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Presented by Brian Redhead and Chris Lowe
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with Roger Parry
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Jead by David SYMONDS
7.25* 8.25* Sport with CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
Chris Lowe
Unknown:
Roger Parry
Unknown:
David Symonds
Unknown:
Charles Colvile

Six views on different aspects of being a woman with Anne Brown
2: Elisabeth Frink - Watching an Instinct
The family joke goes that it
Wasn't until Liz fell off a horse that she began to do interesting things. Her sculptures are uncompromisingly male -
Predators and killers, watchers and sufferers, wielders and Victims of power Dame
Elisabeth Frink has spent years observing men and beasts. Producer LIZ JENSEN "Be Birmingham (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Anne Brown
Unknown:
Elisabeth Frink
Unknown:
Elisabeth Frink
Producer:
Liz Jensen

Making Scents of the Nose
What is the connection between Beethoven, Picasso and the sense of smell? Dr Gary Lynch from the University of California suggests that cats. dogs, monkeys and man owe a large part of their intelligence to their noses.
Presented by Peter France Producer MELINDA BARKER
BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Gary Lynch
Presented By:
Peter France
Producer:
Melinda Barker

Introduced by Sue MacGregor First Impressions:
What does a newborn baby make of the world around it? How much do babies understand? Can they think?
JENNY STUART reports on the work being done at Edinburgh University in neonatal psychology.
Serial: Bilgewater (6)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jenny Stuart

Clagthorpe Viva by Bruce Bedford with John Duttine, Jack May and Magnus Magnusson asking the questions.
Harold Jarrold, balloon designer from Clagthorpe in Yorkshire, has won his way through to the final of the television quiz show Superbrain. The morning of the contest finds Harold atop the regal slag-heap that overlooks Arkwright's Balloon Factory.
The townsfolk know Harold can win. But he isn't so sure....
(R)

Contributors

Director:
Peter Kosminsky
Harold:
John Duttine
Narrator:
Jack May
Mam:
Linda Polan
Grandad:
George Cooper
Trish:
Penelope Freeman
Himself:
Magnus Magnusson
Father:
John Rapley
Mr Potter:
Bryan Pringle
Eddy:
Sean Arnold
Bus conductor:
Brian Miller
Old crone:
Jean Hastings

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm) Written by ANDY RASHLEIGH
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Written By:
Andy Rashleigh
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer Aldridge:
Angela Piper
Brian:
Charles Collingwood
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Pat Archer:
Patricia Gallimore
Phil Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Shula Archer:
Judy Bennett
David Archer:
Timothy Bentinck
Elizabeth Archer:
Allson Dowling
George Barford:
Graham Roberts
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Jack Woolley:
Arnold Peters
Hazel Woolley:
Jancox
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Nelson Gabriel:
Jack May
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Lucy Perks:
Tracy Jane White
Caroline Bone:
Sara Coward
Nigel Pargetter:
Graham Seed
DetSgt Barry:
Davld Vann
Sophie Barlowe:
Moir Leslie

Stanley Williamson opens the file on life in Penzance 100 years ago, as it was reflected in the local newspapers. Readers
DELIA CORRIE and DAVID MAHLOWE Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

Contributors

Readers:
Delia Corrie

A series of montage documentaries

A steamy evening in the hairy arms of Frank Pearson, alias Foo Foo Lammar, Manchester drag artist and nightclub owner.

Actuality eavesdrops on stag parties and hen parties in Foo Foo's palace, home of the Dance of the Ruptured Cucumber - and other exotic rituals.

BBC Manchester

Contributors

Subject:
Foo Foo Lammar (Frank Pearson)
Producer:
Alastair Wilson

A series of unlikely stories by ALPHONSE ALLAIS
English translation by MILES
KINGTON Alphonse Allais was the man who invented the frosted glass aquarium tank for shy fish. He was also a humorous writer whose bizarre pieces appeared in Parisian magazines and newspapers at the turn of the century. Allais is now little known or admired in his own country. Might his humour be too English for French tastes? 2: Anything They Can Do.... and Other Tales
Read by Christopher Godwin Producer NIGEL ACHESON

Contributors

Stories By:
Alphonse Allais
Unknown:
Kington Alphonse Allais
Read By:
Christopher Godwin
Producer:
Nigel Acheson

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