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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 JOHN INVERDALE
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JENNY ABRAMSKY

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Presented By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Bob Finigan
Read By:
Peter Donaldson
Unknown:
John Inverdale
Editor:
Jenny Abramsky

Presented by Louise Botting
The programme that keeps you in touch with what's happening in the field of personal savings, investment, mortgages, insurance, social security and the financial problems of everyday life. Details from:
Money Box. Room 4099,
BBC, Broadcasting House, London W14 4WW

Contributors

Presented By:
Louise Botting

A Day by the Sea with MrShukry by MICHAEL WHERLY
Read by Garard Green
The new Inspector for the Eastern Region was coming, and Mr Shukry, the teacher of English, had a problem: how to impress and avoid ignominious repatriation.... The Inspector too needed to succeed....
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Wherly
Read By:
Garard Green
Producer:
Barbara Crowther

In the second of two programmes, Judge
James Pickles gives a unique insight into the mind of a serving judge, and how he exercises power over people's lives. He discusses his views with Roger Wilkes and debates with offenders and a criminologist.
2: Pickles on Punishment Does prison do any good?
The judge confronts people he sent to prison, including the 'king of the Kop', a former soccer hooligan, and argues, with the criminologist and magistrate Professor Terence Morris , that heavy sentences can deter.
Producers HELEN BOADEN and BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast on Friday at 8.20pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
James Pickles
Unknown:
Roger Wilkes
Unknown:
Professor Terence Morris
Producers:
Helen Boaden
Producers:
Brian Walker

by JOHN LE CARRE adapted for radio in six parts by RENE BASILICO
3: Leamas is released from prison. Out in the cold again, he will need contacts as he faces an uncertain future.
Theme music by MAX HARRIS
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 6.30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Le Carre
Unknown:
Rene Basilico
Music By:
Max Harris
Producer:
John Fawcett Wilson
Alec Leamas:
Colin Blakely
Ashe:
With Trevor Baxter
Kiever:
Carl Duering
George Smiley:
Michael Turner
Peter Guillam:
Douglas Blackwell
Tony:
Edward De Souza
Prison governor:
Alan Thompson
Warder:
Ronald Herdman
Chief officer:
Robin Summers

1.55 Listening Corner
This week: Whatever the Weather
Presented by Paul Coia
(R)

2.5 Playtime: Maths Play: Sizes
Presented by Sheelagh Gilbey and Iain Lauchlan
(R) (Re-broadcast Thursday at 10.10am)

2.20 Introducing Science: Unit 1, Programme 2: Useful Plants
(R)

2.40 Introducing Science Extra: Junior Electronics: A Three-legged Friend
(R)

Contributors

Presenter (Listening Corner):
Paul Coia
Script (Listening Corner):
Lee Pressman
The Weatherman:
Ian McCaskill
The Weatherlady:
Molly Weir Presenter (Playtime): Sheelagh Gilbey
Presenter (Playtime):
Iain Lauchlan

and Jenni Murray invite you to join them for an action-packed session of ideas and emotions; paradigms and practicalities; fellowship and fun; news and views - some of them your own. Serial: How Was It For You? abridged in ten parts by PATMCLOUGHLIN
Written and read by Maureen Lipman
10: They Also Serve Who Only Wait and Stand In
(Music: Adrian Williams 's Jubilypso) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
(Starting tomorrow: 'Watcher in the Shadcws' by Geoffrey Household)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jenni Murray
Read By:
Maureen Lipman
Music:
Adrian Williams
Editor:
Sandra Chalmers

A panel game on food and drink Your convivial host is Russell Davies
Maitres de teams
Paul Levy , Oz Clarke Resident vegetarian Denise Coffey
Guest gourmet Fay Maschler Toastmaster Robert Booth Questions set by CHRISTOPHER DRIVER and the producer
JONATHAN JAMES MOORE. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Russell Davies
Unknown:
Paul Levy
Unknown:
Denise Coffey
Unknown:
Fay Maschler
Unknown:
Christopher Driver
Unknown:
Jonathan James Moore.

Dust by RIB DAVIS
Ray Stock is a 'go-getter' who sets up a private refuse collection for cost-cutting local councils. His methods in business are ruthless and effective but will the same tactics work in his private life?
Directed by PHILIP MARTIN BBC Birmingham. Stereo
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Ray Stock
Directed By:
Philip Martin
Ray:
Bryan Marshall
Gill:
Fleur Chandler
Alison:
Joan Walker
John:
Geoff Serle
Alec:
Dave Mitty
George:
Terry Molloy
Guy:
Roger Hume

Written and introduced by Derek Wilson
It was not until 1736 that the penal laws against witches were repealed.
Its last victim was
Jane Wenham of Hertfordshire, and the date was 1712 ... with the voices of BERNARD BROWN
CHRISTOPHER DOUGLAS
DAVID GARTH. GARARD GREEN AUDREY NOBLE and DEBORAH JANE SHARPE Producer BRIAN MILLER BBCBristol
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Wilson
Unknown:
Jane Wenham
Unknown:
Bernard Brown
Unknown:
Christopher Douglas
Unknown:
David Garth.
Unknown:
Deborah Jane Sharpe
Producer:
Brian Miller

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

Contributors

Unknown:
Natalie Wheen
Producer:
Kathryn Portep.
Editor:
Thomas Sutcuffe

by EDITH OLIVIER abridged and read in five parts by Lynn Farleigh (1)
At 32, her mother dead, Agatha Bodenham finds herself quite alone. She summons back to life the only friend she ever knew, Clarissa, the dream companion of her childhood.
Producer MARILYN MRIE BBC Scotland

Contributors

Unknown:
Edith Olivier
Unknown:
Lynn Farleigh
Unknown:
Agatha Bodenham
Producer:
Marilyn Mrie

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