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Presented by Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With JEREMY BOWEN
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by CUVE ROSLIN
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:
Jeremy Bowen
Read By:
Cuve Roslin
Unknown:
Garry Richardson

Christopher Dunkley , of The Financial Times, 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 4WW
Producer JOHN EDWARDS (Re-broadcast tomorrow at4.45pmLW)

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Dunkley
Producer:
John Edwards

Gobbo and Son by PATRICK O'SULLIVAN
Read by Crawford Logan
Garret O'Brien and Garret Ash were temporarily sharing a house and had fallen into the habit of assuming 'funny voices'. As Old Gobbo and Young Gobbo they became philosophical father and anxious son. But then two young women visited the menage and relationships changed....
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Patrick O'Sullivan
Read By:
Crawford Logan
Read By:
Garret O'Brien
Read By:
Garret Ash
Read By:
Young Gobbo
Producer:
Barbara Crowther

1.55 Listening Corner Adelaide 's Naughty Granny 5: Party Dresses
2.0 Teenage Plays 5: On the Pill by KARA MAY Stereo (R)
2.30 Patterns of Language 9: Put it in Writing Compiled by PROFESSOR DAVID CRYSTAL and at 2.45
10: Parlez-vous Italiano, bitte? Compiled by GILLIAN DONMALL (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Kara May
Unknown:
Gillian Donmall

Introduced from Birmingham by Marjorie Lofthouse
Pinball Wizard: children as young as 14 regularly attend meetings of Gamblers
Anonymous. They are hooked on flashing lights and fruit machines to such a degree that they play truant and even steal from parents in order to finance the compulsive urge to fritter away cash in amusement arcades. Producer ANN TENNANT BBC Birmingham
Serial: The Village Doctor (2)

Contributors

Unknown:
Marjorie Lofthouse
Producer:
Ann Tennant

A Nightmare by G. K. CHESTERTON dramatised in four parts by PETER BUCKMAN
3: The Earth in Anarchy
Having discovered that the Professor de Worms and Dr Bull - fellow members of the Supreme Council of Anarchists - are, like himself, policemen, Gabriel Syme has set out with them for France and challenged the Marquis de St Eustache to a duel.
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
G. K. Chesterton
Unknown:
Peter Buckman
Unknown:
Gabriel Syme
Directed By:
Glyn Dearman
Gabriel Syme:
Michael Hadley
Rosamond:
Natasha Pyne
Monday (The Secretary):
Richard Durden
Wednesday (The Marquis deSt Eustache):
Edward de Souza
Friday (The Professor de Worms):
Ronald Herdman
Saturday (Dr Bull):
Andrew Branch
Colonel Ducroix:
Garard Green
Dr Renard:
Manning Wilson
Woodcutter:
Jonathan Tafler

Carol and Derek Royle cheerfully dig up the half-dozen pieces of music they never want to hear again - and explain why. Devised and presented by Derek Robinson
Producer DAVID RAYVERN ALLEN Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Royle
Presented By:
Derek Robinson
Producer:
David Rayvern Allen

Makers of the law, legal practitioners and those who serve the administration of justice all contribute to the first edition of this topical weekly magazine.
Presented by Joshua Rozenberg Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF
The programme even lawyers concede gets the ball in the right court
(SUNDAY TIMES)

Contributors

Presented By:
Joshua Rozenberg
Producer:
Anthony Moncrieff

The Rt Hon Shirley Williams , President SDP
The Rt Hon
Norman St John-Stevas , mp, Chairman, Royal Fine Art Commission Germaine Greer , writer Clive Jenkins , General
Secretary, Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs (ASTMS) tackle the issues raised by the audience in Rugby
Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Shirley Williams
Unknown:
Norman St John-Stevas
Unknown:
Germaine Greer
Unknown:
Clive Jenkins
Unknown:
John Timpson
Producer:
Carole Stone

Satirical sketches on the week's news with Bill Wallis , David Tate
Jon Glover and Carla Mendonca 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 DAVID TYLER. Stereo (Re-broadcast tomorrow at 5.25pm LW)

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
David Tate
Unknown:
Jon Glover
Unknown:
Carla Mendonca
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:
David Tyler.

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