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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 BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Peter Hobday
Read By:
Bryan Martin

Frank Delaney and Pattie Coldwell join forces for the very first time to take you through the morning
... Advice on Modern Manners from those dedicated observers of current behaviour Laurie Taylor and Vie Lewis Smith
... An opportunity to put your view to studio guests in the Thursday
Exchange on [number removed]Regular Items:
The News on the hour from BRIAN PERKINS
10.30 Morning Story
Read by Peter Adamson , as Harry Kemp a northern photographer
8: The Mystery Bride by EILEEN CAPEL
10.45 An Act of Worship conducted by David Winter
... A chance to offer someone who asks Can You Help? the benefit of your experience as they talk to resident psychologist Sonya Hinton
... The latest slant on things straight from the beak of Able Seagull Herring
... Local angles on national stories and local stories that may not hit the national headlines in Network UK
Produced by the Rollercoaster unit long wave only from 9.5 am

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Delaney
Unknown:
Pattie Coldwell
Unknown:
Laurie Taylor
Unknown:
Lewis Smith
Unknown:
Brian Perkins
Read By:
Peter Adamson
Unknown:
Harry Kemp
Unknown:
Eileen Capel
Conducted By:
David Winter
Unknown:
Sonya Hinton

Presented by Roger Black The first in a new series which asks the question: how can we get more out of our time? Spend half-an-hour of yours and find out. Guaranteed free hour a week with every programme. You can't afford to miss it.
Sketches performed by ANGUS DEAYTON
ANNETTE LYNTON
RORY MCGRATH
Written by ROGER BLACK and RORY MCGRATH
Producer jimmy MULVILLE

Contributors

Presented By:
Roger Black
Unknown:
Angus Deayton
Unknown:
Annette Lynton
Unknown:
Rory McGrath
Written By:
Roger Black
Written By:
Rory McGrath
Producer:
Jimmy Mulville

Detention by DAVID CALCUTT with Nick is a young teacher in his probationary year, and confronting the problems of a large comprehensive in the Midlands is not easy ... especially when racial tension and violence explode in his face.
Directed by VANESSA WHITBURN and TIM MANNING (First broadcast on BBC Radio WM)

Contributors

Unknown:
David Calcutt
Directed By:
Vanessa Whitburn
Directed By:
Tim Manning
Nick:
David Vann
Sarah:
Kathryn Hurlbutt
Blower:
Neil Coker
Mrs Hepworth:
Patricia Gallimore
Mr Johnson:
Ray Llewellyn
Mandy:
Amanda Dainty
Makhan:
Ashok Kumar
Turner:
David Hannah
First mate:
Dale Bayford
Second mate:
David Conner
Policemen:
Peter Brookes
TERRY PEARSON:
Stanley Page

The Old Nurse's Story by MRS GASKELL
Abridged in two parts and read by Valerie Windsor (1)
In a house in the middle of the country strange noises are heard in the dead of night. The house hides a terrible secret. Producer KAY PATRICK BBC Manchester

Contributors

Story By:
Mrs Gaskell
Read By:
Valerie Windsor

(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm)
Written by MONA CRESSWELL Agricultural story editor ANTHONY PARKIN
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Written By:
Mona Cresswell
Editor:
Anthony Parkin
Peggy:
June Spencer
Brian:
Charles Collingwood
Phil:
Norman Painting
Jill:
Patricia Greene
George:
Graham Roberts
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Jack Woolley:
Arnold Peters
Nelson Gabriel:
Jack May
Martha:
Mollie Harris
Joe Grundy:
Haydn Jones
Eddie:
Trevor Harrison
Clarrie:
Heather Bell
Neil Carter:
Brian Hewlett
Susan:
Charlotte Martin
Dorothy Adamson:
Heather Barrett
Caroline Bone:
Sara Coward
Bill Insley:
Ted Moult
Nigel Pargetter:
Graham Seed

'A stout, talkative, dynamic man - one of the few who has made a big difference to the land he loves'.
(HUGH WALTON on John Jackson Adams , First
Baron Adams of Ennerdale)
Nigel Holmes tells the story of Jack Adams , the iron ore miner who was the first Cumbrian to be created a baron since 1793. (First broadcast on BBC Radio Cumbria)

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh Walton
Unknown:
John Jackson Adams
Unknown:
Nigel Holmes
Unknown:
Jack Adams

A series of ten montage documentaries
Making Fortunes
This is the electronic crystal ball. The five-inch model costs 9150.
I go by the name Abdullah because my spirit guide is Egyptian, but everyone calls me Reg.
I am seeing the name Sutton Coldfield. ...
Prediction, said George Eliot , is the most gratuitous form of error. It's also one of our few boom industries. Actuality gathers vibrations from a Psychics and Mystics
Fayre, the computorised
Future Forecast Shop and Zodiac Week at Butlin's. Researcher JULIE SIMMONS Producer PETER EVERETT BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Sutton Coldfield.
Unknown:
George Eliot
Unknown:
Julie Simmons
Producer:
Peter Everett

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