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with John Timpson and Michael Stewart
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by DAVID HITCHINSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND

Contributors

Unknown:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Michael Stewart
Read By:
David Hitchinson
Editor:
Julian Holland

R. F. MacKenzie , headmaster of. Aberdeen's Summerhill
Academy between 1968 and 1974, caused widespread controversy with his sympathetic approach towards discipline. He defended his beliefs against accusations that they were impractical. Reporter Gerry Davis Producer COLIN CALEY
(First broadcast on R Scotland)

Contributors

Unknown:
R. F. MacKenzie
Reporter:
Gerry Davis
Producer:
Colin Caley

The Year of the Lion by GERALD HANLEY abridged in 12 parts by KEITH DARVILL
Read by NIGEL ANTHONY (3) Producer ROBERT COOPER BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Gerald Hanley
Unknown:
Keith Darvill
Read By:
Nigel Anthony
Producer:
Robert Cooper

Written and performed by Morwenna Banks, Chris England, Nicholas Hancock, Robert Harley, Dave Meek, Neil Mullarkey, Paul Simpkin, Mark Warman

Last year the Cambridge Footlights Dramatic Club celebrated its Centenary - and in some style! The longest tour undertaken in recent years, the most successful Edinburgh Fringe Festival run ever, and now you can catch the Centenary Revue on tour, recorded at Liverpool University at the end of last year.
Producer nick SYMONS
BBC Manchester. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Morwenna Banks
Unknown:
Nicholas Hancock
Unknown:
Robert Harley
Unknown:
Dave Meek
Unknown:
Neil Mullarkey
Unknown:
Paul Simpkin
Unknown:
Mark Warman

The Manchester Enthusiasts Two plays for radio by JOHN ARDEN and MARGARETTA D'ARCY
Part 2: In 1831 John Scott
Vandeleur, owner of a 618-acre estate in County Clare, enlisted the help of E. T. Craig , inventor, socialist and Co-operative Enthusiast, to establish the first agricultural commune in Ireland. These two plays trace the extraordinary story of that revolutionary experiment.
Musical direction TONY MCAULEY Technical presentation TIM STURGEON
Directed by ROBERT COOPER BBC Manchester Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
John Arden
Unknown:
John Scott
Unknown:
E. T. Craig
Unknown:
Tony McAuley
Directed By:
Robert Cooper
Treasurer:
P G Stephens
Edward Craig:
Christian Rodska
John Vandeleur:
Alan Rickman
Maguire:
Alan Barry
Cox/Pare:
Colin Starkey
Annie/Singer:
Marcella O'Riordan
Liam Frawley:
Stephen Rea
Ruari:
Alan Devlin
Mrs O'Halloran:
Pauline Delany
Donnelly:
Sean Barrett
Doyle:
Harry Webster
Mrs Foley:
Kate Binchy
Colm O'Halloran:
John Quinn
Micky Jo:
Mark Lambert
Brendan O'Halloran:
Ciaran Hinds
Mary Craig:
Judith Barker
Anna Wheeler:
Jane Wenham
English women:
Carole Boyd
English women:
Narissa Knights
Thompson:
James Greene
Molony:
Denys Hawthorne
Kaitlin Dubh:
Carmel McSharry
Mrs Murphy:
Marjorie Hogan
Mrs Vandeleur:
Maggie McCarthy
George Vandeleur:
Mark Straker
Raisin:
Fiona Victory
Wallscourt:
Timothy Bateson
Owen:
Arnold Diamond

Riceyman Steps by ARNOLD BENNETT abridged in 15 parts by DOREEN MAHON
Read by Martin Jarvis (1)
As Henry Earlforward , hatless and with a slight limp, makes his way up Riceyman Steps, he has two main passions in life. One is money, the other is the widow Violet Arb. Their lives are to be changed dramatically by these twin passions, as are the lives of others who live in Riceyman Square in the autumn of 1919. Producer GERRY JONES

Contributors

Unknown:
Arnold Bennett
Unknown:
Doreen Mahon
Read By:
Martin Jarvis
Unknown:
Henry Earlforward
Producer:
Gerry Jones

Under Pressure
1: What is Stress? In the first of six programmes on stress, PAUL HEINEY finds out whether his personality is type A or B, and learns to relax by post. He is joined by DR ILANA GLASS of the Institute of Psychiatry. Producer SARAH ROWLANDS

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Heiney
Producer:
Sarah Rowlands

12.30 Making Work A series of ten programmes for Youth Training Scheme students on Problem Solving. It follows the fortunes of a group of catering students after their course finishes, some finding and starting jobs, others setting up their own very small business. 1:Teacher's ProgrammeIntroducing the course; using the programmes and course book. Presented by JOHN WALTERS
12.50 YTS Briefing
1: Regional Round-up with MARGARET KORVING

Contributors

Presented By:
John Walters
Unknown:
Margaret Korving

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