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

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Bob Finigan
Read By:
Bryan Martin
Unknown:
John Inverdale

Clay Jones calls on the expertise of Dr Stefan Buczacki ,
Fred Downham and Geoffrey Smith to answer listeners' queries.
Questions, on postcards only please, to: Gardeners' Question Time. BBC. PO Box 27, Manchester M60 1SJ Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Stefan Buczacki
Unknown:
Fred Downham
Unknown:
Geoffrey Smith
Producer:
Diana Stenson

A Bitter Farce by DELMORE SCHWARTZ
Read by Robert Rietty
Summertime: the Second World War. Mr Fish is an American schoolteacher, but. in his classroom, keeping the peace has problems of its own. Producer MITCH RAPER

Contributors

Unknown:
Delmore Schwartz
Read By:
Robert Rietty
Unknown:
Mr Fish
Producer:
Mitch Raper

Let Neil Landor , with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC Reference Library, sort out the answers to your queries.
Questions, on postcards only please, to: Enquire Within, BBC,
Broadcasting House. London WIA IAA Producer ANDREW PARFITT

Contributors

Unknown:
Neil Landor
Producer:
Andrew Parfitt

John Howard reports on topical issues and how they could affect you and your family.
Jenny Lacey presents the second of a fortnightly series of reports which look at current teaching methods, and provides parents with an education checklist. Today: Infant Schools

Contributors

Unknown:
John Howard
Unknown:
Jenny Lacey

A serial in nine episodes by GARETH JONES with Madlen and Meg Wynn Owen
2: The Conjurer's Women
Having saved Rhiannon's baby, Gruffydd has been hailed as the new conjurer of Cwmystwyth. Ffowlke has arrested Hywel Bevan in an attempt to curry favour with the Jacobite rebels.
Directed by ADRIAN MOURBY BBC Wales. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Gareth Jones
Unknown:
Meg Wynn Owen
Directed By:
Adrian Mourby
Gruffydd:
Philip Madoc
Sir John Ffowlke:
Peter Halliday
Rhiannon Bevan:
Lisabeth Miles
Hywel Bevan:
Robert Blythe
Iolo:
John Davies
Mihangel:
Mark Durbin
TalbOt:
Graham Blockey
Thomas Jenkins:
Gareth Armstrong
Jailer:
David Charles
Thomas Powell:
Gerald James
Morgan Brewer:
Maurice Elliott

1.55 Listening Corner Goes to Northern Ireland The Three Bears
2.5 Looking at Nature Inside the Body. Stereo
2.20 Quest: Jesus
6: The Entry into Jerusalem with PAUL COPLEY as Jesus PATRICK TROUGHTON as Caiaphas Presented by ROSEMARY HARTILL Written by ARTHUR SCHOLEY. Stereo
2.40 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry) The Boy Who Drove the Sun by GARETH OWEN (R)
2.50 Something to Think About The Baby Who Couldn't Cry by ILLONA LINTHWAITE

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Copley
Unknown:
Patrick Troughton
Presented By:
Rosemary Hartill
Written By:
Arthur Scholey.
Unknown:
Gareth Owen

Marie by BRIAN MCAVERA with Marie's decision might seem easy but it is 1968 and the place is Belfast. She is 29, she has a good job and neither of the men in her life really feels right. But is independence possible or even what she wants?
Directed by PENNY GOLD (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian McAvera
Directed By:
Penny Gold
Marie:
Maggie Shevlin
James:
Desmond McAleer
Eddie:
Derek Halllgan
Mum:
Trudy Kelly
Mr Prentice:
Ian McElhinney
JOSie:
Libby Smith
Bill/Announcer:
Niall Cusack
Sam/Commentator:
George Shane
Frank:
Paul Harden
Jim:
Neil Irwin

With a Poet's Eye
The Tate Gallery in London recently held a competition for poems inspired by the paintings there. Kevin Crossley-Holland, in a series of seven programmes, takes a stroll round the Gallery, discusses the pictures and presents some of the prize-winning poems from the anthology along with the work of poets who were included by invitation.
1: At First Sight
Readers liane AUKIN
NATASHA PYNE and BRIAN SMITH Producer ALEC REID BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Smith
Producer:
Alec Reid

In the second often programmes Alexander Walker recalls the screen careers of the cinema's brightest stars.
This week: Katharine Hepburn whose assessment of her own first screen test was typically forthright: 'My God, I never saw any girl who looked more desperate to win fame in the movies.'
Producer WENDY CLAY
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 12.27pm)

Contributors

Producer:
Wendy Clay

Four programmes in which
Bel Mooney discusses women's attitudes towards equality 2: A Woman at Home
Pam Evans has opted to stay at home and find fulfilment through her children.
Feminism, she feels, is a doctrine of unhappy women who seek success in a man's world while ignoring the values of home and children. Producer MARY PRICE BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrowat 9.35am)

A series of five programmes exploring current thinking in psychology
2: Public Opinion
How accurate are opinion polls and what influence do they have? Why are they sometimes wide of the mark? Is there a better way of discovering public opinion?
Peter Evans introduces the topic, and chairs a discussion between:
David Butler , Fellow of Nuffield College,
Oxford Barbara Mostyn. psychologist and market researcher and Robert Worcester , Chairman of MORI
Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN
* INFO: page 7718

Contributors

Introduces:
Peter Evans
Unknown:
David Butler
Unknown:
Oxford Barbara Mostyn.
Unknown:
Robert Worcester
Producer:
Daniel Snowman

The first of five programmes When East Meets East
In 1997 the British colony of Hong Kong returns to China under an agreement that there will be one country but two systems. But can the five million people of Hong Kong really expect to maintain their freewheeling capitalist ways alongside the thousand million Chinese living under communism? David Wheeler reports on the political issues. Producer ANNE WINDER
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1 1.0am)

Contributors

Producer:
Anne Winder

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