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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
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Peter Hobday
Read By:
Laurie MacMillan

Colin Semper confronts producers and management with your criticisms and comments about BBC radio and TV. Please send questions, criticisms or praise about radio or TV to Feedback,
BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW.
Producer JANET THOMAS (Repeated: Sun 6.45 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Colin Semper
Producer:
Janet Thomas

Multinational companies control about one third of the non-communist world's economy. They have grown in size and power since the scandals about their activities in Chile, Holland, Italy and the poorest countries burst upon the world ten years ago. Much has changed since then and new problems have emerged. Are the multinationals bogeymen or benefactors? John Roberts reports on the efforts of governments to come to terms with companies bigger than they are and of those companies to come to terms with tomorrow's world.
Producer PETER DAY
(Repeated: Sat 10.15pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Roberts

Bees and Bears Come Out to Play
The snake, it slithers on the ground
Frightening people all around
But are they frightened by snake-skin bags?
Oh no! but maybe by the tags.
The children of Selborne School in Middlesex, present a selection of their own poems about animals. Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol

Contributors

Producer:
Anne Blair

Introduced from Birmingham by Marjorie Lofthouse The Pilgrim Way: for centuries, pilgrims have walked through France and Spain to Santiago de Compostela. This summer
KOSTI SIMONS will be leading groups from all over Europe who hope to follow in their footsteps. Producer ANNE BROWN BBC Birmingham
The Birds Fall Down by REBECCA WEST abridged in 17 parts by PAT MCLOUGHUN
Read by JANET SUZMAN (17) Music: Lilburn's Second Symphony

Contributors

Unknown:
Marjorie Lofthouse
Producer:
Anne Brown
Read By:
Janet Suzman

by Charles Dickens

Contributors

Author:
Charles Dickens
Mr Veneering:
Geoffrey Collins
Twemlow:
Timothy Bateson
Mr Podsnap:
Jack May
Mrs Veneering:
Jane Wenham
Mr Lammle:
Brett Usher
Mrs Lammle:
Maggie McCarthy
Mortimer Lightwood:
Steve Hodson
Mr Venus:
Jon Strickland
The Rev Frank Milvey:
William Hope
Mrs Milvey:
Penelope Freeman
Coachman:
Colin Starkey
Lavinia Wilfer:
Moir Leslie
Mrs Wilfer:
Avril Elgar
Mr Inspector:
Stephen Thorne

Seven variations on the theme of love, written and presented by P. J. Kavanagh 1: Love Pleading
Readers DENYS HAWTHORNE and BONNIE HURREN
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol

Contributors

Presented By:
P. J. Kavanagh
Readers:
Denys Hawthorne
Readers:
Bonnie Hurren
Producer:
Margaret Bradley

Three programmes in which Molly Price-Owen , aided and abetted by literary examples, discovers how forensic science can bring a criminal to book.
1: Blood, Sweat and Tears There is reason to believe that every single cell on a person's body is unique to that individual; as unique as fingerprints.
Producer SARAH ROWLANDS

Contributors

Unknown:
Molly Price-Owen
Producer:
Sarah Rowlands

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
Producer:
Irene Mallis
Editor:
Roger MacDonald

The Rt Hon Shirley Williams
Edwina Currie , mp, the Conservative Member for Derbyshire South Trevor Phillips, television producer and former President of the NUS
Lord Soper at Lambeth, London Chairman
Anthony Howard
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Shirley Williams
Unknown:
Edwina Currie
Unknown:
Anthony Howard
Producer:
Carole Stone

An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with Bill Wallis ,
David Tate. Sally Grace and Jon Glover Written by IAN BROWN. JAMES HENDRIE
RICHARD QUICK,
JOHN LANGDON , PAUL B. DAVIES
MARTIN BOOTH. ALAN WHITING PETER HICKEY and others Producer
JENNIE CAMPBELL
(Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm) long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
David Tate.
Unknown:
Sally Grace
Unknown:
Jon Glover
Written By:
Ian Brown.
Unknown:
John Langdon
Unknown:
Paul B. Davies
Unknown:
Alan Whiting
Unknown:
Peter Hickey
Unknown:
Jennie Campbell

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