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Presented by Peter Hobday and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With TOM T1CKELL
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35*Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Read By:
Peter Donaldson

Susan Marling airs your comments and pursues your complaints and queries about BBC programmes and policies. Send them to:
Feedback, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4 WW
Producer JANET THOMAS

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Marling
Producer:
Janet Thomas

A Friendly Woman by LISA TAYLOR
Read by Elizabeth Proud
Carolyn Bridges is more than a good neighbour and, when her friend Patricia's husband goes missing, her shoulder is there to be cried on. But Patricia's sister has now arrived - brisk, practical and hostile.

Contributors

Unknown:
Lisa Taylor
Read By:
Elizabeth Proud
Read By:
Carolyn Bridges

Putting Out Feelers
Need to know about food, mates, enemies, temperature, humidity - or just how fast you're going? Antennae can tell. Barry Paine investigates nature's finest information systems.
Producer TIM GROUT SMITH BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Paine
Producer:
Tim Grout Smith

1.55 Listening Corner Let's Play It Again Presented by SHEELAGH GILBEY Script by LEE PRESSMAN Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN
2.5 Let's Join In The Turnip-takers Russian folk-tale retold by LEILA BERG
2.25 Mother Tongue: Song and Story
3: Bengali - Fair Shares Storytellers BEULAH CANDAPPA and SUFIA RAHMAN
2.40 Listen! Introduced by BEVERLEY WINTER The Decide-It- Yourself Cliffhanger serial. Schools are invited to participate in creating a serial drama Part 3 by RICHARD PINNER

Contributors

Presented By:
Sheelagh Gilbey
Script By:
Lee Pressman
Producer:
Mary Kalemkerian
Unknown:
Leila Berg
Introduced By:
Beverley Winter
Unknown:
Richard Pinner

Marjorie Lofthouse hosts the programme from Lifestyle 85 at the National Exhibition Centre. where the latest home, garden and leisure designs will be on show.
Producer ANN TENNANT BBC Birmingham Leo Days by PATRICIA WENDORF abridged in nine parts by DOREEN ESTALL
Read by DIANA BISHOP (9)
(Music: Villa-Lobos's Harmonica Concerto)

Contributors

Unknown:
Marjorie Lofthouse
Read By:
Diana Bishop

by IVY COMPTON BURNETT adapted in six parts by JOHN SPURLING with Patricia Lawrence
Ann Mitchell , John Rowe
Robert Lang and Vivian Pickles 2: The Village Play
France Ponsonby has completed her first novel, and the family set off to see a performance of the village play written by an anonymous author.
MARTIN GOLDSTEIN (piano) Directed by LIANE AUKIN
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
John Spurling
Unknown:
Patricia Lawrence
Unknown:
Ann Mitchell
Unknown:
John Rowe
Unknown:
Robert Lang
Unknown:
Vivian Pickles
Piano:
Martin Goldstein
Directed By:
Liane Aukin
Sabine Ponsonby:
Patricia Lawrence
Hetta:
Ann Mitchell
John:
John Rowe
Clare:
Tessa Worsley
France:
Kathryn Hunter
Victor:
Simon Hewitt
Chilton:
Graham Blockley
Muriel:
Pamela Moiseiwitsch
Charity Marcon:
Anne Jameson
Stephen:
Bernard Brown
Alfred:
Christopher Good
Sir Rowland Seymour:
Arnold Diamond
Jane:
Ellen McIntosh
Evelyn:
Daniel Webb
Edith Hallam:
Vivian Pickles
Dr Chaucer:
Robert Lang
Miss Bunyan:
Merellna Kendall
Gertrude:
Narissa Knights

Clive Jacobs bringing you the stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport 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

The Past is Myself by CHRISTABEL BIELENBERG abridged in ten parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by ANN MORRISH (10) Producer PAMELA HOWE BBCBrislol
(Starting on Monday: Dead Men Leading by V S. Pritchett )

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald Bancroft
Read By:
Ann Morrish
Producer:
Pamela Howe
Unknown:
S. Pritchett

David Waddington. qc, mp
Minister of State, Home Office Austin Mitchell, mp Alan Beith , mp and Rosalind Gilmore ,
Marketing Director for National Giro tackle the questions raised by an audience from Ashington, Northumberland
Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
David Waddington.
Unknown:
Alan Beith
Unknown:
Rosalind Gilmore
Unknown:
John Timpson
Producer:
Carole Stone

With Bill Wallis , David Tate , Sally Grace and Jon Glover Written by IAN BROWN. richard QUICK. PAUL B. DA VIES. JAMES
HENDRIE. MARTIN BOOTH, PETER SINCLAIR. STUART SILVER. 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:
Peter Sinclair.
Unknown:
Peter Hickey
Producer:
Paul Mayhew Archer

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