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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 PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
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:
Peter Donaldson
Unknown:
Garry Richardson

Chris Dunkley airs your comments and pursues your complaints and queries about BBC programmes and policies. Send them to: Feedback,
BBC. Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
Producer JOHN EDWARDS
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Dunkley
Producer:
John Edwards

Semolino by H. A. VACHELL
Read by David March
The new waiter has only just started work, but already he's liked by everyone. One of his fans, in fact, presents a somewhat serious problem! Producer MITCH RAPER

Contributors

Unknown:
H. A. Vachell
Read By:
David March
Producer:
Mitch Raper

Guest in a Nest
Cuckoos aren't the only uninvited guests banqueting in a reluctant neighbour's hall.
Moorhens, starlings, ducks and a host of tropical tricksters have all been caught entering and breaking.
Clive Catchpole joins the squat Producer GEORGE MONBIOT BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Clive Catchpole

The second of two programmes. An entertainment of songs about and around the subject of parents and children, adults and childhood. Performers
Tim Brown , Janice Cramer Robert Cushman Brenda Longman and at the piano colin SELL with ALAN GRAHAME (percussion) and BRIAN BROCKLEHURST (double-bass)
Devised by ROBERT CUSHMAN and COLIN SELL
Producer JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Tim Brown
Unknown:
Janice Cramer
Unknown:
Robert Cushman
Unknown:
Brenda Longman
Unknown:
Alan Grahame
Double-Bass:
Brian Brocklehurst
Unknown:
Robert Cushman

1.55 Listening Corner Goes to Northern Ireland The Laughing Trumpet
2.5 Let's Join In with Soundbox Beauty and the Beast by ANGELA CARTER (R)
2.25 Listen and Read Radio Thin King Stories The Boat That Wouldn't Float by DEREK FARMER
2.40 Listen! Armada Rock by CHRISTOPHER RUSSELL 6: Suspicions (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Angela Carter
Unknown:
Christopher Russell

Introduced from Birmingham by Marjorie Lofthouse
KAY ALEXANDER reports from the Foreign Exchange Dealing
Room of one of Birmingham's international banks, where mistakes can cost fortunes. A Week's Education or a Lifeline? PENNY SEARLE discovers that for some child patients, the hospital school is a vital link with normality.
Producer ANN TENNANT BBC Birmingham
Serial: Enquiry (9)

Contributors

Unknown:
Marjorie Lofthouse
Unknown:
Kay Alexander
Producer:
Ann Tennant

by THOMAS HARDY dramatised for radio in six parts by ELIZABETH NORTH with Michael Pennington as Jude Fawley
Elizabeth Garvie as Sue Bridehead
4: The Usual Tragedy of Love
Dashed down by Sue's marriage to Phillotson, Jude returns to Christminster and to the stonemason's trade. He becomes the butt of jokes in the local public houses for his drunken speechifying. Arabella, the wife of his disastrous first marriage, has returned from Australia, destitute and determined to reclaim him.... with the voices of RICHARD MORGAN. DAVID SHARP and HUBERT TUCKER
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Hardy
Unknown:
Michael Pennington
Unknown:
Jude Fawley
Unknown:
Elizabeth Garvie
Unknown:
Richard Morgan.
Unknown:
Hubert Tucker
Directed By:
Brian Miller
Man:
Ian MacFarlane
Widow Edlin:
June Barrie
Phillotson:
John Normington
Gillingham:
John Church
Child:
Debbie Papworth

This week Leonard Pearcey talks to Dr Malcolm Arnold about some of his compositions from 'The Tam O'Shanter
Overture' to 'The Bridge on the River Kwai March' and plays some of his music
Producer RICHARD WILLCOX Stereo. (R) Revised

Contributors

Talks:
Leonard Pearcey
Unknown:
Dr Malcolm Arnold

Clive Jacobs and the team monitor the movements in the world of travel and transport and examine the implications for you the customer.
This week Tom Boswell tests the Fiat Uno 45 Super Producer HELEN ROBSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Clive Jacobs
Unknown:
Tom Boswell
Producer:
Helen Robson

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

Contributors

Presented By:
Joshua Rozenberg
Producer:
Anthony Moncrieff

The Rt Hon Norman Tebbit , MP Chairman, Conservative Party The Rt Hon David Steel , mp, Leader, Liberal Party
The Rt Hon Gerald Kaufman , mp, Shadow Home Secretary and Ann Leslie , journalist tackle the issues raised by the audience in Bideford, Devon Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 10pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman Tebbit
Unknown:
David Steel
Unknown:
Gerald Kaufman
Unknown:
Ann Leslie
Unknown:
John Timpson
Producer:
Carole Stone

Robert Hewison presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer ANNE HINDS
(Re-broadcast nert Monday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Hewison
Producer:
Anne Hinds

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. DAVIES . RICHARD QUICK , STUART SILVER , PETE SINCLAIR. IAN BROWN. DAVID COHEN ,
PETER HICKEY JOHN MORRISH , ALISON RENSHAW and others Producer HARRY THOMPSON Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 5.25pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
David Tate
Unknown:
Sally Grace
Unknown:
Jon Glover
Written By:
Martin Booth
Written By:
Paul B. Davies
Written By:
Richard Quick
Unknown:
Stuart Silver
Unknown:
Pete Sinclair.
Unknown:
Ian Brown.
Unknown:
David Cohen
Unknown:
Peter Hickey John Morrish
Unknown:
Alison Renshaw
Producer:
Harry Thompson

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