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Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FIMGAN
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by CLIVE ROSLIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport yith GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Presented By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Bob Fimgan
Read By:
Clive Roslin
Unknown:
Garry Richardson

Presented by Louise Botting
Every week Money Box reports on the latest developments in the fields of investment, insurance, mortgages, social security and tax, and takes a look at the financial problems that crop up in everyone's lives.

Contributors

Presented By:
Louise Botting

Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners Presented by Charles Tomlinson
Readers TIM PIGOTT-SMITH and DIANA BISHOP
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBCBristol
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC, Bristol BS82LR

Contributors

Presented By:
Charles Tomlinson
Presented By:
Readers Tim Pigott-Smith
Producer:
Margaret Bradley

by JIM ELDRIDGE starring and 3: Barn Dance featuring and When an irresistible force meets an immovable object, King Street discovers a new and exciting spectator-sport.
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Jim Eldridge
Producer:
John Fawcett Wilson
Mr Beeston, the Headmaster:
James Grout
Mr Holliday, Deputy Head:
Tom Watson
Mrs Stone, School Secretary:
Margaret John
Mrs Rudd:
Vivienne Martin
Miss Lewis:
Marlene Sidaway
Mrs Wix:
Marcia Warren
Mrs Keeffe:
Carol Hawkins
Mr Singh:
Renu Setna
Tommy:
Desmond Askew
Mandy:
Julie Newell
Sundeep:
Robert Lynam
Danny:
Leon Hamilton

1.55 Listening Corner This week: Old Favourites Presented by HEDLI NIKLAUS Storyteller JACK MAY Today's story: The Elves and the Shoemaker adapted by GRANT CATHRO Script by LEE PRESSMAN Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN. Stereo
2.5 Playtime This is Me Presented by LIZ WATTS and TONY AITKEN Producer SARAH STRANGE Stereo (e) (Re-broadcast on Friday at 11.20 am)
2.20 Sciencescope 1: Moving Muscles Producer JULIAN COLEMAN Stereo (R) (e)
2.40 Pictures in Your Mind (Stories) The Last Wolf by ALAN JENKINS Series producer PADDY BECHELY (R) (e)

Contributors

Presented By:
Hedli Niklaus
Unknown:
Jack May
Adapted By:
Grant Cathro
Script By:
Lee Pressman
Producer:
Mary Kalemkerian.
Presented By:
Liz Watts
Presented By:
Tony Aitken
Producer:
Sarah Strange
Producer:
Julian Coleman
Unknown:
Alan Jenkins
Producer:
Paddy Bechely

Introduced by Jenni Murray This Englishman 's Home is a Castle: buying a historic castle is the stuff that dreams are made of, but Leslie and Yvonne Millner have made it a reality. Ann Morris visited them in Belgium.
Five Tales of Suspense by CELLA DALE abridged by JACK SINGLETON 1: Moon Daisy
Read by David McAlister
'Pale in the starlight I saw a girl standing on the edge of the reeds. My heart gave a thump, for she looked like a ghost standing there....'
(Music: Hindemith's Kleine Kammermusik)
Editor SANDRA CHALMERS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jenni Murray
Unknown:
Yvonne Millner
Unknown:
Ann Morris
Unknown:
Cella Dale
Abridged By:
Jack Singleton
Read By:
David McAlister
Editor:
Sandra Chalmers

Cannot come, lie follows.
The last in the present series of questions about quotations. Chairman Nigel Rees is joined by Eric Anderson , Headmaster of Eton
Steve Race, musical expert
Ann Mallalieu , campaigning lawyer, and Michael Aspel , broadcaster and TV presenter
Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Devised by NIGEL REES
Producer HARRY THOMPSON. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Rees
Unknown:
Eric Anderson
Unknown:
Ann Mallalieu
Unknown:
Michael Aspel
Read By:
Ronald Fletcher
Unknown:
Nigel Rees
Producer:
Harry Thompson.

Exit Miss Potter by CAROLYN SALLY JONES with
Beatrice Potter , Mrs Sydney Webb as she is better known, was a leading figure in the Fabian Society. Bom in the 1850s, surrounded by some of the greatest intellectual eccentrics of her time, she emerged as a great beauty and a charismatic leader.
Directed by KAY PATRICK BBC Manchester. Stereo
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Contributors

Unknown:
Carolyn Sally Jones
Unknown:
Beatrice Potter
Unknown:
Mrs Sydney Webb
Directed By:
Kay Patrick
Beatrice Potter:
Moir Leslie
Beatrice (as a child):
Bonnie Andrews
Mr Potter:
Alan Rowe
Laurencina Potter:
Romy Baskerville
Maggie Potter:
Joanna MacKie
Kate Potter:
Linda Gardner
Martha:
Ann Rye
Sydney Webb:
Brian Hewlett
George Bernard Shaw:
Sean Barrett
Joseph Chamberlain:
Stuart Organ
Sir Herbert Spencer:
Ronald Herdman
IZZy:
Valerie Windsor

Paul Vaughan presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer EDWINA WOLSTENCROFT Editor ANNE WINDER
(Re broadcast tomorrow at 4. 30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Editor:
Anne Winder

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