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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 HARRIET CASS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
John Humphrys
Read By:
Harriet Cass

Clay Jones calls on the expertise of Dr Stefan Buczacki ,
Fred Downham and Geoffrey Smith to answer listeners' gardening queries sent in by post.
Questions, on postcards only please, to: Gardeners' Question Time, BBC, POBox27, Manchester M601SJ Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Stefan Buczacki
Unknown:
Fred Downham
Unknown:
Geoffrey Smith
Producer:
Diana Stenson

GobboandSon by PATRICK O'SULUV AN
Read by Crawford Logan
Garret O'Brien and Garret Ash , as Old Gobbo and Young Gobbo , had become philosophical father and anxious son. But then two young women visited the menage and relationships changed....
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

Contributors

Read By:
Crawford Logan
Read By:
Garret O'Brien
Read By:
Garret Ash
Unknown:
Old Gobbo
Unknown:
Young Gobbo
Producer:
Barbara Crowther

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Alfie's Feet by SHIRLEY HUGHES. Stereo
2.5 Looking at Nature Has Spring Sprung? How to use all your senses to find the first signs of spring. Try TiMMY MALLETT'S bee nest-box idea too. Stereo (e)
2.20 Listening and Reading 9: Family Bargain by BUCHI EMECHETA Read by ELIZABETH ADARE (e)
2.30 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry): A Musical Mystery Tour by PAMELA KENWAY (R) (e)
2.40 Real World Presented by GRAHAM TAYAR 9: Selling Robinsons (Practical Skills - Research and Evaluation) (e)

Contributors

Unknown:
Shirley Hughes.
Read By:
Elizabeth Adare
Presented By:
Graham Tayar

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Pauline Perry , the first woman to be appointed director of a British polytechnic, London's
Polytechnic of the South Bank Serial: The Accidental Tourist by ANNE TYLER abridged in 15 parts by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Read by William Roberts (1)
Macon Leary makes a living by writing travel guide books for
American businessmen who, like him, would rather stay at home! (Music: Parker's 'A Londoner in New York')

Contributors

Unknown:
Pauline Perry
Unknown:
Anne Tyler
Unknown:
Pat McLoughlin
Read By:
William Roberts

Cards, Cups and Crystal Ball by DAVID CAMPTON
The Weerd sisters, Flora, Dora and Nora, are incompetent and impoverished clairvoyants. But their luck begins to change when the sinister Lady M calls on their services. The trouble is they don't much like what they see.
Directed by PETER WINDOWS BBC Pebble Mill. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
David Campton
Directed By:
Peter Windows
Flora:
Rosemary Leach
Dora:
Margot Boyd
Nora:
Pauline Letts
Lady M:
Patricia Gallimore
Jessie:
Heather Barrett

Seven programmes in which the poet George MacBeth presents poems about animals.
3: Eating and Being Eaten Readers RONALD PICKUP and PETER WICKHAM
Producer ALEC REID. BBC Bristol (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
George MacBeth
Unknown:
Peter Wickham
Producer:
Alec Reid.

Famous for 15 Minutes
Andy Warhol was the most celebrated and controversial artist of his generation. How profound was his art? How great was his influence? How long will his reputation endure?
Michael Oliver talks to artists, critics and friends of Warhol. Producer CARROLL MOORE

Contributors

Unknown:
Andy Warhol
Talks:
Michael Oliver
Producer:
Carroll Moore

Summer Lightning by P. G. WODEHOUSE adapted in six episodes by RICHARD USBORNE
3: A Job for Percy Pilbeam Producer
MARTIN FISHER. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
P. G. Wodehouse
Unknown:
Richard Usborne
Unknown:
Percy Pilbeam
Unknown:
Martin Fisher.
Lord Emsworth:
Richard Vernon
The Hon Galahad Threepwood:
Ian Carmichael
Beach:
Timothy Bateson
Hugo Carmody:
Royce Mills
Lady Constance:
Elizabeth Spriggs
Millicent:
Wendy Murray
Sue Brown:
Susannah Fellows
Baxter:
Christopher Godwin
Pilbeam:
Roger Sloman
Sir Gregory Parsloe:
Reginald Marsh
Narrator:
Ronald Fletcher

Because of the liberal policy of the British we became educated, we became broadminded, and we started asking questions.
(TEACHER, INDIA)
We have inherited from you not just a system of education, we have inherited from you a way of life. And you are asking us to sever all this, (PARENT, MALAYSIA) They took Shakespeare to Port of Spain and Hymns Ancient and Modern to Kampala. The teachers and missionaries of the British Empire have left their mark on the education system of all the former colonies.
Nick Clarke discovers mixed feelings about this legacy but unanimous bitterness over the high fees now charged for Commonwealth students. Producer ANNE SLOMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Nick Clarke
Producer:
Anne Sloman

A series of six programmes 2: Countess Constance Markievicz
Irish nationalist and revolutionary
Remembering the ease and delicate pleasantness to which she was born, such a death seems pitiful; but remembering her own choice of life's values, there seems something in it right and inevitable.
(DOROTHY MACARDLE, FRIEND) Bom Constance Gore Booth in 1868 she had a conventional Victorian childhood. Her life expresses a journey from the privileged world of the Anglo Irish to the suffering of Irish
Nationalism. She took an active part in the Easter Rising, was condemned to death but was released in a general amnesty in 1917. She served several prison terms and died in the public ward of a hospital among the poorest of Dublin's poor. Presented by Hugh Sykes Researcher MIKE WOOLF
Producer GAYNOR SHUTTE

Contributors

Unknown:
Countess Constance Markievicz
Presented By:
Hugh Sykes
Unknown:
Mike Woolf
Producer:
Gaynor Shutte

A series of four programmes 2: The Workers
Everyday family life - Dad working, Mum working, children on the YTS - is visibly, unmistakably prosperous.
Not-so-everyday family life on a single pay packet, on social security, takes place on the wrong side of a growing gulf between the Joneses and the non-Joneses.
Is the Government responsible, directly or indirectly, for this growing wealth gap? What's boosting incomes when the trade unions are shadows of their former powerful selves and new jobs are frequently part-time and often badly paid? Mary Goldring takes evidence from families in and out of work, from an opinion poll commissioned by Analysis and from the official record. Producer DAVID MORTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Goldring
Producer:
David Morton

In theatres and halls, on pavements and in pubs, in clubs and in cabarets, every night of the week, persistent performers flog away at providing an often reluctant public with live entertainment.
In a series of five programmes Susan Marling meets some of the people who have found neither fame nor fortune in show business but still carry on. 1: Jack Seaton - Music-hall
Compere and Stand-up Comic Producer SALLY THOMPSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Marling
Unknown:
Jack Seaton
Producer:
Sally Thompson

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