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Presented by Sue MacGregor and Vivian White
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00, 8.00 Today's News Read by LAURIE MACMtLLAN
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Presented By:
Sue MacGregor
Presented By:
Vivian White
Read By:
Laurie MacMtllan

by JOHN LE CARRE adapted in six parts by RENE BASIUCO starring with and 1: Berlin.... an icy October day ... Alec Leamas waits at the checkpoint for one of his agents to cross over to the West.
Theme music by MAX HARRIS Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Le Carre
Unknown:
Rene Basiuco
Unknown:
Alec Leamas
Music By:
Max Harris
Producer:
John Fawcett Wilson
Alec Leamas:
Colin Blakely
Control:
Allan McClelland
George Smiley:
Michael Turner
American:
Kerry Shale
Elvira:
Brigitte Kahn
Peter Guillam:
Douglas Blackwell
Fawley:
Marc Sinden
MissThursby:
Gwen Cherrell
Miss Larrett:
Anne Jameson
Elsie/Air hostess:
Sandra Clark
First checkpoint guard:
Paul Humpoletz
Second guard:
Richard Durden
Third guard/Landlord:
Michael Melunger

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Wee Chick and Big Eddie in Space Stereo
2.05 History Lost and Found Victorian Children Producer ELIZABETH CLEAVER Stereo (e)
2.25 Mainstream GCSE Presented by SIMON MAYO and SUSIE GRANT 6: Maths Producer MARSHALL CORWIN Editor PETER WARD. Stereo (e) (Re-broadcast next Tuesday)

Contributors

Producer:
Elizabeth Cleaver
Presented By:
Simon Mayo
Producer:
Marshall Corwin
Editor:
Peter Ward.

In the programme that puts a female perspective on politics, places and people.
Jenni Murray meets Patricia Hewitt , Chief Press Officer to the Leader of the Opposition, civil libertarian and feminist. Serial: Fiela's Child (7)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jenni Murray
Unknown:
Patricia Hewitt

by Perry Pontac
With Norman Bird as Mr Pinsley-Wetherthorne and Stephen Thorne as Mr Firmage

When Mr Firmage applies for a loan from the bank, the interview elicits surprising information - about the bank manager, Mr Pinsley-Wetherthorne.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Writer:
Perry Pontac
Director:
Richard Wortley
Mr Pinsley-Wetherthorne:
Norman Bird
Mr Firmage:
Stephen Thorne
Miss Norsal:
Caroline Gruber

The life of a concert pianist is one of the loneliest in music. It requires formidable mental and physical stamina quite apart from purely artistic skills. John Lill has been in the forefront of British pianists since he won the Tchaikovsky Competition in 1970, and he talks about his experiences with Richard Baker.
Producer NIGEL WILKINSON Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
John Lill
Unknown:
Richard Baker.
Producer:
Nigel Wilkinson

The sky's the limit as Neil Walker and David Clayton link up with BBC Local Radio stations, and take a look at Britain's smaller airlines. Fly Me. Try Me
One airline takes off from a pebble beach in the Western Isles and offers the shortest scheduled flight in the country ...just two minutes. Another, in Suffolk, uses a grass airstrip and boasts in-flight cuisine prepared by the neighbours.
But despite the enthusiasm of the entrepreneur, why has air travel within Britain never really taken off?
Producer GLYN JONES BBC North East
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
0 YOURS LOCALLY: pages 74-75

Contributors

Unknown:
Neil Walker
Unknown:
David Clayton

Susan Hill examines the lives of the marvellous Macdonald sisters, the daughters of a Methodist minister, who slipped the traditional bonds which constrained the Victorian female to find love among the artists and make a mark on their men and their age.
Producer ANNE HINDS BBC Pebble Mill
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4. 05pm)
0 HEAR THIS! page 13

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Hill
Producer:
Anne Hinds

Here to Stay?
An inquiry led by Richard Anthony Baker with Rosalyn Elvin
Witnesses WOODY ALLEN
BLOSSOM DEARIE. JOYCE GRENFELL MIKE NICHOLS and ELAINE MAY
ALAN SHERMAN and SOPHIE TUCKER Adjudicator ALAN OWEN. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Anthony Baker
Unknown:
Rosalyn Elvin
Unknown:
Witnesses Woody Allen
Unknown:
Joyce Grenfell
Unknown:
Mike Nichols
Unknown:
Elaine May
Unknown:
Alan Sherman
Unknown:
Sophie Tucker
Unknown:
Adjudicator Alan Owen.

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