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Presented by Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday
Including the last of Today's 's reports on how times have changed over the past 30 years.
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.25* Sport with GARRY RICHARDSON
7.30,8.30 News Summary
7.40*, 8.47* Today's Papers
7.45 In Perspective with JOHN NEWBURY, the BBC's
Religious Affairs Correspondent
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament Editor PHILIP HARDING

Contributors

Presented By:
Sue MacGregor
Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Read By:
Eugene Fraser
Unknown:
Garry Richardson
Editor:
Philip Harding

Cliff Morgan is j oined by Donald Trelford , editor of the Observer.
The conversation might easily touch on rugby, snooker, athletics or even chess - and there is special interest in the news from Lahore, where England's cricketers meet Pakistan in the First Test. Producer GORDON TURNBULL

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald Trelford

The holiday and travel programme presented by Bernard Falk.
Reporter Susan Marling and travel expert Nigel Coombs join Bernard every Saturday morning to keep you in touch with the latest holiday problems and news.
Producer JENNY MALLINSON DUFF For details of items in this week's programme please send sae to:
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Contributors

Presented By:
Bernard Falk.
Reporter:
Susan Marling
Unknown:
Nigel Coombs
Producer:
Jenny Mallinson

unravelled by Ned Sherrin and the likes of Craig Charles Carol Thatcher , Emma Freud and Jonathan Ross.
Plus Victor Lewis Smith 's Look at Life
Additional material by PETE SINCLAIR and STEVE PUNK Producers IAN GARDHOUSE and CATHIE MAHONEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Ned Sherrin
Unknown:
Craig Charles
Unknown:
Carol Thatcher
Unknown:
Emma Freud
Unknown:
Jonathan Ross.
Unknown:
Victor Lewis Smith
Unknown:
Pete Sinclair
Producers:
Ian Gardhouse
Producers:
Cathie Mahoney

Major world events of the past week reduced to the irrelevant. Sidestepping the issues are Alan Coren , Ian Hislop and their guests, while Barry Took attempts to keep everything out of focus.
Written and compiled by JOHN LANGDON
Producer DAN PATTERSON. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Coren
Unknown:
Ian Hislop
Unknown:
Barry Took
Unknown:
John Langdon
Producer:
Dan Patterson.

A selection of works by one of Britain's greatest living writers. The Potting Shed adapted by PEGGY WELLS
With the exception of two, the Callifers are gathered for the funeral of the family head. Then unexpectedly one of the missing two turns up, and the defence they have all maintained during the old man's lifetime begins to crumble as the long-guarded secret of what happened in the potting shed is threatened. Directed by GERRY JONES Stereo

Contributors

Adapted By:
Peggy Wells
Directed By:
Gerry Jones

by EMLYN WILLIAMS (1905-87)
Emlyn Williams 's famous murder play was originally produced in May 1935.
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Emlyn Williams
Unknown:
Emlyn Williams
Directed By:
John Tydeman
Dan:
Hywel Bennett
Mrs Bramson:
Brenda Bruce
Olivia:
Caroline Mortimer
Mrs Terence:
Anne Jameson
Hubert Laurie:
John Church
Dora Parkoe:
Melina Walker
Insp Belsize:
Ronald Herdman

The Country in Your Pocket For 60 years The Countryman magazine has been campaigning on behalf of the countryside and country people. Small enough to fit in your pocket, big enough to make its voice heard, it's still the same size, with 80,000 readers worldwide.
Stanley Williamson profiles the little green mag which 'comes from the country'. Readers
PHILIP MARTIN. AVRIL CLARK Producer GWYN RICHARDS BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Readers:
Philip Martin.
Readers:
Avril Clark

The first of three programmes Adventures in the jazz trade byJeffNuttall.
'In the 40s, I was a frustrated schoolboy in Hereford, whose window on a greater reality was something called trad. Here was wild blood-curdling music, full of gutbucket growls, glissandos and unadulterated whorehouse lechery....'
Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester (R)

Contributors

Producer:
Alastair Wilson

by TERRY RAVENSCROFT Jeffrey Holland
Christopher Godwin
Susie Blake and Fred Harris boldly go where no comedy has gone before.
Producer MARTIN FISHER. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Terry Ravenscroft
Unknown:
Jeffrey Holland
Unknown:
Christopher Godwin
Unknown:
Susie Blake
Unknown:
Fred Harris
Producer:
Martin Fisher.

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