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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 BRIAN PERKINS
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:
Brian Perkins
Unknown:
Garry Richardson

Over Warwickshire
Trees are one of the joys of the English landscape ... except to the balloonist, as Anthony Smith reveals to landscape architect Jerry Birkbeck. Produced by TIM GROUT-SMITH BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Smith
Unknown:
Jerry Birkbeck.
Produced By:
Tim Grout-Smith

Penances by JOHN STURT
Read by Peter Tuddenham Brother Mark had a modest access to the mead derived from the Abbey's bees. But when the last treasured bottle was stolen, he determined to punish the culprits.
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

Contributors

Unknown:
John Sturt
Read By:
Peter Tuddenham
Read By:
Brother Mark
Producer:
Barbara Crowther

The Day of the Locust Bean
Said to have been eaten by John The Baptist in the wilderness and used by the ancient
Egyptians as mummy glue, the carob bean was, until recently, mostly used by us as cattle feed. Derek Cooper hears from Dilly Barlow about carob's return from the wilderness.
Producer VANESSA HARRISON (Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Cooper
Unknown:
Dilly Barlow
Producer:
Vanessa Harrison

Death and Disease featuring the ever popular 'Disease of the Week'
This week 'Peritonitis' -
'What is it?' 'Where to get it' 'How to spell it'
Starring The Bodgers
MORAY HUNTER. JOHN STEELE
GORDON KENNEDY. PETE BAIKIE with Morwenna Banks and John Sparkes
Music by PETER BAIKIE
AND THE JIM BAIKIE BIG BAND
Written by MORAY HUNTER and JOHN DOCHERTY with MORWENNA BANKS and JOHN SPARKES Producer ALAN NIXON. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
John Steele
Unknown:
Gordon Kennedy.
Unknown:
Pete Baikie
Unknown:
John Sparkes
Music By:
Peter Baikie
Written By:
Moray Hunter
Written By:
John Docherty
Written By:
John Sparkes
Producer:
Alan Nixon.

1.55 Listening Corner Today: All at Sea
2.5 Let's Join In Wide-awake and his Brothers An Icelandic folk tale
2.25 Topic Songbook (2) Stereo
2.30 Let's Make a Story! 2: The Robots Storyteller PAUL COPLEY Written by RON JAMES. Stereo
2.40 Listen! The new Decide-It-Yourself Cliffhanger serial Schools are invited to participate in creating a serial drama. Part 2 by RICHARD PINNER. Stereo

Contributors

Written By:
Ron James.
Unknown:
Richard Pinner.

Introduced from Cardiff by Sesi McCombie
For six months the slate quarry workers of North Wales were on strike. As in the miners' dispute, it was the women's support groups which held the community together. The women of Blaenau Ffestiniog talk about the effects of the strike on their lives. Producer MARK OWEN. BBC Wales
Serial: How Was It For You? 9: A Potted Life (2)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sesi McCombie
Producer:
Mark Owen.

by HENRY FIELDING dramatised in four parts by JOHN SCOTNEY with and 4: 'The final Part, containing several new Matters, not expected'
Title music and songs arranged by VIC GAMMON
MARY MOBBS (bassoon) MARY CARSON (violin)
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHUN BBC Bristol. Stereo
(Starting next Sunday: 'No Highway' by Nevil Shute )

Contributors

Unknown:
Henry Fielding
Unknown:
John Scotney
Arranged By:
Vic Gammon
Bassoon:
Mary Mobbs
Violin:
Mary Carson
Directed By:
Shaun MacLoughun
Unknown:
Nevil Shute
Joseph:
Cornelius Garrett
Fanny:
Jane Leonard
Parson Adams:
John Franklyn-Robbins
Lady Booby:
June Barrie
Mrs Slipslop:
Anne Jameson
Henry Fielding:
John Rye
Pedlar:
Sean Barrett
Squire Booby:
Geoffrey Bateman
Gammar Andrews:
June Tobin
Lawyer Scout:
Trevor Nichols
Pamela:
Sarah Benfield
Beau Didapper:
Ronald Herdman

Peter Bottomley , mp,
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Transport
Tony Christopher, General
Secretary Inland Revenue Staff Federation
Richard Holme , Chairman, The Constitutional Reform Centre
Jean Denton , Director, External Affairs, Austin Rover Group from Nottingham
Chairman John Timpson
Producer ROBIN HICKS. BBC Bristol (Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 10pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Bottomley
Unknown:
Richard Holme
Unknown:
Jean Denton
Unknown:
John Timpson
Producer:
Robin Hicks.

The Amateur Emigrant by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON abridged in five episodes by TREVOR ROYLE
Read by Paul Young (5)
(Starting on Monday: 'The Love Child' by Edith Olivier )

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Louis Stevenson
Unknown:
Trevor Royle
Read By:
Paul Young
Unknown:
Edith Olivier

with Bill Wallis , David Tate and Jon Glover
Written by MARTIN BOOTH
PAUL B. DAVIES . RICHARD QUICK STUART SILVER . PETE SINCLAIR DAVID COHEN. PETER HICKEY STEVE PUNT . MIKE COLMAN
AUSON RENSHAW , JOHN MORRISH and others
Producer JENNIE CAMPBELL
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 5.25pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
David Tate
Unknown:
Jon Glover
Written By:
Martin Booth
Written By:
Paul B. Davies
Written By:
. Richard Quick
Unknown:
Stuart Silver
Unknown:
Pete Sinclair
Unknown:
David Cohen.
Unknown:
Peter Hickey
Unknown:
Steve Punt
Unknown:
Mike Colman
Unknown:
Auson Renshaw
Unknown:
John Morrish
Producer:
Jennie Campbell

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