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Presented by John Timpson in London and Brian Redhead at the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presented By:
John Timpson
Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Read By:
Peter Donaldson

How much do you know about your rights at work? Are you legally entitled to holidays? Can you insist on being paid in cash? Can your employer deduct money from your wages if you don't do your job properly?
In the next six weeks
Paul Heiney will be answering your questions on the fast-growing and controversial body of employment law. With the help of lawyers, managers, trade-unionists and, of course, the workers, he'll be trying to make you more aware of your rights.
1: Pay and Conditions Producer JOHN WATKINS Editor LESLIE ROBINSON 0 HELPLINES: page 85

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Heiney
Producer:
John Watkins
Editor:
Leslie Robinson

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 Martin Jarvis , Sandy Boler and Johnny Morris
Departures from the script announced by EUGENE FRASER Travel details
CHRISTOPHER MATTHEW
Tour organiser DANNY GREENSTONE Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Matthew
Unknown:
Martin Jarvis
Unknown:
Sandy Boler
Unknown:
Eugene Fraser
Unknown:
Christopher Matthew

1.55 Listening Corner Presented by Sheelagh Gilbey. Storyteller Ronnie Letham Today: "The Train that Wouldn't Stay on the Rails" by Caroline D. Emerson
2.5 The Music Box Written and presented by Michael Burnett and Sandra Kerr
2.20 Living Language The Wanderer (2) adapted from "The Odyssey" by Leon Garfield. With Nicky Henson
2.40 Newscast A current affairs series for schools and colleges

Contributors

Presenter:
Sheelagh Gilbey
Storyteller:
Ronnie Letham
Author:
Caroline D. Emerson
Presenter:
Michael Burnett
Presenter:
Sandra Kerr
Adaptor:
Leon Garfield
[Actor]:
Nicky Henson

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Tea and Sympathy: clergy wives are adept at dispensing both, but where do they turn for help when they themselves need support? SUE MARGOLIS investigates the problems which follow the break-up of a clergy marriage.
Loose Connections (7)

Contributors

Unknown:
MacGregor Tea

Old Friends by jo GILL
When Lady Marigold Farr , widow and grandmother, lets the ground-floor flat of her
London home, she does so for company - she is not looking for an autumn romance.
Neither is her new tenant,
Oliver Canteau. But things get out of hand.
Pianist KEN MOULE
Directed by JOHN CARDY Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Jo Gill
Unknown:
Lady Marigold Farr
Unknown:
Oliver Canteau.
Pianist:
Ken Moule
Directed By:
John Cardy
Marigold:
Elizabeth Sellars
Oliver:
And Paul Daneman
Chatty:
Mary Wimbush
Gerry:
Peter Woodthorpe
Angela:
Patience Tomlinson
Robert:
Crawford Logan

(Repeated: Friday 1.40 pm) Written by GRAHAM HARVEY Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Written By:
Graham Harvey
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Brian Aldridge:
Charles Collingwood
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Shula Archer:
Judy Bennett
David Archer:
Timothy Bentinck
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Jack Woolley:
Arnold Peters
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Nelson Gabriel:
Jack May
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Joe Grundy:
Haydn Jones
Eddie Grundy:
Trevor Harrison
Jethro Larkin:
George Hart
Susan Carter:
Charlotte Martin
Caroline Bone:
Sara Coward
Martin Lambert:
Scott Cherry

Pay and Conditions
Paul Heiney invites you to put your queries about your rights at work to Jeremy McMullen , a barrister specialising in employment law,
Richard Braybrooke of the Institute of Personnel Management, who's had wide experience as a manager in industry and commerce and Pat Leighton , an academic who has studied workers' ignorance of their rights.
Ring [number removed]
Lines open from 7.0 pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Heiney
Unknown:
Jeremy McMullen
Unknown:
Richard Braybrooke
Unknown:
Pat Leighton

Caribbean Links (1) A series of six programmes in which Caribbeans in Britain talk about their continuing links with the places from which they have settled here.
1: Juliet Alexander from Guyana Producer JOAN GRIFFITHS

Contributors

Unknown:
Juliet Alexander
Producer:
Joan Griffiths

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