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Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0.8.0 Today's News Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.25*, 8.25* Sport With ANDY SMITH
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Presented By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Bob Finigan
Read By:
Eugene Fraser
Unknown:
Andy Smith

by GRAHAM SEAL
Read by Heather Bell
'When the uncle came to visit, it was always with tales of the sun - Morocco and Tangiers with a hint of mystery. The boy's mother said: "You're a bit like him." But then she said: "You're a worse liar than he was!'" Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Graham Seal
Read By:
Heather Bell
Producer:
Barbara Crowther

A quarterly report on the world of unemployment with Brian Redhead.
During 1985 the number of people wanting a job in Britain has continued to grow. Jobs are being created, but most of them are part-time, more attractive to women than to men. At the same time, there have been calls at work for greater flexibility, better management and less regulation. What are the realities behind all the rhetoric? Brian Redhead reviews this year's developments and looks forward to 1986, designated Industry Year.
Consultant JOHN ATKINSON
Producer CHRISTOPHER STONE

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead.
Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
John Atkinson
Producer:
Christopher Stone

Shoals of Shockers
Did you know that more than
250 sorts offish produce electric shocks? And that the electric eel can fell a man with a quick zap of 550 volts? Terry Langford absorbs shocking facts about electric rays, eels, catfish and snoutfish.
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Terry Langford
Producer:
Anne Blair Gould

Derek Cooper rings in the new with a taste of what's to come in 1986. What delights has the food industry in store? New foods or old standbys in 'new improved' wrappers?
Producer JOHN FORSYTH
(Re-broadcast next Tuesday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Cooper
Producer:
John Forsyth

Introduced from Birmingham by Marjorie Lofthouse Ambridge Anniversary
Enthusiasts have tuned in to events at Ambridge for 35 years. MARJORIE LOFTHOUSE discovers how The Archers team create another episode in the world's longest-running radio soap. Producer ANN TENNANT BBC Birmingham
Serial: Crampton Hodnet (4)

Contributors

Unknown:
Marjorie Lofthouse
Producer:
Ann Tennant
Unknown:
Crampton Hodnet

by HONORE DE BALZAC dramatised in four parts by JOAN O'CONNOR
1: The Royalist and the Republican
The death of the King of France did not mean that the Royalists were dead, and in Brittany the people were willing to lay down their lives in the fight to reestablish the monarchy. For two people at least their political beliefs came to be at terrible odds with their personal feelings.
Directed by JANE MORGAN Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Honore de Balzac
Unknown:
Joan O'Connor
Directed By:
Jane Morgan
Marie de Verneuil:
Anne Louise Lambert
the Marquis de Montauran:
Andrew Seear
Commandant Hulot:
Philip Voss
Corentin:
Hugh Dickson
Abbe Gudin:
Richard Durden
Francine:
Natasha Pyne
Madame duGua:
Avril Clark
Marche a Terre:
Robin Summers
Adjutant Gerard:
Trevor Nichols
Captain Merle:
David Learner
Sergeant Gudin:
Christopher Scott
Innkeeper:
Ronald Herdman
Innkeeper's wife:
Pauline Letts

Success
In the first of six programmes Frank Muir and Alfred Marks skip through the comic literature of the subject, making notes in the margin of jokes, quotes, newspaper clippings and recorded humour.
Written by FRANK MUIR and SIMON BRETT
Producer PETE ATKIN Stereo (R) Revised

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Alfred Marks
Written By:
Frank Muir
Written By:
Simon Brett
Producer:
Pete Atkin

Did you hear the one about the supersonic vicar and the new boss of the Lord's Airline? No - well what about the singing bus conductress or the six-legged stowaways on the jumbo jet? Clive Jacobs invites you to meet these and some of the other characters who have had fun Going Places during the past year.
Producer IRENE MALLIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Clive Jacobs
Producer:
Irene Mallis

Twenty-five years ago two teachers at Kettering Grammar School in Northamptonshire began recording bleeps from Russian satellites. Over the years, pupils became more and more skilful at tracking Soviet space shots, often making dramatic announcements which scooped the newspapers of the world and embarrassed the Russians.
In conversation with Patrick Moore , the former head of physics at the school
Geoffrey Perry , now retired, describes how they did it, and why studying satellites made science fun.
Producer GWYN RICHARDS
BBC Birmingham (R) Revised

Contributors

Unknown:
Patrick Moore
Unknown:
Geoffrey Perry

Dr John Habgood
The Archbishop of York Sir Geoffrey Chandler ,
Director Industry Year 1986 John Prescott , mp
Joan Hall , fund raiser for the University of Buckingham, tackle the issues raised by the audience in York Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 10 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr John Habgood
Unknown:
Sir Geoffrey Chandler
Unknown:
John Prescott
Unknown:
Joan Hall
Unknown:
John Timpson
Producer:
Carole Stone

An investigative report by David Lander Whose Baby ?
Is AID an exciting development or does it mean the next generation will be produced by six medical students in Bristol? Is commercial surrogacy immoral or a form of antenatal child-minding?
David Lander tackles these questions and investigates Mallory's Babies Ltd, a firm which deals in this new 'commodity'.
Dramatic reconstructions by Jack Klaff , Phil Nice and Robert Bathurst
Studio production by STEPHEN FRY with TONY ROBINSON, JULIA HILLS , STEPHEN FROST and FELICITY MONTAGU
Research TONY SARCHET
Editor PAUL MAYHEW ARCHER (R)
(Another 'Delve Spedar tomorrow at 5.25pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
David Lander
Unknown:
Whose Baby
Unknown:
David Lander
Unknown:
Jack Klaff
Production By:
Stephen Fry
Unknown:
Tony Robinson.
Unknown:
Julia Hills
Unknown:
Stephen Frost
Editor:
Paul Mayhew Archer

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