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Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day with CANON BILL SARGENT
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday In Parliament
8.57 Weather; travel

Contributors

Presenters:
John Timpson
Presenters:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Canon Bill Sargent
Read By:
Laurie MacMillan

Rambling
If you want to take to the countryside do you know what you need and where you have a right to go? Roger Smith , editor of The Great Outdoors and John Trevelyan from the Ramblers' Association have all the information you need.
Teresa McGonagle is in the chair. Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Smith
Unknown:
John Trevelyan
Unknown:
Teresa McGonagle

Derek Jones with Pat Morris , Roger Lovegrove and Peter Ferns visit the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, to answer questions from members of Glamorgan Naturalists Trust.
Producer ANNE BLAIR COULD BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Jones
Unknown:
Pat Morris
Unknown:
Roger Lovegrove
Unknown:
Peter Ferns
Producer:
Anne Blair

7: Midlands and East Anglia
Chairman
Robert Robinson
James Craven (librarian) Betty Wharton
(retired headmistress) Charles Stephens (private tutor)
Reginald Anslow (lecturer)
Including Beat the Brains Programme devised by JOHN p. WYNN. Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
James Craven
Unknown:
Betty Wharton
Unknown:
Charles Stephens
Unknown:
Reginald Anslow
Unknown:
John P. Wynn.
Unknown:
Ian Gillies
Producer:
Richard Edis

with Sue Macuregor
Hazel Paints α Picture (6):
JOHN FITZMAURICE MILLS takes
HAZEL AMOR for a master class.
Going It Alone (4): continuing the series on small businesses, SONIA BEESLEY goes to Great Yarmouth to meet
Inventor ANDREW SHELDON in his high-tech world of industrial radiography. TheLondonEmbassy by PAUL THEROUX abridged in seven parts by JANET QUIGLEY Read by William Roberts
1: An English Unofficial Rose.
Editor WYN KNOWLES long wave only
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Contributors

Unknown:
John Fitzmaurice
Unknown:
Hazel Amor
Unknown:
Sonia Beesley
Unknown:
Andrew Sheldon
Unknown:
Paul Theroux
Unknown:
Janet Quigley
Read By:
William Roberts
Editor:
Wyn Knowles

A Time Between Comets by JULIET ACE
Based on a true story and set in a South
Wales village at the beginning of this century, the play evolves around two boys growing up In a society in which affluence was unknown. Davy has the brains and Ieuan has the ability to help him achieve his ambitions.
Directed by ENYD WILLIAMS BBC Wales

Contributors

Directed By:
Enyd Williams
Megan/Olwen:
Jan Edwards
Man/Lena:
Margaret John
Young Davy:
Rhys Thomas
Older Davy:
Guto Harri
Young Ieuan:
Twan Jones
Older Ieuan:
Simon Williams
Glyn:
Huw Ceredig
Vicar/Mr Williams:
Ray Handy
Mr Hopkins:
John Darren
Hubert:
Robert Blythe
Celnwen:
Donna Edwards

Wales has always been called the land of song and the harp but since the early 60s it is also the land of pop and rock end roll. Internationally know groups like
Geraint Jarman vie with folk singer Dafydd lwan in the Welsh charts.
Richard Rees charts the development of Welsh pop music from its early beginnings.
SgESScnuiwMviM ProducerLYN JONES BBC Wales
(First broadcast on Radio Wales)

Contributors

Unknown:
Geraint Jarman
Singer:
Dafydd Lwan
Unknown:
Richard Rees
Producer:
Lyn Jones

As part of Radio 4's Welsh week, Eric Robson reports on how recession is hitting the Rhondda Valley in ' Old King
Coal '. Once there were 60 pits in the Rhondda. Now. with the closure of the Lewis Merthyr Colliery , there is only one left.
What is the future for the people living there?
Reporter Eric Robson Producer LIZ CARNEY Editor DAVID TAYLOR BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Robson
Unknown:
Lewis Merthyr Colliery
Reporter:
Eric Robson
Producer:
Liz Carney
Editor:
David Taylor

On Tour in Wales
Paul Allen explores current Welsh writing including a novel about Prince Llywelyn in Welsh; visits a new production at Theatr Clwyd; listens to the changing choral tradition; and eavesdrops on rehearsals for Welsh National Opera's new Carmen. Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Bannerman

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