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Presenters John Timpson and Peter Hobday
6.45* Prayer for the Day with THE REV ANDREW WYLIC
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by Brian PERKINS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45 Thought for the Day
8.57 Weather; travel

Contributors

Presenters:
John Timpson
Presenters:
Peter Hobday
Unknown:
Andrew Wylic
Read By:
Brian Perkins

Kathryn Velander and Richard Batharry explore the conifer plantations of Inverness-shire and introduce Michael Scott to the sights, sounds and scents of the pine marten. Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Kathryn Velander
Unknown:
Richard Batharry
Unknown:
Michael Scott
Producer:
Anne Blair

Most people vanish during the day into a secret world called work. What they think and feel as they perform these extraordinary but important rituals is familiar to them but remarkable to the rest of us. Tom Vernon takes us inside someone else's working life.
This week: At the Mailings Producer JENNY DE YONG

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Vernon

Art for Selwyn's Sake by DOUG MORGAN
Read by Dillwyn Owen
' Selwyn Probert was an artist. The authority for this was Selwyn himself.... He had a long smock and dark blue beret. Yet there were those who chose to mock.'
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales

Contributors

Read By:
Dillwyn Owen
Read By:
Selwyn Probert
Producer:
Herbert Williams

Written and presented by Patrice Chaplin
Five hundred years ago, the Spanish town of Gerona was tire great centre for the study of cabbala or Jewish mysticism. That all stopped with the expulsion of the Jews. But today, virtually single-handed, one man Is trying to recreate the architectural and mystic glory of Gerona's past. His quest has revealed much about the cabbala and about his town. past and present
With JOSE TORRES . CHAIM MACCOBY , LOUIS JACOBS ,
ROSEMARIE TROSTEL ,MARIA PIA , CHRISTINE SCHWARTZ. MAX CANHERS and JOAN SEQUES .
Producer
MARGARET WINDHAM

Contributors

Presented By:
Patrice Chaplin
Unknown:
Jose Torres
Unknown:
. Chaim MacCoby
Unknown:
Louis Jacobs
Unknown:
Rosemarie Trostel
Unknown:
Maria Pia
Unknown:
Christine Schwartz.
Unknown:
Max Canhers
Unknown:
Joan Seques
Unknown:
Margaret Windham

The first of four programmes celebrating a hundred years of the Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club
Griff Rhys Jones introduces extracts from past Annual Footlights May Week Revues plus performances and reminiscences from past members.
Featuring at the piano RUSSELL DAVIES assisted by DAVID GOODERSON
Including this week, words of wit and wisdom from Clive James, Rob Buckman, Graham Chapman and David Frost
Footlights archivist HARRY PORTER
Script and research BARRY PILTON
Producers JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE and ANDY ALIFFE
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news

Contributors

Introduces:
Griff Rhys Jones
Assisted By:
David Gooderson
Unknown:
Clive James
Unknown:
Rob Buckman
Unknown:
Graham Chapman
Unknown:
David Frost
Unknown:
Harry Porter

by E.M. Forster, dramatised by Penny Leicester
A series of five 20th-century English short stories dramatised for radio
with Irene Sutcliffe as Miss Raby, Michael Bilton as Colonel Leyland and Victor Spinetti as the Concierge

Miss Raby, an illustrious novelist, returns to the Italian town which she immortalised in her first book and where, when she was young, she fell deeply In love.

Contributors

Author:
E.M. Forster
Dramatised by:
Penny Leicester
Director:
Jeremy Mortimer
Miss Raby:
Irene Sutcliffe
Colonel Leyland:
Michael Bilton
The Concierge:
Victor Spinetti
Elizabeth/American lady:
Carmen Rodriguez
English lady/Nelly:
Miranda Forbes
Signora Cantu:
Katherine Parr
American:
Nigel Graham
Driver/Waiter:
Alex Jennings

Chairman
Robert Robinson
12: Home Counties
Deborah King (housewife) Sam Mortimer (civil servant) Richard Green
(airline steward) Clive Fairweather
(prep schoolmaster)
Including Beat the Brains Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN
Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Sam Mortimer
Unknown:
Richard Green
Unknown:
Clive Fairweather
Unknown:
John P. Wynn
Unknown:
Ian Gillies
Producer:
Richard Edis

Written by MARGARET PHELAN
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm)
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Written By:
Margaret Phelan
Jennifer:
Angela Piper
Brian:
Charles Collingwood
Tony:
Colin Skipp
Pat:
Patricia Gallimore
Phil:
Norman Painting
Jill:
Patricia Greene
ShUla:
Judy Bennett
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Jack Woolley:
Arnold Peters
Walter:
Chris Gittins
Nelson:
Jack May
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Martha Woodford:
Mollie Harris
Joe:
Haydn Jones
Eddie:
Trevor Harrison
Clarrle:
Heather Bell
Jethro Larkin:
George Hart
Nell Carter:
Brian Hewlett
Richard Adamson:
Richard Carrington
Caroline Bone:
Sara Coward
Mark Hebden:
Richard Derrington

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