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Presenters Brian Redhead 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 BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

Contributors

Presenters:
Brian Redhead
Presenters:
Michael Stewart
Read By:
Bryan Martin

Bob Symes , steam enthusiast and amateur cook, deserts his kitchen and sallies forth in search of leisure occupations suitable for a gentleman of increasing age and girth.
Anything goes - as long as it doesn't require money, athleticism or genius.
2: Here Be Dragonnes ... investigating myth, history and mystery on your own doorstep. Producer KATE FENTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Symes
Producer:
Kate Fenton

Introduced from Birmingham by Marjorie Lofthouse
Monyhull Leisure Venture: Within the grounds of a Birmingham mental handicap hospital, patients and members of the local community are creating a leisure garden for young and old alike. PENNY SEARLEY meets the workers. Producer ANN TENNANT BBC Birmingham
The Public Image (3)

Contributors

Unknown:
Marjorie Lofthouse
Producer:
Ann Tennant

by DAPHNE DU MAURlER dramatised for radio in four parts by BRIAN GEAR
1: Cornwall 1810. Through the driving rain of a dismal
November day a coach makes its way slowly through the mire. Inside, Mary trembles at the fate which is taking her to Jamaica Inn ...
Narrator GEORGE RAISTRICK
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Daphne du Maurler
Directed By:
Brian Miller
Farmer's wife:
Richenda Carey
Old Man/Harry the pedlar:
Norman Tyrrell
Mary Yellan:
Kim Hartman
Mary's Mother:
Angela Brooking
Driver/Richards:
Esmond Rideout
Joss Merlyn:
Jack Watson
Aunt Patience:
Elizabeth Boxer
Frightened man:
Paul Lavers
Jem Merlyn:
Alan Moore
Squire Bassat:
Stephen Sylvester

Do we still believe in the old superstitions? Are they dying out and are we creating new ones? If we believe in them, do we connect them with their religious or pagan origins?
Peter France, keeping fingers crossed and touching wood, attempts to find out.
Researcher SHELLEY BOVEY Producer SHIRLEY PENROSE BBC Bristol. Stereo
0 Woddis On ... p 77

Contributors

Producer:
Shirley Penrose

With Clive Jacobs.
ALANAH MARTIN , TOM BOSWELL and RICHARD HUDSON-EVANS . Producer IRENE MALLIS
Editor ROGER MACDONALD

Contributors

Unknown:
Clive Jacobs.
Unknown:
Alanah Martin
Unknown:
Tom Boswell
Unknown:
Richard Hudson-Evans
Producer:
Irene Mallis
Editor:
Roger MacDonald

(Repeated: Monday 1.40 pm) Written by MARGARET PHELAN Agricultural story editor ANTHONY PARKIN
Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
(Frank Middlemass is a member of the RSC)

Contributors

Written By:
Margaret Phelan
Editor:
Anthony Parkin
Unknown:
Frank Middlemass
Dan Archer:
Frank Middlemass
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer Aldridge:
Angela Piper
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Pat Archer:
Patricla Galumore
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Shula Archer:
Judy Bennett
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Nelson Gabriel:
Jack May
Mrs Perkins:
Pauune Seville
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Lucy Perks:
Tracy-Jane White
Joe Grundy:
Haydn Jones
Clarrie Grundy:
Heather Bell
Richard Adamson:
Richard Carrington
Mike Tucker:
Terry Molloy
Mark Hebden:
Richard Derrington
Nigel Pargetter:
Graham Seed
Mrs Antrobus:
Margot Boyd
Police Constable:
Colin Starkey

Molly Parkin , novelist Sam Toy , Chairman and Managing Director, Ford Motor Company Ltd Clive Jenkins , General
Secretary, ASTMS and Robert Adley , mp from Fishguard, Dyfed
Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Molly Parkin
Unknown:
Sam Toy
Unknown:
Clive Jenkins
Unknown:
Robert Adley
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Producer:
Carole Stone

Bill Wallis , David Tate , Sally Grace and Paul B. Davies Written by IAN BROWN , JAMES HENDRIE , RICHARD QUICK,
JOHN LANGDON , PAUL B. DAVIES , MARTIN BOOTH, ALAN WHITING , STEVE PUNT, PETE SINCLAIR , PETER HICKEY and others
Producer PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
David Tate
Unknown:
Sally Grace
Unknown:
Paul B. Davies
Written By:
Ian Brown
Written By:
James Hendrie
Unknown:
John Langdon
Unknown:
Paul B. Davies
Unknown:
Alan Whiting
Unknown:
Pete Sinclair
Unknown:
Peter Hickey
Producer:
Paul Mayhew-Archer

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