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with Brian Redhead in Blackpool on the opening day of the annual Trades UnionCongress, and John Tlmpson in London
6.30. 7.30, 8.30
News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News HARRIET CABS
7.25'. 8.25' Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
John Tlmpson
Read By:
Harriet Cabs
Editor:
Julian Holland

byDAVIDTHOMSON abridged in five parts
Read by Denys Hawthorne The haunting record of a journey in search of the man-seal legends still recalled in the Gaelic world of the Hebrides and the west of Ireland Producer MAURICE LEITCH (Shortened repeat)

Contributors

Read By:
Denys Hawthorne
Producer:
Maurice Leitch

Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Parents return to school. Dear Parents, schooldays are the best days of your life. JILL BURRIDGE listens in as parents of pupils at Beaumont School, St Albans , go back for a sample of today's teaching.
TheLittleWalls by WINSTON GRAHAM abridged in 12 parts by JACK SINGLETON
Read by DAVID MCALISTER (3) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS The £5 Feast: Gail Duff introduces the winning menus and recipes from the competition which challenged listeners to create, at a cost of just 15, a dinner party for four, £1.95, BBC/Ariet book from booksellers.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Jill Burridge
Unknown:
St Albans
Unknown:
Jack Singleton
Read By:
David McAlister
Editor:
Sandra Chalmers
Introduces:
Gail Duff

Patricia Carroll introduces and plays music from her Victorian collection of pieces composed by famous pianists of the day.
This week: Joseph Ascher Producer ANDREW MUSSETT

Contributors

Introduces:
Patricia Carroll
Unknown:
Joseph Ascher
Producer:
Andrew Mussett

Traitors by STEPHEN SEWELL adapted for radio by DAVID NETTHEIM , with Miriam Margolyes as Anna and John Rowe as Krasin Russia 1927: a society in which people's personal morality and their public politics become inseparable. Anna, seeing the rise of Stalin as a betrayal of the Revolution, is at odds as much with her friends as with her party
Directed by FRANK ZEPPEL of the AUSTRALIAN
BROADCASTING COMMISSION (Repeated, Sun 2.30 pm'

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Sewell
Unknown:
David Nettheim
Unknown:
Miriam Margolyes
Unknown:
John Rowe
Directed By:
Frank Zeppel
Katya:
Theresa Streatfeild
Lebeshev:
Ronald Baddiley
Mather Dybenko:
Katherine Parr
Joseph Rubin:
Peter Wickham
Anita:
Jean Trend
Nadezda:
Alexandra Mathie
Railwayman:
Alex Jennings

includes reviews of The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan, the film version of Joseph Papp 's successful
Broadway production, starring Angela Lansbury , Linda Ronstadt and Kevin Kline ; and The Glossies: British Magazines of the Late 50s and 60s, an exhibition at the Impressions Gallery of Photography in York.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer Richard DUNN Editor ROSEMARY HART

Contributors

Unknown:
Joseph Papp
Unknown:
Angela Lansbury
Unknown:
Linda Ronstadt
Unknown:
Kevin Kline
Presenter:
Paul Vaughan
Producer:
Richard Dunn
Editor:
Rosemary Hart

The Member of the Wedding by CARSON MCCULLERS The first of ten parts abridged by CATHERINE STEWART
Read by Gayle Hunnlcutt It happened that green and crazy summer when Frankie was 12 years old She belonged to no club and was a member of nothing in the world. And then all this was changed with her brother's wedding.
Producer MAURICE LEITCH long wave only

Contributors

Abridged By:
Catherine Stewart
Read By:
Gayle Hunnlcutt
Producer:
Maurice Leitch

Jeremy Siepmann recounts, with the help of letters, diaries and memoirs, the adventures and reflections of composers abroad Mozart
I've seen four scoundrels hanged here in the Piazza del Duomo. They hang them here just as they do in Lyons ' with Graham Seed as Mozart
Producer GRAHAM SHEFFIELD long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeremy Siepmann
Producer:
Graham Sheffield

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