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Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30, 7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by clive ROSLIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Your Letters

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Presented By:
Sue MacGregor
Read By:
Clive Roslin

The Shadow Knows
- the sound of Orson Welles A documentary researched and compiled by Geoffrey Heptonstall from archive and library material with contributions from George Coulouris
Joseph Cotton , Benny Green John Houseman , Clancy Sigal and the voices of Orson Welles
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT Stereo
(Re-broadcast next Tuesday)
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Contributors

Unknown:
Orson Welles
Unknown:
Geoffrey Heptonstall
Unknown:
George Coulouris
Unknown:
Joseph Cotton
Unknown:
Benny Green
Unknown:
John Houseman
Unknown:
Clancy Sigal
Unknown:
Orson Welles
Producer:
Piers Plowright

At the height of the American war in Vietnam, between 1968-70, Roger Martin was political officer in the British Embassy in Saigon.
In a series of three talks, he recalls some of the people he met and places he visited in those three turbulent years. 1: Three Old Men

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Martin

Iain Johnstone in the director's seat with another reel of movie moments.
Unwrapping their choc ices this week are Stubby Kaye, Angela Douglas, Jenny Hanley and Dick Vosburgh
(Stereo)

Contributors

Chairman:
Iain Johnstone
Panellist:
Stubby Kaye
Panellist:
Angela Douglas
Panellist:
Jenny Hanley
Panellist:
Dick Vosburgh
Written and devised by:
Jeremy Pascall
Written and devised by:
Phil Swern
Producer:
Andy Aliffe

Introduced from Birmingham by Marjorie Lofthouse who talks to Jane White , a police physical training instructor who's just returned from leading a schools' expedition to some of the remotest parts of Papua New Guinea.
Producer ANNE MARIE COLE BBC Pebble Mill Serial:
A Parents' Survival Guide(2)

Contributors

Unknown:
Marjorie Lofthouse
Unknown:
Jane White
Producer:
Anne Marie Cole

by ALEXANDRE DUMAS dramatised in seven parts by BARRY CAMPBELL
2: The Abbé Faria
As the result of information laid against him by jealous rivals and the duplicity of the Deputy Prosecutor, de Villefort, Edmond Dantes has been imprisoned in the notorious Chateau d'If.
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Alexandre Dumas
Unknown:
Barry Campbell
Directed By:
Graham Gauld
starring as Edmond Dantes:
Andrew Sachs
and as the Abbe Faria:
Alan Wheatley
Jacopo:
Robert Rtetty
Seaman:
Steven Harrold
Smuggler:
Manning Wilson

Six lives and six perspectives of North America emerge in conversation with Anne Brown 5: Phyllis Schlafly
Right-wing political campaigner and arch-enemy of sexual equality, Phyllis Schlafly is loved and loathed across 50 states. The mother of six who took on the Women's Movement - and won - argues the case for home and apple pie in a turbulent age.
Producer LIZ JENSEN BBC Pebble Mill
(Re-broadcast next Monday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Anne Brown
Unknown:
Phyllis Schlafly
Unknown:
Phyllis Schlafly
Producer:
Liz Jensen

The Rt Hon Norman Tebbit, MP, The Rt Hon Roy Hattersley, MP, Des Wilson, President, Liberal Party and Lady Antonia Fraser tackle the issues raised by the audience at Wash Common, Newbury, Berkshire
Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby
BBC Bristol

Contributors

Panellist:
Norman Tebbit, MP
Panellist:
Roy Hattersley, MP
Panellist:
Des Wilson
Panellist:
Lady Antonia Fraser
Chairman:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Producer:
Carole Stone

Works in Progress
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies likes to have more than one thing on the go. As well as conducting, he's just finished one opera,
Resurrection, started another about St Francis of Assisi and he's also writing a series ofconcerti.
In conversation with Michael Berkeley , he talks about composing and the importance of teaching music to children. Producer EDWINA WOLSTENCROFT (Re-broadcast next Monday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Unknown:
St Francis
Unknown:
Michael Berkeley

A series of investigative reports
'Farming is an industry, and like other industries it pollutes the rivers and poisons our food.' David Lander looks at factory farming and the use of pesticides, and enters the complex world of EEC Agricultural Policy. Studio production by STEPHEN FRY assisted by PHIL POPE and Julia HILLS
Dramatic reconstructions by PHIL NICE . BRENDA BLETHYN
ROBERT BATHURST and JACK KLAFF Research by TONY SARCHET
Editor PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow 5.25pm LW)

Contributors

Unknown:
David Lander
Production By:
Stephen Fry
Assisted By:
Phil Pope
Unknown:
Phil Nice
Unknown:
Brenda Blethyn
Unknown:
Robert Bathurst
Unknown:
Jack Klaff
Unknown:
Tony Sarchet
Editor:
Paul Mayhew-Archer

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