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Presenters Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30. 7.30. 8.30
News Summary
6.458 Prayer for the Day
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.258,8.25" Sport
7.45* Thought for the DOli

Contributors

Presenters:
Brian Redhead
Presenters:
John Timpson
Read By:
Eugene Fraser

Cabbages and Coronets
Standing firm against the Channel breezes, atop a cliff of chalk not far from Dover, Denis Owen and Derek Jones find small blue butterflies and yellow-banded snails, oak-eggar, and varied coronet moths - all there because of brassicas, a vast population of wild and ancient cabbages, ancestors of cauliflowers, kales and broccolis.
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Denis Owen
Unknown:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Anne Blair

In this first programme of a new series.
Russell Harty and his guest Lord Howard, who completed his term as Chairman of the BBC only a few days ago. choose pieces of music for each other as stepping stones in a conversation that Is
Inevitably free-ranging and sometlmessurprising. Producer IAN cardhousi

Contributors

Unknown:
Russell Harty

Olwyn's Young Man by TATRICK J. CORCORAN
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Contributors

Read By:
Dlllwyn Owen

In the last programme of the series Bob Symes transforms plain bangers and mash into an exotic lunch party dish for some unexpected guests. Producer KATE FENTON
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Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Symes
Producer:
Kate Fenton

John Howard with the daily consumer news magazine. Family finance, education, the law housing, your employment rights are all on the daily menu.
Today Leslie Coltlngton reveals the latest trends In food prices with the aid of The BBC Shopping Basket survey. What Is new in food shops? What are the best buys?

Contributors

Unknown:
John Howard
Unknown:
Leslie Coltlngton

Joy In the Morning by P. G. WODEHOUSE Seven programmes starring
Michael Hordern as Jeeves and Richard Briers as Bertie Wooster with Peter Woodthorpe as Percy,
Lord Worplesdon Jonathan Cecil as Boko Fittleworth and Denise Brycr as Edwin, the Boy Scout 4: Sundry Happening! In a Garden
Florence Craye
BRONWEN WILLIAMS
Adaptedbychhismiller
Producer simon bbett

Contributors

Unknown:
P. G. Wodehouse
Unknown:
Michael Hordern
Unknown:
Richard Briers
Unknown:
Bertie Wooster
Unknown:
Peter Woodthorpe
Unknown:
Lord Worplesdon Jonathan Cecil
Unknown:
Boko Fittleworth
Unknown:
Denise Brycr
Unknown:
Florence Craye
Unknown:
Bronwen Williams

The Catch
By Nick Darke
A Cornish fisherman is tempted by hard times and lure of easy money to fish in more troubled waters; the smuggling of a highly illegal contraband.
Swiddles Donald Mcbride
Leadwell Nick Brimble
Thelma ..Rowena ROBERTS
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol

Contributors

Directed By:
Brian Miller

A nationwide general knowledge contest
Chairman Robert Robinson 21: Midlands and East Analia
Second Round Belly Wharton
(retired headmistress) Charles Stephens (private tutor) Allan Chapman fsenlor lecturer) Andrew Cobley
(computer programmer) Including Beat the Brains Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN
Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Charles Stephens
Unknown:
Allan Chapman
Unknown:
Andrew Cobley
Unknown:
John P. Wynn
Unknown:
Ian Gillies
Producer:
Richard Edis

Written by MARY CUTLER (Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
JiBC Birmingham

Contributors

Written By:
Mary Cutler
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer Aldridge:
Angela Piper
Phil Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Shula Archer:
Judy Bennett
Laura Archer:
Betty McDowall
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Jack Woolley:
Arnold Peters
Nelson Gabrrel:
Jack May
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Martha Woodford:
Mollie Harris
Joe Crundy:
Iiaydn Jones
Eddie Grundy:
Trevor Harrison
Clarrie Grundy:
Heather Bell
Jethro Larkin:
George Haut
Neil Carter:
Brian Hewlett
Caroline Bone:
Sara Coward
Susan Horobin:
Charlotte Martin

A farce by Arthur Wing Pinero
with Nigel Stock, Jill Bennett, Charles Gray, Maria Aitken, Anthony Daniels, Jonathan Cecil

The magistrate, circumspect and scrupulously just, has married a widow with a young son. But his wife has deceived him and the son leads him astray.

Contributors

Author:
Arthur Wing Pinero
Pianist:
Mary Nash
Director:
John Tydeman
Aeneas Posket:
Nigel Stock
Agatha Posket:
Jill Bennette
Mr Bullamy:
Anthony Newlands
Col Lukyn:
Charles Gray
Capt Valli:
Jonathan Cecil
Cis Farringdon:
Anthony Daniels
Achille Blond:
Philip Sully
Isidore:
Adrian Egan
Mr Wormington:
Manning Wilson
Insp Messiter:
John Gabriel
Sgt Lugg:
Roger Hammond
Constable Harris:
Bill Monks
Wyke:
Tim Bentinck
Charlotte:
Maria Aitken
Beatie Tomlinson:
Amanda Murray
Popham:
Eva Stuart

visits the set of Ronald Harwood 's The Dresser. which is now being filmed by PETER yates. With TOM COURTENAY repeating his award-winning stage performance as the dresser and confidant of an ageing theatrical knight played in the film version by ALBERT finney ; and reviews the Chichester Festival
Theatre's new production of Terence Rattigan 's
' occasional fairy tale The Sleeping Prince, starring Omar Sharif.
Presenter Jeffrey Richards Producer RICHARD DUNN

Contributors

Unknown:
Ronald Harwood
Unknown:
Peter Yates.
Unknown:
Tom Courtenay
Unknown:
Albert Finney
Unknown:
Terence Rattigan
Unknown:
Omar Sharif.
Presenter:
Jeffrey Richards
Producer:
Richard Dunn

Nightfall on a mountain in Kenya, talking stones in an Oxfordshire dawn, and the mysteries of the hours in between. Barry Paine introduces the first of a series of ten nocturnal miscellanies on the intricacies and intimacies of night.
Producer MELINDA barker BBC Bristol long wave only

Contributors

Introduces:
Barry Paine

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