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Presented by Peter Hobday and Jenni Murray
Featuring another winner in the Best of British Youth Awards Today Clare Lewey , aged 20, of south London.
Clare spent an important year doing voluntary work in Sudan. For the first six months she taught English, working with classes of 63 pupils - three to a desk! But in the second six months, she set up a centre for the disabled in the town ofNyala.
7.0,8.0 Today's News read by EUGENE FRASER
7.25* Sport with CHARLES COL VILE
7,30,8.30 News Summary
7.40*, 8.47* Today's Papers
7.45 In Perspective with JOHN NEWBURY, the BBC'S
Religious Affairs Correspondent
8.35 Yesterday in Parliament Editor JENNY ABRAMSKY

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Presented By:
Jenni Murray
Unknown:
Clare Lewey
Read By:
Eugene Fraser
Editor:
Jenny Abramsky

Presented by Cliff Morgan
Leather on Willow: the first cup final of the cricket season takes place at Lord's.
Treads on Tarmac: Silverstone is preparing for tomorrow's British Grand Prix.
Producer PETER GRIFFITHS

Contributors

Presented By:
Cliff Morgan
Producer:
Peter Griffiths

with Ned Sherrin and the likes of Craig Charles Carol Thatcher , Emma Freud and Jonathan Ross. Plus Victor Lewis Smith 's Look at Life. Additional material by ALISTAIR BEATON
Producers IAN GARDHOUSE and CATHIE MAHONEY
(Re-broadcast at 11. 0pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Ned Sherrin
Unknown:
Craig Charles
Unknown:
Carol Thatcher
Unknown:
Emma Freud
Unknown:
Jonathan Ross.
Unknown:
Victor Lewis Smith
Unknown:
Alistair Beaton
Producers:
Ian Gardhouse
Unknown:
Cathie Mahoney

Nigel Rees has this week's quota of quotations for guests William Franklyn , A.N. Wilson Mavis Nicholson and Rosemary Anne Sisson Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Devised and written by NIGEL REES Producer JO BUNTING. Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Monday at 30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Rees
Unknown:
William Franklyn
Unknown:
A.N. Wilson
Unknown:
Mavis Nicholson
Unknown:
Rosemary Anne Sisson
Read By:
Ronald Fletcher
Written By:
Nigel Rees
Producer:
Jo Bunting.

Following Father's Drift by SAM JACOBS
'Whenever I needed my Dad all I had to do was switch on the telly.' Liza Rothman 's bitter comment on her childhood with her comedian father sets the tone for this tragicomedy, as the 'ghost' of Max Rothman haunts the family funeral.
Directed by PIERS PLOWRIGHT. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Sam Jacobs
Unknown:
Liza Rothman
Unknown:
Max Rothman
Directed By:
Piers Plowright.
Max:
Alfred Marks
Liza:
Maggie Steed

by John Kirkmorris
Stan Pedler has been a Labour MP, LSE lecturer and a journalist, but now - still an idealist - he has founded a small self-supporting community in rural Somerset. Sadly, the community is falling apart but a key witness to this is Stan's ex-wife Ginny, who has returned to court him for a second time.
BBC Bristol.
(Stereo)
(Re-broadcast on Monday at 3.0 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
John Kirkmorris
Director:
Shaun MacLoughlin
Stan Pedler:
Stephen Thorne
Ginny:
Elizabeth Bell
Jill:
Deborah Makepeace
Mick:
Christian Rodska
Reen:
Angela Phillips
Ralf:
Herbert Norville
Esther:
Elizabeth Lindsay
Browne:
Edward de Souza
Stella:
Jenny Funnell

A Fatal Inversion by RUTH RENDELL writing as BARBARA VINE abridged in 14 parts by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by Lewis Fiander 3: This House is Mine
Producer PAMELA HOWE. BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Ruth Rendell
Read By:
Lewis Fiander
Producer:
Pamela Howe.

I have both a fine intellectual team and also a very fine habitat in which to work and we're very lucky, of course, because all the elements fit together to make a very happy working life.
In the first of six programmes exploring the traditional craft of the keeper, Keith Allan goes to Kew to meet Grenville Lucas , Keeper of the Herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens. Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Keith Allan
Unknown:
Grenville Lucas

Bernard Braden ambles through the world of transatlantic humour This week:
Memories Are Made of This Written by GEORGE BURNS
WOLCOT GIBBS , STEPHEN LEACOCK
SAM LEVENSON , HARPO MARX
DAMON RUNYON and JAMES THURBER Producer EDWARD TAYLOR. Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 12.25pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Braden
Written By:
George Burns
Written By:
Wolcot Gibbs
Written By:
Stephen Leacock
Written By:
Sam Levenson
Unknown:
Harpo Marx
Unknown:
Damon Runyon
Unknown:
James Thurber
Producer:
Edward Taylor.

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