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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 BRIAN PERKINS
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:
Brian Perkins

Let Sleeping Dads Lie Written and read by Don Maclean
The bright sunlight bounced off the pots and pans which festooned the old tandem.
The chrome handlebars and wheelrims gleamed. The only spot of rust in evidence was on the double buckle at the waistband of Dad's shorts. Producer GWYN RICHARDS BBC Birmingham

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Read By:
Don MacLean

Introduced by Dilly Barlow The Gentle Export:
FRANCES DONNELLY reports on the Victorian 'Female Middle Class Emigration
Society' and the governesses sent to the Antipodes.
Breakfast at Tiffany's (6)

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Introduced By:
Dilly Barlow
Unknown:
Frances Donnelly

The Girl in the Corner by HOWARD WAKEUNG with Brenda is bored, overweight and 21. On impulse she decides that the only answer is to take up a career as a female wrestler. The family reaction is predictable and unfortunately her boyfriend Kevin can't stand violence of any kind.
Directed by IAN COTTERELL Stereo

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Unknown:
Howard Wakeung
Directed By:
Ian Cotterell
Brenda:
Annette Badland
Ron Bissell:
Stuartorgan
Mavis Bissell:
Carole Boyd
Alison Bissell:
Moir Leslie
Jason:
Michael Jenner
Kevin Chittock:
Clive Panto
Joan:
Jane Knowles
Brett Devlin:
Sean Arnold
Mildred McLucky:
Maggie McCarthy
Delivery man/Referee:
Jon Strickland

Written by JOANNA TOYE Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Written By:
Joanna Toye
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer Aldridge:
Angela Piper
Brian Aldridge:
Charles Collingwood
Tony:
Archer Counskipp
Pat Archer:
Patricia Galllmore
Jill Archer:
Patriclagreene
George Barford:
Graham Roberts
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Jack Woolley:
Arnold Peters
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Nelson Gabriel:
Jack May
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Lucy Perks:
Tracy-Jane White
Joe Grundy:
Edward Kelsey
Eddie Grundy:
Trevor Harrison
Clarrie Grundy:
Fiona Mathieson
JethroLarkin:
George Hart
Betty Tucker:
Pamela Craig
Colonel Danby:
Ballard Berkeley
Caroline Bone:
Sara Coward
Kathy Holland:
Hedli Niklaus

A musical comedy by GEORGE S. KAUFMAN and MORR1E RYSKIND with lyrics by IRA GERSHWIN and music by GEORGE GERSHWIN The year is 1931 and the USA is in the throes of that uniquely American exercise in mass irrationality, the Presidential election....
Narrator BOB WALLACE
THE GRANT PARK ORCHESTRA AND
CHORUS
Musical producer and conductor NEWTON WAYLAND Adapted and directed by YURI RASOVSKY
(A National Radio Theatre of Chicago production)
Stereo (First broadcast on Radio 3)

Contributors

Comedy By:
George S. Kaufman
Comedy By:
Morr1e Ryskind
Unknown:
Ira Gershwin
Music By:
George Gershwin
Narrator:
Bob Wallace
Conductor:
Newton Wayland
Directed By:
Yuri Rasovsky
John P Wintergreen:
John Cullum
Mary:
Mary Ernster
Throttlebottom:
Edgarmeyer
Diana Devereaux:
Jan Curtis
Fulton:
Ward Ohrman
French Ambassador:
Jim Harms
Gillhooley:
David-Cameron Anderson
Lippman:
Glenn Kovacevich
Senator Jones:
William Brown
Lyons:
Charles Shallenberg

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