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Presented by Sue MacGregor 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 Bryan Martin
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With Charles Colvile
7 45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

Contributors

Presenter:
Sue MacGregor
Presenter:
John Humphrys
Reporter:
Peter Day
Newsreader:
Bryan Martin
Sports Reporter:
Charles Colvile

Christopher Dunkley , of the Financial Times, airs your complaints and queries about the BBC.

(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
(Send your letters to: Feedback, [address removed]

Contributors

Presenter:
Christopher Dunkley
Producer:
Jenny Hargreaves

Introduced by Mollie Harris. Lord Lichfield focuses his camera on the countryside and voices his concern about the changing landscape, while Eric Simms has been up at the crack of dawn to hear the bird-song.
Also, Joanne Watson meets the mouseman from Kilburn, Yorks.

Info: page 77

Contributors

Presenter:
Mollie Harris
Reporter:
Eric Simms
Reporter:
Joanne Watson
Guest:
Lord Lichfield
Producer:
Caroline Elliot

Sony Radio Award Winner 1987 for Best Use of Comedy Over the Top starring Roy Hudd with Written by LAURIE ROWLEY
Producer JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE Stereo (First broadcast on Radio 2)
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Contributors

Unknown:
Roy Hudd
Written By:
Laurie Rowley
Producer:
Jonathan James-Moore
Mother/Melissa:
Denise Coffey
Compton/Charlton Heston:
Chris Emmett
Joan Collihs's Lawyer/The Yeti:
David Gooderson
Sherpa/Gregory:
Fred Harris

Introduced from Manchester by Julie Carter who meets David Metcalfe ,
Professor of General Practice at Manchester University Medical School, and hears of his
'theatrical' attempts to improve the quality of care the public receives from GPs.
Producer JENNIFER HOLDEN BBC Manchester
Serial: Reasonable Doubts (4)

Contributors

Unknown:
Julie Carter
Unknown:
David Metcalfe
Producer:
Jennifer Holden

by MRS HENRY WOOD dramatised in seven parts by MICHAEL BAKEWELL with and 3: A Chance Encounter in Boulogne
Mr Carlyle has become the proud new owner of East Lynne and has married Lady Isabel, so rescuing her from a life of misery and humiliation at the hands of Emma Mount Severn.
MARTIN GOLDSTEIN (piano)
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Mrs Henry Wood
Unknown:
Michael Bakewell
Piano:
Martin Goldstein
Directed By:
David Johnston.
Mrs Henry Wood:
Rosemary Leach
the Lady Isabel:
Moir Leslie
Mr Carlyle:
David Collings
Francis Levinson:
Anthony Edridge
Miss Cornelia:
Maxine Audley
Barbara Hare:
Julie Berry
Joyce:
Jo Kendall
Wilson:
Betty Huntley Wright
Mrs Hare:
Joan Matheson
Peter:
Brian Hewlett
Wainwright:
Paul Gregory
The Rev Little:
David Garth
Little Isabel:
Bernadette Windsor
Little William:
Ben Robb

Reporters NeU Walker and David Clayton link up with Local Radio stations around the country to discover what's happening on the buses. Blunderbus?
Since bus services in many areas were deregulated last year some of the fears have proved to be well founded. Radio
Merseyside's 'Blunderbus' service has told a sorry tale of buses that became unreliable, or stopped running altogether.
In contrast Northamptonshire passengers have welcomed changes including the introduction of hymn singing on some Sunday buses, and even a special offer on fish and chips. Producer GLYN JONES BBC North East

Contributors

Unknown:
David Clayton

The panel includes
The Rt Hon David Steel , mp Joe Mills , Northern Region
Secretary to the Transport and General Workers' Union
The programme comes from Hexham, Northumberland Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.10 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
David Steel
Unknown:
Joe Mills
Unknown:
John Timpson
Producer:
Carole Stone

Makers of law, legal practitioners and those who serve the administration of justice all contribute to this topical weekly magazine about issues thrown up by the courts and by Parliament.
Presented by John Eidinow Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF (Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Contributors

Presented By:
John Eidinow
Producer:
Anthony Moncrieff

Conversation Notes
Among the multiplicity of styles in 20th-century music, how does a composer go about finding an individual sound?
Nicola LeFanu , John McCabe and Simon Bainbridge talk to Michael Oliver about their struggle to find a voice.
Producer EDWINA WOLSTENCROFT (Re-broadcast next Monday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicola Lefanu
Unknown:
John McCabe
Unknown:
Simon Bainbridge
Unknown:
Michael Oliver

The Songlines by BRUCE chatwin abridged in ten episodes by DAVID BUCK
Read by Michael Siberry (10) Producer MAURICE LEITCH
(Starting Monday: 'I'm the King of the Castle' by Susan Hill )

Contributors

Read By:
Michael Siberry
Producer:
Maurice Leitch
Unknown:
Susan Hill

A satirical view of the week's news with Bill Wallis David Tate , Sally Grace and Jeffrey Holland
Written by PAUL B DA VIES
RICHARD QUICK. STEVE PUNT
MIKE COLEMAN. ALISON RENSHAW PETE SINCLAIR. KEVIN MANDRY GED PARSONS. MAX HANDLEY
BILL MATTHEWS. ROBERT LINFORD MARK BURTON. JOHN O'FARRELL PETER HICKEY and others
Producer ANDY WILSON. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow 5.25 pm L W)

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
David Tate
Unknown:
Sally Grace
Unknown:
Jeffrey Holland
Unknown:
Mike Coleman.
Unknown:
Alison Renshaw
Unknown:
Pete Sinclair.
Unknown:
Kevin Mandry
Unknown:
Ged Parsons.
Unknown:
Max Handley
Unknown:
Bill Matthews.
Unknown:
Linford Mark Burton.
Unknown:
John O'Farrell
Unknown:
Peter Hickey
Producer:
Andy Wilson.

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