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Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with GREG WOOD
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
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:
Peter Hobday
Presented By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Greg Wood
Read By:
Pauline Bushnell
Unknown:
Garry Richardson

In the first of six programmes about the craft of the keeper,
Keith Allan goes to Hampshire to meet Mick Lunn , who followed his father and grandfather as a river keeper. This year he celebrates his family's 100 years of uninterrupted service on the River Test.
Producer Gillian HUSH BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Keith Allan
Unknown:
Mick Lunn

The Oedipus Complex by v. s. PFUTCHETR
Read by Martin Jarvis
There never was a dentist like Mr Pollfax. He could place your last visit by the stories he'd told you. And, between stories, there was a running commentary on what he was actually doing.... and thinking.
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER (R)

Contributors

Read By:
Martin Jarvis
Unknown:
Mr Pollfax.
Producer:
Barbara Crowther

'Exeter was spoken of yesterday as being a place in which there is much gossiping - and that, perhaps, more among the men than even the women.' So wrote the painter Joseph Farington in his Diary in 1810. Jenni Murray , live from the Northcott Theatre in Exeter, hears today's hottest news and views - from Devonians of both sexes!
Producers JILL MARSHALL and MARY HARDIMAN. BBCBristol
Serial: The Perfect Stranger (5)

Contributors

Unknown:
Joseph Farington
Unknown:
Jenni Murray
Producers:
Jill Marshall
Producers:
Mary Hardiman.

by ERIC LINKLA TER dramatised in three parts by ELIZABETH PROUD
2: Ode to Marrowbone Pie
For Saturday Keith all is going well - both his running of 'The Pelican' and his love for Joan. However, Professor Benbow tells him that marriage to his daughter is out of the question. Then a number of strange thefts break out and all is suddenly far from well.
Directed by GERRY JONES. Stereo
(Neville Jason is in 'Mutiny' at the Piccadilly Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Linkla
Directed By:
Gerry Jones.
Unknown:
Neville Jason
Saturday Keith:
Crawford Logan
Quentin Cotton:
Neville Jason
Lady Mercy Cotton:
Isabel Dean
Professor Benbow:
Philip Voss
Van Buren:
David Healey
Wesson:
John Rowe
Joan Benbow:
Kathryn Hurlbutt
Nelly Bly:
Natasha Pyne
Holly:
John Hollis
George/Man at station:
Gordon Reid
Lady Porlett:
Jennifer Piercey
Mrs Waterhouse:
Margaret Ward
Miss Horsfall-Hughes:
Pauline Letts

In the last of the present series Liz Fraser cheerfully digs up the half-dozen pieces of music she never wants to hear again - and explains why.
The music is surprisingly good. Her reasons are just surprising! Devised and presented by Derek Robinson
Producer DAVID RAYVERN ALLEN Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Liz Fraser
Presented By:
Derek Robinson
Producer:
David Rayvern Allen

Makers of law, legal practitioners and those who serve the administration of justice all contribute to this topical weekly magazine.
Presented by Joshua Rozenberg Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF

Contributors

Presented By:
Joshua Rozenberg
Producer:
Anthony Moncrieff

Angela Rumbold , mp
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment Max Hastings , Editor, Daily Telegraph
John Cousins, General
Secretary of the Clearing Bank Union
Paul Foot, journalist tackle the issues raised by the audience in Eastleigh, Hampshire
Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Angela Rumbold
Unknown:
Max Hastings
Unknown:
John Timpson
Producer:
Carole Stone

Remember: The pen is mightier than the sword.... but it leaves little blue marks all over your breastplate.
Satirical sketches on the week's news. with Bill Wallis , David Tate
Kerry Shale and Kate Robbins Written by MARTIN BOOTH
PAUL B. DAVIES . RICHARD QUICK STUART SILVER . PETE SINCLAIR DAVID COHEN. PETER HICKEY STEVE PUNT . MIKE COLEMAN
ALISON RENSHAW , JOHN MORRISH and others
Producer DAVID TYLER Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
David Tate
Unknown:
Kerry Shale
Unknown:
Kate Robbins
Written By:
Martin Booth
Written By:
Paul B. Davies
Written By:
Richard Quick
Written By:
Stuart Silver
Written By:
Pete Sinclair
Unknown:
David Cohen.
Unknown:
Peter Hickey
Unknown:
Steve Punt
Unknown:
Mike Coleman
Unknown:
Alison Renshaw
Unknown:
John Morrish
Producer:
David Tyler

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