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Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day,
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Presented By:
John Timpson
Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Bob Finigan
Read By:
Laurie MacMillan

1.55 Listening Corner CHRISTOPHER LILLICRAP reads Walter Crumpton and the Strange Noise by KATE WILKINSON
2.5 The Song Tree
2: Robot Rabbit Reggae Written by BARRY GIBSON. Stereo
2.20 Living Language The Endless Steppe (1) by ESTHER HAUTZIG adapted by JACKIE GRAYDON. Stereo
2.40 Newscast A current affairs series for schools and colleges Presented by UBBY FAWBERT

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Lillicrap
Unknown:
Walter Crumpton
Unknown:
Kate Wilkinson
Written By:
Barry Gibson.
Unknown:
Esther Hautzig
Adapted By:
Jackie Graydon.
Presented By:
Ubby Fawbert

Introduced by Sue MacGregor In Canterbury Cathedral last
November, Britain's first dance graduates celebrated their degrees with a special performance. JENNY LACEY looks at the course that stretches both mind and body and asks why dance has only just received this academic status.
Serial: The Reason Why by CECIL WOODHAM-SMTH abridged in 15 episodes byPATMCLOUGHUN
Read by Robert Powell (1)
Since its publication in 1953, The Reason Why has retained its reputation as the classic and definitive analysis of the clash of personalities and lifestyles of the Earls of Cardigan and Lucan, which was to lead to the disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War.
(Music: Johnson's A History of War and Peace)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Jenny Lacey
Unknown:
Cecil Woodham-Smth
Read By:
Robert Powell

Three plays by Andrew Rissik
with Ronald Pickup as Philip Tremayne
Brenda Blethyn as Jennifer
and Patrick Troughton as Philip's father

It was not just the sunshine and cheap wine that brought Philip to Greece in the early 1960s. He needed somewhere to write and he wanted to distance himself from past events. Jennifer brings back those memories. Her arrival marks an end to Philip's isolation and, in a way, to his happiness.

(Stereo)
(Next week: 'Harriet')

Contributors

Writer:
Andrew Rissik
Director:
Jeremy Mortimer
Philip Tremayne:
Ronald Pickup
Jennifer:
Brenda Blethyn
Philip's father:
Patrick Troughton
Henderson:
Peter Woodthorpe
Priest:
Brian Smith
Consultant:
Richard Durden

Hunter Davies talks to the radical New York. based short story writer Grace Paley , and with the help of Fay Weldon and Andrew Sanders , revives the art of writing in instalments. Producer JULIAN HALE
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Contributors

Talks:
Hunter Davies
Unknown:
New York.
Unknown:
Grace Paley
Unknown:
Fay Weldon
Unknown:
Andrew Sanders
Producer:
Julian Hale

A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions?
Introduced by John Timpson
Producer CAROLE STONE. BBC Bristol Send your letters to: Any Answers? BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Producer:
Carole Stone.

Thousands of teenagers will be choosing their subjects soon for courses leading to a new exam in 1988. Margaret Percy chairs a wide-ranging discussion of the implications of the biggest change in the exam system for 20 years. The Rt Hon Sir Keith Joseph , mp, Secretary of State for Education, outlines the aims behind it. Schools up and down the country offer a chance to hear what's going on in their classrooms and in the studio to answer your questions are
Sir Wilfred Cockroft , Chairman of the Secondary Examinations Council, and Professor Ted Wragg , Director of the School of Education, Exeter University. Researcher RACHEL YORKE
Studio directors SIMON MAJOR and SARAH MCNEILL
Producer JOAN GRIFFITHS (Lines open from 7.0pm)
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Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Percy
Unknown:
Sir Keith Joseph
Unknown:
Sir Wilfred Cockroft
Unknown:
Professor Ted Wragg
Unknown:
Rachel Yorke
Unknown:
Sarah McNeill
Producer:
Joan Griffiths

Paul Vaughan presents tonight's edition which includes interviews, news and reviews of books, film, plays, music, broadcasting and exhibitions. Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Producer:
Richard Bannerman

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