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with John Timpson and Peter Hobday
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

Contributors

Unknown:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Peter Hobday
Read By:
Cuve Rosun

Richard Baker invites you to join him for the last edition from London
... With entertaining and provocative conversation
... Words of unconventional wisdom from Vic Lewis Smith and Laurie Taylor in their guide to Modern Manners.
... An invitation to join David Davies and the discussion in Thursday Exchange on [number removed]... A report from life On the Fringes
Regular items:
The News on the hour from BRIAN PERKINS
10.30 Morning Story
Another Harry Kemp story read by Peter Adamson
22: Winners and Losers by OWYNNETH BIANFOOT
10.45 An Act of Worship
... Sonya Hinton , resident psychologist, talks to a troubled listener asking Can You Help?
... Best boy Susan Marling joins Deborah Kerr and the crew filming Assam Garden in this week's Marling's Spike
... The end (or perhaps the beginning) of Basil Bond
... A local perspective on events large and small from commentators all over the country in Network UK Produced by the Rollercoaster unit.

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Baker
Unknown:
Vic Lewis Smith
Unknown:
Laurie Taylor
Unknown:
David Davies
Unknown:
Brian Perkins
Unknown:
Harry Kemp
Read By:
Peter Adamson
Unknown:
Sonya Hinton
Unknown:
Susan Marling
Unknown:
Deborah Kerr

An excursion into the unpredictable reaches of how to get there - and back. In the pilot's seat
Christopher Matthew
Feet, firmly on the ground Adrienne Keith-Cohen David Taylor
Basil Boothroyd
Departures from the script announced by MICHAEL MCCLAIN Travel details
CHRISTOPHER MATTHEW Tour organiser
DANNY GREENSTONE Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Matthew
Unknown:
Adrienne Keith-Cohen
Unknown:
David Taylor
Unknown:
Basil Boothroyd
Unknown:
Michael McClain
Unknown:
Christopher Matthew

Introduced by Jill Burridge
One Year Old YTS: the Youth Training Scheme is about to celebrate its birthday. JENYTH WORSLEY meets RACHEL, JANICE and SANDRA to find out whether the scheme has met their needs. Holiday Farm (3)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jill Burridge
Unknown:
Jenyth Worsley

The Year of the Prize by DAVID HOPKINS with Rosalind Shanks and Brian Carroll as Abigail and Paul Lester
Diana Kyle and John Levitt as Kath and Jimmy Bradley When Paul and Abigail's business founders they raffle themselves to repay their debts. The couple who 'win' them for 12 months find the master/servant relationship becomes curiously strange.
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Unknown:
David Hopkins
Unknown:
Rosalind Shanks
Unknown:
Brian Carroll
Unknown:
Paul Lester
Unknown:
Diana Kyle
Unknown:
John Levitt
Unknown:
Jimmy Bradley
Directed By:
Graham Gauld
Sue Diner:
Narissa Knights
Del:
William Eedle
Steve:
John Gray
Ron:
Bernard Brown

We all have queries, quibbles and quandaries which we mean to resolve, but which always lie unanswered at the back of our minds.
Let Neil Landor together with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC Reference
Library sort out the answers.
Questions, on a postcard please, to Enquire Within, BBC, Broadcasting House London WlA lAA Producer LUCY LUNT

Contributors

Unknown:
Neil Landor

(Repeated: Friday 1.40 pm)
Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Writer:
Simon Frith
Jennifer Aldridge:
Angela Piper
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Pat Archer:
Patricia Gallimore
Phil Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Shula Archer:
Judy Bennett
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Jack Woolley:
Arnold Peters
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Joe Grundy:
Haydn Jones
Eddie Grundy:
Trevor Harrison
Clarrie Grundy:
Heather Bell
Jethro Larkin:
George Hart
Neil Carter:
Brian Hewlett
Susan Carter:
Charlotte Martin
Caroline Bone:
Sara Coward
Mark Hebden:
Richard Derrington
Nigel Pargetter:
Graham Seed

Thomas Creevey went everywhere and knew everybody in London, including the Prince Regent and subsequently the young Queen Victoria. He recorded his observations in the Creevey Papers, a treasury for later historians. with Geoffrey Banks as Thomas Creevey
Narrator Paul Webster
Compiled by STANLEY WILLIAMSON Producer Gillian HUSH
BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Creevey
Unknown:
Geoffrey Banks
Narrator:
Thomas Creevey
Narrator:
Paul Webster

A personal choice of prose and poetry presented by Ian McKellen
This final programme in the series ranges from The Beaufort Scale At Sea, poems by Peter Porter , Hopkins and Donne, to the BBC Staff Administration Sickness Code!
Directed by IAN COTTERELL
(First broadcast on Radio 3) Stereo

Contributors

Presented By:
Ian McKellen
Unknown:
Peter Porter
Directed By:
Ian Cotterell

The last of six episodes in the history of diplomacy written and introduced by Derek Wilson
The Diplomat as Martyr
The life of Secretary-General of the UN and Nobel Prizewinner, Dag Hammarskjold (1905-61) came to a mysterious end in a plane crash in the African jungle. In retrospect his death can be seen as a kind of martyrdom for the cause of international peace, which he espoused with courage and idealism. with Geoffrey Collins as Dag Hammarskjold and the voices of MICHAEL JENNER and CHRISTIAN RODSKA Producer BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Wilson
Unknown:
Geoffrey Collins
Unknown:
Michael Jenner
Producer:
Brian Miller

A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families, with countrywide news and views on all matters of concern to them.
Presenter John Mills Producer ANN KAYE
Correspondence and enquiries to: BBC Broadcasting House, London WlA 4WW Phone [number removed](10.0 am -5.0 pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
John Mills
Producer:
Ann Kaye

More often than not it is the spectacular virtues, shamelessly displayed, which can pose more of a threat to civilised everyday life than good, old-fashioned sin.
Terence Blacker advises the sinner on how to recognise those virtues and deal with them.
2: Energy with MADl HEDD and Richard HUW
Producer HELEN FRY

Contributors

Unknown:
Terence Blacker
Unknown:
Richard Huw
Producer:
Helen Fry

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