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Presented by Brian Redhead 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 CLIVE rosun
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILLE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35*Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Unknown:
Roger Parry
Read By:
Clive Rosun
Unknown:
Charles Colville

Manna from Heaven
'... it was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey, but if kept overnight it bred worms and stank' What was the 'manna' that sustained the Children of Israel in their desert wanderings? Where did it suddenly appear from and has it occurred since?
Presented by Barry Paine
Producer CAROL JEFFERSON DAVIES BBC Bristol

Contributors

Presented By:
Barry Paine
Producer:
Carol Jefferson

The third of six entertainments in words and music to help you beat the weather as David Barlow , Peter Christie ,
Miles Kington and Alan Maryon-Davis make the attempt to be reasonably together again with their special guests
The Eddie Thompson Trio Producer RICHARD EDIS

Contributors

Unknown:
David Barlow
Unknown:
Peter Christie
Unknown:
Alan Maryon-Davis
Unknown:
Eddie Thompson Trio
Producer:
Richard Edis

1.55 Listening Corner Andrew McAndrew and the Tape Recorder
2.0-2.30 Par Etapes French Graded Objectives (2) 7: Travelling by Road and at 2.15
8: At a Camp-site and at a Youth Hostel
2.30-3.0 English for Examinations (14-17) Communication (Are you receiving me?) 4: Making a Complaint
2.30 Based on interviews written by JULIE JONES
2.45 Dramatised version by MIKE VAUGHAN EDWARDS

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew McAndrew
Written By:
Julie Jones
Unknown:
Mike Vaughan Edwards

Introduced from Bristol by Sandi Marshall
SUE HICKS follows the making of a new foot-trail across Cornwall in the steps of the Irish Saints, and JENNI MILLS reports on the restaurant where guests bring bric-a-brac to pay for their meals.
Producer ANDREW VIVIAN. BBC Bristol
The Summer of the Barshinskeys Part 2 (10)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sandi Marshall
Unknown:
Sue Hicks
Producer:
Andrew Vivian.

Clive Jacobs brings you stories in the travel world with help from ALANAH MARTIN and TOM BOSWELL
Producer IRENE MALLIS
Editor ROGER MACDONALD

Contributors

Unknown:
Clive Jacobs
Unknown:
Alanah Martin
Unknown:
Tom Boswell
Producer:
Irene Mallis
Editor:
Roger MacDonald

A Night to Remember by WALTER LORD abridged in ten parts by DAVID H. GODFREY
Read by BRIAN GEAR
10: 'Go away - we 'vejust seen our husbands drown
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol (Starting on Monday: five ripping tales by famous gymslip authors)

Contributors

Unknown:
David H. Godfrey

Will Bill propose to Ethel? Can Brian recover from his horrific injuries? What are George and Anne going to do about Susan, Ted, Tom and Barbara? And in which order?
This week's cast
John Docherty (words) Moray Hunter (words) Pete Baikie (notes)
Gordon Kennedy (pauses) Producer ALAN NIXON (snips)
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
John Docherty
Unknown:
Moray Hunter
Unknown:
Pete Baikie
Unknown:
Gordon Kennedy
Producer:
Alan Nixon

The Rt Hon Barbara Castle , MEP Pieter Dankert , MEP, former President of the European Commission
Magnus Magnusson , writer and broadcaster
Nicholas Bethell , MEP tackle the issues raised by the audience in The Hague
Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Barbara Castle
Unknown:
Pieter Dankert
Unknown:
Magnus Magnusson
Unknown:
Nicholas Bethell
Unknown:
John Timpson
Producer:
Carole Stone

In a Strange Land
'For the 1788 settlers, going to Australia was like a journey to Mars, and ever since there has been a sense in Australians of being on a space station.'
Thomas Keneally ,
Sydney-based novelist and author of Schindler's Ark and The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith , in conversation with the London-based Australian poet Peter Porter on the subject of Australia's search for a literary identity.
Producer RICHARD DUNN

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Keneally
Unknown:
Jimmy Blacksmith
Unknown:
Peter Porter
Producer:
Richard Dunn

An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with Bill Wallis , David Tate , Sally Grace and Jon Glover Written by IAN BROWN. RICHARD
QUICK. PAUL B. DAVIES , MARTIN BOOTH. PETE SINCLAIR. STUART SILVER. DAVID COHEN. JEREMY HARDY. PETER HICKEY and others
Producer PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
David Tate
Unknown:
Sally Grace
Unknown:
Jon Glover
Written By:
Ian Brown.
Unknown:
Paul B. Davies
Unknown:
Pete Sinclair.
Unknown:
David Cohen.
Unknown:
Jeremy Hardy.
Unknown:
Peter Hickey
Producer:
Paul Mayhew-Archer

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