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Presented by Sue MacGregor and Brian Redhead
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Read By:
Pauline Bushnell
Unknown:
Garry Richardson

Five programmes which revisit the scenes of past celebrated crimes, scandals and intrigue.
1: Providence House, Peasenhall Eighty-five years ago this sleepy Suffolk village was scandalised by the killing of a pretty maid-servant. One man was tried twice for her murder but walked free. Roger Wilkes visits the present house-owner and recalls the unsolved case ofRoseHarsent.
Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Wilkes
Producer:
Diana Stenson

Fergus Keeling joins
David Bellamy in Turkey to see if one of the last really wild places can be saved, while Lionel Kelleway has a ringside view of the fallow deer rut among the biggest herd in Britain.
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBCBristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Fergus Keeling
Unknown:
David Bellamy
Unknown:
Lionel Kelleway
Producer:
John Harrison

Sue MacGregor meets a marriage of talents.
Vivien Noakes is a writer and an authority on Edward Lear. Her husband. Michael, is a painter, chiefly of portraits and landscape. They talk about their lives and work, and reflect a little on both. Producer GILLIAN HUSH

Contributors

Unknown:
Vivien Noakes
Unknown:
Edward Lear.

Ferdi Dennis visits another capital in his journey round five countries of East and Southern Africa. 2: Dar-es-Salaam
Under the care of an irrepressible taxi driver, Ferdi Dennis explores Tanzania's capital city. (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Ferdi Dennis
Unknown:
Ferdi Dennis

in Different Viewpoints
'If the television is a guest in the house, it's rude to exclude it from the conversation. If the television says something, then one would be impolite not to respond to it.'
Written by SIMON BRETT
Producer PETE ATKIN , Stereo

Contributors

Written By:
Simon Brett
Producer:
Pete Atkin
Sarah:
Prunella Scales
Eleanor:
Joan Sanderson
Russell:
Benjamin Whitrow
Clare:
Gerry Cowper
the television:
Simon Brett

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Tommy's Tuba by BEN BUTTERWORTH. Stereo (R)
2.05 Looking at Nature Natural Britain (RV) A visual introduction to the unit's broadcasts and project ideas. Stereo (e)
2.20 Let's Make a Story! On the Mountain by RON JAMES Storyteller LOUIS ROBINSON Stereo (e)
2.30 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry): This Old Stone (R) (e)
2.40 Listen! Return to Badidrempt (6) by DEREK FARMER. Stereo (e)

Contributors

Unknown:
Ben Butterworth.
Unknown:
Ron James
Unknown:
Storyteller Louis Robinson

Introduced by Jenni Murray In Father's Footsteps (2)
Sonia Beesley meets Hilary Armstrong , MP for Durham
North West, whose father. The Rt Hon Ernest Armstrong , held the seat for Labour for 23 years. Serial:
Where Angels Fear to Tread (3)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jenni Murray
Unknown:
Sonia Beesley
Unknown:
Hilary Armstrong
Unknown:
Ernest Armstrong

by JANE RAWUNSON
Set in Co Clare, the action revolves round the discovery of a young girl's body in front of the statue of the Virgin - and the effect this has, throughout the community ...
Directed by STEWART CONN BBC Scotland. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Jane Rawunson
Directed By:
Stewart Conn
Eileen MacManus:
Kate Flynn
Fr Flanagan:
Aiden Grennell
Michael:
Patrick Dawson
Maria MacManus:
Colette Proctor
Mrs Laughlin:
Eileen Colgan
Brigid:
Marion O'Dwyer
Bernadette O'Reilly:
Ann Marie Horan
Mrs O'Reilly:
Neasa Ni Annrachain
Patrick MacManus:
Brendan Cauldwell
Mrs O'Connor:
Daphne Carroll
Jim Kelly:
Michael Ford

with Nigel Forde
The 50s were a time of austerity, of punitive conventions, of a grey uniformity ... Soho was perhaps the only area in London where the rules didn't apply.
Writer and broadcaster Daniel Farson , author of Soho in the 50s, takes a stroll round this 'proudly squalid' district of London and recalls some of its Bohemian inhabitants. Producer NIGEL ACHESON

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Forde
Unknown:
Daniel Farson
Producer:
Nigel Acheson

A musical panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the Chair Steve Race
Questions compiled by STEVE RACE Producer PETE ATKIN , Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
Edward J. Mason
Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Ian Wallace
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Producer:
Pete Atkin

To Fly where the Sun Never Sets
The life story of an Arctic tern by Paul Thomas
Narrated by Andrew Sachs
Arctic terns migrate from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back each year, a round trip of 25,000 miles. Why do they fly so far, and how do they find their way? Zoologists Robin Baker , Euan Dunn and Chris Mead follow the fortunes of one individual, recognised by the numbered ring on its leg -74/B. Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBCBristol. Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Thomas
Unknown:
Robin Baker
Unknown:
Euan Dunn
Unknown:
Chris Mead

A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families.
Presented by Kati Whitaker Producer MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence and enquiries to: Does He Take Sugar?
BBC, London W1A 4WW Phone [number removed]

Contributors

Presented By:
Kati Whitaker
Producer:
Marlene Pease

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