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Presenters Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.45* Prayer for the Day BROTHER BERNARD APPS
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 Summary
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday In Parliament
8.57 Weather: travel

Contributors

Presenters:
Brian Redhead
Presenters:
John Timpson
Read By:
Pauline Busiinell

Derek Jones and David Streeter take pleasure In accepting Lord
Kllbracken's invitation to see his bird-nest orchids and look over the delightful wilderness of his Killegar Estate.
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Jones
Unknown:
David Streeter
Producer:
John Harrison

Most people vanish during the day into a secret world called work. What they think and feel astheyperformthese extraordinary but important rituals, Is familiar to them but remarkable to the rest of us.
Tom Vernon takes you inside someone else's working life.
This week: Watching the World Go By
Producer JENNY DE YONG

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Vernon
Producer:
Jenny de Yong

Caldas Does a Good Turn by PATRICIA LANGDON-DAVIIS Read by June BarrIe
In the canine as well as the human world, beauty is not always in the eye of the beholder.
Producer PAMELA howe BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Patricia Langdon-Daviis
Read By:
June Barrie
Producer:
Pamela Howe

Delicious anarchy reigns when Bob Symes - bon viyeur, raconteur and railway buff - Invades the kitchen as an enthusiastic amateur chef.
In the first of six programmes, he raids the fridge and transforms Sunday's leftovers into Monday's lunch.
Producer KATE FENTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Symes
Producer:
Kate Fenton

Introduced by Sue MacGregor. including The Return of the Strum-Strum: CINDY SELBY finds there's been something of a revival of interest in the plink-pluhk ' happy music ' of the banjo. Close Quarters (6)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor.
Unknown:
Cindy Selby

Neshat loves England and when he takes his family for a holiday in Devon, he's keen to share with them his affection for the English and their landscape. But his idyll is disrupted when the clannish hostility of the villagers erupts Into violence.

Contributors

Writer:
Stephen Pagan
Director:
Margaret Windham
Neshat Hossain:
Saaed Jaffrey
Woolacott:
Eric Allan
Luscombe:
Peter Jeffrey
Hcmmett:
Geoffrey Bayldon
Elliott:
John Rowe
Vent (Vicar):
Henry Stamper
Derek Smith:
James Bryce
Mrs Edwards/Woman:
Jane Wenham
Mary:
Pauline Siddle
Waycott:
Geoffrey Collins
Hayward:
Clive Panto
Kivell:
Stuart Organ
Dr Kneale:
Danny Schiller
Frances Hossain:
Carole Boyd
Gill V:
Moir Leslie
Lindy:
Pauline Siddle
Harry:
Richard Huw
First holldaymaker:
David Peart
Second holidaymaker:
John Webb

The gods had given me almost everything. I had genius, a distinguished name, high social position, brilliancy, intellectual daring: I made art a philosophy and philosophy an art: there was nothing I said or did that did not make people wonder.
(OSCAR WILDE)
In the last of the present series. Frank Delaney
Investigates the triumphs and despair of the author of The Importance of Being Earnest and The picture of Dorian Gray. Producer SIMON elmis

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Delaney
Unknown:
Dorian Gray.
Producer:
Simon Elmis

Chairman Robert Robinson 16: Northern Ireland Kevin Lowe
(company director) Harry Irwin
(sales representative) Brian Tougher
(management consultant) Paul Burrows (teacher)
Including Beat the Brains Devised by JOHN p. WYNN Questions by ian gillies Producer RICHARD EDIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Kevin Lowe
Director:
Harry Irwin
Unknown:
Paul Burrows
Unknown:
John P. Wynn
Unknown:
Ian Gillies
Producer:
Richard Edis

Written by MARGARET phelan (Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm)
Peggy Archer. JUNE SPENCER
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Written By:
Margaret Phelan
Unknown:
Peggy Archer.
Unknown:
June Spencer
Jennifer Aldridge:
Angela Piper
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Pat:
Patricia Gallimore
Jill:
Patricia Greene
Shula:
Judy Bennett
Laura:
Betty McDowall
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Jack Woolley:
Arnold Peters
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Nelson Gabrfel:
Jack May
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville
Martha Woodford:
Mollie Harris
Joe Grundy:
Haydn Jones
Eddie:
Trevor Harrison
Clarrie:
Heather Bell
Jethro Larkin:
George Hart
Nell Carter:
Brian Hewlett
Colonel Danby:
Ballard Berkeley
Mark Hebden:
Richard Derrington
Bill Insley:
Ted Moult

Simon Standage , Elizabeth Wilcock (violins)
Trevor Jones (viola)
Anthony Pleeth (cello)
Keith Marjoram (double-bass)
Stephen Preston (flute) TREVOR PINNOCK (director and harpsichord)
Purcell Chacony In c minor
Locke Incidental Music: The Tempest
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Standage
Violins:
Elizabeth Wilcock
Viola:
Trevor Jones
Cello:
Anthony Pleeth
Cello:
Keith Marjoram
Flute:
Stephen Preston
Flute:
Trevor Pinnock

Includes reviews of Jce. the latest 87th Precinct mystery by Ed McBain ; and Michael Gellot 's production of Taverner by Peter Maxwell Davies at the Royal Opera
House, Covent Garden. Presenter Paul Allen
Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS

Contributors

Unknown:
Ed McBain
Unknown:
Michael Gellot
Unknown:
Peter Maxwell Davies
Presenter:
Paul Allen
Producer:
Anthony Cheevers

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