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Presenters John Timpson and Peter Hobday
6.45* Prayer for the Day With RABBI LIONEL BLUE
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.251, 8.25- Sport
7.30. 8.30 News Summary
7.45. Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND

Contributors

Presenters:
John Timpson
Presenters:
Peter Hobday
Read By:
Laurie MacMillan
Editor:
Julian Holland

Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners.
Presented by Norman MacCalg
Readers FULTON MACKAY and BONNIE HVRREN
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol Requests to:
Poetry Please!, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Presented By:
Norman MacCalg
Presented By:
Readers Fulton MacKay
Presented By:
Bonnie Hvrren
Producer:
Brian Patten

Paul Heincy presents Britain's only daily
Programme for consumers which today calls for your questions to an Education Forum. Are
Your children making the most of their educational opportunities? What more could you do to help them on their way? The lines openatll.oamon [number removed]
Editor JOHN GETGOOD

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Heincy
Editor:
John Getgood

Vincent Price
Presents Dilys Laye S)rlVia Coleridge and Norman Bird in Is There Anybody There? by WILLIAM INGRAM
Not far away in discreet suburbia is to be found the home of Griselda Thorpe - medium and clairvoyant and her elder sister Edie. And it Is to this genteel house that Henry Jollit comes in search of a preview of eternity.
Directed by JOHN DYAS
(Repeated: Tues 10.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; travel; Programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Dilys Laye
Unknown:
Norman Bird
Unknown:
William Ingram
Unknown:
Griselda Thorpe
Unknown:
Henry Jollit
Directed By:
John Dyas
Griselda Thorpe:
Dilys Laye
Edie Thorpe:
Sylvia Coleridge
Henry Jollit:
Norman Bird

Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Some Talking Point discussions, Your Letters and other topics. Among these today:
The Roots of Romance: RAY BARRON explores the earliest stories of love. Close Quarters (8)
Editor WYN KNOWLES

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Ray Barron
Editor:
Wyn Knowles

Judgement Day by PENELOPE LIVELY abridged in ten parts by EVANGELINE BANKS
Read by Joan Hart (1) Brisk, capable Clare
Paling, a middle-class agnostic with a prosperous husband. beautiful children and time on her hands, finds rural life makes no demands on her abounding energy. It takes a village pageant. violence and death to show her there is uncertainty everywhere and so much to learn. Producer JOHN CARDY

Contributors

Read By:
Joan Hart
Producer:
John Cardy

Presenters Valerie Singleton and Gordon Clough
Editor DEREK LEWIS
on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news

Contributors

Presenters:
Valerie Singleton
Presenters:
Gordon Clough
Editor:
Derek Lewis

A Modern Relationship by ANITA BRONSON with and Carol has shared
Edward's house, his bed, and his life for 12 months. Theirs is a ' modern relationship nice and uncomplicated. with no dramas, and no strings. But what you say when you start a relationship, and what happens when you're actually living it, doesn't always add up to the same thing.
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)

Contributors

Directed By:
Shaun MacLoughlin
Carol:
Kay Adshead
Edward:
Michael N Harbour
Mo:
Rosalind Adams
Nick:
Nicholas Grace
Peggy:
Bonnie Hurren
Robert:
Bruce Stewart
Doctor:
Neil Stacy
Receptionist:
Pat Field
Waitress:
Susanna Dawson
Nurse:
Kim Hicks
Jacky:
Rosamund Shelley

includes reviews of Blue Highways - A Journey into America by William Least Heat Moon: and Joan Crawford - The Ultimate Star. a biography of the Hollywood actress by Alexander Walker. Presenter
Christopher Bigsby
Producer CARROLL MOORE Editor ROSEMARY HART

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan Crawford
Unknown:
Alexander Walker.
Unknown:
Christopher Bigsby
Producer:
Carroll Moore
Editor:
Rosemary Hart

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