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Presented by Michael Stewart and Jon Silverman
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
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:
Michael Stewart
Presented By:
Jon Silverman
Read By:
Brian Perkins
Editor:
Julian Holland

RONALD FRANKAU, MIKE HARDING, FLANDERS AND SWANN, VICTORIA WOOD, GEORGE FORMBY, NOEL COWARD, GRACIE FIELDS, JAKE THACKRAY, BENNY HILL, ARTHUR ASKEY, MAX MILLER, LESLIE SARONY, RICHARD STILGOE, THE BONZOS and CHARLES PENROSE are just some of those likely to turn up, as Jeremy Nicholas takes an affectionate look at 100 years of comic song-writing.

Contributors

Presenter:
Jeremy Nicholas
Producer:
Ian Gardhouse

International Consumer Quiz Teams of consumer broadcasters from the four home countries compete for the title of Champion of the Champions. Round 1:
NORTHERN IRELAND V SCOTLAND Chairman Paul Heiney Producer BILL MORRIS and JOHN WATKINS

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Heiney
Producer:
Bill Morris
Unknown:
John Watkins

by Wally K. Daly
Starring Donald Hewlett as Charles and Michael Knowles as George
also featuring Dilys Laye and Norma Ronald.
Theme music by Jim Parker
Producer John Fawcett Wilson
(Repeated: New Year's Day 6.30 pm)
(Stereo)

Contributors

Writer:
Wally K. Daly
Theme Music By:
Jim Parker
Producer:
John Fawcett Wilson
Charles:
Donald Hewlett
George:
Michael Knowles
Actor:
Dilys Laye
Actor:
Norma Ronald

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Woman's Hour reflects.... and refracts.... and takes a sideways, backwards glance at the sounds and thoughts of 1984. Flush by VIRGINIA WOOLF abridged in six episodes by JANET QUIGLEY
Read by Penelope Keith (1)
'Everything is the proper stuff of fiction', said Virginia Woolf, and proved it with this life of Flush, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel.
(Music: Poulenc's Aubade) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Janet Quigley
Read By:
Penelope Keith
Unknown:
Elizabeth Barrett
Editor:
Sandra Chalmers

The Happiest Women by M. J. READ with
Marjorie Dennis has been a much-neglected writer. She lives quietly with a budgerigar called Ottoline. But when after many years, she suddenly publishes a book, she finds herself part of a strange and passionate triangle.
Directed by DAVID SPENSER. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
M. J. Read
Unknown:
Marjorie Dennis
Directed By:
David Spenser.
Marjorie:
Mary Morris
Madeleine:
Hannah Gordon
Rosie:
Elizabeth Proud
Frank:
And Martyn Read

Just So Stories by RUDYARD KIPLING
Read by David Davis
1: The Elephant's Child
Kipling told these amazing and funny tales first of all to his own children, who always asked that they were told 'just so', without any changes - hence their name.
Producer GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Read By:
David Davis
Producer:
Graham Gauld

Miss Julie by AUGUST STRINDBERG translated by MICHAEL MEYER with Janet Maw as Miss Julie David Rintoul as John and Terry Cavers as Kiisty A new production of this intense study of a woman's sexuality related to her social position at the turn of the century, placed in a Scottish context.
Directed by JAMES RUNCIE BBC Scotland
(Repeated: next Sunday) Stereo

Contributors

Translated By:
Michael Meyer
Unknown:
Janet Maw
Unknown:
Miss Julie David Rintoul
Unknown:
Terry Cavers
Directed By:
James Runcie

Empire of the Sun by J. G. BALLARD abridged in 15 episodes by JOHN SCOTNEY
Read by Kenneth Haigh (1) In the horrifying and often bizarre world of his Shanghai internment camp, 11-year-old Jim is a cool and unsentimental observer of the adults around him. Unlike most of them he discovers within himself a ruthless instinct for survival.
This highly acclaimed novel was short-listed for the 1984 Booker/McConnell Prize and has been hailed as 'the great British novel about the last war'.
Producer MAURICE LEITCH

Contributors

Unknown:
J. G. Ballard
Unknown:
John Scotney
Read By:
Kenneth Haigh
Producer:
Maurice Leitch

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