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wjth John Timpson and Brian Redhead 6-30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
M5* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Jead by EUGENE FRASER
7.25*,8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in farliament
8.50* Your Letters

Contributors

Unknown:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Eugene Fraser

More Beasties and Thingummyjigs .
Ian Linn wanders through the rhyming world of ditties and verse in celebration of stripes and spots, claws and paws, feathers and fur.
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Linn
Producer:
Anne Blair

Introduced from Glasgow by Mary Marquis
Comhairle nan sgoiltean araich: few children now speak Gaelic in those areas where everyone once habitually used the language. Some parents are pinning their hopes for a revival of their nataive tongue in a new playgroup scheme for the under-5s, but the first groups to strike success have been set up south of the Scottish Highland line in the urban central belts.
REEVEL ALDERSON has been talking to the people involved.
Producer ELAINE MACLEAN BBC Scotland
The Captains and the Kings (4) long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Marquis
Unknown:
Reevel Alderson
Producer:
Elaine MacLean

by REBECCA WEST dramatised for radio in three parts by JOAN O'CONNOR
1: 'Despite his brilliant journalism, Papa gambles compulsively and disastrously so that the family is often on the move, held together by Mama's household economies and by the music lessons she gives to all her four children. The family's arrival in London seems to mark the beginning of permanence and real family life -but nothing in the Aubrey household stays the same for long....'
Directed by MARGARET WINDHAM

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan O'Connor
Directed By:
Margaret Windham
Clare:
Anna Nygh
Piers:
William Nighy
Cordelia:
Yvonne Antrobus
Mary:
Jill Lidstone
Rose:
Phoebe Nicholls
Mrs Weir:
Ellen McIntosh
Jeannie:
Moir Leslie
Constance:
Angela Thorne
Rosamund:
Flora Page
Kate:
Maggie McCarthy
Rose (as an adult):
Margot Boyd
Jock:
Henry Stamper

A series of six programmes 5: Trinidad and Tobago Kathy Williams reports on the oil-enriched republic where calypso, the carnival and the steel band have sprung from the fusion of diverse cultures. Producer JOAN GRIFFITHS

Contributors

Producer:
Joan Griffiths

with Clive Jacobs bringing you the stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport with help from TOM BOSWELL. ALANAH MARTIN and RICHARD HUDSON-EVANS.
Producer IRENE MALLIS
Editor ROGER MACDONALD For details of car tests send an sae to [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Clive Jacobs
Unknown:
Tom Boswell.
Unknown:
Alanah Martin
Unknown:
Richard Hudson-Evans.
Producer:
Irene Mallis
Editor:
Roger MacDonald

with Bill Wallis , David Tate , Sally Grace and Paul B. Davies Written by IAN BROWN. JAMES HENDRIE
RICHARD QUICK.
JOHN LANGDON. PAUL B. DAVIES
MARTIN BOOTH. ALAN WHITING PETER HICKEY and others Producer
PAUL MAYHEW ARCHER
(Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm) long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
David Tate
Unknown:
Sally Grace
Unknown:
Paul B. Davies
Written By:
Ian Brown.
Unknown:
John Langdon.
Unknown:
Paul B. Davies
Unknown:
Alan Whiting
Unknown:
Peter Hickey
Unknown:
Paul Mayhew Archer

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