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Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With SIMON ROSE
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by david HITCHINSON
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*,8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
John Timpson
Read By:
David Hitchinson
Unknown:
Garry Richardson

The Politics of Food
Many of the West's commodities come from the Third World, yet it's the people there who produce them who are the first to go hungry - not consumers in the industrialised world. Has the concentration on cash crops widened the gap between rich and poor? Does food aid foster dependence on imports and alter local tastes?
Is the global supermarket now dominated by multinational food companies?
Answering your questions for this One World Week phone-in are Idriss Jazairy , President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, and Dr Susan George , author of How the Other Half Dies.
Sue MacGregor is in the Chair. Produced by the Woman's Hour unit Lines open from 8.0 0 am

Contributors

Unknown:
Idriss Jazairy
Unknown:
Dr Susan George

'Newts have always struck me as being the most temperate of creatures. How did the poor beast acquire such a libellous reputation?'
Derek Jones and friends take a sober look at listeners' questions.
Producer GEORGE MONBIOT BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Jones

A further series of the programme Descartes never missed.... Round 2
Irene Thomas and Eric Kom indulge in cerebral callisthenics with a team from Ireland represented by Liam de Paor and Maurice Hayes
Chaired by Gordon Clough and Louis Allen
Researcher KAREN OSTLE
Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Irene Thomas
Unknown:
Eric Kom
Unknown:
Liam de Paor
Unknown:
Maurice Hayes
Unknown:
Gordon Clough
Unknown:
Louis Allen
Unknown:
Karen Ostle
Producer:
Alastair Wilson

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: John Brown , Rose and the Midnight Cat by JENNY WAGNER (R)
2.5 History: Not So Long Ago The Suffragettes by MARY HAYDON
2.25 Contact What's in a Name? by david SELF Presented by PAUL MCDOWELL
2.40 Pictures in Your Mind (Stories): Fallen from the Sky by ZOE BAILEY

Contributors

Unknown:
John Brown
Unknown:
Jenny Wagner
Unknown:
Mary Haydon
Presented By:
Paul McDowell
Unknown:
Zoe Bailey

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Putting on the Action: last night Penelope Keith opened in London's West End, taking on not only her expected leading role, but also the mantle of co-producer. Helen Montague is another of this rare breed of women producers with 42nd
Street and Gigi to her credit. But why are so few women taking up the challenge of the commercial theatre?
(Penelope Keith is in 'The Dragon's Tail' at the Apollo Theatre, London) Serial: The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans (2)

Contributors

Unknown:
Penelope Keith
Unknown:
Helen Montague
Unknown:
Penelope Keith

Hoodlums by PETER WHALLEY A gang of bank-robbers are reunited after many years. Their time spent at Her
Majesty's pleasure, however, hasn't changed their criminal instincts, merely enhanced them. The only difference being that now they are all well into their old age.
Directed by CAROLINE SMITH BBC Manchester. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Whalley
Directed By:
Caroline Smith
Jimmy:
Malcolm Hebden
Max:
Bob Grant
Actor:
Sam Robertkeegan
Gilbert:
Roy Barraclough
Noreen:
Ann Rye
Cindy:
Heather Baskerville

Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad
Reporter Roger Finnigan Producer MAX EASTERMAN Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.5pm)

Contributors

Reporter:
Roger Finnigan
Producer:
Max Easterman
Editor:
Brian Walker

Broken-down windmills and abandoned solar cookers testify to the failure of imported
Western technology to help the Third World.
Alun Lewis asks designers and technologists whether the West has become any better at solving the problems of the developing countries or whether it is still making the same old mistakes.
Producer MILES BARTON
* INFO: page 77

Contributors

Unknown:
Alun Lewis
Producer:
Miles Barton

The Quiet of a Loving Eye 'It is a subject that to every American ought to be of surpassing interest.... it is his own land; its beauty, its magnificence, its sublimity - all are his; and how undeserving of such a birth-right, if he can turn towards it an unobserving eye, an unaffected heart.'
(THOMAS COLE)
Malcolm Jones traces the career of the 19th-century Lancashireborn artist Thomas Cole , the father of American landscape painting, whose vast, allegorical canvases were despised by the critics and loved by the public. with Alan Rothwell as Thomas Cole
Readers MALCOLM HEBDEN and PAUL WEBSTER
Producer Gillian HUSH BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Malcolm Jones
Artist:
Thomas Cole
Unknown:
Alan Rothwell
Unknown:
Thomas Cole
Unknown:
Readers Malcolm Hebden
Unknown:
Paul Webster

News, views and information for people with a visual handicap Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Listeners can phone with enquiries and comments on [number removed]Lines open 30-10.0 pm

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter White

Margaret Walters presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of books, film, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer JOHN BOUNDY
(Rev broadcast tomorrow at 4. 45pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Walters
Producer:
John Boundy

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