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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 PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Presented By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Roger Parry
Read By:
Peter Donaldson

Anything That Moved Written and read by Brian Glanville
At three in the morning, the team manager gets a phone-call. It's from the police. One of his players has been hit by a motorbike. It's not serious, but, for the manager, it's only the tip of the iceberg.
Producer MITCH RAPER

Contributors

Read By:
Brian Glanville
Producer:
Mitch Raper

The Paradoxical Human Male Why are men larger than women when in most species it's the other way round?
Barry Paine measures up to some massive females in an attempt to find out.
Producer MELINDA BARKER BBCBristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Paine
Producer:
Melinda Barker

Sir John Lesley , actor, director, author, lover and POW, remembers what it felt like when he was young. Find out out who he is on Radio Active's Bioshow. Presented by: Written by GEOFFREY PERKINS and ANGUS DEAYTON
Plus MORAY HUNTER. JOHN DOCHERTY JON CANTER. HELEN MURRY and NICK WILTON Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir John Lesley
Written By:
Geoffrey Perkins
Written By:
Angus Deayton
Unknown:
John Docherty
Unknown:
Jon Canter.
Unknown:
Helen Murry
Anna Daptor:
Helen Atkinson Wood
Mike Channel:
Angus Deayton
Uncle Mike Stand:
Michael Fenton-Stevens
Nigel Pry:
Philip Pope
Sir John Lesley:
Geoffrey Perkins

1.55 Listening Corner Let's Play It Again Presented by SHIREEN SHAH Written and produced by MARY KALEMKERIAN
2.5 Let's Join In Sir Nobonk and the.... Dragon by SPIKE MILLIGAN
2.25 Mother Tongue: Song and Story
7: Gujarati: The Raja's Big Ears Storytellers BEULAH CANDAPPA and NIRU DESAI
2.40 Listen! The Decide-It- Yourself Cliffhanger serial in which schools are invited to participate Introduced by BEVERLEY WYNTER Part 7 by RICHARD PINNER

Contributors

Presented By:
Shireen Shah
Produced By:
Mary Kalemkerian
Unknown:
Spike Milligan
Unknown:
Niru Desai
Introduced By:
Beverley Wynter
Unknown:
Richard Pinner

Introduced from Bristol by Jenni Murray
'Some are born great.... ': but otherwise a difficult childhood seems to help. That's one of the conclusions reached by PETER HINGLEY , a Bristol psychologist, after interviewing a cross-section of men and women who've made it to the top.
Producer ANDREW VIVIAN BBCBristol
Exit Lady Masham (5)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jenni Murray
Unknown:
Peter Hingley
Producer:
Andrew Vivian

A series of montage documentaries
3: Sacred Heart Surgery
The land between the Anglican cathedral and the River Mersey houses the remnants of Liverpool's Chinatown. It also houses a doctors' surgery which copes with the problems of an area in physical decline.... Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
River Mersey
Producer:
Alastair Wilson

Salad Days
5: The Inventor and the Actress by WILLIAM SAROYAN
Read by Kerry Shale
Jim sits alone under the old walnut tree trying to think of something to invent; but Belle Shade needs a man....
(Starting on Monday: Sea Views -five short stories)

Contributors

Unknown:
William Saroyan
Read By:
Kerry Shale

Judges, magistrates, barristers and others contribute to this topical weekly magazine, which examines issues thrown up by the courts and by Parliament, and considers the administration and practice of justice.
Presented by Joshua Rozenberg Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF

Contributors

Presented By:
Joshua Rozenberg
Producer:
Anthony Moncrieff

The Rt Hon Norman Tebbit , mp Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
The Rt Hon Shirley Williams
The Rt Hon Dame Judith Hart , mp and The Rt Rev Bill Westwood , Bishop of Peterborough from St Albans , Hertfordshire Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman Tebbit
Unknown:
Shirley Williams
Unknown:
Dame Judith Hart
Unknown:
Bill Westwood
Unknown:
St Albans
Unknown:
John Timpson
Producer:
Carole Stone

The Life of Riley by ANTHONY CRONIN abridged in ten episodes byjOHNSCOTNEY
Read by JIM NORTON (10) Producer MAURICE LEITCH
(Starting on Monday: Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie )

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Cronin
Read By:
Jim Norton
Producer:
Maurice Leitch
Unknown:
Alison Lurie

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:
Paul B. Da Vies
Unknown:
James Hendrie.
Unknown:
Peter Sinclair.
Unknown:
Stuart Silver
Unknown:
Peter Hickey
Producer:
Paul Mayhew-Archer

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