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Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by Bryan Martin
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With Charles Colville
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

Contributors

Presenter:
Peter Hobday
Presenter:
Sue MacGregor
Newsreader:
Bryan Martin
Sport newsreader:
Charles Colville

Professor Alan Gemmell once again journeys through Britain visiting some of his favourite gardens. He begins in Scotland, near Inveraray, at Crarae
Gardens, which are among the most celebrated woodland gardens in the country.
Producer MURDOCH M. MCPHERSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Alan Gemmell
Producer:
Murdoch M. McPherson

The Lotus-Eater by SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Read by David Ashford
The setting is Capri where young Mr Wilson comes for a holiday. But there is a strange sequel to his idyllic stay. Producer MITCH RAPER

Contributors

Read By:
David Ashford
Unknown:
Mr Wilson
Producer:
Mitch Raper

says 'Hello' to New York and is told to 'have a nice day now, you hear' in return.
Failing to understand the Yanks are:
Written by GEOFFREY PERKINS and ANGUSDEAYTON plus JON CANTER. MORAY HUNTER
JOHN DOCHERTY. ROGER PLANER and MARK SMITH

Contributors

Written By:
Geoffrey Perkins
Unknown:
Jon Canter.
Unknown:
Moray Hunter
Unknown:
John Docherty.
Unknown:
Roger Planer
Unknown:
Mark Smith
Anna Daptor:
Helen Atkinson Wood
Mike Channel:
Angus Deayton
Uncle Mike Stand:
Michael Fenton-Stevens
Mike Flex:
Geoffrey Perkins
Nigel Pry:
Philip Pope

1.55 Listening Corner Presented by SUSANNA DAWSON and TIM MUNRO
2.5 Let's Join In Sir Nobonk and the ... Dragon by SPIKE MILLIGAN
2.25 Mother Tongue: Song and Story 8: Cantonese: The Vain Little Butterfly Storytellers BEULAH CANDAPPA and REGINA YU
2.40 Listen! The Decide-It- Yourself Cliffhanger serial by RICHARD PINNER and VICKY IRELAND Introduced by BEVERLEY WYNTER

Contributors

Presented By:
Susanna Dawson
Presented By:
Tim Munro
Unknown:
Spike Milligan
Unknown:
Richard Pinner
Unknown:
Vicky Ireland
Introduced By:
Beverley Wynter

Introduced from Glasgow by Mary Marquis
The circus may be the greatest show on earth, but for the circus children the travelling can ruin their education. At least one big top, though, has solved the problem by taking a teacher on tour. JOAN ELRICK meets the young performers and their teacher in Aberdeen.
They say that the devil has all the best tunes, but now the Church of Scotland is trying to make sure he doesn't have all the best software. IAN GALL has been programming the kirk's latest aid to getting across the gospel.
Producer COLIN CALEY BBC Scotland
Breakfast at Tiffany's (2)

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Marquis
Unknown:
Joan Elrick

The classic novels of adventure and romance by R.L. Stevenson dramatised in ten parts by Catherine L. Czerkawska
David Balfour has been kidnapped aboard the brig Covenant and is bound for the Carolinas. But the Covenant has taken a castaway on board: a certain Alan Breck Stewart.
Stereo

Contributors

Author:
R.L. Stevenson
Dramatised by:
Catherine L. Czerkawska
David Balfour:
David Rintoul
Alan Breck:
Paul Young
Hoseason:
Jonathan Battersby
Riach:
Billy Riddoch
Seaman:
Tam Dean Burn
Seaman:
Ray Dunsire
Seaman:
Stuart Bishop
Gaelic fisherman:
John Carmichael

The last of a series of four montage documentaries Making Fortunes
Actuality gathers vibrations from a Psychics and Mystics
Fayre, the computerised Future Forecast Shop and Zodiac Week at Butlin's.
Researcher JULIE SIMMONS Producer PETER EVERETT BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Julie Simmons
Producer:
Peter Everett

Judges, magistrates, barristers and others contribute to this 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

Cyril Smith , mp
Michael Winner , film producer Michael Howard , qc, mp
Frances Morrell , Leader of the Inner London Education
Authority, tackle the issues raised by the audience in Leeds Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Cyril Smith
Unknown:
Michael Winner
Producer:
Michael Howard
Leader:
Frances Morrell
Unknown:
John Timpson
Producer:
Carole Stone

with Bill Wallis , David Tate , Sally Grace and Jon Glover Written by IAN BROWN.
RICHARD QUICK. PAUL B. DAVIES. JAMES HENDRIE. MARTIN BOOTH. PETER SINCLAIR. STUART SILVER. PETER HICKEY and others
Producer PAUL MA YHEWARCHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
David Tate
Unknown:
Sally Grace
Unknown:
Jon Glover
Written By:
Ian Brown.
Unknown:
Paul B. Davies.
Unknown:
Peter Sinclair.
Unknown:
Peter Hickey
Producer:
Paul Ma Yhewarcher

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