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Presented by Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FIMGAN
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Unknown:
Bob Fimgan
Read By:
Bryan Martin

Colin Semper airs your complaints and queries about the BBC, its programmes and policies.
Send comments to: Feedback. BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW
Producer SALLY THOMPSON
(Re-broadcast on Sunday at 6.15pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Colin Semper
Producer:
Sally Thompson

Rich and Strange by PETER SOMERVILLE-LARGE Read by Sean Barrett
The family is on holiday and the weather unbearably hot. One of the children is in tears. But why is she crying - or rather, for whom?
Producer MITCH RAPER

Contributors

Read By:
Sean Barrett
Producer:
Mitch Raper

from St Paul 's Church, Birmingham with the Birmingham School of Music Chamber Choir directed by JOHN BISHOP
Beloved, let us love (BBC HB 373); Psalm 139, vv 1-11 (Martin);
Lord Christ who on thy heart didst bear (BBC HB 380);
Colossians 1, vv 21-23a (Phillips) BBC Birmingham Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
St Paul
Directed By:
John Bishop

Stoddart Down Under
During the southern summer ' 1985, 350,000 Tasmanian mutton , bird chicks were slaughtered on the islands of the Bass Strait. But Australia's most exploited bird is also its most abundant. Mike Stoddart finds out why. BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Mike Stoddart

Derek Cooper , doughty defender of the consumer's right to edible, credible and enjoyable food, opens the seventh season of The Food Programme by prodding our daily bread and separating the floury skills of the miller from the flowery language of the ad-men.
Producer JOHN FORSYTH
(Re-broadcast next Tuesday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Cooper
Producer:
John Forsyth

1.55 Listening Corner Let's Play it Again Presented by SYD RALPH Script by HELEN LLOYD
2.5 Let's Join In with Soundbox The Enchanted Garden by MARGARET THOMAS
2.25 Listen and Read Radio Thin King (27) by DEREK FARMER (R)
2.40 Listen! Journey through Badlidrempt(7) (R)

Contributors

Presented By:
Syd Ralph
Script By:
Helen Lloyd
Garden By:
Margaret Thomas

Introduced from Cardiff by Sesi McCombie
BRONWEN NAISH has coped with bringing up a family of five children and has overcome personal tragedy to establish herself as a successful instrumentalist. She tells her story. And a medieval house in the heart of Wales turns out to have hidden secrets. Producer MARK OWEN BBC Wales
Serial: The Journal of Edwin Carp (5)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sesi McCombie
Unknown:
Bronwen Naish

by D. H. LAWRENCE dramatised in six parts by ROY SPENCER to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of D. H. Lawrence
1: The People ofNethermere
Nottinghamshire, June 1900. In the valley of Nethermere two boyhood friends share memories of the past and dreams for the future. But for Cyril, a schoolteacher and writer from a middle-class family, the prospects look rosier than for George, who works on the small farm his family lease from the squire.
Pianist MARLENE FLEET Music research
BRENDA and JACK BRONSON
Directed by VANESSA WHITBURN BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
D. H. Lawrence
Unknown:
Roy Spencer
Unknown:
D. H. Lawrence
Unknown:
Jack Bronson
Directed By:
Vanessa Whitburn
Lettie Beardsall:
Kathryn Hurlbutt
George Saxton:
Ben Roberts
Cyril Beardsall:
Brian Smith
D H Lawrence:
Roy Spencer
Leslie Tempest:
Alister Cameron
Emily Saxton:
Jane Galloway
Mrs Beardsall:
Patricia Gallimore
Mr Beardsall:
Edwin Richfield
Alice Gall:
Gillian Goodman
Mr Saxton:
Roger Hume
Mrs Saxton:
Gwen Cherrell
Mollie Saxton:
Tammi Jacobs
Rebecca:
Rosalie Williams
Mrs May:
June Tobin

Another edition of this topical weekly magazine about issues thrown up by the courts and by parliament.
Presented by Joshua Rozenberg Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF
(Re-broadcast on Sunday at 8. 5 pm)

Contributors

Presented By:
Joshua Rozenberg
Producer:
Anthony Moncrieff

The Rt Rev Hugh Monteflore , Bishop of Birmingham
Mrs Lynda Chalker, mp, Minister of State, Department of Transport
Graham Dowson , industrialist and Bill Morris , Deputy General Secretary designate, Transport and General Workers' Union, tackle the issues raised by an audience in Walsall, West Midlands
Chairman John Timpson
Producer CAROLE STONE. BBC Bristol (Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.10 pm)
0 FEATURE: page 16

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh Monteflore
Unknown:
Graham Dowson
Unknown:
Bill Morris
Unknown:
John Timpson
Producer:
Carole Stone.

Sheridan Morley presents tonight's edition which includes interviews, news and reviews of books, film, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Producer BRIAN BARFIELD (Re-broadcast on Monday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sheridan Morley
Producer:
Brian Barfield

An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with Bill Wallis , David Tate
Sally Grace and Jon Glover Written by RICHARD QUICK . PAUL B DAVIES STUART SILVER. MARTIN BOOTH IAN BROWN. JAMES
HENDRIE PETE SINCLAIR. STEVE PUNT. DAVID COHEN. PETER HICKEY and others Producer PAUL MAYHEW ARCHER
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 5.25pm) Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
David Tate
Unknown:
Sally Grace
Unknown:
Jon Glover
Written By:
Richard Quick
Written By:
Paul B Davies
Unknown:
Martin Booth
Unknown:
Ian Brown.
Unknown:
Hendrie Pete Sinclair.
Unknown:
David Cohen.
Unknown:
Peter Hickey
Producer:
Paul Mayhew Archer

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