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Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
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
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought far the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND

Contributors

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

Presented by Louise Botting
The programme with the latest news from the world of personal finance. Money Box keeps a watching brief on your money problems including pensions, tax, social security and investment in general.
Details from: Money Box, Room 4099, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW

Contributors

Presented By:
Louise Botting

Remember My Name by BRENDAN O'BYRNE
Read by Sean Barrett
A young Irishman comes ashore in New York at the end of World War n. He is entertained lavishly.... but button-holed by a young man determined to pick his brains. Who is the inquisitive stranger? Producer MITCH RAPER

Contributors

Unknown:
Brendan O'Byrne
Read By:
Sean Barrett
Producer:
Mitch Raper

Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners Presented by Kevin Crossley-Holland Readers BARBARA JEFFORD and ANDREW SACHS
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC. Bristol BS82LR

Contributors

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

The nationwide general knowledge contest for schools Second Round
12: North 2 v Wales Thorncliffe School, Barrow-in-Furness v Oakdale Comprehensive School, Blackwood, Gwent Questionmasters Tim Gudgin and Paddy Feeny Questions set by NIGEL RICHARDSON and DAVID SELF Producer GRAHAM FROST

Contributors

Unknown:
Gwent Questionmasters
Unknown:
Tim Gudgin
Unknown:
Nigel Richardson

1.55 Listening Comer This week: Scrub-a-Dub-Dub Presented by FRED HARRIS Storyteller WENDY CRAIG Today's story: Harry the Dirty Dog by GENE ZION Script by RUTH CRAFT
2.5 Playtime Big and Small Presented by SHIREEN SHAH and IAIN LAUCHLAN (R) (Re-broadcast on Thursat 10.10am)
2.20 Introducing Science Unit 3
3: Atoms and Energy (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.

Contributors

Presented By:
Fred Harris
Presented By:
Storyteller Wendy Craig
Script By:
Ruth Craft
Presented By:
Shireen Shah

Introduced by Chris Burns ofBBC Radio Bedfordshire Blow Out! Sexy, brash, screaming, sensual - the saxophone is one of the most expressive and versatile instruments. Women musicians from Ivy Benson to Barbara Thompson tell JULIA EISNER what its magic is for them. Serial:
The Journal of Edwin Carp by RICHARD HAYDN abridged in 11 episodes by MONICA GREY
Read by Ian Lavender (11) (Music: Alban's Variations on a German Theme)
Editor SANDRA CHALMERS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Chris Burns
Unknown:
Barbara Thompson
Unknown:
Julia Eisner
Unknown:
Richard Haydn
Read By:
Ian Lavender
Editor:
Sandra Chalmers

Immersing themselves in the depths of the week's news, Richard Ingrams and Alan Coren with their guests
John Wells and Geoffrey Dickinson. Floundering in the shallow end, your Chairman Barry Took. Compiled by JOHN LANGDON and the producer HARRY THOMPSON Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Ingrams
Unknown:
Alan Coren
Unknown:
John Wells
Unknown:
Geoffrey Dickinson.
Unknown:
Barry Took.
Unknown:
John Langdon
Producer:
Harry Thompson

Patrick Devlin: barrister; youngest High Court judge in living memory; author of several books - his latest, about the trial of Dr Bodkin Adams over which he presided, was published earlier this year. Today, as Lord Devlin celebrates his 80th birthday, he talks to Joshua Rozenberg, who asks why he retired from the law so young.

Contributors

Interviewee:
Patrick Devlin
Interviewer:
Joshua Rozenberg
Producer:
Anthony Moncrieff

The Queen's Arms by ALAN BERRIE
The Queen's Arms pub has been going downhill ever since Sam and Marge took it over. It has only been saved from closure by the hard work and loyalty of its Irish barman. Denis. But the major political events of early 1982 herald great changes - for the country, the pub and Denis.
Pianist MARY NASH
Directed by ROBERT COOPER
(Re-broadcast next Sunday) Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Berrie
Directed By:
Robert Cooper
Sam:
Joss Ackland
Denis:
Dermot Crowley
Marge:
Maggie McCarthy
Mits:
Tony Caunter
Rose:
Clare Kelly
Jack Strong:
Timothy Bateson
Charlie Windows:
John Hollis
Jo:
Adrian Dunbar
Mickser:
John Keegan
Wally Post:
Robert Puit
Sal:
Charlotte Mitchell
Sid:
Edward Kelsey
Hacker:
Tim Barker
Grandad:
Ronald Herdman
Roy:
Julian Firth
Ernie:
Shaun Prendergast
Gary:
Jamie Roberts
Wendy:
Tessa Worsley

Palace of Green Days byFREDURQUHART abridged in ten parts by TREVOR ROYLE
Read by Gwyneth Guthrie Scotland 1918: the story of three children growing up on a large country estate where their father is chauffeur to the Marquis of Bencraigon Producer MARILYN IMRIE BBC Scotland

Contributors

Unknown:
Trevor Royle
Producer:
Marilyn Imrie

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