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with Michael Stewart and Jon Silverman
6.30, 7.30. 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by CUVE ROSUN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Stewart
Unknown:
Jon Silverman
Read By:
Cuve Rosun
Editor:
Julian Holland

Brian Johnston is in Halifax. This traditional centre of textile manufacture is also the home of the biggest building society in the world and 'cats' eyes', invented in Halifax, are still produced there.
Producer JOHN D. WILSON BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Johnston
Producer:
John D. Wilson

including The Class of 84 Chris Hawksworth joined the 16-year-olds from Class 5R as they left the Lornswood
Comprehensive School in Leeds. More than a third of school leavers in Leeds can't find work. so most face the prospect of training courses, further education, or the dole.
Your and Yours follows the progress of Class 5R as they go for a job interview, or begin a Youth Training Scheme, as they sign on at the Job Centre or seek advice from the careers service, recording the successes and failures of Class 5R. Editor KEN VASS

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Hawksworth
Editor:
Ken Vass

Sir John Lesley , actor, director, author, lover and PoW, remembers what it felt like when he was young. Find out just who he is ... sorry ... Just find out who he is on Radio Active's Bioshow Presented by Written by GEOFFREY PERKINS and ANGUS DEAYTON plus MORAY HUNTER ,
JOHN DOCHERTY , JON CANTER , HELEN MURRY and NICK WILTON Music by PHILIP POPE and STEVE BROWN
Producer JAMIE Rix
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir John Lesley
Written By:
Geoffrey Perkins
Written By:
Angus Deayton
Unknown:
Moray Hunter
Unknown:
John Docherty
Unknown:
Jon Canter
Unknown:
Helen Murry
Music By:
Philip Pope
Music By:
Steve Brown
Producer:
Jamie Rix
Anna Daptor:
Helen Atkinson Wood
Mike Channel:
Angus Deayton
Uncle Mike Stand:
Michael Fenton-Stevens
Nigel Pry:
Philip Pope
Sir John Lesley:
Geoffrey Perkins

Introduced by Sue MacGregor
The First Thing to Go Is the Diaphragm
BOB PRIZEMAN examines the problems of wobble, sweating and 'butterflies' as they affect musicians in performance. The Dancing Bear (4) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Editor:
Sandra Chalmers

A series of five programmes 3: The Village Shopkeeper
Ernest Allen talks to David Willmott about his life as a shopkeeper in the Derbyshire village of Ashbourne. But how long can he hold out against the might of the supermarkets? Producer JULIAN HITCHCOCK BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Talks:
Ernest Allen
Unknown:
David Willmott
Producer:
Julian Hitchcock

Why adults can't recall being infants, at what stage babies begin to understand numbers and how toddlers come to imagine a banana is a telephone are the concerns of psychologists at the Medical Research Council's Cognitive Development Unit in London. Peter Evans explores how the scientists are investigating these questions with the help of the children, their parents, Snoopy and a collection of farmyard animals.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN

Contributors

Producer:
Deborah Cohen

The last of six programmes in which Stanley Ellis sets out on some of Britain's linguistic
B-roads to discover the wealth of ways in which people talk about their lives, their landscape and their local language. Glasgow
They say that in Glasgow you can pin-point the line of demarcation between broad Glaswegian and genteel
Kelvinside to a particular spot in some streets....
Field research by CUFF HANLEY Producer SIMON ELMES (Revised repeat)

Contributors

Unknown:
Stanley Ellis
Producer:
Simon Elmes

The Mist from the Glen by FREDERICK AICKEN with When Andrew returns to his native Antrim village after many years absence he finds the old friendliness undermined by sectarian suspicions. Even the child he takes under his wing, his sister's little grandson, seems to be involved in something sinister and dangerous.
Directed by PENNY GOLD BBC Northern Ireland
(Repeated: Sunday 2.30 pm) Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Frederick Aicken
Directed By:
Penny Gold
Andrew:
Denys Hawthorne
Sarah ,:
Catherine Gibson
Alex:
Jonathan Boyle
Cab driver:
Mark Mulholland
Liam:
Louis Rolston
Joe:
Joe McPartland
Billy:
John Hewitt
Mr Wilson:
Anthony Finigan
Mick:
Martin McCarney
Dan:
Kevin Flood
Preacher:
Maurice O'Callaghan
McVeigh:
Derek Halligan
Cockney soldier B:
J Hogg

Presented by Paul Vaughan in London and Paul Allen in Edinburgh, where, to celebrate Scottish Heritage Year, the International Festival is presenting the scandalous
16th-century comedy Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaites.
Producers CARROLL MOORE and RICHARD DUNN
Editor ROSEMARY HART
0 FEATURE: page 10

Contributors

Presented By:
Paul Vaughan
Presented By:
Paul Allen
Unknown:
Ane Satyre
Producers:
Carroll Moore
Producers:
Richard Dunn
Editor:
Rosemary Hart

Training Revolution Review In the second of three programmes MARGARET KORVING re-visits Youth Training Scheme managers in Birmingham and Suffolk for their comments on progress so far, and evaluates the role of YTS in the national context.

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Korving

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