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Presented by John Humphrys 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 clive ROSLIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Presented By:
John Humphrys
Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Read By:
Clive Roslin

John Waite and his team tackle another case concerning injustice and the abuse of power.
Producer GRAHAM ELLIS Editor KEN VASS
(Re-broadcast next Monday)
If you have come across an issue which deserves investigation, write to: Face the Facts, BBC London W1A 4WW

Contributors

Unknown:
John Waite
Producer:
Graham Ellis
Editor:
Ken Vass

Sixty pilots climb aboard their planes for this year's DEC Schneider Trophy Race.
This famous competition, which started in 1913, was originally for seaplanes and attracted an international field of competitors. Nowadays the planes will touch down on dry land, but the speeds won't be as great as 50 years ago.
Sean Maffett dons his goggles and investigates the past and present of Europe's largest air race.
Producer CAROUNE ELUOT

Contributors

Unknown:
Sean Maffett

In the last of six programmes
Bruce Sandison talks of fishing, wildlife and history with Christopher Lowell. Gairloch. Wester Ross
Classic West Highland scenery with mountains and forests. There are also spectacles, faeries, and diamonds if you want to include the lochs.
(First broadcast on Radio Scotland)

Contributors

Talks:
Bruce Sandison
Unknown:
Christopher Lowell.
Unknown:
Wester Ross

The Right Prescription? An audience of health watchdogs quiz a panel of experts about the state of the National Health Service. John Howard chairs the meeting at the annual conference of the Association of Community Health Councils in the Universisty of York. Producer CHRIS HIPWELL

Contributors

Unknown:
John Howard
Producer:
Chris Hipwell

A panel game devised by Tony Shryane and Edward J. Mason
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Antonia Fraser and Denis Norden
In the Chair Michael O'Donnell
(Stereo)

Contributors

Chairman:
Michael O'Donnell
Panellist:
Dilys Powell
Panellist:
Frank Muir
Panellist:
Antonia Fraser
Panellist:
Denis Norden
Questions compiled by:
Peter Moore
Devised by:
Tony Shryane
Devised by:
Edward J Mason
Producer:
Pete Atkin

Introduced by Sue MacGregor 'You ask-yourself what is at fault, the society or yourself?' While approving of people who undertake voluntary work overseas, do we value the experience they acquire abroad? Janet Davey hears of the emotional and practical difficulties in returning to life in Britain.
Serial: Reasonable Doubts (3)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Janet Davey

by Derrick Geer
An occasional series of plays for radio.
With John Alderton as David and Alistair White as Joe

While his mother visits his father in America to finalise their divorce, Joe is sent to stay with Uncle David in a Welsh coastal village. For both of them it becomes an unforgettable experience.
(Stereo)
Hear This: page 15

Contributors

Writer:
Derrick Geer
Director:
Stuart Owen
David:
John Alderton
Joe:
Alistair White
Narrator/Alan:
Colin Stinton
Wendy:
Julie Berry
Jack:
David Goodland
Edna:
Jennifer Piercey
Bethan:
Deborah Makepeace
Jim/Frank:
Dorien Thomas
Charlie:
Aubrey Williams

Susan Hill is at the wheel as Radio 4's good books programme drives off for its summer break the gospel according to Our Ford in the glove compartment and an evocation of the delights of the French B road from passenger Richard Binns. Producer SIMON ELMES
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Hill
Unknown:
Richard Binns.
Producer:
Simon Elmes

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm) Written by SAM JACOBS Cast for the week:
BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Written By:
Sam Jacobs
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Pat Archer:
Patricia Gallimore
Phil Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Shula Hebden:
Judy Bennett
Mark Hebden:
Richard Derrington
David Archer:
Timothy Bentinck
Elizabeth Archer:
Alison Dowling
Christine Barford:
Lesley Saweard
George Barford:
Graham Roberts
Jack Woolley:
Arnold Peters
Nelson Gabriel:
Jack May
Joe Grundy:
Edward Kelsey
Eddie Grundy:
Trevor Harrison
Clarrie Grundy:
Fiona Mathieson
Caroline Bone:
Sara Coward
Nigel Pargetter:
Nigel Caliburn
Matthew Thorogood:
Crawford Logan
Lynda Snell:
Carole Boyd

An eight-part series presented by the outgoing BBC Middle East Correspondent Gerald Butt. 5: Egypt
One Arab in three is from Egypt, the country that has produced two of the Arab world's most charismatic leaders: Nasser and Sadat. Yet Egypt has been expelled from the Arab League for signing a peace treaty with Israel, has acute economic problems and population growth is out of control. How does this ancient and sometimes chaotic country get by? Producer ALAN WILDING (e)
Book, same title, £7.95 from bookshops ('Get by in Arabic next Sunday
5.30pm VHFjFM)

Contributors

Unknown:
Gerald Butt.
Producer:
Alan Wilding

The last of five programmes
Beatles bags, Beatles sweaters, Mersey boots.... they were all part of the swinging 60s.
Miniskirts arrived and old attitudes went. Songs by the Beatles, Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones, and poems by Roger McGough and Adrian Henri , caught the mood of the times.
With RAY SMITH ,
CHRISTINE PRITCHARD and SION PROBERT Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Dylan
Unknown:
Roger McGough
Unknown:
Adrian Henri
Unknown:
Ray Smith
Unknown:
Christine Pritchard
Producer:
Herbert Williams

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

Contributors

Presented By:
Kati Whitaker
Producer:
Marlene Pease

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More