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Presented by Peter Hobday and Jenni Murray
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by DAVID SYMONDS
7.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.30,8.30 News Summary
7.40*, 8.47* Today's Papers
7.45 In Perspective with JOHNSTON MCKAY , the BBC'S
Religious Affairs Correspondent Editor JOLYON MONSON

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Presented By:
Jenni Murray
Read By:
David Symonds
Unknown:
Johnston McKay
Editor:
Jolyon Monson

Presented by Cliff Morgan 1787: riots in Louvain and Brussels, led by Van der Noot ; Princess Wilhemina of Holland arrested by Dutch insurgents near Gouda; the Marylebone
Cricket Club opens its innings. Happy Birthday!
Producer PETER GRIFFITHS

Contributors

Presented By:
Cliff Morgan
Unknown:
van Der Noot
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

4: The Gooseberry Show
Since 1800 the first week in August has been set aside for the Egton Bridge Gooseberry Show, the culmination of a whole year of devotion to the planting, pampering, and protection of the big berry. The selection and the weighing-in of each gooseberry is the subject of this week's big day.
Producer MARJORIE LOFTHOUSE BBC Pebble Mill
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 9.5am)

Contributors

Producer:
Marjorie Lofthouse

The last programme in the series and a rare chance to hear It's 's Long Way to Tipperary sung in French by John Julius Norwich. Other guests include
Celia Haddon. Janet Suzman and Daniel Topolski
Devised, written and presented by Nigel Rees
Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Producer jo BUNTING. Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Monday at 6.30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Julius Norwich.
Unknown:
Celia Haddon.
Unknown:
Janet Suzman
Unknown:
Daniel Topolski
Presented By:
Nigel Rees
Read By:
Ronald Fletcher

by Alan Berrie
with Sean Barrett as Cormac Kyle

When Cormac Kyle becomes the sole police witness to a vicious political murder subsequent harrowing events indicate that his public duty as a good citizen is at odds with his family's safety, his employer's corporate ambitions and many of his fellow Irishmen's political beliefs.

BBC Northern Ireland.
(Stereo)7 (R)

Contributors

Writer:
Alan Berrie
Director:
Robert Cooper
Cormac Kyle:
Sean Barrett
Fran:
Sorcha Cusack
Grainne:
Elizabeth Lindsay
Trish:
Susan Sheridan
Inge:
Miranda Forbes
Peadar:
Norman Rodway
Jackie:
Janene Possell
Colin:
Alan Barry
Margot:
Maggie Shevlin
Matt:
Jim Norton
Emily:
Kate Binchy
Aiden:
Bosco Hogan
Kay:
Felicity Hayes-McCoy
Sean:
Tony Doyle
Detta:
Patricia Leventon
Tom:
Mark Lambert
Nuala:
Marcella O'Riordan
Mike:
Michael Loughnan
Mary:
Angela Harding
Liam:
Adrian Dunbar
Detective:
John Rogan
Det Inspector:
P.G. Stephens
Superintendent:
Harry Towb
Cassidy:
Denys Hawthorne
Brennan:
Walter McMonagle
Insurgents/Radio voices:
Derek Halligan
Insurgents/Radio voices:
Mark Mulholland
Insurgents/Radio voices:
Ian McElhinney
Insurgents/Radio voices:
John Hewitt
Insurgents/Radio voices:
Desmond MacAleer

By John Penn, dramatised by Melville Jones.
When a body is found floating in the pool of a luxurious Cotswolds Hotel,
Superintendent Thorne is called in to investigate.
Directed by Martin Jenkins.
Stereo (R)
(Re-broadcast on Monday at 3.00pm)

Contributors

Dramatised by:
Melville Jones
Director:
Martin Jenkins
Superintendent Thome:
John Castle
his wife, Miranda:
Tessa Worsley
John Kempton:
Stephen Thorne
his wife, Rose:
Diana Bishop
Tom Latimer:
Jonathan Tafler
Polly Raven:
Karen Ascoe
Vern Raven:
James Goode
Mrs Fowler:
Pauline Letts
Mr Fowler:
Alan Dudley
Mrs Blair:
Sheila Grant
Mr Blair:
Tim Reynolds
Paul Kempton:
Kim Wall
Helen Dearden:
Eve Karpf
Roy Mortlake:
John Hollis
Cassandra Gray:
Jennifer Piercey
Canon Hurley:
Peter Howell
Mrs Hurley:
Rachel Gurney
Alice Hurley:
Deborah Makepeace
Sergeant Abbott:
Andrew Branch
DrBand:
Gordon Reid
Margery Swinson:
Jo Manning Wilson

A Fatal Inversion by RUTH RENDELL writing as BARBARA VINE abridged in 14 parts by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by Lewis Fiander 9: A Kind of Madness
Producer PAMELA HOWE. BBC Bristol

Contributors

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

In the first of six programmes, the people of Castle Carrock in Cumbria help David Bean to put together a picture of life in their village.
1: Carnival Time or A Damn Good Afternoon in the Sun Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
0 INFO: page 76

Contributors

Unknown:
David Bean

with Bernard Braden This week:
Don Call Us, We V Call You Written by WILLIAM GOLDMAN
NUNALLY JOHNSON. GARSON KANIN
JOSHUA LOGAN, ROGER PARRISH and WILL ROGERS
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR. Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 12.25pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Braden
Written By:
William Goldman
Written By:
Nunally Johnson.
Written By:
Garson Kanin
Unknown:
Roger Parrish
Producer:
Edward Taylor.

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