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with Brian Redhead 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 HARRIET CASS
7.25*,8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Jon Silverman
Read By:
Harriet Cass

A three-part series of quite probable stories written and read by Leonard Barras 1: Love in a Windy Place
'The trouble with women he claimed was that they kept nicking dust off you, or straightening your pullover, or wanting to push your ears forwards and sideways.' Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Sunday 6.45 pm)

Contributors

Read By:
Leonard Barras

by DIANA MORGAN
Diana Morgan ,
Geoffrey Wright and Ronnie Hill with the help of many other once-struggling, now famous colleagues, look back to London in the 30s and pay a grateful tribute to a remarkable little theatre and an equally remarkable man. The theatre was The Gate and the man was the late Norman Marshall.
Those taking part in order of speaking:
ENID COLLETT , HERMIONE GINGOLD ,
VINCENT PRICE , GOOGIE WITHERS , CAROLE LYNNE (LADY DELFONT), MARGARET RAWLINGS , SIR RONALD MILLAR , DAVID JOHNSTON and J. C. TREWIN The singers
DIANA MARTIN, BRONWYN BAUD and GEOFFREY COLLINS The actresses
ELLEN MCINTOSH and MAGGIE MCCARTHY
Pianist and Musical Director
GEOFFREY WRIGHT
Producer DAVID JOHNSTON
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Diana Morgan
Unknown:
Diana Morgan
Unknown:
Geoffrey Wright
Unknown:
Ronnie Hill
Unknown:
Norman Marshall.
Unknown:
Enid Collett
Unknown:
Hermione Gingold
Unknown:
Vincent Price
Unknown:
Googie Withers
Unknown:
Carole Lynne
Unknown:
Margaret Rawlings
Unknown:
Sir Ronald Millar
Unknown:
David Johnston
Unknown:
J. C. Trewin
Unknown:
Geoffrey Collins
Unknown:
Ellen McIntosh
Pianist:
Maggie McCarthy
Unknown:
Geoffrey Wright
Producer:
David Johnston

Introduced from Bristol by Jenni Murray
No No Noele
Former Crossroads star NOELE GORDON is lured out of rehearsals for No No Nanette in Plymouth. And on the Isles of Scilly, SUE HICKS goes gig-racing with the ladies' team. BBC Bristol
The Dancing Bear (8)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jenni Murray
Unknown:
Noele Gordon

by HOWARD SPRING freely adapted for radio in eight episodes by KEN WHITMORE with and 2: Thrown to the Wolves
Directed by TREVOR HILL
(BBC Manchester)

Contributors

Unknown:
Howard Spring
Unknown:
Ken Whitmore
Directed By:
Trevor Hill
HAMER SHAWCROSS:
Ian McKellen
Ann Artingstall:
June Barry
Tom Hannaway:
Geoffrey Wheeler
John Hamer, as a boy:
Gary Carp
George Artingstall, bookseller:
George Hagan
Polly Burnsall, the widow:
Romy Baskerville
Hawley, Ann's father:
Graham Tennant
Lillian Artingstall, her mother:
Elizabeth Kelly
Hilda, the maid:
Lesley Nicol
Arnold Ryerson, now a young man:
Andrew Jackson
Pen Muff:
Vida Paterson
Gordon Stansfield:
Lan Flintoff
Ellen, Hamer's mother:
Rosaue Williams
Richardson, the agent:
Randal Herley
Ezra Crompton:
Jimmy Braddock

Over the next three weeks
Mike Harding will be walking around various parts of Britain on different kinds of walks, and each week he'll be joined by a different guest. This week it's Christopher Somerville, author of Walking Old
Railways, and they follow a disused railway line from
Sudbury to Long Melford in Suffolk that has been converted into a footpath.
Producer JUDE HOWELLS

Clive Jacobs with help from
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

James Fenton
War reporter, political and literary journalist - and prizewinning poet.
For a poet, not to have cut his wrist
Is worse than having not been kissed.
Producer WILLIAM BAYNES

Contributors

Unknown:
James Fenton
Producer:
William Baynes

The Rt Hon Norman St John-Stevas , mp presents his personal choice of prose and poetry with Sir Michael Hordern and Jill Balcon
'The two great British contributions to world civilisation have been
Parliamentary Government and English literature.... '
Producer ALEC REID
BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Saturday 1.10 pm) Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman St John-Stevas
Unknown:
Sir Michael Hordern
Unknown:
Jill Balcon

Paul Allen reports from the 1984 International Festival where major theatrical productions include Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson in Twice Round the Park;
Delphine Seyng and George Wilson in a play about Sarah Bernhardt ; and an all-star cast in Lindsay Anderson 's production of Synge's Playboy of the Western World. The programme also visits the exhibition of Treasures from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington; and at the Film Festival reviews the premieres of Bill Forsyth 's Comfort and Joy and Neil Jordan 's Company of Wolves. Producer RICHARD DUNN

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Allen
Unknown:
Eli Wallach
Unknown:
Anne Jackson
Unknown:
Delphine Seyng
Unknown:
George Wilson
Unknown:
Sarah Bernhardt
Unknown:
Lindsay Anderson
Unknown:
Bill Forsyth
Unknown:
Neil Jordan
Producer:
Richard Dunn

11.0 Staying in Business In these six programmes PETER hobday finds out about the surprises, crises and decisions that can crop up in the early years of a new enterprise.
3: Managing Your Resources
11.30 Euromagazine Three programmes of interviews and news from Spain, giving you a chance to listen to native speakers of Spanish. Edicion espanola (2) MIGUEL PENARANDA e ISABEL SOTO hablan con el alcalde de Madrid, don ENRIQUE TIERNO GALVAN.

Contributors

Unknown:
Enrique Tierno

A four-part investigation of the Shifton Scandal Part 3
Why did a government minister support the plan to build London's third airport 20 miles north east of Birmingham? David Lander now attempts to answer that question by examining in detail the sex scandal which rocked the Government and caused a sensation in 1982.
Production assistants: STEPHEN
FRY, MORAY WATSON, JAN RAVENS, JACK KLAFF , BRENDA BLETHYN and TONY ROBINSON
Dramatic reconstructions by MARK ARDEN , STEVE FROST , PETER WEAR, PHIL NICE, FELICITY MONTAGU , HILDA SCHRODER, BRETT USHER and COLIN STARKEY
Research by TONY SARCHET Editor PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
(Stephen Fry is in '40 Years On' at the Queen's Theatre, London and Brenda Blethyn is in 'Benefactors' at the Vaudeville Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
David Lander
Unknown:
Jack Klaff
Unknown:
Brenda Blethyn
Unknown:
Tony Robinson
Unknown:
Mark Arden
Unknown:
Steve Frost
Unknown:
Felicity Montagu
Unknown:
Tony Sarchet
Editor:
Paul Mayhew-Archer
Unknown:
Stephen Fry
Unknown:
Brenda Blethyn

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