy on Platform One by VICTOR CANNING abridged in nine parts by NEVILLE TELLER . Read by STEPHEN MURRAY (9)
Producer MICHAEL BARTLETT

Contributors

Unknown:
Victor Canning
Unknown:
Neville Teller
Read By:
Stephen Murray
Producer:
Michael Bartlett

with Clive Jacobs bringing you the stories behind the scenes In the world of travel and transport. Tom Boswell tests the Flat Argenta. Producer GEOFF DOBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD

Contributors

Unknown:
Clive Jacobs
Unknown:
Tom Boswell
Producer:
Geoff Dobson
Editor:
Roger MacDonald

The Rt lion Sally Oppenheim , mp Lord Shackleton Clive Jenkins Ronald Utiger tackle the issues raised by the audience at
Luton, Bedfordshire
Chairman David Jacobs ProducerCAROLE STONE BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Sally Oppenheim
Unknown:
Lord Shackleton Clive Jenkins
Unknown:
Ronald Utiger
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Producer:
Carole Stone

includes a review of Sir Peter Hall 's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring Judi Dench as Lady
Bracknell at the Lyttelton Theatre, London and a review of BBC1's Play of the Month The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov. Set in the Ukraine during the Russian Civil War, it follows the fortunes of one family in Kiev and is one of the most frequently performed plays in the Soviet theatre repertoire. Presenter
Michael Billington
Producer ROBIN WHITE

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Hall
Unknown:
Judi Dench
Unknown:
Mikhail Bulgakov.
Unknown:
Michael Billington
Producer:
Robin White

with Bill Wallis
David Tate. David Jason and Tracey Ullman
Written by JAMES HENDRIE JOHN REVELL , ANDREA
SOLOMONS. RICHARD QUICK PETERHICEEY,
IANBROWN ROY APPS and others Producer JAN RAVENS
(Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
David Tate.
Unknown:
David Jason
Unknown:
Tracey Ullman
Written By:
James Hendrie
Written By:
John Revell
Unknown:
Ianbrown Roy
Producer:
Jan Ravens

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