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with Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30
News Summary
6.45. Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News with BRIAN PERKINS 7 15', 8.25. Sport
7.45. Thought for the Day

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Peter Hobday
Unknown:
Brian Perkins

by HUGH DAVID
The most famous place of entertainment in London for two centuries, was the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, which closed, as the newspapers of the time described it, ' for ever ' on 25 July 1859.
Now, like so many great institutions of London past. it is no more.
Narrator Garard Green with SCOTT CHERRY
NIGEL GRAHAM , RICHARD HUW JON STRICKLAND
PATIENCE TOMLINSON and PETER TUDDENHAM
Producer ALAN haydoch. long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh David
Unknown:
Scott Cherry
Unknown:
Nigel Graham
Unknown:
Richard Huw
Unknown:
Jon Strickland
Producer:
Alan Haydoch.

Under the Hammer by STEPHEN FAGAN
In a celebrated London auction house, a Van Gogh , recently imported from the USSR, arouses interest, suspicion - and antagonisms.
Secretary MIRANDA FORBES Directed by MARGARET WINIHAM

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Fagan
Unknown:
Van Gogh
Unknown:
Miranda Forbes
Directed By:
Margaret Winiham
Harry:
Norman Jones
EriC:
David Peart
Housekeeper:
Jean Trend
Teich man:
Garrick Hagon
Bovine:
Graham Crowden
George:
Henry Stamper
Joe:
Joe Dunlop
Tony:
Stephen Garlick
Jim:
James Bryci
Anderson:
John Woodvine
Bourke-White:
Philip Voss

The Restless Americans Claire Frankel looks at some of the American women who have made the British connection. 3: Victoria Woodhull the first woman candidate for the United States Presidency, who came to
London to marry banker John Martin.

Contributors

Unknown:
Claire Frankel
Unknown:
John Martin.

Chairman
Robert Robinson 29: The Final Sam Mortimer (civil servant)
Christopher Stacy Waddy (banker)
Sue Marshall (translator) Dr Richard Coast-Smith (doctor)
Programme devised by John P. WYNN. Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Sam Mortimer
Unknown:
Christopher Stacy Waddy
Unknown:
Dr Richard Coast-Smith
Unknown:
John P. Wynn.
Unknown:
Ian Gillies
Producer:
Richard Edis

Includes reviews of Victoria Glendinning's biography Vita, The Life of Victoria Sackville-West, the poet, novelist and biographer who, with her husband Harold Nicholson, created one of England's most famous gardens at Sissinghurst Castle, Kent; and the BBC2 season of films directed by Luis Bunuel broadcast on Fridays.
Presenter Richard Mayne

Contributors

Unknown:
Victoria Glendinning
Unknown:
Harold Nicholson
Presenter:
Richard Mayne
Producer:
Brian Barfield

From the matchless beauty of the Aurora seen from near the North Pole, to the blackness of the New Guinea sky,
Barry Paine explores the mysteries of the night.
BBC Bristol
(long wave only)

Contributors

Presenter:
Barry Paine
Producer:
John Harrison

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