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Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7-0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25* 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Bob Finigan
Read By:
Bryan Martin

Dr Anthony Clare talks to
Michael Korda - best-selling author, editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster, the largest US publishing company, and nephew of Sir Alexander Korda. Researcher JENNY RIVAROLA Producer MICHAEL EMBER (R)

Contributors

Talks:
Dr Anthony Clare
Unknown:
Michael Korda
Unknown:
Sir Alexander Korda.
Unknown:
Jenny Rivarola
Producer:
Michael Ember

By 1962 the tramcar had all but disappeared from British streets. For many it had been a noisy cumbersome and old-fashioned mode of transport For the few it was not only the vehicle of the future, but a thing of love and beauty.
Martin Jenkins meets fellow enthusiasts, their wives, tram drivers and transport officials. With the sounds of tramcars here and abroad.
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS (R) Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Jenkins
Producer:
John Theocharis

by JOSEPH CONRAD dramatised for radio in six episodes by KEITH DARVILL
Episode 2
Aboard the sinking SS Patna
Jim stands immobile, gazing at the rust-eaten sides of the ship that are only just holding back the ocean. He looks at the sleeping bodies. Eight hundred people, only seven boats. It seems there is nothing he can do.
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Unknown:
Joseph Conrad
Directed By:
Graham Gauld
Jim:
With Simon Treves
Marlow:
And David March
Patna skipper:
Bernard Brown
Onslow:
John Hollis
Brierly:
Clifford Norgate
Chief engineer:
Brian Smith
Donkey man:
Christopher Douglas

Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: the novelist, Jane Gardam , whose book, Bilgewater is the new serial starting tomorrow.
Serial: Murder, MrMosley by JOHN GREENWOOD abridged in eight parts by DOREEN ESTALL
Read by STEPHEN THORNE (8) (Music: Glazunov's Saxophone Concerto)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Jane Gardam
Unknown:
John Greenwood
Unknown:
Doreen Estall
Read By:
Stephen Thorne

No, Really, I've Given Up A comedy by SUE
RODWELL Peter is determined to give up smoking, and his wife Viv is convinced he is doing the right thing. But once he leaves the sanctuary of his home, he finds himself assailed by a bevy of beguiling tormentors.
Directed by MARGARET WINDHAM (R) Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Rodwell Peter
Directed By:
Margaret Windham
Peter:
Geoffrey Collins
Viv:
Carole Boyd
Geoff:
Michael Jenner
Terry:
Nigel Graham
Penny:
Jane Wenham
Sir Brian/Dr Forsythe/TV gardener/Cricket commentary:
Ronald Herdman
Miss Robinson:
Hilda Schroder

Greek Myths
A series of six programmes compiled and presented by Alexis Lykiard
5: A Vision of Beauty - Helen Readers BERNARD BROWN
GWEN CHERRELL and ROBIN SUMMERS Producer ALEC REID BBC Bristol

Contributors

Presented By:
Alexis Lykiard
Readers:
Bernard Brown
Readers:
Gwen Cherrell

A musical panel game in which John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the Chair Steve Race
Questions compiled by STEVE RACE Programme devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
Producer PETE ATKIN ' (Re-broadcast tomorrow at 12.27pm) Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Ian Wallace
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
Edward J. Mason
Producer:
Pete Atkin

Wine for the Barbarians Malcolm Billings and Barry Cunliffe trace the route of the Roman wine trade from the villa estates of Tuscany to an Iron Age settlement on the Dorset coast. 2: Provence
Reader HUGH DICKSON Producer JOHN KNIGHT BBC Bristol (Rev R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Cunliffe
Reader:
Hugh Dickson

9: Electric Folk
The origins of electric folk go back to the mid-50s when singers were looking for fresh ways to accompany traditional songs. This area of the folk revival has taken the music both into the pop charts and the National Theatre. with Shirley Collins , Karl Dallas and Ashley Hutchings Written and presented by Jim Lloyd Producer GEOFFREY HEWITT BBC Birmingham. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Shirley Collins
Unknown:
Karl Dallas
Presented By:
Jim Lloyd
Producer:
Geoffrey Hewitt

Calves kept in confined spaces lick themselves a lot more often than they need to for grooming. Pigs that are tethered in pens bite the bars repeatedly. This exaggerated behaviour causes many people concern, but are the animals really distressed? Colin Tudge examines how scientists are discovering what animals feel about the conditions they are subjected to on farms and in zoos.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Colin Tudge
Producer:
Deborah Cohen

The Pig has Two Tales
The three requisites for a happy life, so an Aberystwyth landlady once said, are 'Day trippers, students and a pig for the bad times'. A short account of the part the pig has played in Welsh history with Gareth Lewis Christine Pritchard
Dyfan Roberts and Wyn Williams.
Written and directed by ANGELA WILLIAMS BBC Wales

Contributors

Unknown:
Gareth Lewis
Unknown:
Christine Pritchard
Unknown:
Dyfan Roberts
Unknown:
Wyn Williams.
Directed By:
Angela Williams

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