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Presented by Brian Redhead and John Humphrys
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
8.45* Business News with JEREMY BOWEN
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Head by EUGENE FRASER
7.25*, 8.25* Sport with CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
John Humphrys
Unknown:
Jeremy Bowen
Unknown:
Eugene Fraser

Members of the Grange Park
Horticultural Society, London Put their gardening queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki Geoffrey Smith and AnneSwithinbank.
Chairman Clay Jones producer DIANA STENSON
BBCManchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Stefan Buczacki
Unknown:
Geoffrey Smith
Unknown:
Clay Jones
Producer:
Diana Stenson

A Shot in the Garden by L.A.G.STRONG
Read by Denys Hawthorne
'Never point a loaded gun,' the small boy has been told. But now he faces a serious challenge rtoo serious to ignore! Producer MITCH RAPER

Contributors

Read By:
Denys Hawthorne
Producer:
Mitch Raper

The first of five programmes in which David WiUmott explores a familiar trade, which could disappear in the near future.
He talks to Michael Jarvis , a barber, who learnt the trade at his father's knee, and sharpened his shaving technique by practising with a cut throat razor on a lathered balloon. Producer ANNE MARIE COLE BBC Pebble Mill
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Contributors

Unknown:
David Wiumott
Unknown:
Michael Jarvis
Producer:
Anne Marie Cole

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Another Mouse to Feed by ROBERT KRAUS. Stereo
2.5 Looking at Nature Inside the Body TIMMY MALLETT and ROBIN ROBBINS explore muscles, bones and joints. Stereo (R) (e)
2.20 Listening and Reading 3: Secrets by PHILIPPA PEARCE Read by JOHN HOLLIS (e)
2.30 Pictures in Your Mind Peter and the Wolf by SERGEI PROKOFIEV (R) (e)
2.40 Real World A short course on problem solving and decision-making, linked to BTEC's Common Skills and Core Themes.
3: What Are They Going on About? (Communication skills) (e)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Kraus.
Unknown:
Robin Robbins
Read By:
John Houjs
Unknown:
Mind Peter

by SANDY MCCALL SMITH
Two Edinburgh medical students spend a few nights in a monastery, during a cycling holiday in France. The visit turns out to be a testing time for their friendship, and presents Bruce with one of the most difficult moral decisions he will ever have to make.
Directed by GREGOR GRAHAM BBC Scotland Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Sandy McCall Smith
Directed By:
Gregor Graham
Michael:
Jimmy Chisholm
Bruce:
Gilly Gilchrist
Andrew:
Garard Green
Monk:
Michael Elder

Alexis Lykiard continues his series of seven programmes of dreams and nightmares. 3: Mystics and Optimists Readers LIANE AUKIN and CHRISTOPHER SCOTT Producer ALEC REID BBC Bristol Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Alexis Lykiard
Unknown:
Christopher Scott
Producer:
Alec Reid

Ogdon at 50
The pianist John Ogdon has had a career that reflects the pressures on today's front rank musicians. After becoming joint winner of the Tchaikovsky
Competition in 1962, more and more demands were made on him, until he became mentally ill in the 70s. Lately he has recovered and Christopher Cook talks to him and the pianists John Lill and Peter Donohoe about performance pressures on musicians. Producer JOHN BOUNDY

Contributors

Pianist:
John Ogdon
Pianist:
Christopher Cook
Pianists:
John Lill
Pianists:
Peter Donohoe
Producer:
John Boundy

Written by JOHN ANTROBUS starring Spike Milligan
John Bluthal , Chris Langham and John Antrobus
2: Jonah and the Whale
The story begins in Balham
Labour Exchange and ends half an hour later.
Announcements by EUGENE FRASER
Music from GEORGE CHISHOLM AND
HIS GENTLEMEN OF JAZZ
Producer PAUL SPENCER. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 12.27pm)

Contributors

Written By:
John Antrobus
Unknown:
Spike Milligan
Unknown:
John Bluthal
Unknown:
Chris Langham
Unknown:
John Antrobus
Unknown:
Eugene Fraser
Unknown:
George Chisholm
Producer:
Paul Spencer.

John Waite and his team investigate another case from their postbag of complaints about activities which you consider to be against the public interest.
If you have any information about apparent major abuses, injustices or fraud, write to: Face the Facts, BBC London WIA 4WW Production team
SHARON BANOFF. GRAHAM ELUS ROBERT DEL MAESTRO
SIMON WESTROP. LOUISE HIBBINS Editor KEN VASS
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 9.5 am LW)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Waite
Unknown:
Sharon Banoff.
Unknown:
Graham Elus
Unknown:
Robert Del Maestro
Unknown:
Simon Westrop.
Editor:
Ken Vass

A History of the Crusades
A series of eight programmes presented by Malcolm Billings 3: Jerusalem fell to the First
Crusade on 15 July 1099. Soon, most of the crusaders, their sacred duty done, returned to the West, leaving only 300
Christian knights to hold the new settlement of Jerusalem.
How would they now govern the territory under their control, making a living as well as protecting pilgrim routes and the holy places? Series consultant
PROFESSOR JONATHAN RILEY-SMITH Producer CHRISTOPHER STONE (e) Book. same title, £9.95 paperback, £14.95 hardback, from booksellers

Contributors

Presented By:
Malcolm Billings

Richard Perle , the American
Assistant Secretary for Defense, in conversation with Professor Laurence Martin , Vice-Chancellor of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, about nuclear strategy and arms control.
Producer CAROLINE ANSTEY
(Re-broadcast tomorrow 11.0am LW)

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Perle
Unknown:
Professor Laurence Martin
Producer:
Caroline Anstey

Paul Allen presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer EDWINA WOLSTENCROFT
(Rev re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.35pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Allen
Producer:
Edwina Wolstencroft

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