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Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Presented By:
John Timpson
Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Bob Finigan
Read By:
Pauline Bushnell
Unknown:
Garry Richardson

The Ghost Cupboard by RONALD FRAME
Read by Ian Stewart
'He turned the card on its side, to see what it was his young wife of a few days had written to her new brother-in-law all those years ago.'
Producer JOHN ARNOTT BBC Scotland (R)

Contributors

Read By:
Ian Stewart
Producer:
John Arnott

1.55 Listening Corner Today: The Sun Takes a Holiday by SARAH MORCOM
2.5 The Song Tree
10: The Amazing Secret Music Maze Presented by HILARY JONES and SIMON MAYOR with PYEWACKETT Written by BARRY GIBSON. Stereo
2.20 Living Language The Secret Time A new play by MICHAEL MUNDELL Stereo
2.40 Newscast A current affairs series for schools and colleges Presented by LIBBY FAWBERT

Contributors

Unknown:
Sarah Morcom
Presented By:
Hilary Jones
Presented By:
Simon Mayor
Written By:
Barry Gibson.
Play By:
Michael Mundell
Presented By:
Libby Fawbert

Introduced by Jenni Murray ALISON joseph reports on a scheme in which volunteers mediate between criminals and their victims. It is one of four schemes funded by the Home Office and allows the victim to ha ve a say in the fate of the offender. Serial:
Stories by Women Writers (2) Horrors of the Road by FAY WELDON

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jenni Murray
Introduced By:
Alison Joseph
Stories By:
Women Writers

Autumn Love by STEWART LOVE John is 50 and confronted with the possibility of having to compete for his own job as a teacher because of a threatened amalgamation with a neighbouring school. This is a dispiriting experience, but his strength lies in his family life and his love for his wife and three children.
Directed by RONALD MASON
BBC Northern Ireland. Stereo
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Contributors

Unknown:
Stewart Love
Directed By:
Ronald Mason
John:
Denys Hawthorne
Mary:
Trudy Kelly
Actor:
Tom TomcRomie
Phillip:
Lianne O'Malley
Alison:
Geraldine Hughes
Opticien/woman/girl:
Stella McKusker
doctor/principal:
Anthony Finigan
Orthdonist:
Maurice O'Callaghan
Teacher/Man:
Dan Gordon

The literary critic
John Middleton Murry had a tragic and unhappy private life, the background to which only a few close friends ever understood. His elder daughter Katherine Middleton Murry talks to
Hunter Da vies about her father and how he was influenced by D. H. Lawrence and his first wife Katherine Mansfield. Producer ANGELA HIND

Contributors

Unknown:
John Middleton Murry
Talks:
Katherine Middleton Murry
Unknown:
Hunter Da
Unknown:
D. H. Lawrence
Unknown:
Katherine Mansfield.

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm) Written by GRAHAM HARVEY Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Written By:
Graham Harvey
Dan Archer:
Frank Mlddlemass
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer Aldridge:
Angela Piper
Brian:
Charles Colungwood
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Pat Archer:
Patricia Greene
Phil Archer:
Norman Painting
David Archer:
Timothy Bentinck
Elizabeth Archer:
Alison Dowung
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Sid Perks:
Alan Deveruex
Joe Grundy:
Edward Kelsey
Eddie Grundy:
Trevor Harrison
Clarrie Grundy:
Fiona Mathieson
JethroLarkin:
George Hart
Neil Carter:
Brian Hewlett
Mike Tucker:
Terry Molloy
Betty Tucker:
Pamela Craic
Mrs Antrobus:
Margotboyd

The Christian Church claims that it was commissioned by Jesus himself to continue his work on earth. It sees itself as 'The Body of Christ'. But how do those outside its ranks see it? For that matter, how do ordinary church-goers see it? This Lent something like a million people in groups up and down Britain have been joining in a study course organised by the churches in association with Local Radio stations, called What on Earth is the Church For?
Tonight Rosemary Hartill. the BBC's Religious Affairs
Correspondent, conducts her own investigation into that question, with the aid of some of those groups and a panel of church leaders, including Bishop Keith Sutton ,
Bishop Patrick Kalilombe and The Rev Myra Blyth Reporter TED HARRISON Researcher BERYL HODA Producer CHRIS REES Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Rosemary Hartill.
Unknown:
Keith Sutton
Unknown:
Patrick Kalilombe
Unknown:
Myra Blyth
Reporter:
Ted Harrison
Reporter:
Researcher Beryl

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