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Presented by Peter Hobday and Chris Lowe
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 JULIAN HOLLAND

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Presented By:
Chris Lowe
Read By:
Bryan Martin
Unknown:
Garry Richardson
Editor:
Julian Holland

Presented by Louise Botting
Radio's key to the ever-present problem of how to get the best from your money. Whether it is a mortgage or insurance policy, an investment bond or a bank loan, a tax dispute or a social security squabble - Money Box gets the answers from the people in the know.
Details from: Money Box, BBC, London WiA 4WW

Contributors

Presented By:
Louise Botting

No Jumping or Diving from the Pier by BRENDAN O'BYRNE
Read by Errol MacKinnon
'This is a quiet sort of town - and the only place I wanted to see again when I was in Vietnam. I was only 18 then and that Vietnam was a swine.' Producer MITCH RAPER

Contributors

Unknown:
Brendan O'Byrne
Read By:
Errol MacKinnon
Producer:
Mitch Raper

Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners
Presenter Fleur Adcock Readers PENELOPE LEE and ANTHONY HYDE
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Presenter:
Fleur Adcock
Presenter:
Readers Penelope Lee
Producer:
Margaret Bradley

The nationwide general knowledge contest for schools Second Round
9: Scotland v North 1 - Falkirk High School, Scotland 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:
Whitley Bay
Unknown:
Tim Gudgin
Unknown:
Nigel Richardson

1.55 Listening Corner This week: Family and Friends Presented by SANDRA KERR and TONY AITKEN Storyteller PAT PHOENIX Today's story: Making Friends by DOROTHY EDWARDS Script written and produced by MARY KALEMKERIAN
2.5 Playtime: Food Presenters ANDREW BRANCH and LOLA YOUNG (R) (Re-broadcast on Thursday 10.10am)
2.20 Introducing Science Unit 2, Programme 2 Magic Minerals and Vital Vitamins (R)
2.40 Radio Shop A weekly review of educational material on sale Fur information ring [number removed]
2.45 Radio Club TOMMY BOYD and the Radio Club team scour the country to find interesting items for all you Radio Club members. (Re-broadcast on Wed at 11.45am)

Contributors

Presented By:
Sandra Kerr
Presented By:
Tony Aitken
Unknown:
Pat Phoenix
Unknown:
Dorothy Edwards
Produced By:
Mary Kalemkerian

Introduced from Birmingham by Marjorie Lofthouse
MARGARET BROWN has sponsored African children for nine years and last summer visited one of them personally. She talks about the adventure of meeting 11-year-old Kyalo at his school in the Kenyan bush.
Serial: The Bonsai Tree by MEIRA CHAND
Read by Heather Bell (8) Producer ANN TENNANT BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Marjorie Lofthouse
Unknown:
Margaret Brown
Unknown:
Meira Chand
Read By:
Heather Bell
Producer:
Ann Tennant

'What we're trying to do is genuinely, carefully and honestly reconstruct the Globe Theatre of the same materials, the same dimensions, the same physical conditions; and all the scholars and theatre people I know who are interested in Shakespeare believe it is the only way you can fully understand and illuminate these plays.'
Sam Wanamaker , actor, producer, director, talks to
Sue MacGregor about his life and work and the project he initiated to rebuild
Shakespeare's theatre on Bankside.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
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Contributors

Unknown:
Sam Wanamaker
Unknown:
Sue MacGregor

Presented by Peter Evans
What is happening in science? A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories Producer DEBORAH COHEN
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Evans
Producer:
Deborah Cohen

by DOUGLAS LIVINGSTONE
For 40 years Dave has put behind him the fact that he landed on the Normandy beaches on D-Day - 6 June 1944. He doesn't remember his comrades with any special affection and has no wish to indulge in memories. But in June 1984 he goes back to
Normandy and faces the ghosts of the past, and one ghost in particular.
Location effects recorded by RICHARD BEADSMOORE
Technical presentation by DAVID GREENWOOD assisted by RICHARD BEADSMOORE and ROS MASON
Directed by JANE MORGAN
(Re-broadcast next Sunday) Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Douglas Livingstone
Unknown:
Richard Beadsmoore
Presentation By:
David Greenwood
Assisted By:
Richard Beadsmoore
Directed By:
Jane Morgan
Dave:
Ronald Pickup
Pete:
Mick Ford
Simon:
Trevor Nichols
Thelma:
Brenda Blethyn
Bill:
Douglas Livingstone
Mary:
Tessa Worsley
Harry Price:
David Garth
Arthur:
Sam Kelly
Major Morris:
David Sinclair
Sgt Floyd:
Stephen Thorne
Tim:
Garard Green
Veterans:
John Church
Veterans:
Richard Durden
Veterans:
Adrian Egan
Veterans:
Ronald Herdman
Veterans:
Gordon Reid
Veterans:
Christopher Scott
Veterans:
Robin Summers
Veterans:
Alan Thompson
French woman:
Gwen Cherrell

Plain or Ringlets? by R. S. SURTEES abridged in 15 parts by ARCHIE CAMPBELL Read by John Franklyn-Robbins 1: Roseberry Rocks
The young and lovely Miss Rosa McDermott seemed destined to marry the son of the local banker. But a visit to the seaside, a change of hairstyle, and a gypsy's prophecy conspire to make her think again. Producer PETER WINDOWS BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
R. S. Surtees
Unknown:
Archie Campbell
Read By:
John Franklyn-Robbins
Unknown:
Miss Rosa McDermott

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