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Presented by Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
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 COL VILE
7.45* Thought far the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Unknown:
Roger Parry
Read By:
Peter Donaldson

The Rt Hon David Owen , mp, presents his personal choice of poetry and prose with Peter Barkworth and Jane Asher
'I am never happier than when I'm out at sea and it gives me, like many others, peace and joy and happiness.' Producer ALEC REID BBC Bristol
Stereo ● HEAR THIS! page 17

Contributors

Unknown:
David Owen
Unknown:
Peter Barkworth
Unknown:
Jane Asher

CristabeUa by MARK BOURNE
Read by Robert Rietty
Intrigued by a venomous letter which lands on his editor's desk, a journalist sets off to find the truth about a famous painter and the girl he once loved. Producer MITCH RAPER

Contributors

Read By:
Robert Rietty
Producer:
Mitch Raper

written and compiled by HENRY DONALD
Muir described his marriage to Willa Anderson as the most fortunate event of his life. This is the story of that marriage. Narrator John Shedden Producer PATRICK RAYNER
(First broadcast on Radio Scotland) Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Henry Donald
Unknown:
Willa Anderson
Narrator:
John Shedden
Producer:
Patrick Rayner
the poet Edwin Muir:
Tom Fleming
Willa Muir:
Eileen McCallum

Nuclear Debate
Do you spend sleepless nights worrying about what will happen to you after yet another nuclear debate? Are you concerned that it will mean an end to all civilised behaviour?
Well, it probably will. with Anna Daptor who is Helen Atkinson Wood Mike Channel who is Angus Deayton
Martin Brown who is
Michael Fenton-Stevens Mike Flex who is Geoffrey Perkins
Nigel Pry who is Philip Pope
Song by PHILIP POPE , ANGUS DEAYTON and RICHARD CURTIS and performed by THE HEE BEE GEE BEES
Written by GEOFFREY PERKINS and ANGUS DEAYTON with additional material from
JON CANTER and JEREMY PASCALL Producer JAMIE RIX

Contributors

Unknown:
Anna Daptor
Unknown:
Helen Atkinson Wood
Unknown:
Mike Channel
Unknown:
Angus Deayton
Unknown:
Martin Brown
Unknown:
Michael Fenton-Stevens
Unknown:
Mike Flex
Unknown:
Geoffrey Perkins
Unknown:
Nigel Pry
Unknown:
Philip Pope
Unknown:
Philip Pope
Unknown:
Angus Deayton
Unknown:
Richard Curtis
Written By:
Geoffrey Perkins
Written By:
Angus Deayton
Unknown:
Jon Canter
Unknown:
Jeremy Pascall
Producer:
Jamie Rix

Introduced from Birmingham by Marjorie Lofthouse Kaleidoscope
This youth company has acted at the Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent, and will be performing at the Edinburgh Festival.
PENNY SEARLEY eavesdrops on rehearsals with a group of young people - all talented, and all with a mental handicap. Producer ANN TENNANT BBC Birmingham
Joanna Godden (5)

Contributors

Unknown:
Marjorie Lofthouse
Producer:
Ann Tennant

The classic novels of adventure and romance by R. L. Stevenson dramatised in ten parts by Catherine L. Czerkawska
Balfour and Breck have witnessed the murder of the Red Fox and suspicion of complicity in the crime has fallen on them. They flee across the moors pursued by the redcoats.
BBC Scotland. Stereo

Contributors

Author:
R.L. Stevenson
Dramatised by:
Catherine L. Czerkawska
Director:
Marilyn Imrie
David Balfour:
David Rintoul
Alan Breck:
Paul Young
Cluny Macpherson:
David McKail
John Breck MacColl:
Finlay McLean
Highland gillie:
John Carmichael

Test the water with Cliff Michelmore and discover some events and sporting activities in, on or under water. There's a trip to a theatre on water, a report on the latest developments in boat design and equipment, and a diving holiday in Turkey.
Producer CAROLINE ELLIOT

Contributors

Unknown:
Cliff Michelmore
Producer:
Caroline Elliot

Across the Limpopo abridged in ten parts by MARGARET ETALL written and read by MICHAEL NICHOLSON (10) Producer PAMELA HOWE BBCBristol
(Starting on Monday: Another Self by James Lees-Milne )

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Etall
Read By:
Michael Nicholson
Producer:
Pamela Howe
Unknown:
James Lees-Milne

presents....
The Polytechnic of Death
Once again join Cliff Hanger in the dark and splendid library ... for the story must be told! As always a book is taken at random from the groaning shelves - the spine-chilling title The Polytechnic of Death. Written and performed by Peter McCarthy
Rebecca Stevens , Robin Driscoll and Tony Haase
Producer NICK SYMONS BBC Manchester
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Cliff Hanger
Unknown:
Peter McCarthy
Unknown:
Rebecca Stevens
Unknown:
Robin Driscoll
Unknown:
Tony Haase

The Rt Hon David Steel , mp
The Rt Hon John Smith , qc. mp Peter Maxwell Da vies Gerald Malone , mp from Kirkwall, Orkney Islands Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBristol

Contributors

Unknown:
David Steel
Unknown:
John Smith
Unknown:
Peter Maxwell Da
Unknown:
Gerald Malone
Unknown:
John Timpson
Producer:
Carole Stone

An irreverently critical look back at the week's news. with Bill Wallis , David Tate and Sally Grace
Written by IAN BROWN
RICHARD QUICK. PAUL B. DAVIES JAMES HENDRIE , MARTIN BOOTH PETER SINCLAIR. STUART SILVER PETER HICKEY and others
Producer JENNIE CAMPBELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
David Tate
Written By:
Ian Brown
Unknown:
Paul B. Davies
Unknown:
James Hendrie
Unknown:
Martin Booth
Unknown:
Peter Sinclair.
Unknown:
Stuart Silver
Unknown:
Peter Hickey
Producer:
Jennie Campbell

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