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Presented by Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday
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:
Sue MacGregor
Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Unknown:
Bob Finigan
Read By:
Peter Donaldson
Unknown:
Garry Richardson

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

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Dunkley
Producer:
John Edwards

The Face of Winter by JAMES HANLEY
Read by Garard Green
A landscape in words, in which winter weather moves through a tiny village, bringing with it good times and bad, before moving on again.
Producer MITCH RAPER

Contributors

Unknown:
James Hanley
Read By:
Garard Green
Producer:
Mitch Raper

Featuring
Dave Hollins , Space Cadet:
'My biggest problem is going space crazy through loneliness. The only thing that keeps me sane is my collection of onions.' Starring Christopher Barrie Nick Maloney and Nick Wilton
Achieved classic status
(THE OBSERVER)
Written by ROB GRANT and DOUG NAYLOR Producer ALAN NIXON Stereo (R) Revised

Contributors

Unknown:
Dave Hollins
Unknown:
Christopher Barrie
Unknown:
Nick Maloney
Unknown:
Nick Wilton
Written By:
Rob Grant
Written By:
Doug Naylor
Producer:
Alan Nixon

1.55 Listening Corner Goes to Wales Today: Mel the Milkman and Doro the Dragon Prepare for St David 's Day Stereo
2.5 Let's Join In Dick Whittington (R)
2.25 Listen and Read Radio Thin King Stories A Cat Called Rover by WENDY BODY
2.40 Listen! Armada Rock by CHRISTOPHER RUSSELL 7: Intruders (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
St David
Unknown:
Dick Whittington
Unknown:
Christopher Russell

Introduced from Manchester by Helen Boaden who meets Janina Bauman , author of a new book which recalls wartime survival in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Slates and Caning Rule OK: PAT LAWRENCE joins a class of 9 year-olds who paid Id each
(the 1880 rate) to relive a day of Victorian schooling at Shugborough Hall.
Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester Serial:
Blue Remembered Hills (2)

Contributors

Unknown:
Helen Boaden
Unknown:
Janina Bauman
Unknown:
Pat Lawrence
Producer:
Diana Stenson

by Thomas Hardy, dramatised for radio in six parts by Elizabeth North

Sue can no longer go on living with Phillotson as his wife, and elopes with Jude, who is now free of Arabella. Sue, however, is intensely fearful of further entanglements, and cannot but see Jude's natural feelings for her in a brutal, barbaric light....

BBC Bristol
(Stereo)

Contributors

Author:
Thomas Hardy
Director:
Brian Miller
Jude Fawley:
Michael Pennington
Sue Bridehead:
Elizabeth Garvie
Arabella:
Elva Makins
Father Time:
Jesse Lawrence
Woman:
Barrie Shore
Widow Edlin:
June Barrie
Annie:
Hazel Ellerby
Dr Vilbert:
John Linstrum
Auctioneer:
Jerold Wells

This week Leonard Pearcey talks to American composer Professor Peter Schickele , creator of P. D. Q. Bach , and plays some of his music? Producer RICHARD WILLCOX Stereo (R) Revised

Contributors

Talks:
Leonard Pearcey
Unknown:
Professor Peter Schickele
Unknown:
P. D. Q. Bach

Written by GRAHAM HARVEY Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
(Re-broadcast on Monday at 40pm)

Contributors

Written By:
Graham Harvey
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Phil Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Shula Hebden:
Judy Bennett
David Archer:
Timothy Bentinck
Elizabeth Archer:
Alison Dowling
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Jack Woolley:
Arnold Peters
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Joe Grundy:
Edward Kelsey
Jethro Larkin:
George Hart
Neil Carter:
Brian Hewlett
Susan Carter:
Charlotte Martin
Bill Insley:
Ted Moult
Tim Beecham:
David Parfitt

The last in the present 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

Chris Patten , mp,
Minister of State, Department of Education and Science David Blunkett , Leader, Sheffield City Council
Margaret Clay, General Secretary, Association of Liberal Councillors
Ned Sherrin , writer/broadcaster tackle the issues raised by the audience in Birmingham. Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 10pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Patten
Leader:
David Blunkett
Unknown:
Ned Sherrin
Unknown:
John Timpson
Producer:
Carole Stone

Nigel Andrews presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Producer KEVIN JACKSON
(Re-broadcast next Monday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Andrews
Producer:
Kevin Jackson

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. 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
Unknown:
Pete Sinclair.
Unknown:
Ian Brown.
Unknown:
David Cohen
Unknown:
Peter Hickey.
Unknown:
John Morrish.
Unknown:
Alison Renshaw
Producer:
Harry Thompson.

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