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Presented by Peter Hobday and Chris Lowe
7.00, 8.00 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.25* Sport
With IAN BROWN
7.30,8.30 News Summary
7.40*, 8.47* Today's Papers
7.45 In Perspective Editor PHILIP HARDING

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Presented By:
Chris Lowe
Read By:
Brian Perkins
Unknown:
Ian Brown
Editor:
Philip Harding

Presented by Cliff Morgan
With the pantomime season here, the stage is set for a spot of giant-killing in the third round of the FA Cup. Plus a look behind the scenes at the rest of the weekend sporting action. Producer GORDON TURNBULL

Contributors

Presented By:
Cliff Morgan

The holiday and travel programme presented by Bernard Falk.
With reporter Susan Marling and travel expert Nigel Coombs. Producer HELEN ROBSON
For details of items in this week's programme please send sae to:
[address removed]

Contributors

Presented By:
Bernard Falk.
Reporter:
Susan Marling
Unknown:
Nigel Coombs.
Producer:
Helen Robson

Ned Sherrin with the likes of Robert Elms, Craig Charles and Victoria Mather Additional material by PETE SINCLAIR and STEVE PUNT
Producers IAN GARDHOUSE. CATHIE MAHONEY and JANET ARKWRIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
Ned Sherrin
Unknown:
Craig Charles
Unknown:
Pete Sinclair
Producers:
Ian Gardhouse.
Producers:
Cathie Mahoney
Producers:
Janet Arkwright

by DAVE COHEN and PETE SINCLAIR Willie Rushton presents a loyal toast to the traditions that made Britain what it is today. 1: Heroism
From King Canute to Alfred the Great, from Captain Scott to
Nigel Mansell , the true British hero is marked out by one word - failure.
With STEVEN FROST
GARARD GREENE. PAULA HANNIS JONATHAN KYDD and SARAH THOMAS.
Producer HARRY THOMPSON Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Monday at & 30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dave Cohen
Unknown:
Pete Sinclair
Unknown:
Willie Rushton
Unknown:
Nigel Mansell
Unknown:
Steven Frost
Unknown:
Garard Greene.
Unknown:
Sarah Thomas.
Producer:
Harry Thompson

by GUY HIBBERT
A widow, rich and alone, meets and marries an Englishman. They settle down happily in a South Mexican idyll - that is until her son returns. Spoilt, aggressive and ruthless, he shatters the tranquil peace his mother has found in her autumnal years.
Directed by PETER KING Stereo

Contributors

Directed By:
Peter King

I get mistaken for Sheila Hancock quite a lot!
Actress Sian Phillips talks to Martyn Williams about her career, her marriages - and the time she was barred from the Brownies!
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sheila Hancock
Talks:
Sian Phillips
Unknown:
Martyn Williams
Producer:
Herbert Williams

Miss High Heels by ROB GITTINS with Morgan was never a very good policeman. Now retired, he leaps at the chance of investigating a murder and plunges into deep waters that finally threaten to drown him.
Directed on location in Cardiff by ADRIAN MOURBY BBC Wales. Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Monday at 3. 00pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Rob Gittins
Ex-DC Robert Morgan:
Ray Smith
Yorkie:
Howell Evans
Elizabeth Foster:
Patricia Napier
McCowan:
Christopher Reich
Eedes:
Bernard Latham
Mrs Allenby:
Jan Edwards
Insp Clifford:
Victor Winding
Irish Micky:
Terry Jackson
Petselli:
Dorien Thomas
Karen:
Marilyn Le Conte
Eric/George:
Eamonn Collinge

Perchance to Dream....
Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care,
The death of each day's 's life, sore labor's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course.
Chief nourisher in life s feast.
MACBETH, Act II, Sc 2
An exposition of sleep in verse and prose with Prunella Scales and Timothy West
Producer MAJORIE LOFTHOUSE BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Unknown:
Prunella Scales

Lady Emma Curzon , sister of the seventh Earl Howe , was, until recently, nursing sister in charge of a pain control unit at a London hospital. One ancestral Howe, descended from an illegitimate sister of George I, was an admiral of the line. Both her parents were on the stage, but a long and successful nursing career was a new departure for an old family. She talks to Margaret Howard. Producer GRAHAM TAYAR

Contributors

Unknown:
Lady Emma Curzon
Unknown:
Earl Howe
Unknown:
Margaret Howard.

The Big Fun team ask the question: 'In this troubled world of ours, with planetary resources fast running out, is it enough just to have big fun?' In the studio Paul Merton and John Irwin
Out and about Neil Mullarkey Josie Lawrence and Tony Hawks
Special roving correspondent Julian Clary
Additional written contributions from the cast and a song by Tony Hawks
Produced by DAVID TYLER in a big fun sort of way. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Merton
Unknown:
John Irwin
Unknown:
Neil Mullarkey
Unknown:
Josie Lawrence
Unknown:
Julian Clary
Produced By:
David Tyler

Another in the series of ad-libbed comedy based on audience suggestions.
This week John Sessions and Stephen Fry are joined by Hugh Laurie and Enn Reitel as they romp through a world of literary styles, TV theme tunes and film genres.
Clive Anderson does what he can in the Chair.
With COLIN SELL at the piano Even better than camembert....
CHEESE MONTHLY
Devised and compiled by MARK LEVESON with the producer DAN PATTERSON. Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Wednesday 7.45pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Fry
Unknown:
Hugh Laurie
Unknown:
Enn Reitel
Unknown:
Clive Anderson
Unknown:
Mark Leveson
Producer:
Dan Patterson.

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