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Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FlNIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by DAVID SYMONDS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Presented By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Bob Flnigan
Read By:
David Symonds

Late afternoon sun on the village green; men in cream flannels dreaming of heroes; a neat cut and a fine edge as leather meets willow; lazy applause from the boundary ... The romantic world of cricket evoked in two centuries of prose, poetry and anecdote. Narrated in ten parts by Robert Powell with readings by Robin Bailey , Bernard Cribbins Willie Rushton and Prunella Scales
1: An Englishman's Crease is 'is Castle
Written and adapted by CHRISTOPHER LEE producer PETER GRIFFITHS

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Powell
Unknown:
Robin Bailey
Unknown:
Bernard Cribbins
Unknown:
Willie Rushton
Adapted By:
Christopher Lee
Producer:
Peter Griffiths

on its peregrination around the north of England lights on Newcastle upon Tyne with regulars
Stephen Pile , Steve Brown and Mark Miwurdz.
Producers JULIE SIMMONS and IAN STRACHAN BBC Manchester
(Tickets from [address removed])

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Pile
Unknown:
Steve Brown
Unknown:
Mark Miwurdz.
Producers:
Julie Simmons

Bernard and P.J. have now spent a week on their desert island. How have they managed? Have they found somewhere to live, something to eat?
Bernard has his usual array of tapes, among which is a full dramatisation of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, dramatised by OLWEN WYMARK from
The Sword and the Circle by ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF.
The programme also includes a quiz, a competition, a feature by Roger Worsley and an interruption from Jonathan Kydd.
Story-line by CHRIS CURRY Those taking part:
BERNARD CRIBBINS , EDWARD DE SOUZA.
SALLY EDWARDS. ALED JONES.
IAIN JONES. JAMES LAURENSON.
JENNY LUCKRAFT. DAVID MICHAELS ,
KENNETH ALAN TAYLOR.
PETER WHEELER and HELEN WORTH
Producer CAROLINE SMITH BBC Manchester. Stereo

Contributors

Dramatised By:
Olwen Wymark
Unknown:
Rosemary Sutcliff.
Unknown:
Roger Worsley
Unknown:
Jonathan Kydd.
Unknown:
Chris Curry
Unknown:
Bernard Cribbins
Unknown:
Sally Edwards.
Unknown:
Aled Jones.
Unknown:
Iain Jones.
Unknown:
David Michaels
Unknown:
Kenneth Alan Taylor.
Unknown:
Peter Wheeler
Producer:
Caroline Smith

from Pebble Mill, Birmingham with the singers and instrumentalists of St John 's, Harborne
As pants the hart for cooling streams (BBC HB 451); City, 0
City (L. E. Smith jnr); How firm a foundation (Sounds of Living Waters 75); Reading: Psalm 46 BBC Pebble Mill. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
St John
Unknown:
L. E. Smith

First of four programmes Cliff Morgan sets out on a journey which will take him 130 miles down the River Wye.
Today he goes to its source on Plynlimmon Mountain in the heart of Wales, then, via the tiny village of Llangurig, on to the market town of Rhayader, eventually arriving in Builth Wells on the eve of the Royal Welsh Show.
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
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A sitcom about young people where craziness is never far away....! Starring
5: Chips with Everything!
When Caroline makes a special announcement at Kit and Jeremy's wedding anniversary, it's another success story for computer dating. There's just one tiny problem ...
Written by JEREMY HARDY.
KIT HOLLERBACH and PAUL B. DAVIES with PETE SINCLAIR. CAROLINE LEDDY and STEVE PUNT
Producer DAVID TYLER. Stereo (R)

Contributors

Written By:
Jeremy Hardy.
Written By:
Kit Hollerbach
Written By:
Paul B. Davies
Unknown:
Pete Sinclair.
Unknown:
Caroline Leddy
Unknown:
Steve Punt
Producer:
David Tyler.
Jeremy:
Jeremy Hardy
Paul:
Paul B Davies
Caroline:
And Caroline Leddy

Introduced by Jenni Murray Cream and Calvados
To mark the celebrations commemorating William the Conqueror's death 900 years ago, Sara Parker paints a picture of Norman life today. Serial: Travels with Charley by JOHN STEINBECK abridged in eight parts byPATMCLOUGHLIN
Read by Lyndon Brook (6)
(Music: Grofe's 'Hudson River Suite') Editor CLARE SELERIE-GREY

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jenni Murray
Unknown:
Sara Parker
Unknown:
John Steinbeck
Read By:
Lyndon Brook

Seasons of Mist by DOT RUBIN
Beth lives with her parents on their farm in Cornwall. It is her 17th birthday but the family celebrations are overshadowed by her despair at the absence of her adored brother, Bobby, who was sent away from home by her father after a family crisis, the nature of which still haunts them.
STUART HUTCHINSON (piano) Directed by CHERRY COOKSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Dot Rubin
Piano:
Stuart Hutchinson
Directed By:
Cherry Cookson
Beth:
With Lesley Dunlop
her mother:
Anna Cropper
her father:
John Turner
Frank:
Christopher Fairbank
Bobby:
Andrew Woodall

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