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Presented by Peter Hobday and Brian Redhead
6.30.7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by david HITCHINSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Your Letters

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Read By:
David Hitchinson
Unknown:
Garry Richardson

Anthony Howard , Deputy
Editor of The Observer, airs your comments and complaints about BBC programmes. Send comments to: Feedback, BBC. Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
(Re-broadcast on Sunday at 6. 15pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Howard
Producer:
Susan Snailum

'Swallows certainly sleep all winter. A number of them conglobulate together by flying round and round and then, all in a heap, throw themselves underwater and he in the bed of the river.'
As Robin Dunbar discovers, Dr Johnson's imaginative
'conglobulation' is not the only colourful explanation for the mystery of migration. Producer GEORGE MONBIOT BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Robin Dunbar

from nowhere near the Ideal Home Exhibition, which was six months ago. anyway. Steve Brown , Helen Lederer
Clive Mantle and Nick Wilton demonstrate how to boil an egg using just one gag, a song and four expletives.
Music by STEVE BROWN
Written by ARNOLD BROWN PAUL B. DA VIES, KIM FULLER
JEREMY HARDY , HUNTER AND DOCHERTY HELEN MURRY ,
GEOFFREY PERKINS. ROGER PLANER , SMITH AND KYAN. NICK WILTON and the Producer JAMIE RIX (R)
(Another programme tomorrow at
11.30pm) Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Steve Brown
Unknown:
Helen Lederer
Unknown:
Clive Mantle
Unknown:
Nick Wilton
Music By:
Steve Brown
Written By:
Arnold Brown
Written By:
Paul B. Da
Unknown:
Kim Fuller
Unknown:
Jeremy Hardy
Unknown:
Docherty Helen Murry
Unknown:
Geoffrey Perkins.
Unknown:
Roger Planer
Unknown:
Nick Wilton
Producer:
Jamie Rix

1.55 Listening Corner Let's Play it Again Presented by SHIREEN SHAH Written and produced by MARY KALEMKERIAN
2.5 Let's Join In with Soundbox The All-Seeing Sun Sicilian folk tale .SUPPLEMENT: page 25
2.25 Listen and Read Radio Thin King Episode 21 by DEREK FARMER Producer SARAH MCNEILL (R)
2.40 Listen! Journey through Badlidrempt (1) Producer PETER HUTCHINGS

Contributors

Presented By:
Shireen Shah
Produced By:
Mary Kalemkerian
Producer:
Sarah McNeill
Producer:
Peter Hutchings

Introduced from Manchester by Helen Boaden
LYNNE VAUGHAN 'S gone fishin' to find out what attracts women anglers to the sport; and PAT LAWRENCE tracks down holidaymakers in Chester who've shunned the tourist attractions in favour of spending an evening at home with an English family. Producer LIZ CARNEY BBC Manchester
Serial: The Village by the Sea (2)

Contributors

Unknown:
Helen Boaden
Unknown:
Lynne Vaughan
Unknown:
Pat Lawrence
Producer:
Liz Carney

by E. M. FORSTER dramatised in four parts by JEFFREY SEGAL
The final episode
Margaret has decided to go ahead with her marriage to
Mr Wilcox , but her happiness seems to be threatened by Helen's mysterious disappearance.
Directed by CAROLINE RAPHAEL
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
E. M. Forster
Unknown:
Jeffrey Segal
Unknown:
Mr Wilcox
Directed By:
Caroline Raphael
Margaret Schlegel:
Joanne Pearce
Helen Schlegel:
Miranda Richardson
Henry Wilcox:
Joss Ackland
Dolly Wilcox:
Susie Brann
Miss Avery:
Gwen Cherrell
Tibby Schlegel:
David Phelan
Charles Wilcox:
David Haig
Dr Mansbridge:
James MacPherson
Tom/Maid:
Vicky Ireland
Jacky Bast:
Natasha Pyne
Leonard Bast:
Mick Ford
Postman:
Shaun Prendergast
Paul Wilcox:
David Learner
Evie Cahill:
Jane Leonard

The destruction of living communities has often been the consequence of slum clearance programmes, as people are forced to move to wherever it suits the council to put them - often into modern blocks far away from their own homes.
Some communities have taken matters into their own hands, organised themselves, fought councils and bureaucracies, and eventually hired their own architect and told him to build the kind of house they knew they wanted in the place where they felt at home.
Colin Amery has been visiting some of the places where this has been happening and talking to the residents and their architects.
Producer MICHAEL LAWTON 0 HELPLINES: page 91

Contributors

Unknown:
Colin Amery
Producer:
Michael Lawton

Clive Jacobs and the team monitor the world of travel and transport and the implications for the customer.
Tom Boswell tests a new luxury car from Germany: the Bitter. Producer IRENE MALLIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Clive Jacobs
Unknown:
Tom Boswell
Producer:
Irene Mallis

Richard Needham , mp
Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Clive Jenkins
General Secretary of ASTMS The Rev John Bach , Chaplain at the University of Ulster and lecturer in Criminology Mary Holland. journalist tackle the issues raised by the audience in Northern Ireland. Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.10pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Needham
Unknown:
Clive Jenkins
Unknown:
John Bach
Unknown:
Mary Holland.
Unknown:
John Timpson
Producer:
Carole Stone

Russell Nicholson joined MI5 in 1953. In 1959 he joined the KGB. David Lander presents a profile of this notorious spy and interviews him at his luxury home in Bulgaria.
Studio production by Stephen Fry assisted by JACK KLAFF, ANDREW SACHS. BRENDA BLETHYN and FELICITY MONTAGU
Dramatic reconstructions by ROBERT BATHURST and TONY ROBINSON
Research by TONY SARCHET
Editor PAUL MAYHEW ARCHER
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 12.30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Russell Nicholson
Unknown:
David Lander
Production By:
Stephen Fry
Assisted By:
Jack Klaff
Assisted By:
Andrew Sachs.
Assisted By:
Brenda Blethyn
Unknown:
Robert Bathurst
Unknown:
Tony Robinson
Unknown:
Tony Sarchet
Editor:
Paul Mayhew Archer

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