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Presenters John Timpson and Michael Stewart
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND

Contributors

Presenters:
John Timpson
Presenters:
Michael Stewart
Read By:
Harriet Cass
Editor:
Julian Holland

Rose-breeding, the processing of herbs to make drugs and the making of chamois leathers are subjects of three conversations that Brian Johnston has when he visits Hitchln in Hertfordshire.
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Johnston
Producer:
Anthony Smith

direct from the Tate Gallery, London
Following the opening of the Woman's
Hour/Radio Times
Summertime painting exhibition by HRH Princess Michael of Kent , in front of an Invited audience Sue
MacGregor talks to the winners and judges
JOHN FITZMAURICE MILLS and MARINA VAIZEY. Other guests Include art critic WALDEMAR JANUSZCZAK , artist EMMA SERGEANT, JOHN HARLE 'S BERLINER BAND and the distinguished fashion photographer Norman Parkinson.
The Plague Dogs (14)
Editor SANDRA CHALMERS The exhibition is open from 10.0-5.50 pm (from
2.0 pm on Sundays), from 23 August to
4 September, admission free. Unsuccessful entrants should have heard by now how to collect their works; if not they should write to Woman's Hour, Room
726, Broadcasting House, London WIA IAA.

Contributors

Unknown:
Princess Michael Of Kent
Unknown:
John Fitzmaurice
Unknown:
Marina Vaizey.
Artist:
Waldemar Januszczak
Unknown:
John Harle
Unknown:
Norman Parkinson.
Editor:
Sandra Chalmers

The sayings of the famous and obscure recalled and celebrated by Canon Don Lewis Julian Mitchell
Elaine Morgan and Myfanwy Talog Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Devised and presented by Nigel Rees
Producer ALAN NIXON

Contributors

Unknown:
Canon Don Lewis
Unknown:
Julian Mitchell
Unknown:
Elaine Morgan
Read By:
Ronald Fletcher
Presented By:
Nigel Rees
Producer:
Alan Nixon

Revelations by PAUL THAIN
A quantity of plutonium sufficient to make a small atomic bomb has been stolen by a group of terrorists threatening to blow up a nuclear power station in East Anglia.
Hammond, director of UK Internal Security, needs details of the terrorists and their whereabouts. Tobol can supply such
Information but refuses to co-operate on moral grounds. Tobol believes n the sanctity of human life. Tobol is too good to live - but Impossible to kill.
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Thain
Directed By:
Glyn Dearman
Charles Hammond:
Charles Gray
Mary:
Ann Morrish
Tobol:
Michael Tudor Barnes
Robert:
Christopher Scoular
Michael:
Michael Turner
Allan:
John Webb
Arthur:
Peter Tuddenham
Betty:
Jennifer Piercey
David:
Clive Panto
Sally:
Moir Leslie
Professor Jim Davis:
Michael Spict
Professor Mason:
Timothy Bateson
Dr Sanderson:
Michael Jenner
Charlotte Grotowski:
Irene Prador
Professor Doug Wlnttirop:
Geoffrey Collins

Includes reviews of The Heart of the Nation, a son et lumière production written by Rosemary Anne Sisson , staged on Horse Guards Parade. Whitehall: and Caleb Williams , a Channel 4 television serial based on the novel by William Godwin , the story of an innocent young man on the run from injustice In 18th-century England. Presented by Christopher Bigsby
Producer Richard DUNN Editor ROSEMARY HART

Contributors

Written By:
Rosemary Anne Sisson
Written By:
Caleb Williams
Novel By:
William Godwin
Presented By:
Christopher Bigsby
Producer:
Richard Dunn
Editor:
Rosemary Hart

On the Eve by IVAN TURGENEV
(1818-83), translated by GILBERT GARDINER abridged for radio by KEITH DARVILL First of ten parts
Read by Claire Bloom
A poignant love story set in Russia in the middle of the last century. Elena and her lover, Insarov, the young revolutionary, act out their doomed affair against a background of imminent social and political change.
Producer MAURICE LE1TCH

Contributors

Translated By:
Gilbert Gardiner
Read By:
Claire Bloom
Producer:
Maurice Le1tch

Jeremy Siepmann recounts, with the help of letters, diaries and memoirs, the adventures and reflections of composers abroad. Dvorak
. New York Is magnificent. Lovely buildings, beautiful streets ... and everywhere the grealtest cleanliness! . with Alan McClelland as Dvorak
Producer GRAHAM SHEFFIELD lona wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeremy Siepmann
Unknown:
Alan McClelland
Producer:
Graham Sheffield

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