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Presenters 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 CLIVE ROSLIN
7.25, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presenters:
Brian Redhead
Presenters:
Peter Hobday
Read By:
Clive Roslin

In her lifetime the painter Gwen John was overshadowed by her brother Augustus. Now she is recognised as one of the outstanding British artists of this century. Yet her determination to keep herself apart made her reluctant even to exhibit her work.
With extracts from her letters and interviews with ROMILLY JOHN.
KATHERINE JOHN. VIVIEN WHITE.
N1COLETTE DEVAS. LORD
DAVID CECIL.
SIR JOHN ROTHENSTEIN , TOM BURNS and BRIDGET LATIMER Readers DILYS PRICE and DAVID LYN
Narrator John Darran Written and produced by HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales

Contributors

Unknown:
Gwen John
Unknown:
Romilly John.
Unknown:
Katherine John.
Unknown:
Vivien White.
Unknown:
David Cecil.
Unknown:
Sir John Rothenstein
Unknown:
Tom Burns
Readers:
Bridget Latimer
Narrator:
John Darran
Produced By:
Herbert Williams

More than 30 years ago
Mario BorreIIi exchanged his cassock for the rags of a street urchin in order to retrieve some of the orphaned and unwanted children of Naples. Now a layman he works in a community centre in the city, where he talks to
Sue MacGregor about his life and work.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester (Revised repeat)

Contributors

Unknown:
Mario Borreiii
Unknown:
Sue MacGregor

by JERROLD NORTHROP MOORE
First of three programmes A portrait in words and music of the great English composer who died 50 years ago. with Narrator John Rowe
Throughout his life Elgar was haunted by memories of his childhood-an idyllic childhood that had begun on an idyllic summer day in June 1857. These early years were crucial in the development of his personality, both as man and musician. They were to give place to a long period of drudgery and disappointment. with CAROLE BOYD.
WILLIAM EEDLE. NIGEL GRAHAM.
JOHN UVESEY. KATHERINE PARR and PATIENCE TOMLINSON Producer ALAN HAYDOCK

Contributors

Unknown:
Jerrold Northrop Moore
Narrator:
John Rowe
Unknown:
Carole Boyd.
Unknown:
William Eedle.
Unknown:
Nigel Graham.
Unknown:
John Uvesey.
Unknown:
Katherine Parr
Edward Elgar:
Julian Glover

by Gerry Jones
with John Pullen, Nigel Anthony and Sarah Badel

Paul Wood finds himself in a strange hotel. He doesn't know why he's there or how he got there. Every time he tries to 'escape', he's brought back and the vicious circle begins again. Is it a nightmare?

Contributors

Writer:
Gerry Jones
Director:
Martin Jenkins
Robert Carter:
Nigel Anthony
Paul Wood:
John Pullen
Porter:
Roger Hammond
Paul's mother/Cleaner:
Eva Stuart
Barman/Second man:
Michael McStay
Hotel manager:
Philip Voss
Policeman/First man:
Peter Wickham
Garage man:
Robin Browne
Ann:
Sarah Badel
Shop assistant/Nurse:
Susan Sloman
Doctor:
Peter Baldwin

by MICHAEL FLANDERS and JOSEPH HOROVITZ
Before the performance
Marjorie Lofthouse goes behind the scenes of this mammoth production by a choir of 2,500 Solihull
School Children, members of THE SOUHULL YOUTH
SINFONIA and THE SOLIHULL YOUTH ORCHESTRA and soloist NOEL MANN conducted by PETER FOWLER and introduced by David Bellamy
Producer david WELSBY BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Joseph Horovitz
Unknown:
Marjorie Lofthouse
Soloist:
Noel Mann
Conducted By:
Peter Fowler
Introduced By:
David Bellamy
Producer:
David Welsby

devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden
In the Chair Steve Race Questions by STEVE RACE Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
Edward J. Mason
Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Ian Wallace
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Producer:
Pete Atkin

in conversation with Richard Ingrams
A celebration of the life of John Stewart Collis the distinguished novelist, critic, biographer and philosopher who died on 2 March 1984.
Directed by MARTIN JENKINS

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Ingrams
Unknown:
John Stewart Collis
Directed By:
Martin Jenkins

Tomorrow for Rudolf Hess , sentenced to life imprisonment at
Nuremberg, another birthday will pass in Spandau Prison. For more than 20 years, the Western Allied Powers have striven, against resolute Russian refusal, for his release.
Tonight Vincent Kane reasseses with Hess's prosecutors the man's guilt, considers new and disturbing theories about the dramatic flight to
Britain and tests opinion East and West about Hess's future.
Research JONATHAN DAVIES A BBC Wales Meet for Lunch production

Contributors

Unknown:
Rudolf Hess
Unknown:
Vincent Kane
Unknown:
Jonathan Davies

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