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Presented by John Timpson in London and Brian Redhead in Geneva for the Arms Control Summit
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With SIMON ROSE
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
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:
John Timpson
Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Read By:
Peter Donaldson
Unknown:
Garry Richardson

Letting Go by JUDITH CUTLER
Read by Jenny Howe
'Not only must I not show what I felt, I must not change my behaviour one iota. Teachers can be automatically sacked for two offences: forging
Government registers and seducing their pupils.' Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Judith Cutler
Read By:
Jenny Howe

browses through the Sound Archives with JOHN ARLOTT. DYLAN THOMAS
PROFESSOR JOAD. ALISTAIR COOKE
JONATHAN MILLER. BRYAN FORBES and the man who lives in a cave with antmoulds in his 'residential'.
Producer HELEN FRY

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Unknown:
John Arlott.
Unknown:
Dylan Thomas
Unknown:
Jonathan Miller.
Unknown:
Bryan Forbes

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Percival's Party by JULIA HYNARD (R)
2.5 History: Not So Long Ago The Sailor by ARTHUR SCHOLEY (R)
2.25 Contact George and the Chocolate Factory by DAVID SELF
2.40 Pictures in Your Mind (Stories) The Stone Garden adapted for radio by MARY HAYDON (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Julia Hynard
Unknown:
Arthur Scholey
Unknown:
Mary Haydon

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Alarms for the Elderly
The thought of an elderly relative stranded at home, unable to call for help, haunts many of us. Do alarm systems (there are over 100 on the market) offer a real solution to living alone in safety? Serial:
The Journal of Edwin Carp (7)

The British Abroad
An occasional series of plays 3: Package Bwanas by GUY SLATER with and Erica and Tom think of themselves as compassionate liberals. A 'winter sunshine' holiday on the west coast of Africa brings them up against the confusing realities of Third World societies.
Directed by PENNY GOLD . Stereo

Contributors

Directed By:
Penny Gold
Erica:
Brenda Blethyn
Tom:
Richard Durden
Banyo:
Leo Wringer
Peter Barami:
Louis Mahoney
Salim:
Kwesikay
Adam:
Benjamin Giles

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

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Cooper
Producer:
John Forsyth

What's new in medical science? How well are the doctors looking after us? Is our money being spent to best effect? Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care -from the research laboratory and the operatingtheatretothedentist's chair and the GP's surgery. Producer GEOFF DEEHAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoff Watts
Producer:
Geoff Deehan

Graham Reid
'I think the relationships in our lives are the most important thing.... I mean the effect you can have on your parents' lives, the effect you can have on your brothers and sisters and on your friends. You can actually destroy people. You can make or break them.'
Belfast playwright
Graham Reid 's latest work for television, the series Ties of Blood, is on BBC2 tonight at 9.0. Here he talks to Lynda Henderson about his background, his writing, the 'con' of education, violence and the lure of the paramilitary. Producer MOORE SINNERTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Graham Reid
Unknown:
Graham Reid
Unknown:
Lynda Henderson
Producer:
Moore Sinnerton

News, views and information for people with a visual handicap Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Listeners can phone with enquiries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed]Lines open 8.30-10.0pm
(Free quarterly bulletin from
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Contributors

Presented By:
Peter White

BBC Radio 4 FM

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