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Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With ROGER PARRY
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by DAVID SYMONDS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Presented By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Roger Parry
Read By:
David Symonds
Unknown:
Garry Richardson
Editor:
Julian Holland

Morty by HILL SLA VID
Read by Cyril Shaps
Uncle Morty lives with the family. It's a mixed blessing, what with his overpowering sense of humour and his gift of the gab. And then there is the matter of Morty's left hand.... Producer MITCH RAPER

Contributors

Read By:
Cyril Shaps
Read By:
Uncle Morty
Producer:
Mitch Raper

The last of a series in which a current religious or moral topic is examined
4: Peace-Line People
Against a background of continuing conflict and violence, life for most people in Northern Ireland goes on as usual. Trevor Barnes reports from Belfast and follows the lives of two families, one
Catholic, one Protestant, living in the shadow of the peace-line barricades, and discovers what happens behind the headlines. Producer BEVERLEY MCAINSH Series editor JOHN NEWBURY (Revised repeat)

Contributors

Unknown:
Trevor Barnes

The World of Nature
This week: Insects and Spiders Frank Muir and Alfred Marks skip through the comic literature of the subject, making notes in the margin of jokes, quotes, newspaper clippings and recorded humour from
PETER COOK. JOHN CLEESE
WOODY ALLEN. MARTY FELDMAN
MICHAEL FLANDERS AND
DONALD SWANN.
A female spider Can't abider Husband
Till he's tucked
Insider (IVOR F.C.TREBY) Written by SIMON BRETT Producer RICHARD EDIS
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Alfred Marks
Unknown:
Peter Cook.
Unknown:
John Cleese
Unknown:
Woody Allen.
Unknown:
Marty Feldman
Unknown:
Donald Swann.
Written By:
Simon Brett
Producer:
Richard Edis

1.55 Listening Corner This week: Over the Sea and Far Away Presented by BEN BAZELL Storyteller SHIREEN SHAH Today's story: What Made Tiddalik Laugh by JOANNA TROUGHTON Script by JANET SORENSEN
2.5 Playtime Presented by iain LAUCHLAN and SHIREEN SHAH
2.20 Introducing Science Unit 211: A Star is Born
2.40 Astronomy Time, Space and Motion Presented by HEATHER COUPER

Contributors

Presented By:
Ben Bazell
Presented By:
Shireen Shah
Unknown:
Joanna Troughton
Script By:
Janet Sorensen
Presented By:
Iain Lauchlan
Presented By:
Heather Couper

Introduced by Dilly Barlow Black Alternative:
ALISON JOSEPH reports on women volunteers who discovered a need for special care among the elderly black residents of one London borough. A voluntary scheme with help from the social services now provides a valuable back-up role. I Also Am of Ireland by FRANCES MOFFETT abridged in nine episodes by ELIZABETH BRADBURY
Read by FRANCES TOMELTY (4) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Dilly Barlow
Unknown:
Alison Joseph
Unknown:
Frances Moffett
Unknown:
Elizabeth Bradbury
Read By:
Frances Tomelty
Editor:
Sandra Chalmers

... or profession such as parson, footman, gatekeeper or midwife? Our hero (Denis Owen ) hires a driver (ant), fights the soldier (beetle), gets the painted lady (butterfly), is married by the parson (bird) - and lives happily ever after in paradise (fish). Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Denis Owen
Producer:
Anne Blair

Women of Crime
A collection of five short stories 1: The Clinging Woman by RUTH RENDELL
Read by Joanne Pearce
The girl was hanging by her hands from the railings of a balcony....
Producer CAROLINE RAPHAEL

Contributors

Unknown:
Ruth Rendell
Read By:
Joanne Pearce
Producer:
Caroline Raphael

Would you know a bull from a bear? Is economics a science, or a form of witchcraft? Patrick Hannan takes a suspicious look at the world of financial wizardry, and is given advice by Dominick Harrod and Professor Ted Nevin With HOWELL EVANS and ANNEST WILIAM.
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales

Contributors

Unknown:
Patrick Hannan
Unknown:
Dominick Harrod
Unknown:
Professor Ted Nevin
Unknown:
With Howell Evans
Producer:
Herbert Williams

Last Friday in Jerusalem by SAM JACOBS
'You think the people responsible for this country aren't paranoid? Wouldn't you be? I mean, the whole goddam world keeps telling us that as long as we Jews behave how they have decided we should behave, they'll support us....' Israel, 1985 and plain speaking from Jerusalem-born Rivka to her English-born friend Eve....
Directed by PIERS PLOWRIGHT Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Sam Jacobs
Directed By:
Piers Plowright
Eve:
Paola Dionisotti
Rivka:
Lila Kaye
Rafi:
Adrian Egan
Tova:
Miriam Karlin
Moushe:
Alfred Marks
Vincent:
Jamle Roberts
Woman in the supermarket:
Narissa Knights

Edward Blakeman presents portraits of some of the world's great flute players, illustrated with some of their recordings. Today: James Galway Producer ANDREW LYLE
(First broadcast on BBC World Service)

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Blakeman
Unknown:
James Galway
Producer:
Andrew Lyle

12.30-1.0 Hallo! Wie Geht's? Producer AL WOLFF
12.301: 1: Wohin in den Ferien? Written by CARL DUERING
12.45 2: Was haltst du von einer Jugendherbergstour? Wntten by DR BRIAN HILL
1.0 Graded Objectives: German 1: Wasmachstdugem? Written by ALAN BOXFORD Producer AL WOLFF

Contributors

Written By:
Carl Duering
Written By:
Alan Boxford
Producer:
Al Wolff

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