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Presented by Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor with Peter Hobday at the Liberal Party Assembly in Bournemouth
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.25*, 8.25 Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Peter Hobday
Read By:
Brian Perkins
Editor:
Julian Holland

by DESMOND LOWDEN abridged in ten parts by DAVID H. GODFREY
Read by Norman Jones (1) Salto wants to rob a bank. Hiller has the computer knowledge necessary to break the alarm systems. But Hiller is on the run with his stepson and a drink problem. Salto's already paid out money. If he finds Hiller he'll kill or maim to get what he wants. Producer PETER KING

Contributors

Unknown:
David H. Godfrey
Read By:
Norman Jones
Producer:
Peter King

Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners
Presented by P. J. Kavanagh Readers ANGELA DOWN and GARARD GREEN
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol Stereo

Contributors

Presented By:
P. J. Kavanagh
Readers:
Angela Down
Readers:
Garard Green
Producer:
Margaret Bradley

1.55 Listening Corner Out and About Presented by Tim Munro Storyteller Irene Handl Today's story Bopper Gets a Puncture by JANET SORENSEN Script by SUE LIMB
2.5 Playtime Presented by Judy Bennett with Peter McGowan Producer SHEILA FRASER
2.20 Introducing Science Teachers' programme
2.40 Noticeboard News for teachers in Secondary Schools Presenter TONY BARNFIELD
2.45 Radio Club TIMMY MALLETT and the Radio Club team brings you more items of interest for 8-12 year olds

Contributors

Presented By:
Tim Munro
Presented By:
Irene Handl
Unknown:
Janet Sorensen
Script By:
Sue Limb
Presented By:
Judy Bennett
Unknown:
Peter McGowan
Producer:
Sheila Fraser
Presenter:
Tony Barnfield
Unknown:
Timmy Mallett

Introduced by Liz Mardall
'A gloomy job? It doesn 't worry me': PETER DICKINSON talks to
JENNY cuffe about his job as a gravedigger.
The Fall of the Sparrow by NIGEL BALCHIN abridged in 15 parts by DELIA PATON
Read by JOHN WESTBROOK Editor SANDRA CHALMERS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Liz Mardall
Talks:
Peter Dickinson
Unknown:
Nigel Balchin
Unknown:
Delia Paton
Read By:
John Westbrook
Editor:
Sandra Chalmers

A series of five programmes which take a look inside some of Britain's more unlikely houses.
2: John and Sue Kirkpatrick talk to Marjorie Lofthouse about their Round House in Shropshire.
Producer ELAINE BEDELL BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Sue Kirkpatrick
Unknown:
Marjorie Lofthouse
Producer:
Elaine Bedell

Before the Wind Changed
Five autobiographical stories written and read by James Martin
1: Me, Pick and Robert Mugabe When the author was a boy, his family fled the gloom of post-war Britain and sought a new life in Southern Rhodesia, a land fit for white heroes to live in. Producer JOHN CARDY

Contributors

Read By:
James Martin
Read By:
Robert Mugabe
Producer:
John Cardy

George Chisholm talks to
Margaret Howard about his musical life and plays records of some of the musicians who have influenced him.
It's a very noble instrument the trombone, and yet it has this air of buffoonery about it ... Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
(First broadcast on World Service)

Contributors

Talks:
George Chisholm
Unknown:
Margaret Howard
Producer:
Brian Patten

by SION EIRIAN
Frances is learning Welsh at a residential college, her filmmaker boyfnend is location-hunting with a lad from the town. The three of them are set on a crash course that will explode their own attitudes to Welshness and each other
Directed by ADRIAN MOURBY BBC Wales

Contributors

Unknown:
Sion Eirian
Directed By:
Adrian Mourby
Frances:
Patricia Napier
TWM:
Ian Saynor
Steve:
Alun Lewis
Grannia:
Nora Connolly
George:
Robert Blythe
Ray:
Paul Angelis
Millie:
June Barrie
Tutor:
Dyfan Roberts

Paul Vaughan presents tonight's edition which includes interviews, news and reviews of books, film, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer JOHN POWELL Editor ROSEMARY HART

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Producer:
John Powell
Editor:
Rosemary Hart

Stars and Bars by William BOYD abridged in ten parts by JOHN SCOTNEY Read by Kerry Shale (1)
'He loved America, but would America love him back?' Henderson Dores - shy,
English, self-conscious and nearly 40 - finds himself plunged into a comic nightmare when he travels to the Deep South in search of a fabled hoard of priceless paintings.
Producer MAURICE LEITCH

Contributors

Unknown:
William Boyd
Unknown:
John Scotney
Read By:
Kerry Shale
Producer:
Maurice Leitch

National and international news, background, analysis and comment
Presented by Richard Kershaw in London and Janet Cohen at the Liberal Party Assembly in Bournemouth
11.0 Headlines
Editor BLAIR THOMSON on VHF/FM until 11.0

Contributors

Presented By:
Richard Kershaw
Presented By:
Janet Cohen
Editor:
Blair Thomson

When Language Breaks Down A series on language disorders. We often take speaking and understanding our mother tongue for granted. In this programme DAVID CRYSTAL looks at what can happen to language when adults suffer brain damage as a result of a stroke or an accident, and become 'dysphasic'. With MARGARET FAWCUS

Contributors

Unknown:
David Crystal
Unknown:
Margaret Fawcus

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