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Presenters Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.45* Prayer for the Day with THE REV JOHN BAILEY
6.55. 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.25', 8.25* Sport
7.30. 8.30 News summary
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presenters:
Brian Redhead
Presenters:
John Timpson
Unknown:
John Bailey
Read By:
Brian Perkins

Haunting the Star-Pools of ' West Heaven '
Michael Clegg leads
Derek Jones through the rock-pool world of ' groaties ' and blennies to find curled octopuses and velvet swimmmg crabs at Westhaven. north of the Firth of Tay. Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Clegg
Unknown:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Anne Blair

with Pattie Coldwell
Today Leslie Cottlngton reveals the latest trends in food prices and looks for good value for money In the You and Yours Shopping Basket.
Plus the latest news of the BBC's Action Special Campaign for schoolleavers. Call [number removed]after 11.0 am with your comments.

Contributors

Unknown:
Pattie Coldwell
Unknown:
Leslie Cottlngton

The third of four celebrations of A Hundred Years of the Cambridge University
Foollights Dramatic Club with Griff Rhys Jones Featuring at the piano
RUSSELL DAVIES. Assisted by DAVID GOODERSON
Including this week words of wit and wisdom from GERMAINE GREER TIM BROOKE-TAYLOR ,
IAN WALLACE , JONATHAN MILLER Footlights archivist
DR HARRY PORTER. Script and research BARRY PILTON Producers JONATHAN JAMES -MOORE and ANDY ALIFFE
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Griff Rhys Jones
Piano:
Russell Davies.
Assisted By:
David Gooderson
Unknown:
Germaine Greer
Unknown:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Unknown:
Ian Wallace
Unknown:
Jonathan Miller
Unknown:
Dr Harry Porter.
Producers:
Jonathan James

Introduced by Sue MacGregor , including Who Knows Bestt (4):
PAT ROWE seeks guidance from the baby books. A Feast in Season:
KAREN STONELEY and GAIL DUFF discuss the virtues of ealting what's in season.
Family Matters (12) long wave only

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Pat Rowe
Unknown:
Gail Duff

by H.E. Bates, dramatised by Michael Robson
A series of 20th-century English short stories dramatised for radio
with Jenny Quayle as Liz and Daniel Day-Lewis as Splodge
Margaret Courtenay as Mrs Cartwright and Robert Lang as Uncle Harry

This poignant story captures the tranquillity of the hot Kent summer preceding the Battle of Britain - nothing would be quite the same again.

Contributors

Author:
H.E. Bates
Dramatist:
Michael Robson
Director:
Derek Hoddinott
Liz:
Jenny Quayle
Splodge:
Daniel Day-Lewis
Mrs Cartwright:
Margaret Courtenay
Uncle Harry:
Robert Lang
Bill:
Jeremy Sinden
Tom:
Steve Hodson
Doll:
Patricia Gallimore
Smithy:
John Gillett
Mac:
Peter Wickham
Fitz:
Gary Cady
Rose:
Jean Trend
Landlord:
Stuart Organ

Scotsman Bill Campbell , alias 'Villi The Clown ', lived for 45 years in the Soviet Union, having gone to Leningrad at the age of 16. In 1977 he returned, with his Russian wife, to Britain.
Today, in the first of four programmes, he talks about life as experienced by his friends and neighbours in the Moscow apartment house ' Bolshoi Tyshinsky No 26
1: What's in a Name ... Series producer
BARBARA CROWTHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Campbell
Producer:
Barbara Crowther

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