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Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
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 COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Presented By:
John Timpson
Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Roger Parry
Read By:
Laurie MacMillan

Sheep's Clothing by FRANCES WILSON
Read by Jill Balcon
Jennifer has moved to a new town because of her husband's work. But he is frequently away and Jennifer is lonely. Her little daughter makes friends with a stranger in the park - but who is the most at risk?
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Frances Wilson
Read By:
Jill Balcon
Producer:
Barbara Crowther

Teaching English as a foreign language is big business, with a turnover, at one estimate, of about £200 million a year.
David Crystal visits one of the biggest schools in Britain, and talks to its Director of Studies, Rachel Belgrave , about the people who come, and what they're offered.
Producer MICHAEL LAWTON

Contributors

Unknown:
David Crystal
Unknown:
Rachel Belgrave
Producer:
Michael Lawton

by LEN DEIGHTON dramatised in eight parts by MICHAEL BAKEWELL
1: A Small Killing in Hollywood The Prime Minister is alerted to the fact that a film is about to be made. The subject: the 'Kaiseroda' mine - Hitler's secret cave of treasures during the Second World War.
Directed by PETER KING
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Len Deighton
Unknown:
Michael Bakewell
Directed By:
Peter King
Boyd Stuart:
Trevor Nichols
Sydney Ryden:
David Garth
Charles Stein:
Bruce Boa
Max Breslow:
Bernard Hepton
Willi Kleiber:
Clifford Rose
Reader:
Colin Starkey
Prime Minister:
Bernard Brown
Jennifer:
Jenny Funnell
Kitty:
Melinda Walker
MacIver:
Don Fellows
Billy Stein:
Ian Tyler

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: The Cat Who Kept Her Name by J. R. C. YGLESIAS
2.5 Something to Think About How People First Made Fire
2.15 The Song Tree Jesper and the 100 Hares (5)
2.35 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry): Woodspells
2.45 Nature Grasshoppers and Crickets by MICHAEL SCOTT

Contributors

Unknown:
J. R. C. Yglesias
Song:
Tree Jesper
Unknown:
Michael Scott

An Englishman's Home by SCOTT CHERRY
Are double-glazing and efficient locks enough to protect Cyril and Pam from the dastardly demands of burglar-alarm salesmen? Directed by JAMES RUNCIE Stereo

Contributors

Directed By:
James Runcie
Cyril:
Norman Bird
Pam:
Avril Elgar
William:
Kevin Lloyd

Poems on the theme of Water Compiled and presented by Lawrence Sail
2: Forth, To the Alien Gravity Readers JILL BALCON and BRIAN SMITH
Producer SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol

Contributors

Presented By:
Lawrence Sail
Readers:
Jill Balcon
Readers:
Brian Smith

A rocky outcrop in the Bristol Channel, Flatholm has been a retreat, a fortress, a refuge for wrongdoers, and a place of quarantine. Marconi sent his first radio transmission over the sea from Flatholm. All this and yet the island is less than half the size of a golf course.
Presented by Peter France Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
0 HEAR THIS' page 16

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter France
Producer:
John Harrison

On World Environment Day, Groundswell examines the deafening problem of noise in Japan: the concern over disappearing soil; and Jonathan Porritt , Director of Friends of the Earth, compares the British environmental movement with that of the USA. Presented by Hugh Sykes Producer GAYNOR SHUTTE

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Porritt
Presented By:
Hugh Sykes
Producer:
Gaynor Shutte

For this last programme, Peter Hobday is joined by David Trippier , mp, Minister for Small Businesses; Dr Bernard Juby ,
Chairman, National Federation of the Self-Employed and Small Businesses; and Tony Lorenz , Chairman, Venture Capital Association, for a discussion arising from listeners' queries. Producer ROSALIND BEW

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Hobday
Unknown:
David Trippier
Unknown:
Dr Bernard Juby
Unknown:
Tony Lorenz
Producer:
Rosalind Bew

Divided They Stand
As the Liberals and Social
Democrats try to break the two-party system of British politics, how united is the Alliance? Are the Social Democrats moving to the right? Can the Liberals control their young radicals?
What must the two parties do to attract more votes?
Presented by David Wheeler Producer DAVID POWELL

Contributors

Presented By:
David Wheeler
Producer:
David Powell

12.30-1.0 Hallo! Wie Geht's?
12.30 5: Ostsee oder Nordsee? Written by DONALD RICHARDS
12.45 6: In den Bergen ist es vielschoner! Written by MILO SPERBER and at 1.0 Graded Objectives: German 3: Gehort, gesehen Written by DONALD RICHARDS

Contributors

Written By:
Donald Richards
Written By:
Milo Sperber
Written By:
Donald Richards

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