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Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor in London and Brian Redhead in New York on the eve of the American Presidential Election.
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Presented By:
Sue MacGregor
Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Read By:
Laurie MacMillan
Editor:
Julian Holland

1.55 Listening Corner What's Cooking Presented by JANET SORENSEN with children from MICKLANDS COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL Storyteller MOLLY WEIR Today's story Auntie Aggie Makes a Clootie Dumpling by DORRITH M. SIM
2.5 Playtime Presented by JUDY BENNETT With IAIN LAUCHLAN
2.20 Introducing Science Hot and Cold Unit 3, Programme 1
2.40 Noticeboard TONY BARNFIELD discusses next term's sex education series.
2.45 Radio Club TIMMY MALLETT and the Radio Club team bring you more items of interest for 8-12-year-olds.

Contributors

Presented By:
Janet Sorensen
Storyteller:
Molly Weir
Unknown:
Dorrith M. Sim
Presented By:
Judy Bennett
Unknown:
Iain Lauchlan
Unknown:
Tony Barnfield
Unknown:
Timmy Mallett

Introduced by Liz Mardall Communications within the church: 'People used to know what the parson did....' but now the clergyman's role is more uncertain.
JEAN SNEDEGAR finds OUt how young entrants to the Church are trained to put across their faith to their flock. Cluny Brown by MARGERY SHARP abridged in nine episodes by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Read by MARGARET TYZACK (9) (Music Bemer's Polka)
Editor SANDRA CHALMERS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Liz Mardall
Unknown:
Jean Snedegar
Unknown:
Cluny Brown
Unknown:
Pat McLoughlin
Read By:
Margaret Tyzack
Editor:
Sandra Chalmers

Part 3
'A week had gone by and with it 53 miles. Two weeks and 250 miles remained. I prepared a speech in the style of Captain Oates: "I am not going outside and I may be some time".' The unheroic tale of Barry Pilton 's encounter with Britain's most arduous walk, the Pennine Way.
Read by David Roper
Producer THOMAS SUTCLIFFE

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Pilton
Read By:
David Roper
Producer:
Thomas Sutcliffe

Let the People Sing by J. B. PRIESTLEY abridged in 13 parts by DEREK LOMAS
Read by Enn Reitel (1)
Astonishing Adventure of an Out of Work Comedian
Timmy Tiverton allies himself with an unlikely combination of friends to tackle the combined apathy, greed and conservatism of a small
English town on the eve of the Second World War. Producer TONY CUFF BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
J. B. Priestley
Unknown:
Derek Lomas
Unknown:
Timmy Tiverton

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil.
(THOMAS PAINE)
So which influences lead a person to want to govern? Carole Stone and Bernard Rutherford invite you to eavesdrop on an intimate conversation with The Rt Hon Shirley Williams and The Rt
Hon Norman St John-Stevas , mp Producer STUART HOBDAY BBC Bristol. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Carole Stone
Unknown:
Shirley Williams
Unknown:
Norman St John-Stevas
Producer:
Stuart Hobday

Gizmology by DEREK LISTER
G1ZMOLOGY, n (Amer sl) The wide-eyed and uncritical study and appreciation of scientific and technological advance. The worship of gizmos. (Dictionary definition)
With HELENA BRECK
WILLIAM EEDLE and WILLIAM HOPE Pianist ANTONY SAUNDERS Directed by JANE MORGAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Lister
Unknown:
Helena Breck
Unknown:
William Eedle
Directed By:
Jane Morgan
Sir Tommy Witton:
Norman Rodway
Nancy Witton:
Lillias Walker
Sylvia:
Sheila Reid
Snarski:
George Pravda
Sir James Hart:
Philip Voss
Sir Keith Wilshaw:
Jon Strickland
Duncan Fiske:
David Collings
Lord Habermel:
Davld Garth

Some Do Not by FORD MADOX FORD abridged in 15 parts by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by Hugh Burden (1)
Set against the background of the 1914-18 war this first volume in the Tietjens trilogy, Parade's End -is the story of Christopher Tietjens , 'the last English gentleman', tormented, pursued and ruined, as far as the world is concerned, by the devices of a jealous and lying wife.
Producer MAURICE LEITCH

Contributors

Read By:
Hugh Burden
Unknown:
Christopher Tietjens
Producer:
Maurice Leitch

People's Theatre JOHN RUSSELL BROWN presents the sixth of eight programmes on amateur drama in Britain in the 1980s. Drama Training John Russell Brown looks at the particular role of university drama departments in preparing people for work in the theatre.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Russell Brown
Unknown:
John Russell Brown

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