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Presented by John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Your Letters

Contributors

Presented By:
John Humphrys
Presented By:
Sue MacGregor
Read By:
Eugene Fraser
Unknown:
Garry Richardson

As an actor Jeremy Lloyd made his name playing the part of the archetypal English 'upper-class twit'. As a writer his most recent success has been 'Allo 'Allo!. In conversation with Michael Parkinson he recalls his life and career and chooses the eight records he would take to the mythical island.

(Stereo) (R)

Contributors

Presenter:
Michael Parkinson
Castaway:
Jeremy Lloyd
Programme created by:
Roy Plomley
Producer:
Ray Abbott

Christopher Dunkley , of the Financial Times, airs your comments about the BBC, its programmes and policies.
Producer JEAN SNEDEGAR (Re-broadcast next Sunday) Write to: Feedback, BBC, London WIA 4WW

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Dunkley
Producer:
Jean Snedegar

Second of a two-part journey into the closeted world of solicitors and barristers. Barristers
A prominent barristers chambers in Birmingham throws open its oak-panelled doors. Lawyers in Action follows the specialists of the legal world as they confer with clients and solicitors, preparing for cases including an immigration appeal, indecent assault and divorce.
The barristers are also trailed into the Crown Courts, revealing what goes on beyond the public gaze. (R)

In the first of four programmes, Leonard Barras reads two of his fairly likely stories:
Much Persuasion and Rhubarb: a Conservative View
'The manager had not been inside the cinema for 18 months. He hated moving-pictures and spent his evenings in the foyer, where he could look at his reflection, dressed in his shiny dinner jacket, in the full-length mirror.' Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
A cassette of this series is available by post priced E4. 00 including packing and postage, from 'Flummox', BBC, PO Box 27, Manchester M60 I SJ

Contributors

Unknown:
Leonard Barras

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

Four programmes looking at film versions of famous novels 1: The Big Sleep
Ask a Raymond Chandler fan to name their ideal Philip Marlowe and the odds are they'll choose Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep.
Christopher Cook follows this Marlowe down the mean city streets where a man must go and considers how Howard Hawks's film and its star measure up to Chandler's original, with soundtrack illustrations and readings from the book by David Healy. Producer WENDY CLAY

Contributors

Unknown:
Raymond Chandler
Unknown:
Philip Marlowe
Unknown:
Humphrey Bogart
Unknown:
Christopher Cook
Book By:
David Healy.
Producer:
Wendy Clay

Tom Boswell puts the extra spark into the Going Places charabanc, expertly steered by Clive Jacobs with a little extra direction from Alanah Martin. Road, rail, air or sea ... if it moves, it's Going Places. Are you?
Producer IRENE MALLIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Boswell
Unknown:
Clive Jacobs
Unknown:
Alanah Martin.
Producer:
Irene Mallis

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

Contributors

Written By:
Martin Worth
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Pat Archer:
Patricia Gallimore
Phil Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Shula Hebden:
Judy Bennett
David Archer:
Timothy Bentinck
Elizabeth Archer:
Alison Dowling
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Nelson Gabriel:
Jack May
Neil Carter:
Brian Hewlett
Susan Carter:
Charlotte Martin
Nigel Pargetter:
Nigel Caliburn
Mrs Antrobus:
Margot Boyd
Ruth Pritchard:
Felicity Finch
Sophie Barlowe:
Moir Leslie

The Rt Hon David Owen , mp Charles Moore , Editor of the Spectator
Ann Mallalieu , barrister
Joanna Foster , head of the Industrial Society's Equal Opportunities Unit tackle the issues raised by an audience in Dorchester, Dorset Chairman Sue MacGregor Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 10pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
David Owen
Unknown:
Charles Moore
Unknown:
Ann Mallalieu
Unknown:
Joanna Foster

When Colin Welland brandished his Oscar and announced 'the British are coming!', many people expected a new wave of British talent, British subjects and a British sensibility to make a dent in Hollywood.

The talent arrived - directors like Alan Parker and Adrian Lyne; producers like David Puttnam and John Daly of Hemdale; writers like James Dearden (Fatal Attraction) and Ben Bolt. But have they made a British dent in Hollywood's sensibility or are they aesthetically naturalised Americans? Nigel Andrews reports.

(Re broadcast next Monday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Colin Welland
Unknown:
Alan Parker
Unknown:
Adrian Lyne
Unknown:
David Puttnam
Unknown:
John Daly
Unknown:
James Dearden
Unknown:
Nigel Andrews
Producer:
Carroll Moore

Why not listen to a programme that's witty, wacky and wildly funny? Or you could tune in to Week Ending with Bill Wallis , David Tate
Sally Grace and Jon Glover Written by MARK BURTON
JOHN O'FARRELL. PETE SINCLAIR PAUL B. DAVIES , STEVE PUNT
RICHARD QUICK. MIKE COLEMAN
BILL MATTHEWS. ROBERT LINFORD MAX HANDLEY. GED PARSONS PETER HICKEY and others Producer JO BUNTING Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow 5.25pm L W)

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
David Tate
Unknown:
Sally Grace
Unknown:
Jon Glover
Written By:
Mark Burton
Written By:
John O'Farrell.
Written By:
Pete Sinclair
Written By:
Paul B. Davies
Unknown:
Mike Coleman
Unknown:
Bill Matthews.
Unknown:
Robert Linford
Unknown:
Max Handley.
Unknown:
Parsons Peter Hickey
Producer:
Jo Bunting

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