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Presented by Brian Redhead and John Humphrys
Including the third of Today's reports on how times have changed over the past 30 years.
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 COL VILE
7 45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
John Humphrys
Read By:
Bryan Martin

This week Chairman Clay Jones digs into the heavy postbag of listeners' gardening problems, and to solve them calls on the expert advice of Fred Downham Dr Stefan Buczacki and Daphne Ledward. Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
Questions, on postcards only please, to: Gardeners' Question Time, BBC, POBox27. Manchester M60 1SJ Plant lists and topical tips on Ceefaxpage 188

Contributors

Unknown:
Clay Jones
Unknown:
Fred Downham
Unknown:
Dr Stefan Buczacki
Unknown:
Daphne Ledward.
Producer:
Diana Stenson

A selection of works by one of Britain's greatest living writers Cheap in August dramatised by ELIZABETH TROOP and Bored with her marriage to an American professor, an Englishwoman escapes to the Caribbean on holiday. She searches there for a romance, but she's led towards a most unexpected attraction.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY. Stereo

Contributors

Dramatised By:
Elizabeth Troop
Directed By:
Richard Wortley.
Mary Watson:
Valerie Sarruf
Henry Hickslaughter:
Robert Beatty
Charlie Watson:
Blain Fairman
Sadie:
Sheila Grant
Jeannie:
Jennifer Piercey
Old woman:
Diana Olsson
First Jamaican waiter/First crew-cut boy:
Gregory
Second Jamaican waiter/Second crew-cut boy:
Paulsteven Harrold
Jamaican maid:
Victoria Carung

Twin Roles
Michael Schmidt talks to
Kenneth Branagh about his role as actor in Fortunes of War on BBCtv and in the film
A Month in the Country; and as director of his Renaissance
Theatre Company's production of Twelfth Night, opening later this week.
Producer JOHN BOUNDY

Contributors

Talks:
Michael Schmidt
Unknown:
Kenneth Branagh
Producer:
John Boundy

Presented by Alexander Walker 5: Spencer Tracy
'I'm the best Spencer Tracy in the world. If they want to give me an award for that, I've truly earned it.'
Producer WENDY CLAY (R)

Contributors

Presented By:
Alexander Walker
Presented By:
Spencer Tracy
Unknown:
Spencer Tracy
Producer:
Wendy Clay

Michael Pointon examines the curious oeuvre of Charlie and His Orchestra, a band assembled by Goebbels's
Ministry of Propaganda which broadcast swing tunes of the time, adding specially written anti-British lyrics.
With Freddy Brocksieper and Martin Esslin
Producer DAVID PERRY (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Pointon
Unknown:
Freddy Brocksieper
Unknown:
Martin Esslin
Producer:
David Perry

The Survival of the Symphony Six talks by the composer
Alexander Goehr , Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge, about what musicians have done to music. 2: An Orchid in the Land of Technology
The huge availability of recorded music could make the live performance an exotic bloom, but however powerful the impact of disc on the character of the concert hall, recorded music could provide some remedies for current dilemmas, financial and artistic.
(Re-broadcast next Sunday on R3) (Lecture 3, 'More is Less', next Wednesday on Radio 4)
'The Reith Lectures' are printed weekly in the 'Listener'

Contributors

Unknown:
Alexander Goehr

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