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Presented by Brian Redhead and John Humphrys , Including the fourth of Today's 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 BRIAN PERKINS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
John Humphrys
Read By:
Brian Perkins
Unknown:
Garry Richardson

Five programmes which revisit the scenes of past celebrated crimes, scandals and intrigue. 4: Vanity Fair, Thames Ditton Island
This bungalow provided the last known sighting of a former MP who disappeared without trace in September 1920.
Roger Wilkes visits the present owners and recalls the unsolved mystery of Victor Gray son. Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Wilkes
Unknown:
Victor Gray
Producer:
Diana Stenson

Ferdi Dennis comes to the end of his journey in Mozambique. 5: Maputo
Once an impressive Portuguese colonial trading post, now the capital of a young Marxist state, uneasily sharing a border with its powerful capitalist neighbour, South Africa.
Producer MARINA SALANDY BROWN (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Ferdi Dennis
Producer:
Marina Salandy Brown

by JAMES HENDRIE and IAN BROWN
This week's show features quite a few sketches, one of which is about a dentist.
Starring Robert Bathurst ,
Brenda Blethyn , Mike Grady and Jonathan Kydd.
Producer PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
James Hendrie
Unknown:
Ian Brown
Unknown:
Robert Bathurst
Unknown:
Brenda Blethyn
Unknown:
Mike Grady
Unknown:
Jonathan Kydd.

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Peg-leg Pete and the Pirate Ghost. Stereo
2.05 Looking at Nature Swan Hospital The Swan Rescue Service in action. Stereo (e)
2.20 Let's Make a Story! Cartoon Adventure by LIZ PINDAR Storyteller SHEELAGH GILBEY Stereo (e)
2.30 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry): The Secret of Caves by LIBBY HOUSTON (R) (e)
2.40 Listen! Return to Badlidrempt (9) by DEREK FARMER. Stereo (e)

by Michael Payne
A series of five magical plays
with and
The town gossips have only one subject of conversation - the mysterious Lady Faustus. The conjectures about her and her origins are boundless. But a certain handsome young lieutenant finds that the truth about her is far stranger than any fiction.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Writer:
Michael Payne
Director:
David Johnston
Lady Faustus:
Rula Lenska
Lt Franz Zimmerman:
James Aubrey
Mano:
Mary Wimbush
Lt Gustav Hardenburg:
David Goodland
Gerta von Kleber:
Zelah Clarke
Cpt Schwartz:
Paul Gregory
Hostess at the ball:
Carole Boyd
Countess Hilda:
Margaret Ward
Army officer:
Steven Harrold
Major-domo:
Paul Sirr

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.

Men, Nations and Whales
Will the bloody story ever end? An opportunity to hear again the winning radio documentary in the ecology category of this year's Prix Italia.
For the first time since 2000 Be there has been the prospect of an end to commercial whaling and the beginning of an unprecedented relationship between man and another animal. The present five-year moratorium, though, has not stopped the slaughter, for diehards use loopholes in the International Whaling
Commission regulations to keep on killing.
Will the Commission survive its current political tensions and if it breaks up under the strain, will there be a free-for-all in the seas?.
Written by DAVID HELTON Researcher LUCY CACANAS Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol (R)
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Written By:
David Helton

A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families, with countrywide news and views on all matters of concern to them.
Presented by Kati Whitaker Producer MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence and enquiries to: Does He Take Sugar?
BBC, London W1A 4WW Phone [number removed]
Lines open from 10.00am to 5.00pm Monday to Friday

Contributors

Presented By:
Kati Whitaker
Producer:
Marlene Pease

Paul Vaughan presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books. plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer JOHN GOUDIE
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Producer:
John Goudie

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