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Presented by Brian Redhead and Chris Lowe
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With SIMON ROSE
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

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
Chris Lowe
Read By:
Brian Perkins
Unknown:
Garry Richardson

Presented by Fergus Keeling and Lionel Kelleway
Do humans have a greater ability to detect and appreciate odours than we realise?
Professor Mike Stoddart reports from the Psychology of Perfumery conference. Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBCBristol
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Contributors

Presented By:
Fergus Keeling
Presented By:
Lionel Kelleway
Unknown:
Professor Mike Stoddart

No Time to be Laughing by DEBBIE COOK
Read by Lesley Saweard
When the Minister heard the news of Lizzie McKance 's death, his wife reminded him there were relatives who should be informed. A disturbing thought entered his head. 'But what's to be done about Jeannie?'
Producer DIANE CULVERHOUSE BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Debbie Cook
Read By:
Lesley Saweard
Unknown:
Lizzie McKance
Producer:
Diane Culverhouse

The last of five programmes from Dublin in which
Aidan Carl Mathews discusses politics and poetry.
Readers CONOR FARRINGTON
DANIEL REARDON and DEIRDRE O'MEARA
Producer ALEC REID. BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Aidan Carl Mathews
Readers:
Conor Farrington
Readers:
Daniel Reardon
Readers:
Deirdre O'Meara
Producer:
Alec Reid.

Troubled by the Scenery by HOWARD WAKELING
The Isle of Skye was Sheila's second home. Now a widow, she returns to the island, but it does not offer the comfort she expected.
A visit by her daughter threatens all hope of peace.
Directed by CAROLINE RAPHAEL Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Howard Wakeling
Directed By:
Caroline Raphael
Sheila:
With Gwen Watford
Lally:
Gudrun Ure
Mami:
Sian Thomas
Bobs:
And Leila Bertrand

The Old Deep
Lane Arthur Machen is widely recognised as the father of the modem horror novel and the inspiration of many of today's writers of terror. He drew his
, own inspiration from the haunting landscapes of his native Gwent.
Phil Rickman treads the old deep lane that led to Machen's Caerleon - Isca Silurium.
Producer MARK OWEN. BBC Wales

Contributors

Unknown:
Lane Arthur MacHen
Unknown:
Isca Silurium.
Producer:
Mark Owen.

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm) Written by JULIAN SPILSBURY Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Written By:
Julian Spilsbury
Phil Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Shula Hebden:
Judy Bennett
Mark Hebden:
Richard Derrington
Elizabeth Archer:
Alison Dowling
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Jack Woolley:
Arnold Peters
Walter Gabriel:
Chriss Gittins
Nelson Gabriel:
Jack May
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville
Joe Grundy:
Edward Kelsey
Eddie Grundy:
Trevor Harrison
Clarrie Grundy:
Fiona Mathieson
Jethro Larkin:
George Hart
Colonel Danby:
Ballard Berkeley
Caroline Bone:
Sara Coward
Mrs Antrobus:
Margot Boyd

Stanley Williamson discovers how provincial papers reflected the lives of the people of Chester 100 years ago. Readers
DELIA CORRIE and GEOFFREY BANKS Producer Gillian HUSH BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Stanley Williamson
Readers:
Delia Corrie
Unknown:
Geoffrey Banks
Producer:
Gillian Hush

by Bob Sinfield
The Cambridge Footlights Revue
Starring The Class of 33: Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, and Guy Burgess
With Richard Denning as Philby, David Gooderson as Maclean, Richard Frost as Burgess and Barbara Rosenblat as the women they found superfluous.

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Contributors

Writer:
Bob Sinfield
Music composed by:
Geoffrey Wright
Music played by:
Jonathan Gee
Producer:
Paul Mayhew-Archer
Kim Philby:
Richard Denning
Donald Maclean:
David Gooderson
Guy Burgess:
Richard Frost
The women they found superfluous:
Barbara Rosenblat

Fifty years ago, the new
Cunarder, Queen Mary, won the Blue Riband for the fastest Atlantic crossing.
Anne Brown recalls how the biggest and most luxurious passenger liner in the world came to be conceived and built in the Depression. Producer ROY SAATCHI
BBC Birmingham (R) revised

Contributors

Unknown:
Anne Brown
Producer:
Roy Saatchi

Paradise Regained?
As everyone in Wales knows, Welsh is the language of Heaven. Yet, today, only one Welsh person in five is on speaking terms with the Almighty. Time after time the last rites have been performed: why, then, the resurrection of today? Why are so many people learning Welsh? Why are so many of them not Welsh?
Professor Gwyn A. Williams , who is slowly re-establishing contact with the Almighty, seeks high and low for the answer.
Producer SIAN LLOYD. BBC Wales

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Gwyn A. Williams
Producer:
Sian Lloyd.

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