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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 BRIAN PERKINS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Presented By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Bob Finigan
Read By:
Brian Perkins

Six talks on Spain by Ray Gosling
3: Catholic Kings
'We let our Empire go - but Spain remembers. In my Malaga hotel, every room is named -
Filipinas or Argentina, Haiti or Texas. Says the owner, "They're all part of La Hispanidad. " In Spain, everywhere - Venezuela, El Salvador , Formosa, Nevada - is remembered....' BBC Manchester (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Ray Gosling
Unknown:
La Hispanidad.
Unknown:
El Salvador

The Man on the Telephone by MARY FREEMAN
Read by Jonathan Cecil 'The stranger's voice is charming - his manner is impeccable. For a woman like
Cordelia - an addict of romantic novels - the combination is irresistible.'
Producer MITCH RAPER

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Freeman
Read By:
Jonathan Cecil
Producer:
Mitch Raper

Flea Business
Despite an unpopular press, the flea is an achiever of remarkable feats - seven-inch high jumps, 13-inch long jumps and chariot racingpar excellence.
John Maunder speaks up for the fabulous flea.
Producer MELINDA BARKER BBC Bristol (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Maunder
Producer:
Melinda Barker

1.55 Listening Corner CHRISTOPHER LILLICRAP reads Walter Crumpton Goes Skating with the Penguins by KATE WILKINSON
2.5 Let's Join In with Soundbox The Most Astonishing Birthday Present by JEAN PLAISTOW
2.25 Listen and Read Radio Thin King Stories On the Paint Trail by DEREK FARMER
2.40 Listen! Armada Rock by CHRISTOPHER RUSSELL
2: Boat Ride into Danger (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Lillicrap
Unknown:
Walter Crumpton
Unknown:
Kate Wilkinson
Unknown:
Christopher Russell

Introduced from Bristol by Jenni Murray
Diamond for the Countryside: film producer DAVID PUTTNAM takes on a starring role - as newly-elected President of the Council for the Protection of Rural England. For their
Diamond Jubilee Year, he's supported by a glittering cast. Producer JILL MARSHALL BBC Bristol
Serial: The Reason Why (2)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jenni Murray
Producer:
David Puttnam
Producer:
Jill Marshall

by HONORE DE BALZAC dramatised in four parts by JOAN O'CONNOR
3: In Search of Destiny
For the sake of the Republican soldiers slaughtered at
Vivetieres, Marie de Verneuil is determined to find Montauran and to bring his head to the scaffold. She still loves him, but swears to be revenged on the man she thinks responsible for the terrible massacre.
Directed by JANE MORGAN. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan O'Connor
Directed By:
Jane Morgan.
Anne Louise Lambert:
Marie de Vemeuil
Andrew Seear:
The Marquis de Montauran
Philip Voss:
Commandant Hulot
Corentin:
Hugh Dickson
Christopher Benjamin:
Comte De Beauvan
Richard Durden:
Abbe Gudin
Father Lambolle:
Garard Green
Francine:
Natasha Pyne
First guard:
Ronald Herdman
Second guard:
Adrian Egan
d'Orgemont:
Peter Woodthorpe
Pille-Miche:
Shaun Prendergast
Marche a Terre:
Robin Summers
Madame du Gua:
Avril Clark
Barbette:
Tessa Worsley
Capt Beau-Pied:
Gordon Reid
Big Cibot:
John Church
Innkeeper's wife:
Pauline Letts

Sentimentality
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

Makers of the law, legal practitioners and those who serve the administration of justice all contribute to the first edition of a new series of this topical weekly magazine about issues thrown up by the Courts and by Parliament.
Presented by Joshua Rozenberg Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF (Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Contributors

Presented By:
Joshua Rozenberg
Producer:
Anthony Moncrieff

Sir David English , Editor Daily Mail
Nicholas Hinton , Director-General, Save the Children Fund
John Edmonds , General
Secretary, General. Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union (GMBATU) and Marghanita Laski , novelist and journalist tackle the issues raised by the audience in Swindon, Wiltshire
Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir David English
Unknown:
Nicholas Hinton
Unknown:
John Edmonds
Unknown:
Marghanita Laski
Unknown:
John Timpson
Producer:
Carole Stone

Presented by Sheridan Morley Including reviews of English
National Opera's production of Rossini's Moses and of The Sure Thing, a romantic comedy film. Producer RICHARD DUNN
(Re-broadcast next Monday)

Contributors

Presented By:
Sheridan Morley
Producer:
Richard Dunn

Praises
The last of three stories by ELIZABETH TAYLOR
Miss Smythe of the Gown
Department has led a glamorous life serving the highest in the land, but now the Clearance Sale has begun.
(Starting on Monday: Wind. Sandand Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery )

Contributors

Stories By:
Elizabeth Taylor
Unknown:
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with Bill Wallis , David Tate
Sally Grace and Jon Glover Written by MARTIN BOOTH
PAUL B. DA VIES. RICHARD QUICK
STUART SILVER. PETE SINCLAIR
IAN BROWN. DA VID COHEN.
PETERHICKEY JOHN MORRISH , ALISON RENSHAW and others
Producer PAUL SPENCER. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 5.25 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
David Tate
Unknown:
Sally Grace
Unknown:
Jon Glover
Written By:
Martin Booth
Written By:
Paul B. Da
Unknown:
Pete Sinclair
Unknown:
Ian Brown.
Unknown:
Peterhickey John Morrish
Unknown:
Alison Renshaw
Producer:
Paul Spencer.

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