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Presenters John Timpson and Peter Hobday
6.45* Prayer for the Day with CHERIDA CAMPION
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.25V 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35. Yesterday In Parliament
8.57 Weather: travel

Contributors

Presenters:
John Timpson
Presenters:
Peter Hobday
Unknown:
Cherida Campion
Read By:
Laurie MacMillan

Tern Turtle Island
A quarter-of-a-million birds in the trees, the ground carpeted with skinks, crabs and giant millipedes, safe beachei for turtles to lay their eggs - are all to be found on tiny Cousin, an island in the Indian Ocean.
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
long wave only

Contributors

Producer:
John Harrison

Michael Murray
Thanks to the enterprise of silversmith Michael Murray. Hackney
Metropolitan Hospital has become a mecca for small businesses. A redundant stockbroker is repairing antiques, youngsters straight out of college make knitted textiles, and a carpenter and a potter rub shoulders with a couple repairing violins. Marjorie Lofthouse visits them at work.
Producer ANN TENNANT BBC Birmingham long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Murray
Violins:
Marjorie Lofthouse
Producer:
Ann Tennant

Paul Heiney and Pattie Coldwell with all the latest news for consumers.
Today Leslie Cottlngton reveals the latest results in the BBC's Shopping Basket survey. What's gone up and what s down fn price? What are the best buys? What's new In the foodshops?

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Heiney
Unknown:
Pattie Coldwell
Unknown:
Leslie Cottlngton

The late Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley appear in their celebrated roles of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in a series of ten plays by MICHAEL HARDWICK based on the short stories of SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
9: The Five Orange Pips
Theletters'K.K-K. scrawled in red Ink on ttre flap of an envelope. just above the gum. and five dried orange pips inside mean death to Elias openshaw, the recipient.
Directed by MARTYN C. WEBSTER
(First broadcast W 1966)
12.55 Weather: travel: programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Carleton Hobbs
Unknown:
Norman Shelley
Unknown:
Sherlock Holmes
Unknown:
Michael Hardwick
Stories Of:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Directed By:
Martyn C. Webster
Ellas openshaw:
Bruce Beeby
John Openshaw:
William Eedie
Joseph openroaw:
James Thomason
Mr. Hudson L:
-Barbara Mitchell
Shipping clerk:
Jonathan Scott

Child in a Dark Wood by Ellen Dryden
with Penelope Wilton as Caroline Norton and George Baker as George Norton

Paris. 1859. Caroline Sheridan Norton, granddaughter of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, has won independence from her miserable husband the hard way: by losing custody of her sons to him. Now, grown-up, they are reunited with her. But one is ailing, and moreover Caroline cannot help remembering the death of a third son, many years before.

Contributors

Writer:
Ellen Dryden
Director:
Brian Miller
Caroline Norton:
Penelope Wilton
George Norton:
George Baker
Maid:
Carole Boyd
Fletcher (Penney):
Alex Jennings
Fletcher, as a boy:
Jonathan Taylor
Miss Vaughan:
Madi Hedd
Brin, as a boy:
Samuel Durrans
Brin:
David Peart
Sailor:
Richard Huw

Stories from the Raj: The Rise of Ram Din by ALICE PERRIN
Read by Roshan Seth
Sam Din is taken on as a dishwasher, lowliest of menials in the engineer sahlb's bungalow the engineer sahib has red hair and when he drinks whisky the fear of those about him is such that their livers melt. How Is It then that he becomes as wax in Ram Din's hands? (Roshan Seth is a National Theatre player)

Contributors

Unknown:
Alice Perrin
Read By:
Roshan Seth
Read By:
Sam Din
Unknown:
Roshan Seth

All aspects of the cinema are on display at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival -the star-studded cocktail parties; the hopeful starlets on the Croisette; the earnest artists from exotic lands, the dubious deals In smoky rooms; the occasional masterpiece. Richard Mayne tries to make sense of the movie industry's most glamorous annual event.
Producer RICHARD DUNN

Contributors

Producer:
Richard Dunn

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