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Presented by John Humphrys and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by SIMON VANCE
7.25*, 8.25* Sport with CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presented By:
John Humphrys
Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Read By:
Simon Vance

Dr Anthony Clare 's subject is the cricketer Geoffrey Boycott former captain of Yorkshire and England, much disliked by some and idolised by others. Researcher RONNI DAVIS Producer MICHAEL EMBER
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Anthony Clare
Unknown:
Geoffrey Boycott
Unknown:
Ronni Davis
Producer:
Michael Ember

Written and read in five parts by Brian Wright
1: Common Ground
,Civil war has come to Penge.
As an unwaged househusband and Pengeologist, I watch dog-owners and joggers go out to do battle daily.'
The humour dry as a bone and fiery setence a ready-made quote. Not to be missedSUNDAY TIMES Producer MATTHEW WALTERS (First broadcast on Radio 3)

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Wright
Producer:
Matthew Walters

Jeanine McMuUen with up-to-date news and information essential to those who make their living in the countryside. What's On offers a guide to shows exhibitions and courses around the country.
Producer MARY PRICE.BBC Bristol
Freeinformationsheetavailable from 30 August. Send sae (9 ½ x 6 1/2) to:
[address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeanine McMuuen

Up, You Mighty Race
Marcus Garvey , some say, is one of the greatest men to have lived this century. His philosophy of racial dignity, self-reliance and nationhood inspired many of the important mass movements in the USA, the Caribbean and Africa - movements that have shaped the course of history.
In the centenary of his birth,
Ferdi Dennis tells the story of an almost forgotten hero. Readings by CHRIS TAJAH
Producer MARINA SALANDY BROWN (Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Marcus Garvey
Unknown:
Ferdi Dennis
Unknown:
Chris Tajah
Producer:
Marina Salandy Brown

Five forays beyond the farm gate, in which Phil Smith catches a whiff of the everyday dramas of agricultural life - at livestock level.
1: It's a Pig's Life
Compiled by PHIL SMITH Producer LIZ JENSEN BBC Pebble Mill
0 HEAR THIS! page 17

Contributors

Unknown:
Phil Smith
Unknown:
Phil Smith
Producer:
Liz Jensen

Alexander Walker recalls the screen careers of the cinema's brightest stars.
4: Shirley Temple
The star of Dimples, Bright Eyes and Rebecca of Sunnybrook
Farm made her movie debut at the age of 4 and won a special Oscar three years later, but Shirley Temple was more than a child phenomenon. As Wall
Street crashed, she was seen as an antidote to the Depression and treated like a godsend: from 1935 to 1938 she was the country's most popular film star - and the seventh highest-paid person in the United States. Producer WENDY CLAY

Contributors

Unknown:
Alexander Walker
Unknown:
Shirley Temple
Producer:
Wendy Clay

The Unquiet Heart
The second in a series of three very private stories.... News of the World by DAVID MORGAN
1965: Every week 10-year-old Max is packed off to Sunday school with a shilling for the collection plate. But Max spends his shilling on a Mars bar and the News of the World, finds a park bench and begins to unravel life's mysteries by himself. and the children of HURST HEAD
JUNIOR SCHOOL , CHEADLE HULME Directed by ROBERT COOPER BBC Manchester. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
David Morgan
Unknown:
Hurst Head
Unknown:
Junior School
Unknown:
Cheadle Hulme
Directed By:
Robert Cooper
Max:
Steven Rendall
Dad:
Rob Whelan
Mum:
Pam Ferris
Sally:
Jane Hazlegrove
Miss Hope:
Joan Campion
Headmistress:
Rosalind Knight
Mrs FOX:
Daphne Oxenford
Presenter:
Randal Herley

Poets Laureate
Ten programmes about some famous and some forgotten holders of the office, compiled and presented by Sean Street 9: Alfred Tennyson (1809-92) Readers MARTIN JARVIS
ADRIAN CAIRNS and DAVID GOODLAND
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo

Contributors

Presented By:
Sean Street
Readers:
Alfred Tennyson
Readers:
Martin Jarvis
Readers:
Adrian Cairns
Producer:
Margaret Bradley

A Powerhouse of Pianists
British pianists have hit the headlines in recent years with success at international piano competitions, and this year's Proms include no fewer than 12 outstanding talents. Is Britain enjoying a pianistic renaissance?
Jeremy Siepmann talks to
Howard Shelley, Kathryn Stott and David Owen Norris.
Producer EDWINA WOLSTENCROFT

Contributors

Talks:
Jeremy Siepmann
Unknown:
Kathryn Stott
Unknown:
David Owen Norris.
Producer:
Edwina Wolstencroft

starring and
4:
Clubland Paul decides it's time for everyone to spend an evening in Guppies.... the club where the Nouveau Fiche come to sea and be sean. But soon, things start to go crazily wrong ... ! Stereo (R)
(Fifth programme next Monday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Clubland Paul
Jeremy:
Jeremy Hardy
Kit:
Kit Hollerbach
Paul:
Paul B Davies
Caroline:
Caroline Leddy

I get mistaken for Sheila Hancock quite a lot!
Actress Sian Phillips talks to Martyn Williams about her career, her marriages - and the time she was barred from the Brownies!
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS
(First broadcast on Radio Wales)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sheila Hancock
Talks:
Sian Phillips
Unknown:
Martyn Williams
Producer:
Herbert Williams

In the first of eight programmes, Fritz Spiegl describes some of the musical delights offered to holidaymakers in English resorts, not forgetting pump-rooms and spas.
Producer RAY ABBOTT. Stereo
0 WODDIS ON: page 73

Contributors

Unknown:
Fritz Spiegl
Producer:
Ray Abbott.

The ten-part story of Lord
Byron's tempestuous romances in the years 1812-16, as told in the poet's own letters of the time. With
9: The Treaclemoon is Over Selected and introduced by Brian Gear
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol

Contributors

Producer:
Margaret Bradley
Lord Byron:
Robert Powell

Paul Allen presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer RACHEL YORKE
(Revre-broadcasttomorrowat4.35pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Allen
Producer:
Rachel Yorke

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