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with Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday and John Timpson in San
Francisco for the Democratic Party Convention
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.46* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by pauline BUSHNELL
7.26*, 8.26* Sport
7.46* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Peter Hobday
Unknown:
John Timpson
Read By:
Pauline Bushnell

Richard Baker invites you to join him for the morning with... Stimulating conversation that entertains as well as informs... A report from life as it is lived On the Fringes... A hot line to live studio guests talking to David Davies in the Thursday Exchange... Elan, know-how and savoir-faire, dispensed elegantly, knowledgeably, and none-too-seriously by Laurie Taylor and Vic Lewis Smith in Modern Manners
Regular items:
The News on the hour from Brian Perkins at the BBC Newsdesk
10.30 Morning Story
Read by Peter Adamson as Harry Kemp, a northern photographer
16: Pictures at a Gig by H. R. Langley
10.46 An Act of Worship conducted by David Winter
...Resident psychologist Sonya Hinton, talks to someone in the studio, asking her and the listeners a vital question - Can You Help?
...In Marling's Spike before your very ears Susan Marling joins in an event somewhere in the country, as it happens
...Local angles on national stories and local stories that may or may not make national news in Network UK
Produced by the Rollercoaster unit

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Baker
Unknown:
David Davies
Unknown:
Laurie Taylor
Unknown:
Vic Lewis Smith
Unknown:
Brian Perkins
Read By:
Peter Adamson
Unknown:
Harry Kemp
Unknown:
H. R. Langley
Conducted By:
David Winter
Unknown:
Susan Marling

Arthur Marshall cheerfully digs up the half-dozen pieces of music he never wants to hear again - and explains why. The music is surprisingly good. His reasons are just surprising! Presented and devised by Derek Robinson
Producer DAVID RAYVERN ALLEN

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Marshall
Unknown:
Derek Robinson
Producer:
David Rayvern Allen

Alexander Walker recalls the screen careers of the cinema's brightest stars.
This week: Marlene Dietrich the Blue Angel whose haunting songs and mysterious screen presence have created a legend. Producer WENDY CLAY

Contributors

Unknown:
Alexander Walker
Unknown:
Marlene Dietrich

Introduced by Sue MacGregor
The Other Half: MARGARET HORSFIELD reports on The
Alternative, a London pub run by women for women The Fallen Idol by GRAHAM GREENE abridged in two parts by MADGE HART
Read by Bernard Horsfall (1) 'When the front door had shut out his parents, Philip began to live. He was alone for a fortnight in the great Belgravia house with the butler Baines - and Mrs Baines. ... '
(Music: Jacob's Concerto for bassoon and strings)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Margaret Horsfield
Unknown:
Graham Greene
Read By:
Bernard Horsfall
Unknown:
Mrs Baines.

by J.C. Wilsher

Brittania Space Launch 1994. Buzz and Neil, the Astronaut Twins, along with their companion Peggy Sue set off on the routine job of recovering a faulty satellite. They discover, however, that the satellite has a strange unidentified module attached to it, and suddenly the recovery is routine no longer.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Writer:
J.C. Wilsher
Director:
Gerry Jones
Neil:
Nigel Anthony
Buzz:
Sean Arnold
Peggy Sue:
Beth Porter
Yuri:
Andrew Sachs
Control/Dad:
Peter Marinker

(Repeated: Friday 1.40 pm)
Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
(Frank Middlemass is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)

Contributors

Writer:
Joanna Toye
Agricultural Story Editor:
Anthony Parkin
Dan Archer:
Frank Middlemass
Jennifer Aldridge:
Angela Piper
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Phil Archer:
Norman Painting
Shula Archer:
Judy Bennett
Laura Archer:
Betty McDowall
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Jack Woolley:
Arnold Peters
Joe Grundy:
Haydn Jones
Clarrie Grundy:
Heather Bell
Jethro Larkin:
George Hart
Mike Tucker:
Terry Molloy
Betty Tucker:
Pamela Craig
Colonel Danby:
Ballard Berkeley
Caroline Bone:
Sara Coward
Mark Hebden:
Richard Derrington
Det Sgt Barry:
David Vann
Trading Standards Officer:
Bernard Brown

by Norman Malcolm Macdonald
'The clack of the shutter freezes the picture. Watson the photographer watches her hands dance among the herring, Celt's bandaged fingers, her naked white arms spattered with flecks of pink gut, the knife in her hand twisting the entrails from a herring every two seconds.'
One summer in the 1880s a photographer comes to an east coast port to take pictures of the herring girls - and of one girl in particular.
Like a message from a lost world....(The Scotsman)
(First broadcast on Radio Scotland)
Stereo

Contributors

Writer:
Norman Malcolm MacDonald
Original music composed by:
John McLeod
Music played by:
Norman Chalmers
Directed By:
Patrick Rayner
Narrator:
Maureen Beattie
Ceit:
Gerda Stevenson
Alexander Watson:
Carey Wilson
Donald:
Domhnall Ruadh
Flett:
John Buick
Singers:
Kathleen MacDonald
Unknown:
Rhona MacKay
Unknown:
Mairi MacArthur

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