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Presented by John Timpson and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With ROGER PARRY
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
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:
Peter Hobday
Unknown:
Roger Parry
Read By:
Laurie MacMillan
Unknown:
Charles Colville

Famous people and events evoked in prose and poetry.
Four programmes compiled and presented by John Carroll 2: The Spanish Armada Readers GARARD GREEN
ANTHONY HYDE and CAROLE BOYD Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo

Contributors

Presented By:
John Carroll
Readers:
Garard Green
Unknown:
Anthony Hyde
Unknown:
Carole Boyd
Producer:
Margaret Bradley

Britain's cities are now facing the consequences of the 1960s housing boom, when high-rise tower blocks and system-built homes were thrown up with scant regard to the future.
In today's programme Trevor Barnes reports from
Birmingham, where housing officials wonder what to do with astronomical repair bills and thousands of derelict homes.

Contributors

Unknown:
Trevor Barnes

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Ben Finds a Friend by ANNE MARIE CHAPOUTON
2.5 The Music Box Written and presented by MICHAEL BURNETT and SANDRA KERR
2.20 Living Language With GEORGE LAYTON The Celestial Omnibus by E M FORSTER adapted by SANDY BROWNJOHN
2.40 Newscast Presented by LIBBY FAWBERT

Contributors

Unknown:
Anne Marie Chapouton
Presented By:
Michael Burnett
Presented By:
Sandra Kerr
Unknown:
George Layton
Adapted By:
Sandy Brownjohn
Presented By:
Libby Fawbert

Introduced by Dilly Barlow Schools Poetry Carnival: the first national schools poetry carnival is involving thousands of children throughout Britain this month. To celebrate the occasion, LYNN TEN KATE presents a selection of poems written and read by pupils from the middle schools. The Private World of Georgette Heyer (2)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Dilly Barlow
Read By:
Pupils From
Unknown:
Georgette Heyer

The first of two plays by Alun Owen
When two brothers turn up for the funeral of their mother, they disagree about what should happen to their grandfather with whom their mother has been living.
(Sion Probert is a member of the RSC)
(Stereo)

Contributors

Writer:
Alun Owen
Director:
Martin Jenkins
Morgan Roberts:
John Shrapnel
Capt John Roberts:
Glyn Houston
Dave Roberts:
Tony Haygarth
Vera:
And Elizabeth Estensen
Blodwen:
Elizabeth Morgan
Ailwen:
Siân Owen
Esther:
Dorothea Phillips
Ieuan/Minister:
Sion Probert
Mourner:
Jenny Funnell
Mourner:
Brian Smith
Mourner:
David Garth
Mourner:
Melinda Walker

We all have queries, quibbles and quandaries which we mean to resolve but which always lie unanswered at the back of our minds.
Let Neil Landor , together with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC Reference
Library, sort out the answers. Producer STEPHEN SHIPLEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Neil Landor
Producer:
Stephen Shipley

Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Writer:
Helen Leadbeater
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer Aldridge:
Angela Piper
Brian Aldridge:
Charles Collingwood
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Pat Archer:
Patricia Gallimore
Phil Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Shula Archer:
Judy Bennett
Elizabeth Archer:
Alison Dowling
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Jack Woolley:
Arnold Peters
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Nelson Gabriel:
Jack May
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Martha Woodford:
Mollie Harris
Eddie Grundy:
Trevor Harrison
Jethro Larkin:
George Hart
Col. Danby:
Ballard Berkeley
Caroline Bone:
Sara Coward
Nigel Pargetter:
Graham Seed

A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions?
Introduced by John Timpson Compiled by LAURIE MASON Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Send your letters to:
Any Answers? BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Laurie Mason
Producer:
Carole Stone

Hi-tech can mean space shuttles, ceramic car engines, intelligent computers - or talking coffee-pots and electronic rodent disposal devices. Alun Lewis beats a path to the door of the latest technological developments. Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
0 FEATURE: page 21

Contributors

Unknown:
Alun Lewis
Producer:
Geoff Deehan

A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families, with countrywide news and views on all matters of concern to them.
Presenter John Mills Editor MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence and enquiries to: BBC. Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW
Phone [number removed](10.0 am-5.0 pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
John Mills
Editor:
Marlene Pease

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