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Presented by Brian Redhead and John Humphrys
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 MACMILLAN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
John Humphrys
Read By:
Laurie MacMillan

This week the team visits North Yorkshire, where members of Stillington Gardening Club put their questions to Dr Stefan Buczacki Fred Downham and Dick Robinson
Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
Plant lists and topical tips on Ceefaxpage 188

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Stefan Buczacki
Unknown:
Fred Downham
Unknown:
Dick Robinson
Producer:
Diana Stenson

tackles your problems and explains how events and issues of the day will affect you and your family.
Presented by John Buckley For information about this week 's programme, write for Factsheet No 3: [address removed]Please send sae

Contributors

Presented By:
John Buckley

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: The Magpie's Nest by MICHAEL ROSEN. Stereo (R)
2.05 WPFM Radical youth radio. Stereo Call [number removed] (free) from
2. 15-3. 15pm for more information on programme items

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Rosen.

Jenni Murray meets the women hitting the headlines and the stories behind the stars, including that icon of the 60s,
Julie Christie , who talks about her life in the 80s, far from the madding crowd.
Serial: Fiela's Child by DALENE MATTHEE abridged in 13 episodes byPATMCLOUGHUN
Read by Sean Barrett (13)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jenni Murray
Unknown:
Julie Christie
Read By:
Sean Barrett

by DAVID STAFFORD
'The man I first fell in love with stood on a stage and played a red guitar.'
For Karen, Esperanto lessons don't add the sparkle to their life that Philip had hoped for - but maybe rock accountant
Barry, their new neighbour, can provide an added interest for her.
Original music and lyrics by DAVID STAFFORD and performed by DAVID STAFFORD , STEPHEN WARBECK and MARK DOFFMAN
Directed by ANNETTE OGDEN Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
David Stafford
Unknown:
David Stafford
Unknown:
David Stafford
Unknown:
Stephen Warbeck
Directed By:
Annette Ogden
Karen:
Brenda Blethyn
Philip:
Nigel Anthony
Barry:
Andy De La Tour
Sarah:
Caroline Gruber
Mark:
Stephen Rashbrook
Peter:
Steve Hodson

The third of five programmes in which George MacBeth interviews Charles Causley about his life and poetry. Reader MICHAEL DEACON
Producer ALEC REID. BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
George MacBeth
Unknown:
Charles Causley
Reader:
Michael Deacon
Producer:
Alec Reid.

More than 40 years after the end of the Second World War, a renewed debate has begun in West Germany about the legacy of the Nazi era - about the way it has affected the lives of the 'second generation' who grew up after the war and about whether West Germany should now be allowed to shake off the shadow of its past.
Presented by Diana Goodman Producer GUDRUN DALIBOR

Contributors

Presented By:
Diana Goodman
Producer:
Gudrun Dalibor

Melvyn Tan
When is a pianoforte not a pianoforte? When it's a fortepiano - the predecessor of the modern instrument.
Melvyn Tan is making a career for himself playing the music of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert on the instrument for which it was written. He talks to Christopher Cook about what makes a fortepiano forte. Producer SIMON BROUGHTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Melvyn Tan
Unknown:
Melvyn Tan
Unknown:
Christopher Cook
Producer:
Simon Broughton

A series of 12 horror and suspense plays, introduced by Edward de Souza , the Man in Black
3: The Monkey's PawA classic horror story by w. W. JACOBS
Adapted by PATRICK GALVIN
Sergeant Morris returns home from India with an unusual gift: the small mummified paw of a monkey upon which an old holy man has cast a spell that will grant three men three wishes - at their peril.
Directed by JEREMY HOWE
BBC Northern Ireland. Stereo

Contributors

Introduced By:
Edward de Souza
Unknown:
W. Jacobs
Adapted By:
Patrick Galvin
Directed By:
Jeremy Howe
Father:
Oliver Maguire
Mother:
Trudy Kelly
Richard, their son:
Allan McKelvey
Sgt Tommy Morris:
Mark Mulholland
O'Leary:
Kevin Flood

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Writer:
Sam Jacobs
Jennifer Aldridge:
Angela Piper
Brian Aldridge:
Charles Collingwood
Pat Archer:
Patricia Gallimore
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Shula Hebden:
Judy Bennett
Mark Hebden:
Richard Derrington
Christine Barford:
Lesley Saweard
George Barford:
Graham Roberts
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Jack Woolley:
Arnold Peters
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Nelson Gabriel:
Jack May
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville
Mike Tucker:
Terry Molloy
Betty Tucker:
Pamela Craig
Caroline Bone:
Sara Coward
Nigel Pargetter:
Nigel Caliburn
Helen Archer:
France Graham
Sir Sidney Goodman:
Roger Hume

A snack at the 'Famous
Delicatessen', Philadelphia, pickled and shredded by Roberta Berke with the voices of Sam, Lilian and David Auspitz , their customers and helpers.
Recorded by ROGER DOWUNG
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Roberta Berke
Unknown:
David Auspitz
Unknown:
Roger Dowung
Producer:
Piers Plowright.

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