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Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Presenters:
John Timpson
Presenters:
Brian Redhead
Read By:
Brian Perkins

Ken Ford invites Geoffrey Smith Clay Jones and Dr Stefan Buczacki to answer questions which listeners have sent in by post.
Questions should be on postcards only please and addressed to
BBC, Woodhouse Lone , Leeds [Postcode removed] BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Smith
Unknown:
Clay Jones
Unknown:
Dr Stefan Buczacki
Unknown:
Woodhouse Lone

Mother of the Bride by BARBARA ROBERTS
Read by Mary Wimbush 'There was nothing quite so competitive as a wedding. Nothing equalled it for announcing where you were on the social scale. No other occasion exposed family skeletons with such grinning teeth.' Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Barbara Roberts
Read By:
Mary Wimbush

A serial in six parts by JOHN FLETCHER , with 5: An extensive nationwide search is underway for Terry Prince , which he has so far evaded. He is making his way to a mansion in Oxfordshire, the setting for a deed he has been blackmailed into carrying out ...
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
John Fletcher
Unknown:
Terry Prince
Directed By:
Brian Miller
Terry:
Freddie Lees
Sir James Simpson:
Conrad Phillips
Chris:
Elwyn Johnson
Fortescue:
Hubert Rees
Linda Taylor:
Madeleine Cemm
Thompson:
John Abineri
Radio voice:
Roger Leach

A series selected from the work of one of radio's leading dramatists.
with Jo Kendall as Jane, Christopher Godwin as Desmond and Aubrey Woods as Alfred. Jane tries to deliver some flowers at Desmond's flat. She finds him in bed and unprepared to get out of it. And there are other surprises in store...
(Christopher Godwin is in 'Noises Off' at the Savoy Theatre, London)

Contributors

Writer:
Giles Cooper
Music played by:
Dave Hancock
Music played by:
Tom Nichol
Director:
John Tydeman
Jane:
Jo Kendall
Desmond:
Christopher Godwin
Alfred:
Aubrey Woods

Laughing Gas by P G. WODEHOUSE abridged and read in 13 parts by DAVID MCAUSTER (13)
Producer GRAHAM GAULD (David McAlister is in 'Peg' at the Phoenix Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
G. Wodehouse
Unknown:
David McAuster
Producer:
Graham Gauld
Producer:
David McAlister

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 compiled 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

A ten-part series in which Jeremy Siepmann casts a generally benign but occasionally cynical eye on the history of music-making in the home. 6: A Foot in the Dooror.... How Supply Creates Demand
Domestic music-makers sample an exciting range of new, improved products, and succumb to the promise of something for nothing.
Readers JILL BALCON and JOHN WESTBROOK Producer RAY ABBOTT

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeremy Siepmann
Readers:
Jill Balcon
Readers:
John Westbrook
Producer:
Ray Abbott

The Tito Heritage
Yugoslavs have survived four years without Tito but the system he bequeathed is under strain. Massive foreign debt and a creaking economy have made shortages endemic.
Popular discontent has fuelled the confederation's old rival nationalisms. What changes is
Yugoslavia facing? Is
Titoism on the horns of the universal Communist dilemma: crack down or crack up?
Presenter Chris Cviic Producer DAVID MORTON (Repeated: Fri 11.0 am)

Contributors

Presenter:
Chris Cviic
Producer:
David Morton

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