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Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With SIMON ROSE
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
With JOHN INVERDALE
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Presented By:
Sue MacGregor
Read By:
Pauline Bushnell
Unknown:
John Inverdale
Editor:
Julian Holland

Presented by Louise Botting
The programme that keeps you in touch with what's happening in the field of personal savings and the financial problems of everyday life.
Details from: Money Box, Room 4099. BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A4WW

Contributors

Presented By:
Louise Botting

A Contract and the Small Print
Written and read by Andy Smith
Willie is not a nice man.
Willie would do anything for money. But there are some offers which make even Willie pause for thought.... Producer MITCH RAPER

Contributors

Read By:
Andy Smith
Producer:
Mitch Raper

Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners
Presented by D. J. Enright Readers PATRICK ROMER and JUNE BARRIE Producer
MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol
Requests to: Poetry Please'

Contributors

Presented By:
D. J. Enright
Presented By:
Readers Patrick Romer
Presented By:
June Barrie
Producer:
Margaret Bradley

A History of Pantomime in seven parts
Narrated by Richard Briers 6: With a Wst, Wst, Wst
Stars of the music-halls 'invade' pantomime and cause a middle-class outcry against its new-found vulgarity. Performers:
Janice Cramer , Robert Daws Carmen Lynn , Charles West and Roy Hudd as Dan Leno Pit Band and Singers under the musical direction of COLIN SELL
Written and compiled by GERALD FROW
Series conceived by JOHN DYAS
Producer JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 6.30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Briers
Unknown:
Janice Cramer
Unknown:
Robert Daws
Unknown:
Carmen Lynn
Unknown:
Charles West
Unknown:
Roy Hudd
Unknown:
Dan Leno
Unknown:
John Dyas
Producer:
Jonathan James-Moore

1.55 Listening Corner This week: Mending, Mixing and Fixing Presented by SANDRA KERR and TONY AITKEN Storyteller BILL PATERSON Today: Andrew McAndrew and Grandad Bluebells by BERNARD MACLAVERTY Script by LEE PRESSMAN Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN. S(ereo
2.5 Playtime Little Creatures Presented by CHRISTOPHER BRAMWELL and LOLA YOUNG (R) (Re-broadcast on Thursday at 10.10 am)
2.20 Introducing Science Sciencescope
8: Lifting Off. Stereo
2.40 Topic Songbook (8) Stereo (R)
2.45 Radio Club Join TOMMY ROYD and the Radio Club for an action-packed programme full of information, competitions, jokes and drama for junior schools. Producer ELERI JONES (Re-broadcast on Wed at 11.45 am)

Contributors

Presented By:
Sandra Kerr
Presented By:
Tony Aitken
Storyteller:
Bill Paterson
Unknown:
Andrew McAndrew
Unknown:
Bernard MacLaverty
Script By:
Lee Pressman
Producer:
Mary Kalemkerian.
Presented By:
Christopher Bramwell
Presented By:
Lola Young
Unknown:
Tommy Royd
Producer:
Eleri Jones

Introduced by Jenni Murray 'My mum has a boyfriend....: how do children cope with the prospect of a parent's second marriage? ANDREA ADAMS explores the emotional and practical problems.
Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
Serial: Blue Remembered Hills by ROSEMARY SUTCUFF
Abridged in seven episodes by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Read by Elizabeth Spriggs (3)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jenni Murray
Unknown:
Andrea Adams
Editor:
Sandra Chalmers
Unknown:
Rosemary Sutcuff
Unknown:
Pat McLoughlin
Read By:
Elizabeth Spriggs

Last in the present series.
Without hesitation, the least repetitious and most undeviating programme on radio with Kenneth Williams Clement Freud
Peter Jones and Derek Nimmo In the thick, the Chair, and frequent confusion Nicholas Parsons
Devised by IAN MESSITER
Producer PETE ATKIN. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Peter Jones
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo
Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
Pete Atkin.

Taken Out by GREG CULLEN
There are three kinds of victims in a war: the bereaved, the survivors and the dead.
A party of relatives arrives on the Falkland Islands to honour the graves of their fallen. But peace has eluded all who were involved in that conflict. The scars are all too visible still.
Other parts played by PETER ACRE GRAHAM BLOCKEY and BRIAN SMITH of the BBC Radio Drama Repertory Company
Directed by ADRIAN MOURBY. Stereo
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Contributors

Unknown:
Greg Cullen
Played By:
Peter Acre
Played By:
Graham Blockey
Played By:
Brian Smith
Directed By:
Adrian Mourby.
Peter:
Roger Wooster
Christine:
Louise Osborn
Joan:
Tessa Gearing
Barry:
Ian Kerry
Lyn:
David Coslett

Ninety-four this year,
Lady Olwen Carey Evans is the last surviving offspring of the man who has been called the greatest British statesman of the 20th century.
At home in Wales, she talks to June Knox-Mawer about life with her remarkable father, David Lloyd George.
Producer CLARE SELERIE-GREY (Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Lady Olwen Carey Evans
Unknown:
David Lloyd George.
Producer:
Clare Selerie-Grey

Paul Vaughan presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer ANNE HINDS
Editor THOMAS SUTCUFFE
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Producer:
Anne Hinds
Editor:
Thomas Sutcuffe

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