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Presented by John Humphrys and Brian Redhead in London with Peter Hobday at the Liberal Party Assembly in Harrogate
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00, 8.00 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presented By:
John Humphrys
Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Peter Hobday
Read By:
Bryan Martin

This week the team visits
Yorkshire, where members of the Huddersfield Gardeners' Club put their queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki , Fred Downham and Dick Robinson
Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Stefan Buczacki
Unknown:
Fred Downham
Unknown:
Dick Robinson
Producer:
Diana Stenson

From the apparently obvious to the downright obscure,
Dilly Barlow attempts to answer your questions, with advice from experts and help from the BBC Reference Library. This week: How Guardsmen Measure Up!
Producer CATHY DRYSDALE
Questions, on postcards only please, to- Enquire Within, BBC. London W1A 4WW

Contributors

Unknown:
Dilly Barlow
Producer:
Cathy Drysdale

Alexander Walker recalls the screen careers of the cinema's brightest stars. 10: Vivien Leigh
If Vivien Leigh had done nothing but play Blanche du Bois in A Streetcar Named
Desire and Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind her place in cinema history would be secure. It was an incredible achievement that an English girl with her stage background and no power base in Hollywood should make off with two of the greatest roles in American movies - and win
Oscars for both performances. Producer WENDY CLAY

Contributors

Unknown:
Alexander Walker
Unknown:
Vivien Leigh
Unknown:
Vivien Leigh
Unknown:
Blanche Du Bois
Unknown:
Scarlett O'Hara

1.55 Listening Corner TONY AITKEN reads Wriggly Worm and the New Pet. Stereo
2.00 Books, Plays, Poems The Application Form by MOY MCCORY. Stereo (e)
2.30 Science for All Feed the World Feast or famine? STEVE BLACKNELL discovers how the world's major crops are grown and why so many people starve in a world overflowing with food. Written by TONY JAMES (e) StereolBinaural The full binaural effect can be heard only through stereo headphones
2.50 Authentic German for GCSE 3: Aufder Post, am Bahnhof Compiled and presented by LOL BRIGGS and BRYAN GOODMAN STEPHENS (R) (e)

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Aitken
Unknown:
Steve Blacknell
Written By:
Tony James
Unknown:
Bryan Goodman Stephens

Introduced by Jenni Murray On the Shelf
Beginning a new, regular, series, Frances Donnelly and Joan Smith review some recent fiction by women and discuss developments in women's publishing.
Serial: Prenez Garde (2)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jenni Murray
Unknown:
Frances Donnelly
Unknown:
Joan Smith

Remember This by CAROLYN SALLY JONES with and Alice and George are in their 60s. To Alice's distress the children no longer seem to need her, nor feel attached to the house in which they were born.
Directed by KAY PATRICK BBC Manchester. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Carolyn Sally Jones
Directed By:
Kay Patrick
George:
Maurice Denham
Alice:
Pauline Letts
Roger:
Tim Reynolds
Debbie:
Elaine Claxton
Estate agent:
David Fleeshman
Mr Henderson:
John Basham
Mrs Henderson:
Delia Corrie

Dannie Abse presents seven programmes of poetry about music.
5: Music Heard Out of Doors Readers ANDREW SACHS and JUNE RADLEY ProducerMARGARET BARRIEB BBC Bristol. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Dannie Abse
Readers:
Andrew Sachs
Unknown:
June Radley
Producer:
Margaret Barrieb

Scottish Music
American conductor
John Mauceri has a flamboyant and catholic taste in music. He's won a Grammy award for the Best Opera Recording of Bernstein's Candide and a Tony for the Broadway musical On
Your Toes. He's conducted at La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera and at Covent Garden.
As he opens his first season as Music Director at Scottish
Opera with Aida, he talks to
Joyce Macmillan about his life in music and his plans for the company.
Producer RACHEL YORKE

Contributors

Conductor:
John Mauceri
Unknown:
Joyce MacMillan
Producer:
Rachel Yorke

In the seventh of eight programmes, Fritz Spiegl offers high-, low- and middle-brow music as played in watering places around the British Isles. Reader JOHN WESTBROOK Producer RAY ABBOTT Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Fritz Spiegl
Reader:
British Isles.
Reader:
John Westbrook
Producer:
Ray Abbott

A Labour of Love
Labour's third consecutive electoral defeat has sparked a debate on the future direction of democratic socialism in Britain. Within the party voices have been raised calling not only for constitutional and electoral reform, but for a fundamental re-orientation of policy. Where might such a re-orientation take the Labour Party?
Where should the balance lie between pragmatism and ideology? Presented by Professor A. H. Halsey Producer CAROLINE ANSTEY
(Re-broadcast tomorrow 1 00am L W)

Contributors

Presented By:
Professor A. H. Halsey
Producer:
Caroline Anstey

The Morning Room by MICHAEL ARDITTI with The funeral may be over, but Mother refuses to die as Sarah and Ralph lacerate themselves over their memories....
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Arditti
Directed By:
Richard Wortley
Sarah:
Anna Massey
Ralph:
Hugh Dickson
Aunt Ursula:
Pauline Letts

Natalie Wheen presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN
(Rev re-broadcast tomorrow at 4. 35pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Natalie Wheen
Producer:
Richard Bannerman

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