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Presented by Sue MacGregor and Chris Lowe
6 30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with PETER DAY
7 00, 8.00 Today's News Read by DAVID SYMONDS 7 25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8 35* Yesterday in Parliament 8,50* Your Letters

Contributors

Presented By:
Sue MacGregor
Presented By:
Chris Lowe
Read By:
David Symonds

The children's book programme presented by Penelope Lively. How do you write successfully for children? What are publishers and agents looking for? And what are the most common mistakes? Tony Bradman and John Rowe Townsend discuss their experiences with literary agent Gina Pollinger. Producer SALLY FELDMAN

Contributors

Presented By:
Penelope Lively.
Unknown:
Tony Bradman
Unknown:
John Rowe Townsend
Unknown:
Gina Pollinger.
Producer:
Sally Feldman

Derek Cooper tackles the farmer, the manufacturer, the politician, the scientist, the caterer and the customer in his weekly defence of pure food at a fair price.
Producer VANESSA HARRISON (Re-broadcast next Monday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Cooper
Producer:
Vanessa Harrison

1.55 Listening Corner WILLIE RUSHTON reads King Jolly and the Christmas Presents Stereo (R)
2.00 GCSE Religious Studies Belief and Worship (e) Patterns of Language at 2.30
9: Put It in Writing Compiled by PROFESSOR DAVID CRYSTAL (R) (e) and at 2.45
10: Parlez-vous Italiano, bitte? Compiled by GILLIAN DONMALL (R)(e)

Contributors

Unknown:
Willie Rushton
Unknown:
Gillian Donmall

Larry Harris talks to well-known people about what was going on at the time of their birth.
3: Sir John Egan
(born 7 November 1939)
When the boss of Jaguar was bom, the war was two months old and German U-boats were attacking British merchant ships in the Atlantic.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Talks:
Larry Harris
Unknown:
Sir John Egan

(Re-broadcast next Monday)
Written by GILLIAN RICHMOND Cast for the week:
BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Written By:
Gillian Richmond
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer Aldridge:
Angela Piper
Brian Aldridge:
Charles Collingwood
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Shula Hebden:
Judy Bennett
David Archer:
Timothy Bentinck
Elizabeth Archer:
Alison Dowling
Jack Woolley:
Arnold Peters
Walter Gabriel:
Chriss Gittins
Nelson Gabriel:
Jack May
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Kathy Perks:
Hedli Niklaus
Lucy Perks:
Tracy-Jane White
Neil Carter:
Brian Hewlett
Susan Carter:
Charlotte Martin
Caroline Bone:
Sara Coward
Nigel Pargetter:
Nigel Caliburn
Matthew Thorogood:
Crawford Logan
Robert Snell:
Graham Blockey
Lynda Snell:
Carole Boyd
Ruth Pritchard:
Felicity Finch

The Rt Hon Roy Jenkins Tony Blair , MP
Richard Cottrell , MEP
Rosalind Gilmore , business consultant tackle issues raised by an audience in Hemyock, Devon
Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Roy Jenkins
Unknown:
Tony Blair
Unknown:
Richard Cottrell
Unknown:
Rosalind Gilmore
Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Producer:
Carole Stone

Traditional Heirs Parti
What's happened to traditional music in Britain since Cecil Sharp roved out in the early years of this century? Is there any left? And if so, hasn't it been sanitised to death? In a two-part programme
Andy Kershaw hunts down what has survived in remote and not-so-remote parts of Britain.
Producer SIMON BROUGHTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Cecil Sharp
Unknown:
Andy Kershaw
Producer:
Simon Broughton

A satirical view of the week's news with Bill Wallis, David Tate, Sally Grace and Jon Glover
Written by Richard Quick, Steve Punt, Mike Coleman, Alison Renshaw, Pete Sinclair, Kevin Mandry, Ged Parsons, Bill Matthews, Max Handley, Mark Burton, John O'Farrell, Robert Linford, Les Peters Rowley, Peter Hickey and others

(Stereo)

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
David Tate
Unknown:
Sally Grace
Unknown:
Jon Glover
Writer:
Richard Quick
Writer:
Steve Punt
Writer:
Mike Coleman
Writer:
Alison Renshaw
Writer:
Pete Sinclair
Writer:
Kevin Mandry
Writer:
Ged Parsons
Writer:
Bill Matthews
Writer:
Max Handley
Writer:
Mark Burton
Writer:
John O'Farrell
Writer:
Robert Linford
Writer:
Les Peters Rowley
Writer:
Peter Hickey
Producer:
Paul Spencer

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