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Presenters John Timpson and Peter Hobday
6.45* Prayer for the Day With FR ERIC DOYLE
6 55 7 55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL 7 25', 8.25* Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45. Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND

Contributors

Presenters:
John Timpson
Presenters:
Peter Hobday
Read By:
Pauline Bushnell
Editor:
Julian Holland

Presenter Robert Gittings Readers ELEANOR BRON and JOHN FRANKLYN-ROBBINS Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
(John Franklun-Robbms is a member of the RSC) long wave only

Contributors

Presenter:
Robert Gittings
Presenter:
Readers Eleanor Bron
Producer:
Brian Patten
Unknown:
John Franklun-Robbms

SAKI'S comic story freely adapted by REX ANDERSON and NICK HIGHAM
' When people break down under stress they're sent on rest cures. Huddle Is suffering from too much repose. He needs the opposite kind of treatment.' The Unrest Cure Clovis prescribes involves a group of fiendish boy scouts, several mysterious telegrams, and the sinister Colonel Alberti.
Producer
PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news

Contributors

Adapted By:
Rex Anderson
Adapted By:
Nick Higham
Unknown:
Paul Mayhew-Archer
starring as Clovis Sangrail:
Peter Egan
as James Huddle:
Michael Aldridge
as Amelia Huddle:
Vivian Pickles
and as Sir Flynn O'Toole:
Denys Hawthorne
Hammond:
Patrick Barr
Maid:
Jane Knowles
Miss Doyle:
Diana Bishop
First navvy:
Sion Probert
Second navvy:
David McAlister

Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Give Blood - Not Excuses: KAREN DECO visits one of the regional centres of the National Blood
Transfusion Service to find out how blood is taken and its uses.
School for Love (13) Editor WYN KNOWLES long wave only

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Editor:
Wyn Knowles

Armadillos
Haveyoueverseena pink fairy? International zoo vet David Taylor has - and he also knows the connection between an African diplomat, Notting Hill Gate and Dilly, the armadillo!
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD
BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
David Taylor
Producer:
Anne Blair Gould

Presenters
Valerie Singleton and Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Valerie Singleton
Unknown:
Gordon Clough
Editor:
Derek Lewis

A Dry White Season by ANDRE BRINK dramatised by BARRY CAMPBELL , with The hero of Andrf Brink 's novel is an Afrikaner and not a natural rebel, but he tries to help a black friend whose son was held in detention after the Soweto riots, and finds himself in a different world - a frightening and savage world, where no one can be trusted.
Directed by JANE MORGAN (Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm) (John Matshikiza is a National Theatre player)

Contributors

Dramatised By:
Barry Campbell
Unknown:
Andrf Brink
Directed By:
Jane Morgan
Unknown:
John Matshikiza
as Ben du Toit:
Nigel Hawthorne
as Stanley Makhaya:
John Matshikiza
as Melanie Brewer:
Estelle Kohler
as Emily Ngubene:
Peggy Phango
Gordon Ngubene:
Olu Jacobs
Capt StOlZ:
Steve Hodson
Col Viljoen:
Bruce Purchase
Levinson/Andre:
Jack Klaff
Advocate de Villiers:
Allan Ivan
Advocate Louw/Government minister:
Adrian Egan
Magistrat/Father in law:
Arne Gordon
Susan du Toit:
Miranda Forbes
Suzette:
Lois Butlin
Linda:
Moira Downie
ClOete:
Edward Cast
Dr Hertzog/SABC newsreader:
. Brian Carroll
Dr Jansen/Dr Hassiem:
Alfred Hoffman
Fr Masuwane:
Louis Mahoney
Tsabalala/Johnson Seroke:
Willie Jonah
Grace Nkosi:
Elizabeth Adare

includes reviews of A Dry White Season by AndrS Brink ; and Strangers in Paradise - The
Hollywood Emigre's 1933-1950, an account by John Russell Taylor of the writers, actors, film-makers and composers who escaped from a Europe on the brink of war to southern California.
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer JOHN POWELL Editor ROSEMARY HART

Contributors

Unknown:
John Russell Taylor
Presenter:
Michael Oliver
Producer:
John Powell
Editor:
Rosemary Hart

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