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Presented by Brian Redhead and Jenni Murray
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.20* Your Letters
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:
Jenni Murray
Unknown:
Bob Finigan
Read By:
Bryan Martin

The Making of an Artist by DAPHNE GLAZER
Read by Eileen O'Brien
Life's an adventure, she'd told her, but she didn't seem to be a very adventurous kid. When
You might have expected drive and badness, she was elusive. You couldn't really have said what she was about.' Producer GILUAN HUSH BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Daphne Glazer
Read By:
Eileen O'Brien

'I thought that the unicorn was a mythical beast, yet it is mentioned five times in the Bible - did it ever exist?' Derek Jones chairs a questions session. producer JOHN HARRISON. BBC Bristol (Re-broadcast next Saturday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Jones
Producer:
John Harrison.

A musical panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the Chair Steve Race
Questions compiled by STEVE RACE producer PETE ATKIN. Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 6.30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
Edward J. Mason
Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Ian Wallace
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Producer:
Pete Atkin.

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Patrick by QUENTIN BLAKE. Stereo
2.5 History Long Ago Emperors and Empire 1: The Pax Augusta by CHRISTOPHER RUSSELL. Stereo (e)
2.25 Contact: Mario Borelli Story by DAVID SELF (e)
2.40 Listening to Music: 1 (11-13) Saint-Saëns’ Symphonic Poem: Danse Macabre (Part 1) Presented by ROBERT PRIZEMAN and HELEN SPEIRS Stereo (R) (e)

Contributors

Unknown:
Quentin Blake.
Unknown:
Christopher Russell.
Presented By:
Robert Prizeman
Presented By:
Helen Speirs

Introduced by Dilly Barlow
Benesh Choreology : Julia Eisner reports on a system of notating dance movements, invented 40 years ago, which has become crucial to ballet and gymnastics teachers and is now increasingly of value to ghysiotherapists.
Serial: In Chancery (10)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Dilly Barlow
Introduced By:
Benesh Choreology
Introduced By:
Julia Eisner

Looking for Cedric by JANE PONCIA with Shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, Daphne, a rather discontented wife and mother, embarks on an exciting expedition to France with an old flame, to search for her missing brother.
With STUART ORGAN and PAUL GREGORY
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON . Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Jane Poncia
Unknown:
Stuart Organ
Unknown:
Paul Gregory
Directed By:
Cherry Cookson
Daphne:
Jennifer Hilary
Roddy:
Dinsdale Landen
Cedric:
And Michael Cochrane
Mildred:
Miranda Forbes
Ian:
Brett Usher
Mother:
Rachel Gurney
Derek:
Tm Reynolds

Where are tomorrow's stars? Presenters Neil Walker and David Clayton are at the studios ofBBC Radio Nottingham to investigate live entertainment. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.... There's no such thing as an overnight success, but where will the TV stars of tomorrow learn the ropes? In some areas Working Men's Clubs are in decline, elsewhere new live venues are opening. The Local Network links up with BBC
Local Radio stations to bring you news and comment from around Britain.
Producers GLYN JONES and NEIL WALKER. BBC North East Send your letters to:
The Local Network, BBC North East, Newcastle NE99 1RN
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Contributors

Presenters:
Neil Walker
Presenters:
David Clayton
Producers:
Glyn Jones
Producers:
Neil Walker.

Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad
Reporter Helen Boaden
Producer BRENDAN MCCARTHY Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.5pm)

Contributors

Reporter:
Helen Boaden
Producer:
Brendan McCarthy
Editor:
Brian Walker

What's new in medical science? How well are the doctors looking after us? Is our money being spent to best effect? Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from the operating theatre to the GP's surgery.
Producer JENNY WALKER
(Re-broadcast on Thursday atlO.OamLW)

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoff Watts
Producer:
Jenny Walker

Dame Eva at 95
It was just that I adored opera. I thought of nothing else. I applied myself very well and I went along with blinkers on almost, I was so enveloped in my love of opera.
Dame Eva Turner , Britain's first international opera star, talks to Sue MacGregor about her long life and remarkable career. Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast Friday 11.0am LW)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dame Eva Turner
Unknown:
Sue MacGregor

News, views and information for people with a visual handicap Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Listeners can phone about the programme on [number removed]Lines open from 8.30to 10.15pm Free quarterly bulletin from: [address removed]
(Send four saes, 81 x 12, for a year's supply)

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter White

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