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Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with SIMON ROSE
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JUUAN HOLLAND

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Presented By:
Sue MacGregor
Read By:
Bryan Martin
Unknown:
Garry Richardson
Editor:
Juuan Holland

Presented by Louise Botting
This week: The 1985-6 Unit Trust Managers ' Portfolio Leading fund managers back their judgment on where the best investment prospects lie in the coming year.
There is a good deal of uncertainty about stock markets world-wide, and with the recovery in the value of the pound overseas investment has proved rather less profitable than in recent years.
Is the UK still the place to be? Does the falling dollar rule out the USA? Will Japan come back into favour? What price gold and commodities?
Hear what the experts choose and then try your hand at becoming the Money Box Unit Trust Investor of the Year. Details from:
Money Box, BBC, Broadcasting House. London W1A 4WW

Contributors

Presented By:
Louise Botting

Buffalo Bill Was a Great Man byM.M.MARBERRY
Read by Errol MacKinnon
Oh, yes - Buffalo Bill was a very great man.... and a hero to the boy who met him. But idols have feet of clay - and hands that hold glasses of a strange yellow liquid that smells like whiskey. Producer MITCH RAPER

Contributors

Read By:
Errol MacKinnon
Producer:
Mitch Raper

The nationwide general knowledge contest for schools First Round
6: Home Counties: Grey Court School, Richmond v Upton Grammar School, Slough 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:
Tim Gudgin
Unknown:
Nigel Richardson

1.55 Listening Corner
This week: Water, Water Everywhere
Presented by Fred Harris
Storyteller Una Stubbs
Today's story: Master Salt the Sailor's Son by ALLAN AHLBERG
Script by LEE PRESSMAN

2.5 Playtime Clothes
Presenters Iain Lauchlan and Shireen Shah
(R) (Re-broadcast on Thurs at 10. 10am)

2.20 Introducing Science: Unit 1, Programme 3: The Faraday Story

2.40 Radio Shop
For information ring [number removed]

2.45 Radio Club
Tommy Boyd and the Radio Club team scour the country for interesting items. Producer MARYA BURGESS
(Re-broadcast on Wed at 11. 45 am)

Contributors

Presented By:
Fred Harris
Storyteller:
Una Stubbs
Unknown:
Allan Ahlberg
Script By:
Lee Pressman
Producer:
Marya Burgess

Introduced by Sue Cook , television presenter
As Simple as ABC? How do children learn to read? What is the role of parents and schools? KAREN deco reports and looks at two new reading schemes for the very young. 0 INFO: page 77
Serial: Underfoot in Show
Business Written and read by Helene Hanff
5: No Legs, No Jokes, No Chance

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue Cook
Read By:
Helene Hanff

Julie Tullis is the first woman to join a British Everest expedition. She has broken into a sternly masculine preserve, which on one climb nearly cost her her life. Julie talks to Marian Foster about her passion for adventure. Producer ANN TENNANT BBCBirmingham
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.5pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Julie Tullis
Unknown:
Marian Foster
Producer:
Ann Tennant

The Judge's Wife by DOROTHY GHARBAOUI with John Rowe , Kate Flynn and Maggie Shevlin
Tom Martin is no ordinary judge; he presides over a Diplock court in Northern
Ireland. A judge without a jury is at once terrifyingly powerful and frighteningly vulnerable. How can he choose between public and private justice?
COLIN STARK (Oboe) EDDIE FRIEL (piano)
Directed by SUSAN HOGG BBC Northern Ireland
(Re-broadcast next Sunday) Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Dorothy Gharbaoui
Unknown:
John Rowe
Unknown:
Kate Flynn
Unknown:
Maggie Shevlin
Unknown:
Tom Martin
Piano:
Eddie Friel
Directed By:
Susan Hogg
Thomas Martin:
John Rowe
Flora Martin:
Kate Flynn
Maggie Leggatt:
Maggie Shevun
Eloise McNally:
Roma Tomelty
Joe Mullan:
John Hewitt
William Nugent:
Maurice O'Callaghan
Mr Hefferman/FirstTerrorist:
Derek Halugan
Mr Roberts:
Mark Mulholland
Det Sgt McClintock:
B J Hogg
Jean and Mary Fox:
Maureen Now
Phil/Clerk of the Court:
Rosaleen Pelan
Ignatius Sheehan/Second:
Peter Quigley

Paul Allen presents tonight's edition which includes interviews, news and reviews of books, film, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Paul Allen
Producer:
John Boundy
Editor:
Thomas Sutcliffe

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