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Presented by Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Your Letters

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Presented By:
Sue MacGregor
Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Read By:
Bryan Martin

A series of six programmes illustrating the changes in public and private attitudes to sex within living memory 3: Drawing the Line
This week, the battles that have raged over the issue of censorship, from the days when the BBC banned all mention of fig leaves to the Channel 4 red triangle wrangle.
Reporter Helen Boaden Producer PETER EVERETT BBC Manchester

Contributors

Reporter:
Helen Boaden
Producer:
Peter Everett

The first indication that something was seriously wrong only came at day-break, when I realised I could not see land - in any direction.
Barry Pilton 's chronicle of the natural hazards and human follies that can afflict barge life up a Burgundy canal. Read by David Roper
Producer SAM COLLYNS (R)

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Unknown:
Barry Pilton
Read By:
David Roper
Producer:
Sam Collyns

An everyday story of towering genius written by SUE LIMB
A further episode of the soap opera set in and around the Lake District at the turn of the 18th century
27 July 1799: Stinking Iris brews laburnum tea. Cholericke returns secretly. Dorothy's arrangements for the wedding feast are disturbed. And a honeymoon is embarked upon....
Music by STEPHEN OLIVER SungbyCANTABILE Producer
JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE

Contributors

Written By:
Sue Limb
Music By:
Stephen Oliver
Producer:
Jonathan James-Moore
William Wordsmith:
Geoffrey Whitehead
Dorothy Wordsmith:
Denise Coffey
Samuel Tailor Cholericke:
Simon Callow
Thomas de Quinine:
Nickolas Grace
Stinking Iris:
Miriam Margolyes
Leechpedler:
Chris Emmett
Mary Wordsmith:
Iris Gemma Morlay

Introduced from Manchester by Barbara Taylor who loses half the Woman's 's
Hour team on a mountaineering
'Weekend for Wimps', blows the dust off a rare 18th-century diary which has surprising links with the latest trends in psychotherapy, and meets Mary Stott , the Guardian's women's page editor 1957-72. Producer JENNIFER HOLDEN BBC Manchester
Serial: Duplicate Keys (3)

Contributors

Unknown:
Barbara Taylor
Unknown:
Mary Stott
Producer:
Jennifer Holden

by H. G. WELLS dramatised in three parts by BARRY CAMPBELL with 1: England, 1910. Ann Veronica longs to leave the stifling atmosphere of the suburb of Morningside Park and to seek in London the education her father would deny her. But can she get away?
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol. Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
H. G. Wells
Unknown:
Barry Campbell
Unknown:
Ann Veronica
Directed By:
Brian Miller
Ann:
Angela Pleasance
Teddy:
Ian Cross
Aunt Mollie:
Susan Dowdall
Mr Stanley:
John Gabriel
Ramage:
Conrad Phillips
Ogilvy:
Patrick Horne
Constance:
Theresa Streatfeild
Hetty:
Deborah Appleby
Miss Miniver:
Bonnle Hurren
Lady Palsworthy:
Katherlne Parr
Hubert:
Gregory Depolnay
Gwen:
Elva Maklns
Hal:
Pa Vel Douglas

At Cost to Culture?
Business sponsorship is becoming a lifeline for the arts. Richard Mayne asks what business can gain from sponsorship and assesses the costs and benefits to artists. Producer RACHEL YORKE

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Mayne
Producer:
Rachel Yorke

A satirical review of the past week's news and events with Bill Wallis , David Tate Sally Grace and Jon Glover Written by PAUL B. DAVIES
STUART SILVER. RICHARD QUICK STEVE PUNT. MIKE COLEMAN
ALISON RENSHAW. PETER HICKEY PETE SINCLAIR. KEVIN MANDRY GED PARSONS. MAX HANDLEY BILL MATTHEWS and others Producer HARRY THOMPSON Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
David Tate
Unknown:
Sally Grace
Unknown:
Jon Glover
Written By:
Paul B. Davies
Unknown:
Mike Coleman
Unknown:
Alison Renshaw.
Unknown:
Peter Hickey
Unknown:
Pete Sinclair.
Unknown:
Kevin Mandry
Unknown:
Ged Parsons.
Unknown:
Max Handley
Unknown:
Bill Matthews
Producer:
Harry Thompson

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