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

Contributors

Presented By:
Sue MacGregor
Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Read By:
Eugene Fraser
Unknown:
Garry Richardson
Editor:
Julian Holland

Presented by Louise Botting
The programme that keeps you in touch with what's happening in the field of personal savings, investment, mortgages, insurance, social security and the financial problems of everyday life.
Details from: Money Box, Room 4099, BBC Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW

Contributors

Presented By:
Louise Botting

Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners Presented by Kevin Crossley-Holland Readers BARBARA JEFFORD and ANDREW SACHS
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBCBristol
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Presented By:
Kevin Crossley-Holland
Presented By:
Readers Barbara Jefford
Producer:
Margaret Bradley

The nationwide general knowledge contest for schools. Second Round
11: Midlands v West
Pilgrim Upper School, Bedford v West Buckland School, Barnstaple
Questionmasters
Tim Gudgin and Paddy Feeny Questions set by NIGEL RICHARDSON and DAVID SELF Producer GRAHAM FROST

Contributors

Unknown:
Tim Gudgin
Unknown:
Nigel Richardson

1.55 Listening Comer This week: Let's Have a Party Presented by KIM CLIFFORD Storyteller CHRISTOPHER LlLLICRAP Today's story: The Trouble with Jack by SHIRLEY HUGHES Script by MARY KALEMKERIAN (R)
2.5 Playtime: Inside Outside Presented by DEV SAGOO and TONI ARTHUR (R) (Re-broadcast on Thursat 10.10am)
2.20 Introducing Science Unit 3, Programme 2 Our Stars in Space (R)
2.40 Radio Shop A weekly review of educational material on sale For 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 11.45 am)

Contributors

Presented By:
Kim Clifford
Presented By:
Storyteller Christopher
Unknown:
Shirley Hughes
Script By:
Mary Kalemkerian
Presented By:
Dev Sagoo

Introduced by Liz Hodgkinson Rover Come Home: MARGARET HORSFIELD among the lost and lonely at Battersea Dogs' Home.
Serial:
The Journal of Edwin Carp by RICHARD HAYDN
Read by Ian Lavender (6) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Liz Hodgkinson
Unknown:
Margaret Horsfield
Read By:
Ian Lavender
Editor:
Sandra Chalmers

by EMLYN WILLIAMS adapted for radio by BARBARA COUPER with The faith which began in the hills of Palestine is rekindled in a small Welsh village at the end of the Crimean War.
Directed by ENYD WILLIAMS (R) Stereo (Nextplay. 'Night Must Fall', next Saturday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Emlyn Williams
Unknown:
Barbara Couper
Directed By:
Enyd Williams
Dilys Parry:
Sian Phillips
Ambrose Ellis:
Freddie Jones
Pitter:
Nigel Stock
Bet:
Lisabeth Miles
Menna:
Angharad Rees
Mrs Lake ,:
Margot Boyd
Evan:
Stewart Jones

Another neck-andneck race to answer questions about the week's news, between Punch's Alan Coren and Private Eye's Ian Hislop. and their guests Bill Tidy and Janet Street Porter.
Back at the starting block, your Chairman Barry Took Compiled by JOHN LANGDON and the producer HARRY THOMPSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Coren
Unknown:
Ian Hislop.
Unknown:
Janet Street
Unknown:
John Langdon
Producer:
Harry Thompson

'I think that at its best opera is the most complete art. It's very easy to do badly. It's very hard to do well, because it involves so many different parts that have to be on the same level before you can get the totality you all have to strive for.'
Mark Elder , Music Director of English National Opera, talks to Sue MacGregor about his life and work.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Elder
Unknown:
Sue MacGregor

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An occasional series in which Edward Blakeman presents portraits of some of the world's great flute players, illustrated with some of their recordings. Today William Bennet plays music by Mozart, Handel, Richard Rodney Bennett and Boehm.
Producer ANDREW LYLE
(First broadcast on BBC World Service)

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Blakeman
Unknown:
William Bennet
Unknown:
Richard Rodney Bennett
Producer:
Andrew Lyle

Paul Vaughan presents tonight's edition which includes interviews, news and reviews of books, film, plays, music, broadcasting and exhibitions. Producer KEVIN JACKSON Editor THOMAS SUTCLIFFE

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Producer:
Kevin Jackson
Editor:
Thomas Sutcliffe

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