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Presenters Peter Hobday and Graham Leach
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With THE REV JOHN CONGDON S.55, 7.55 Weather forecast 7 0. 8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.25* 8.25* Sport
7.30*. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND

Contributors

Presenters:
Peter Hobday
Presenters:
Graham Leach
Unknown:
John Congdon
Read By:
Harriet Cass
Editor:
Julian Holland

by SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A ' Tale of Terror ' by the master story-telter about a young heir to one of the richest estates In the country, who finds his inheritance threatened. Read in two parts by John Levitt (1)
Producer GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Unknown:
John Levitt
Producer:
Graham Gauld

Another rhetorical extravaganza in which Kenneth Williams Clement Freud Almi Macdonald and Jeremy Beadle submit themselves to the unhesitating, undevlaUng and unrepetitlous discipline of Nicholas Parsons (or not).
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Tues 10.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; travel: programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Almi MacDonald
Unknown:
Jeremy Beadle
Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
Pete Atkin

with Sue MacGregor
Will include during the week some Talking Point discussions, Your Letters and other topics.
Among these today: Selby Dromathon.
Cindy Selby follows a 75-hour drama marathon by the boys of Gayton High School.
A Ring on Every Finger.
What can you tell about a person by the jewellery they wear?
Angelle Bryan-Kane hears from jeweller Cordon Lawbie
The London Embassy (5)

Contributors

Presenter:
Sue MacGregor
Contributor:
Cindy Selby
Contributor:
Angelle Bryan-Kane
Editor:
Wyn Knowles

When We Are Married by J. B. PRIESTLEY
1908. Three respectable self-important couples get together to celebrate their silver wedding in style. only to discover that they were never property married.
Directed by ALFRED BRADLEY BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
J. B. Priestley
Directed By:
Alfred Bradley
Ruby Blrtle:
Angela Curran
Gerald Forbes:
Stephen Boxer
Mrs Northrop:
Katbleen Helme
Nancy Holmes:
Kate Lee
Fred Dyson:
Peter John
Henry Ormonroyd:
George A. Cooper
Alderman Joseph Helliwell:
, Ronald Baddiley
Maria Helliwell:
Paula Tilbbook
Councillor Albert Parker:
Malcolm Hebden
Herbert Soppttt:
Geoffrey Banks
Clara Soppttt:
Barbara Young
Annie Parker:
Ann Bye
Lottie Grady:
Meg Johnson
The Rev Clement Mercer:
Paul Webster

The Russian Interpreter by MICHAEL FRAYN (1) abridged in ten parts by ZOE BAILEY
Read by Martin Jarvis Paul Manning living quietly in Moscow is informed that his old friend Proctor-Gould wishes to get in touch with him. As Manning has no friends. old or new. by the name of Proctor-Gould the meeting promises to be an interesting one.
Producer GERRY JONES (Martin Jarvis is a National Theatre player)

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Frayn
Unknown:
Zoe Bailey
Read By:
Martin Jarvis
Read By:
Paul Manning
Producer:
Gerry Jones
Producer:
Martin Jarvis

with 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

The humour and music of Liverpool presented by Brian Jacques with The Hillsiders Jacqui and Bridie Pete McGovern Billy Moocho
Producer richard WILLCOX

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Jacques
Unknown:
Hillsiders Jacqui
Unknown:
Bridie Pete McGovern
Unknown:
Billy Moocho
Producer:
Richard Willcox

Dear Countess by ELIZABETH MORGAN
"You will indeed be a good husband to me, John. You who are so kind will be a perfect lover as a husband." So wrote Euphemia Chalmers Gray to her husband-to-be, John Ruskin. She was soon to discover that the reality was very different from the fantasy into which Ruskin steadily retired.
Directed by GERRY JONES

Contributors

Unknown:
Youwillindeedbea Sood
Unknown:
Euphemia Chalmers Gray
Unknown:
John Ruskin.
Directed By:
Gerry Jones
John Ruskin:
Derek Jacobi
Effie Ruskin:
Bridget McCann
Mr Ruskin:
Timothy West
Mrs Ruskin:
Elizabeth Morgan
Mr Gray:
Henry Stamper
Mrs Gray:
Eva Stuart
John Everett Millals:
Michael Fenner
Dr Henry Acland:
John Rye
Lady Elizabeth Eastlake:
Madi Hedd
Lady Lewis , ,:
Jean Trend
Mr Roberts/Lockhard:
Nigel Graham

Michael Oliver Issues an invitation to the dance!
On Your Toes Is currently a smash-hit on Broadway and Oleg Kerensky talks to its star, the Russian ballerina
Natalia Makarova : Una Flett reviews Winter Season, arecentbookaboutBfe In the New York City Ballet by Toni Bentley ; and John Drummond discusses perhaps the most famous dancer ever. Anna Pavlova , now the subject of a lavish new book by the photographer Keith Money.
Producer JOHN POWELL Editor ROSEMARY BART

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Oliver Issues
Talks:
Oleg Kerensky
Unknown:
Natalia Makarova
Unknown:
Una Flett
Unknown:
Toni Bentley
Unknown:
John Drummond
Unknown:
Anna Pavlova
Unknown:
Keith Money.
Producer:
John Powell
Editor:
Rosemary Bart

The Handyman by PENELOPE MORTIMER abridged in 12 episodes by DOREEN MAHON (1)
Read by Carole Hayman Gerald Muspratt was the perfect husband, but after 30 years of the utmost reliability he fell down dead before breakfast. How can
Phyllis manage without him? In the remote village which she innocently chooses for retirement. Phyllis blunders Into the outskirts of tragedy.
Producer MAURICE LEITCH

Contributors

Unknown:
Penelope Mortimer
Unknown:
Doreen Mahon
Read By:
Carole Hayman
Read By:
Gerald Muspratt
Producer:
Maurice Leitch

An essay for radio
Jonathan Raban went to Fowey in Cornwall to winter out. He wanted air and solitude, and Fowey seemed right. Gradually he became absorbed in the life of the water outside the windows of his rented flat: the estuary wtth
Its ferries, pilot cutters and skiffs: the tugs ncnnylnK the big ships
UD and down the narrow channel: the people of Fowev and of Polnian. the china-clav works and the water-business.
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS long wave only from 11.30

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Raban
Producer:
John Theocharis

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