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Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With SIMON ROSE
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Presented By:
John Timpson
Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Read By:
Bryan Martin

visits the Borough of St Edmundsbury in Suffolk, where members of local horticultural societies put their gardening queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki , Daphne Ledward and Geoffrey Smith
Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
Cassette, 'Through the Seasons', £7.99 from: [address removed].
Cheques/postal orders should be made payable to: Gardeners' Question Time

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Stefan Buczacki
Unknown:
Daphne Ledward
Producer:
Diana Stenson

What Shall We Do if it Rains? by GRAHAM SEAL
Read by Martin Jarvis
Summer - and a family holiday in England. Who copes best with the incessant rain?
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
(Martin Jarvis is in 'Woman in Mind' at the Vaudeville Theatre, London)

Contributors

Read By:
Martin Jarvis
Producer:
Barbara Crowther
Unknown:
Martin Jarvis

4: Runners, WrappersandHiders All aboard the sitting-room express as Bob Symes chuffs into Rugby with toy train enthusiasts of all ages to marvel and reminisce on layouts of vintage toy trains.
Producer MARY PRICE. BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Symes

By Jeffrey Archer, dramatised in seven episodes by Brian Sibley.
3: Zurich - 13 June 1966
In seeking the Tsar's Icon, Romanov has discovered that there is a fortune waiting him in a Swiss bank. Adam is also on his way to Switzerland to collect his inheritance. Other parts played by Susie Brann, Sheila Grant, Ronald Herdman, Deborah Makepeace, Stuart Organ, George Parsons and Jonathan Tafler. Directed by Glyn Dearman.
Stereo (Broadcast on Sunday at 9. 0pm) (Harry Towb is a National Theatre Player)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeffrey Archer
Actor:
Susie Brann
Actor:
Sheila Grant
Actor:
Ronald Herdman
Actor:
Deborah Makepeace
Actor:
George Parsons
Actor:
Jonathan Tafler
Director:
Glyn Dearman
Unknown:
Harry Towb
Adam Scott:
Michael York
Alexander Romanov:
Simon Ward
Lawrence Pemberton:
Tom Chadbon
Sir Morris:
Richard Vernon
Busch:
Harry Towb
Snell:
William Fox
Matthews:
Brian Hewlett
Poskonov:
Vladek Sheybal
Zaborski:
John Church
Heidi:
Helena Breck
Bischoff:
David March
Petrova:
Jill Lidstone
Roget:
Andrew Branch

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Bopper Visits the Hospital (R)
2.5 Looking at Nature Weather Watch TIMMY MALLETT and the 'Natural Investigators' explore easy-to-try ideas for observing weather changes. Stereo (e)
2.20 Let's Make a Story! 9: The Giant's Shadow Storyteller WILLIE RUSHTON Written by RON JAMES. Stereo (e)
2.30 Pictures in Your Mind (Music) Night Music by PAMELA KENWAY. Stereo (R) (e)
2.40 Using Unemployment A series for YTS students and school and college leavers Presented by CHRIS SERLE 9: Moving Around (R) (e) For tutors notes send sae to: Using Unemployment, [address removed]

Contributors

Storyteller:
Willie Rushton
Written By:
Ron James.
Music By:
Pamela Kenway.
Presented By:
Chris Serle

The ups and downs of a household in the London of 1938.
1: An Old-fashioned Christmas
Stereo
(First broadcast on BBC World Service)

Contributors

Writer:
Norman Collins
Dramatised by:
Colin Davis
Director:
Enyd Williams
Mr Josser:
Norman Bird
Mrs Josser:
Liz Smith
Mrs Vizzard:
Kate Williams
Connie:
Peggy Aitchison
Mrs Boon:
Charlotte Mitchell
Percy Boon:
Jim McManus
Doris Josser:
Rosalind Ayres
Ted Josser:
George Parsons
Cynthia Josser:
Natasha Pyne
Uncle Henry:
Gordon Gostelow
Doreen:
June Barry
Mr Squales:
Gordon Reid
Blonde:
Anne Jameson
Storyteller:
Robert Daws

Minor Victorians
Six programmes compiled and presented by Kingsley Amis 1: Sir Henry Newbolt Readers MARTIN JARVIS and ISABEL DEAN
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo
(Martin Jarvis is in 'Woman in Mind' at the Vaudeville Theatre, London)

Contributors

Presented By:
Kingsley Amis
Producer:
Margaret Bradley
Unknown:
Martin Jarvis

Royal Shakespeare Company Youth Festival
The festival fortnight at
Stratford-upon-Avon takes over the company's theatres with workshops, dance events and, most importantly, new plays. Established names and young writers, receiving their first professional productions, talk about their work in the festival. Producer MARY SHARPE

Contributors

Producer:
Mary Sharpe

Gordon Clough and Louis Allen preside over the final spasm of cerebral callisthenics and aerobics for the lobes.
Irene Thomas and Eric Kom challenge Douglas Gifford and Robert Kernohan. Researcher KAREN OSTLE
Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 12.27pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Gordon Clough
Unknown:
Louis Allen
Unknown:
Irene Thomas
Unknown:
Eric Kom
Unknown:
Douglas Gifford
Unknown:
Robert Kernohan.
Unknown:
Karen Ostle
Producer:
Alastair Wilson

Six talks about
Law, Justice and Democracy by Lord McCluskey
Scottish High Court Judge,
Solicitor-General for Scotland 1974-9
4: Trusting the Judges
'In law, avoidable uncertainty is an evil and unfettered judicial freedom a vice.... In law as in much of life, we make people abide by the rules. But that is tolerable only if people can readily discover what the rules are, and what they mean.'
(Re-broadcast next Sunday on Radio 3) (Lecture 5. 'An Enormous Power', next Wednesday on Radio 4)
The Reith Lectures are printed weekly in THE LISTENER

Contributors

Unknown:
Reith Lectures

The Shadows' Dummy Run Opposition parties are badly prepared for the day they return to power: their programmes, say the critics, are ill rehearsed; their policies inconsistent and impossible because the leaders have spent their time out of office forgetting the realities of government and seeking comfort in ideology.
Is it possible to do better than this? What would it take to provide the shadows with the tools for thorough policy analysis? Should the Civil
Service be brought in to hunt the snags before political commitments are made? Are the Parties themselves keen to make better use of their dummy run?
Presented by Peter Hennessy Producer DAVID MORTON
(Re-broadcast tomorrow 11.0am LW)

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Hennessy
Producer:
David Morton

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