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Presented by Peter Hobday and Brian Redhead
6 30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN 7 20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Read By:
Laurie MacMillan
Unknown:
Garry Richardson

Without Fire by WALLY K. DALY with and When Phillip gives up smoking he gets a little bit tense - in the end it's not just his friends, relatives and colleagues who urge him to return to the habit, even his doctor agrees with them.
Directed by MARTIN JENKINS Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Wally K. Daly
Directed By:
Martin Jenkins
Phillip:
Paul Daneman
Sarah:
Nonna Ronald
Barry:
Richard Durden
Doreen:
Jane Leonard
Managing Director:
Bernard Brown
Doctor:
Graham Blockey
Sandy:
Tessa Worsley

That Dread Lake is how Walter Scott described Loch Coruisk. set in the rugged Cullin Hills, in Skye. Others called it 'fearsome, awesome and sterile'. When Andrew Currie and Derek Cooper went to Coruisk they found it surrounded by yellow, purple and pink wildflowers. Producer JOHN HARRISON BBCBristol
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Walter Scott
Unknown:
Loch Coruisk.
Unknown:
Andrew Currie
Unknown:
Derek Cooper
Producer:
John Harrison

Presented by Susan Rae
Caring for the mentally ill in the community, rather than in hospital, has meant that the views of patients and ex-patients about the kind of new services they want suddenly matters a great deal. The government is committed to listening to patients' opinions - and so are health authorities, doctors, nurses and social workers.
In the last two years, there has been an explosion of patient and ex-patient groups all over the UK. You and Yours talks to these new consumer groups - and discovers some surprising opinions.

Contributors

Presented By:
Susan Rae

A general musical-knowledge quiz in three movements. featuring anything from Bach to the Beatles.
Chairman Ned Sherrin First Round: Heat 1 Paul Campion
(department store executive) Ronald Peatchey
(retired deputy headmaster) Cora Wheeler
(medical secretary)
Questions set by EDWARD COLE and ROBERT WALTON
Programme devised by edward cole Producer RICHARD EDIS. Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 6.30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Ned Sherrin
Unknown:
Paul Campion
Unknown:
Ronald Peatchey
Unknown:
Cora Wheeler
Unknown:
Edward Cole
Unknown:
Robert Walton
Producer:
Richard Edis.

Introduced by Sue MacGregor The Facts of the Matter
Around 3,000 public enquiries are held every year in Britain, ranging from the safety of fairgrounds to nuclear dumping. How do they work, and how successful are they? Some of the women who have been involved in them discuss their opinions and experiences. Serial:
Charters and Caldicott (9)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor

Bhowani Junction by JOHN MASTERS dramatised in five parts by BARRY CAMPBELL with
2: Victoria Jones
Army service extended
Victoria's horizons. She is now uneasy about her relationship with Patrick Taylor - and her position as an Anglo-Indian. with KUMAR RANJI. BHASKER. ALJ REFAIE and GUY HOLDEN
Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Campbell
Unknown:
Victoria Jones
Unknown:
Patrick Taylor
Directed By:
Christopher Venning
Col Rodney Savage:
Gary Bond
Victoria Jones:
Shireen Shah
Patrick Taylor:
Sean Barrett
Kartar Singh:
Kaleem Janjua
Lt Macaulay:
Brett Usher
Rose Mary Jones:
Josephine Welcome
Mr Thomas Jones:
Garard Green
Deputy Supt Lanson:
John Goljghtly
Brig Ffoukes- Jones:
Mel Oxley
Mr Govindaswami:
Geoffrey Matthews
Ranjit Singh Kasel:
Andrew Johnson
Major Dickson:
Bernard Brown

Teddy Boys, Mods and Rockers and Punks are all familiar to us, but what of the Victorian Peaky Blinders and Scuttlers and the later Napoo, Redskins and Bowler Hats? Were these street gangs the precursors of modern youth cults?
Steve Humphries investigates. The Hooligan Song and Three Peaky Blinders are performed by Roy Hudd DON SHEARMAN (piano)
Readers MICHAEL TUDOR-BARNES
BRIAN HEWLETT and ANTHONY JACKSON Producer JUDE HOWELLS
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.5pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Steve Humphries
Unknown:
Roy Hudd
Piano:
Don Shearman
Readers:
Michael Tudor-Barnes
Readers:
Brian Hewlett
Readers:
Anthony Jackson
Producer:
Jude Howells

The Betty Ford Center is probably the best known clinic for the treatment of alcoholism and drug abuse in the world.
Founded by the wife of former US President Gerald Ford , in the wake of her own emergence from drink and drug addiction, it now has a high success rate. Jean Snedegar meets Mrs Ford and reports on the methods of treatment employed by the centre.
Producer SALLY THOMPSON
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Contributors

Unknown:
Gerald Ford
Unknown:
Jean Snedegar
Unknown:
Mrs Ford
Producer:
Sally Thompson

News, views and information for people with a visual handicap. Presented by Peter White Producer SUSAN DENNY
Listeners can phone with enquiries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed]Lines open from 8.30 to 10.15pm Details of the 'In Touch
Handbook' in print, tape, moon and Braille, from
Broadcasting Support Services, PO Box 7, London W3 6XJ

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter White
Producer:
Susan Denny

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