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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

Contributors

Presenter:
John Timpson
Presenter:
Peter Hobday
Newsreader:
Harriet Cass
Editor:
Julian Holland

Brian Johnston visits Eyam in Derbyshire. The village has many reminders of the most famous event in its history - the deaths from the plague of over 200 of its inhabitants in the mid-17th century.
Producer ANTHONY suits BBC Bristol
long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Johnston

Pretention
Frank Muir and Alfred Marks sUp through the comic literature of the subject, with recorded humour from michael
FLANDERS, DONALD SWANK , MEL BROOKS , TOM LEHRER , TONY hancock and ALAN BENNETT
Written by frank MUIR and SIMON BRETT
Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Tues 10.30 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Donald Swank
Unknown:
Mel Brooks
Unknown:
Tom Lehrer
Unknown:
Tony Hancock
Unknown:
Alan Bennett
Written By:
Frank Muir
Written By:
Simon Brett
Producer:
Pete Atkin

~"~ in which
Sue MacGregor introduces items of topical Interest, selections from your letters and looks at some different aspects of One
World Week at home and abroad.
At the start of One World Week, alison LEE visits Edg Barrow School in Berkshire where afternoon lessons are cancelled and projects on the theme ' Breaking
Barriers ' are explored by pupils and teachers. The Woodlanders (13) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS long wave only

Contributors

Introduces:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Alison Lee
Editor:
Sandra Chalmers

How can you have a tendency to be militant? How radical is a moderate?
Patrick Hannan examines the loaded jargon of politics. Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales

Contributors

Unknown:
Patrick Hannan
Producer:
Herbert Williams

A Passage to India by E. M. roRSTEB abridged In 15 part* by ELIZABETH BRADBURT
Read by Sam Dastor (1)
On a visit to India, to the man she expects to marry,AdelaQuested shows an Interest in the Indian ways of life that are frowned upon by the residentBritish community. The prejudice appears to be justified when she returns distressed from an excursion to the Marabar caves.
Producer briam dean

Contributors

Unknown:
E. M. Rorsteb
Unknown:
Elizabeth Bradburt
Read By:
Sam Dastor

by Maurice Leitch

Victor Albert Cleghorn, 42, an Ulsterman now resident in Crawley, has been charged with trespassing on a woodland in East Sussex in the early hours of 18 June. Also arrested were two other Ulstermen; a motorcycle dispatch rider and a trainee hairdresser. Cleghorn later admitted possessing an offensive weapon and illegal broadcasting equipment.

BBC Northern Ireland
(Stereo)
(Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Maurice Leitch
Director:
Robert Cooper
Magistrate:
Timothy Bateson
Eric:
Ian McElhinney
Des:
Jim Norton
Cleghorn:
Liam Neeson
Darren:
Timothy Spall
Tracey:
Sylvestra La Touzel
Other parts played by:
Alex Jennings
Other parts played by:
Clive Panto
Other parts played by:
Monica Grey
Other parts played by:
Eileen Tully
Other parts played by:
Timothy Bateson

includes reviews of Graham Greene's novel Our Man in Havana dramatised in three parts for Radio 4, (Sun 9.0 pm and Fri 3.0 pm) starring Jack Watling, and two new productions of operas by Wagner: The Valkyrie staged by the English National Opera at the Coliseum in London and The Rhinegold staged by Welsh National Opera at the Cardiff New Theatre. Presenter Michael Oliver

Contributors

Presenter:
Michael Oliver
Producer:
John Boundy
Editor:
Rosemary Hart

Basil by wilkie Collins abridged for radio In 15 parts and read by Edward DeSouza (1) A gripping Victorian suspense melodrama In which the aristocratic young hero, Basil, develops a fatally passionate love for a shop-keeper's daughter- a relationship which brings him into contact with one of Wilkie Collins 's greatest Characters, the extraordinary Robert Mannton.
Producer CHERRY COOKSON long wave only

Contributors

Read By:
Edward Desouza
Unknown:
Wilkie Collins
Unknown:
Robert Mannton.

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