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Presenters John Timpson and Peter Hobday a.451 Prayer for the Day with DOM ROBERT GIBBONS
CSS, 7.SS Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE macmillan
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
7.45 Thought for the Day
8.57 Weather; travel

Contributors

Presenters:
John Timpson
Presenters:
Peter Hobday
Unknown:
Dom Robert Gibbons
Read By:
Laurie MacMillan

Most people vanish during the day Into a secret world called work. What they think and feet as they perform these extraordinary but Important rituals, is familiar to them but remarkable to the rest of us
Tom Vernon 's new series of six programmes takes us Inside someone else's working life.
This week: On the Line Producer JENNY DE yong long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Vernon
Producer:
Jenny de Yong

Brian Gear explores the heights and depths of the human singing voice at its most exciting, with recordings of great performers and comments from BERNARD ■IKCFFE. SHEILA ARMSTRONG (soprano*, cwynni HOWELL (bass), and robin martin-Oliver (falsettlst)
Producer famela howe BBC Bristol long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Gear
Soprano:
Sheila Armstrong

The late Carleton Hobbs and Dr Watson in the last of a series of ten plays by MICHAEL HARDWICK based on the short stories of SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
The Final Problem
Moriarty. the Napoleon of crime and the organiser of half that Is evil and nearly all that
Is undetected in London, will be in the hands of the police very shortly.
So Sherlock Holmes feels free to relax and take a holiday on the Continent.
Directed by MARTYN C. WEBSTER
(First broadcast in 1967)
11.55 Weather; travel; programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Carleton Hobbs
Unknown:
Michael Hardwick
Directed By:
Martyn C. Webster
Sherlock Holmes:
Norman Shelley
Professor Moriarty:
Rolf Lefebvre
Peter Steiler:
Alan Dudley
Swiss boy:
Gordon Gardner

with Sue MacGregor
Science Scanner: MOYRA BREMNER reports on some new Ideas in the world of science.
The Best Dog in the World/ LESLIE THOMAS reflects on his tendresse for basset hounds. Four stories by JEROME K. JEROME. abridged by PAT MCLOUGHLIN. Bead by Robert Lang 1: Evergreens
(music:Joplin's Cleopha) long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Moyra Bremner
Unknown:
Leslie Thomas
Stories By:
Jerome K. Jerome.
Abridged By:
Pat McLoughlin.
Unknown:
Robert Lang

A Pillar of the Society by J. C. WILSHER
After the annual audit of a Building Society the Chairman is found dead. The auditors find the Society's funds deficient by £7 million I An inspector is appointed by the Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies and the unusual life style of the Chairman of the Building Society begins to emerge.
Directed by BRIAN DEAN

Contributors

Unknown:
J. C. Wilsher
Directed By:
Brian Dean
Edward Ingram:
Laurence Naismith
the Inspector:
Franck Thornton
Colin Deeping:
James Bryce
Wendy:
Carole Boyd
Eric Goodwin:
Peter Tuddenham
Actor:
Dorothy Whitworth
Actor:
Rosalind Adams
Iris Ingram:
Kathleen Helme
Maud Ingram:
Hilda Schroder
Alfred Saggs:
Clifford Parrish
Mr Flddlck:
Michael Bilton
Graham Craddock:
Eric Allan
Mr Gifford:
David Gooderson
Mr Smith:
Nigel Graham

Chairman
Robert Robinson
11: Home Counties Janet Robinson (housewife)
Rodney Salter
(printing process worker) Malcolm Davis (civil servant)
Bernard Harvey
(retired Industrial chemist)
Including Beat the Brains Devised by JOHN P. WYNN Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Janet Robinson
Unknown:
Rodney Salter
Unknown:
Malcolm Davis
Unknown:
Bernard Harvey
Unknown:
John P. Wynn
Unknown:
Ian Gillies
Producer:
Richard Edis

Includes reviews of Time and the Comuays,
J. B. Priestley 's own favourite play, at the Chichester Festival Theatre; and A Personal History. A. J. P. Taylor 's autobiography which covers his childhood in Birkdale, his education in York and Oxford, and his career as journalist. lecturer and historian.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer CARROLL MOORE

Contributors

Unknown:
J. B. Priestley
Unknown:
J. P. Taylor
Presenter:
Paul Vaughan
Producer:
Carroll Moore

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