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Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With TOM TICKELL
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILLE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Presented By:
John Timpson
Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Tom Tickell
Read By:
Peter Donaldson
Unknown:
Charles Colville

Death of an Interpreter by HELEN BOYD
Read by Margot Boyd
Mrs Judd had stepped out of the car and found herself ... where? In the past, the future? It was certainly like a nightmare. Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Helen Boyd
Read By:
Margot Boyd
Read By:
Mrs Judd
Producer:
Barbara Crowther

... such as wood-pie, sea-pie, hom-pie and French pie?
Many black and white animals get their name because they look like the nan-pie, chatter-pie, pie-nanny -or magpie! The first of six programmes presented by Denis Owen Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol

Contributors

Presented By:
Denis Owen
Producer:
Anne Blair

1.55 Listening Corner The Wind and the Tickly Vest
2.5 Something to Think About The Gentle Lion
2.15 Quest The Power of the Story (1) Story by GEOFFREY CURTIS
2.35 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry): Not What it Seems by KATHY HENDERSON
2.45 Nature Warblers by JEAN KENWARD

Contributors

Story By:
Geoffrey Curtis
Unknown:
Kathy Henderson
Unknown:
Jean Kenward

The Storytellers
A series of short stories dramatised for radio
Venus Smiles by J. G. BALLARD adapted by MICHELENE WANDOR withand
An American sculptor is commissioned to create a sonic sculpture for a new building complex in London. When her work is unveiled, the sponsors are in for a loud surprise.
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
J. G. Ballard
Adapted By:
Michelene Wandor
Directed By:
Cherry Cookson
Raymond:
Philip Voss
Gerald:
Graham Seed
Lorraine:
Anna Nygh
Carol:
Mia Soteriou
Blackett:
Bernard Brown
Mason/Steward:
Colin Starkey

Six programmes of poetry in English translation Presented by Charles Tomlinson 4: The Bible
Readers NORMAN RODWAY
HUGH DICKSON and ELLEN MCINTOSH Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo

Contributors

Presented By:
Charles Tomlinson
Readers:
Norman Rodway
Readers:
Hugh Dickson
Readers:
Ellen McIntosh
Producer:
Margaret Bradley

with Kenneth Williams
Clement Freud , Peter Jones and Henry Kelly
Chairman Nicholas Parsons Devised by LAN MESSITER Producer PETE ATKIN

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Peter Jones
Unknown:
Henry Kelly
Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Producer:
Pete Atkin

The first of six programmes in which Derek Parker asks a well-known personality to choose and discuss a book, written this century, which they consider to be of personal and general significance. This week he talks to playwright and literary critic, John Spurling , about
Gabriel Garcia Marquez 's One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Reader GARARD GREEN
Producer DENNIS SIMMONS

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Parker
Unknown:
John Spurling
Unknown:
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Producer:
Dennis Simmons

by AUSON PLOWDEN
In 1802 the peace between
France and England gave many people their first, eagerly awaited opportunity to visit France since the Revolution. They went with wild expectations and marvelled at the strange new fashions, weird etiquette and the distinct lack of liberty, equality and fraternity. But they were amazed especially by Napoleon, the quiet despot, who seemed to control every aspect of life.
With ALEX JENNINGS. GREG HICKS
CAROLE BOYD , MONICA GREY
JAMES BRYCE , SCOTT CHERRY
TIMOTHY BATESON , PAULINE SIDDLE
TAMMY USTINOV , GEOFFREY COLLINS MICHAEL BILTON and JOSS BUCKLEY Directed by MARGARET WINDHAM Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Alex Jennings.
Unknown:
Greg Hicks
Unknown:
Carole Boyd
Unknown:
James Bryce
Unknown:
Timothy Bateson
Unknown:
Pauline Siddle
Unknown:
Tammy Ustinov
Unknown:
Geoffrey Collins
Unknown:
Michael Bilton
Unknown:
Joss Buckley
Directed By:
Margaret Windham

Third World Take-off
Brazil's economy could overtake Britain's within ten years. But are the Brazilians who say this dreamers expressing popular faith in their country's future? Or are they realists, who, with the ending of military rule, must gain parliamentary approval for their proposals of the way to solve Brazil's vast debts and inflation?
Presented by Roland Dallas Producer DAVID MORTON

Contributors

Presented By:
Roland Dallas
Producer:
David Morton

In a world which now numbers 164 countries, how should the Foreign Office deploy its diminishing resources? In conventional embassies in Europe, outposts of Whitehall in Brussels and Washington or in mini-missions in developing countries? In the first of three talks examining some of the dilemmas facing British diplomacy in the next decade,
Simon Jenkins looks at the question of cuts and where they should come.

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Jenkins

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