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Presented by Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by CLIVE rosun
7.25*, 8.25* Sport With ANDY SMITH
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JUUAN HOLLAND

Contributors

Presented By:
Sue MacGregor
Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Read By:
Clive Rosun
Unknown:
Andy Smith
Editor:
Juuan Holland

by ROBERT MARSHALL abridged in eight parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by Nigel Anthony (1)
When Major 'Jacky' Gore takes on the mighty Jim Lindsay , the reigning Open Champion, at St Magnus, everything seems destined to go against him, but then Fate takes a hand in the eerie shape of the ghostly and golfing Cardinal Smeaton. Producer MAURICE LEITCH (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Marshall
Unknown:
Donald Bancroft
Read By:
Nigel Anthony
Unknown:
Jim Lindsay
Unknown:
Cardinal Smeaton.
Producer:
Maurice Leitch

Jeanine McMullen with the last in the present series of programmes for people with mud on their wellies.
The programme takes a last lingering look around the yards of rural Britain before battening down the hatches for winter.
Producer MARY PRICE. BBC Bristol If you would like the full set of information sheets please send a stamped addressed A5 envelope to: [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeanine McMullen

Presented by Dannie Abse Readers HUGH DICKSON and ELIZABETH BELL
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC, Bristol BS82LR

Contributors

Presented By:
Dannie Abse
Presented By:
Readers Hugh Dickson
Presented By:
Elizabeth Bell
Producer:
Margaret Bradley

The nationwide general knowledge contest for schools.
First Round
3: North - Ralph Gardner High School, North Shields v Monkseaton High School, Whitley Bay
Questionmasters Tim Gudgin and Paddy Feeny
Questions set by NIGEL RICHARDSON and DAVID SELF
Producer GRAHAM FROST
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 6.30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Ralph Gardner
Unknown:
Nigel Richardson

1.55 Listening Corner This week: All About Me Presented by SHIREEN SHAH Storyteller CHRISTOPHER lillicrap Today's story: David Tries to Whistle by JOHN FARRINGTON Script by MARY KALEMKERlAN
2.5 Playtime: Hands and Feet and Nose and Toes Presented by TONI ARTHUR and ANDREW BRANCH Producer DEIRDRE PALMER Series editor SHEILA FRASER (Re-broadcast on Thursat 10.10am)
2.20 Introducing Science Teachers' Programme
2.40 Radio Shop A weekly review of educational material on sale
2.45 Radio Club TOMMY BOYD and the Radio Club team scour the country to find interesting items for you. Producer DEREK FARMER (Re-broadcast on Wed at 11.45am)

Contributors

Presented By:
Shireen Shah
Presented By:
Storyteller Christopher
Unknown:
David Tries
Unknown:
John Farrington
Script By:
Mary Kalemkerlan
Presented By:
Toni Arthur
Producer:
Deirdre Palmer
Editor:
Sheila Fraser

Introduced by Dilly Barlow Parents Against Injustice is the name of a new organisation - of parents who believe they have been wrongly accused of child abuse. How would you feel if you took your injured child to hospital, and found yourself accused of cruelty? What happens when a much-loved baby is taken away into care? KAREN DECO talks to some parents who have lived through this nightmare. Serial: Persuasion by JANE AUSTEN
Read by Janet Suzman (10) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Dilly Barlow
Unknown:
Jane Austen
Read By:
Janet Suzman
Editor:
Sandra Chalmers

Nigel Rees invites
Beryl Bainbridge , Richard Ingrams , H. R. F. Keating and Sylvia Syms to identify quotations, famous and obscure, and to share their favourites. Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Producer JOANIE BLAIKIE (R) Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Rees
Unknown:
Beryl Bainbridge
Unknown:
Richard Ingrams
Unknown:
H. R. F. Keating
Unknown:
Sylvia Syms
Read By:
Ronald Fletcher
Producer:
Joanie Blaikie

The last of four programmes with Dr Alan Maryon-Davis Mind Your Backs
What are the best ways of preventing back pain -and what are the scientists doing to help find relief?
Producer SARAH ROWLANDS (R)
For the Back Pain Association phone [number removed]between 7.45-8.45 pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Alan Maryon-Davis
Producer:
Sarah Rowlands

Colin Tudge visits the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, which is internationally known for the quality of its biomedical research and because every year, at the end of September, 50 of its professors choose the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Producer DEBORAH COHEN
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Colin Tudge
Producer:
Deborah Cohen

Vixen by WILLIAM GRANT
Elizabeth, isolated at the top of a high-rise block, finds the hectic chatter of a CB radio a vital link with the outside world. Whether it is a link with reality is another question.
Directed by PENNY GOLD
(Re-broadcast next Sunday) Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
William Grant
Directed By:
Penny Gold
Elizabeth:
Frances Jeater
Frank:
John Price
Jennifer:
Carole Hayman
Blue Leader:
Robin Summers
Alligator Eater:
Gordon Reid
Uyton Lucy:
Natasha Pyne
Television narrator:
John Church

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