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Presented by Brian Redhead and John Humphrys
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by DAVID SYMONDS
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
Read By:
David Symonds

Lionel Kelleway joins the hunt for Britain's most elusive fish - the mysterious burbot. Has it been extinct for years or is it just hiding?
And Fergus Keeling finds out why laws preventing cruelty to animals in pet shops might soon be repealed.
Producer GEORGE MONBIOT BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Lionel Kelleway
Unknown:
Fergus Keeling

The Big House by MARION PAGE
Read by June Spencer
They told her she was too little to remember her mother's death, but she did remember. It was when her mother died that the nightmares started. Producer ANNE-MARIE COLE

Contributors

Unknown:
Marion Page
Read By:
June Spencer
Producer:
Anne-Marie Cole

1.55 Listening Corner Today's songs: Slow, Slow, Quick-Quick, Slow
2.5 The Song Tree The Music Menagerie (8) Presented by HILARY JAMES and SIMON MAYOR With PYEWACKETT Written by BARRY GIBSON. Stereo (e)
2.20 Living Language The Mouse and his Child (3) by RUSSELL HOBAN adapted by BERLIE DOHERTY (e)
2.40 Newscast A current affairs series for schools and colleges Presented by RICHARD WACHMAN (e)

Contributors

Presented By:
Hilary James
Presented By:
Simon Mayor
Written By:
Barry Gibson.
Unknown:
Russell Hoban
Adapted By:
Berlie Doherty
Presented By:
Richard Wachman

Introduced by Sarah Dunant That Aching Feeling: what is pain? Does it have any purpose? How do different communities respond to it? Can you conquer it? Dilly Barlow investigates. Serial: Pack of Cards 3: Clara's Day
Read by Fiona Mathieson

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sarah Dunant
Unknown:
Dilly Barlow
Read By:
Fiona Mathieson

Against the Odds by John Challen
Richard Wyatt cannot accept that his son, Tony, is still out of work after all this time. Why doesn't he make a bigger effort to find something? But there is a shock in store for Richard. He is about to lose his own job.
Directed by Peter Kavanagh. Stereo

Contributors

Writer:
John Challen
Director:
Peter Kavanagh
Richard Wyatt:
Stephen Thorne
Ann Wyatt:
Marlene Sidaway
Tony Wyatt:
Paul Slack
Mark Patterson:
Ken Cumberlidge
David:
Tim Reynolds

A musical panel game devised byTONYSHRYANE 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

Contributors

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

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Graham Harvey
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Brian Aldridge:
Charles Collingwood
Phil Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
David Archer:
Timothy Bentinck
Elizabeth Archer:
Alison Dowling
Christine Barford:
Lesley Saweard
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Jack Woolley:
Arnold Peters
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Nelson Gabriel:
Jack May
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Lucy Perks:
Tracey-Jane White
Eddie Grundy:
Trevor Harrison
Clarrie Grundy:
Fiona Mathieson
Jethro Larkin:
George Hart
Caroline Bone:
Sara Coward
Kathy Holland:
Hedli Nlklaus
Matthew Thorogood:
Crawford Logan
Lynda Snell:
Carole Boyd

Thirty years ago, the Treaty of Rome 'determined to lay the foundations of an ever closer union among the peoples of Europe'.
A series of 11 programmes offering a perspective on the European Community as seen through portraits of Britain's fellow members.
9: Ireland: A State in Chassis
The national debt is E7,000 per head of population. The economy faces collapse. By the turn of the century more than half the farmers will have left the land and over the past five years 76,000 young people have joined emigration queues. As the newly elected Irish
Government settles down to tackle the problems Eric Robson goes on a personal odyssey through the country to meet the people who face these dilemmas. He discovers a nation which despite its concern for the future believes that a combination of industrial investment, optimism and a strong national identity will combine to lead the country from crisis to equilibrium.
Producer MARY PRICE BBCBristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Robson

A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families, with countrywide news and views on all matters of concern to them.
Presented by Kati Whitaker Producer MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence and enquiries to: Does He Take Sugar?
BBC, London W1A 4WW Phone [number removed]
Lines open from 10.0 am to 5.0pm Monday to Friday

Contributors

Presented By:
Kati Whitaker
Producer:
Marlene Pease

Natalie Wheen presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Natalie Wheen
Producer:
Richard Bannerman

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