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Presenters John Tlmpson pnd Peter Hobday
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 PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.251, 8.25. Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35. Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters
8.57 Weather: travel

Contributors

Presenters:
John Tlmpson
Unknown:
Peter Hobday
Unknown:
Richard Harries
Read By:
Pauline Bushnell

The wheat in bread, the potatoes in chips, and the corn in breakfast cereal are all the results of many years interbreeding different varieties of plants. But some characteristics useful to growers, such as pest resistance, still elude the efforts of the plant breeders. Now genetic engineering offers a time-saving method of overcoming the limitations of traditional plant-breeding.
Colin Tudge explores the prospects that, in the future, man-made plants will be the source of our daily bread.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Colin Tudge
Producer:
Deborah Cohen

Introduced from Bristol by Sandi Marshall

Twins: double trouble or twice the Joy? Diane Shelley Investigates the dilemma.

Truckin' Together: travel tales from international transporters Joan and Don Wilmot.

BBC Bristol

The King's General (12) long wave only

Contributors

Presenter:
Sandi Marshall
Unknown:
Diane Shelley
Unknown:
Don Wilmot.
Producer:
Mary Price

by Wilkie Collins, dramatised for radio in six parts by Brian Gear
With music composed by Sidney Sager
With John Sharp as Gabriel Betteredge, Geoffrey Beevers as Godfrey Ablewhite, John Telfer as Franklin Blake, Sally Baxter as Rachel Verinder

Still under suspicion by public opinion for having stolen her own jewel, the moonstone, Rachel turns for consolation to the arms of Godfrey Ablewhite , and has just accepted a proposal of marriage from him....
BBC Bristol

Contributors

Author:
Wilkie Collins
Dramatised for radio by:
Brian Gear
Music composed by:
Sidney Sager
Director:
Brian Miller
Gabriel Betteredge:
John Sharp
Godfrey Ablewhite:
Geoffrey Beevers
Franklin Blake:
John Telfer
Rachel Verinder:
Sally Baxter
Miss Clack:
June Barrie
Aunt Ablewhite:
Margot Boyd
Mr Bruff:
Nat Brenner
Ablewhite:
Godfrey Kenton
Indian:
Geoffrey Serle
Luker:
Adrian Egan
Murthwaite:
Gordon Dulieu
Lucy:
Liza Flanagan
Duffy:
Debby Cumming

Employment in the 80s Six programmes
2: Will the Jobs Come Back!
The impact of microelectronics has scmetimes been blamed for the rapid decline of jobs but new technology fias also created opportunities - though of a different sort.
Brian Bedhead , with the help of John Atkinson , of the institute of Manpower Studies assesses the pros and cons and asks when will traditional employers begin large. scale recruitment again - if ever?
Consultant JOHN ATKINSON Producer
CHRISTOPHER STONE

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Bedhead
Unknown:
John Atkinson
Unknown:
John Atkinson
Producer:
Christopher Stone

Stories from the RaJ Karma by KHUSHWANT SINGH Read by Sam Dastor
Sir Mohan Lai , barrister, once of Oxford
University, with Savile Row suit, carnation in buttonhole, travels first class on the railway. His uneducated wife, chewing betel leaves, travels pecond. But pride, for
Sir Mohan. comes literally before a fall.

Contributors

Unknown:
Raj Karma
Unknown:
Khushwant Singh
Read By:
Sam Dastor
Read By:
Sir Mohan Lai

includes reviews of Beethoven's Tenth at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, a new play written by and starring Peter Ustinov as Ludwig van Beethoven who returns to visit a modern music critic in his home; and The Eastern Carpet in the Western World, a major exhibition of oriental carpets at the Hayward Gallery, London. Presenter
Michael Billington
Producer CARROLL MOORE

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Ustinov
Unknown:
Michael Billington
Producer:
Carroll Moore

with Bill Wallis
David Tate , Nicky Henson and Sally Grace
Written by JAMES hendrie IAN BROWN , NICK REVELL
ANDREA SOLOMONS , ROY APPS RICHARD QUICK,
JOHN LANGDON , JOHN COLLEE ROGER PLANER , PETER HICKEY and others
Producer PETER ATKIN
(Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
David Tate
Unknown:
Nicky Henson
Unknown:
Sally Grace
Written By:
James Hendrie
Written By:
Ian Brown
Written By:
Nick Revell
Unknown:
Andrea Solomons
Unknown:
Roy Apps
Unknown:
Richard Quick,
Unknown:
John Langdon
Unknown:
John Collee
Unknown:
Roger Planer
Unknown:
Peter Hickey
Producer:
Peter Atkin

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