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Presented by John Timpson and Jon Silverman with Brian Redhead in Brighton, at the Trades Union Congress
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With Simon Rose
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by Clive Roslin
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With Garry Richardson
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presenter:
John Timpson
Presenter:
Jon Silverman
Reporter:
Brian Redhead
Business news:
Simon Rose
Newsreader:
Clive Roslin
Sports reporter:
Garry Richardson

An Independent Opinion and The Pen-wiper
Read by Leon Sinden
Two episodes from the life of BARRY PAIN'S comic suburban couple of the early 1900s: the long-suffering Eliza and her overweening yet gullible husband.
Producer DAVID JACKSON YOUNG BBC Scotland

Contributors

Read By:
Leon Sinden
Producer:
David Jackson

The fourth of seven programmes from Belfast in which Paul Muldoon makes a personal choice reflecting the best of Irish poetry written over the last 20 years.
Readers STELLA MCCUSKER ,
KEVIN FLOOD and PETER QUIGLEY Producer CLIVE BRILL BBC Northern Ireland

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Muldoon
Readers:
Stella McCusker
Unknown:
Peter Quigley

The Trophy by MARGARET JONES with and 'You were always supposed to be the one who was clever with men. Couldn't you see what was going on? Couldn't you see the two of them were using you?'
Directed by TIM SUTER. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Jones
Directed By:
Tim Suter.
Elaine:
Jackie Smith-Wood
Cynthia:
Jennifer Piercey
Harry Freeman:
Steve Hodson
Jacob Freeman:
Manning Wilson
The Bennet girl/Child:
Karen Ascoe

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

Contributors

Written By:
Michael Bartlett
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Brian Aldridge:
Charles Collingwood
Phil Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Shula Hebden:
Judy Bennett
Mark Hebden:
Richard Derrington
David Archer:
Timothy Bentinck
Elizabeth Archer:
Alison Dowling
Nelson Gabriel:
Jack May
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Eddie Grundy:
Trevor Harrison
Clarrie Grundy:
Fiona Mathieson
Jethro Larkin:
George Hart
Betty Tucker:
Pamela Craig
Mrs Antrobus:
Margot Boyd
Sophie Barlowe:
Moir Leslie
Matthew Thorogood:
Neil McCaul
Mr Snell:
Graham Blockey
Mrs Snell:
Carole Boyd
Land agent:
Richard Durden

In the last of the series, Stanley Williamson prowls through the pages of the provincial papers and discovers how they reflected the lives and concerns of the people of Brighton 100 years ago. BBC Manchester

Contributors

Presenter:
Stanley Williamson
Reader:
Delia Corrie
Reader:
Geoffrey Banks
Producer:
Gillian Hush

A dramatised documentary by Jeremy Sandford and Philippa Finnis
with Gillian Goodman as Mrs Hoey and Fran O'Shea as Jill
In 1977 Jill Hoey, a working-class girl of 19, took her own life, her promising talent for poetry and songwriting unrecognised. Based on journals kept by her mother, Mary, the story of Jill's short, tragic life is illustrated by poems and songs discovered after her death.
BBC Birmingham. Stereo

Contributors

Writer:
Jeremy Sandford
Writer:
Philippa Finnis
Music composed and played by:
Dave Greenslade
Sung by:
Anne Barrett
Director:
Philip Martin
Mrs Hoey:
Gillian Goodman
Jill:
Fran O'Shea
Tom:
John Basham
Dad:
Roger Rowland
Chris:
Andy Hockley
Doctor:
Stephen Hancock
Psychiatrist/Second man:
Graham Roberts
Shop assistant/Boutique manageress:
Christine Bissell
Gillian/Nurse:
Francesca Whitburn
Angry man/First man:
Tony Lound

The third of four specials
'Can you enjoy the splendours of the Palace of Westminster in a wheelchair?'
Bill O'Hara is an amputee and he and his wife, Annette, spent two days as tourists in London as the guests of Does He Take Sugar? Their story is quite a revelation. Presented by John Mills

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill O'Hara
Presented By:
John Mills

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