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Presented by Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by charlotte GREEN
7.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.30,8.30 News Summary
7.40*, 8.47* Today's Papers
7.45 In Perspective
With ROSEMARY HARTHL
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament Editor PHILIP HARDING

Contributors

Presented By:
Sue MacGregor
Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Read By:
Charlotte Green
Unknown:
Garry Richardson
Unknown:
Rosemary Harthl
Editor:
Philip Harding

Ned Sherrin with the likes of Robert Elms , Craig Charles and Victoria Mather Additional material by ALASTAIR BEATON
Producers LAN GARDHOUSE CATHIE MAHONEY and JANET ARKWRIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
Ned Sherrin
Unknown:
Robert Elms
Unknown:
Craig Charles
Unknown:
Victoria Mather
Unknown:
Alastair Beaton
Producers:
Lan 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. 3: The Great Game
It's been called the most exciting sport in the world - an action-packed, nail-biting, life and death drama of thrills and spills. But enough about motor racing - let's hear it for cricket. With Steven Frost , Garard Green Paula Hannis , Jonathan Kydd and Sarah Thomas
Producer HARRY THOMPSON. Stereo (Re-broadcast on Monday at 6. 30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dave Cohen
Unknown:
Pete Sinclair
Unknown:
Willie Rushton
Unknown:
Steven Frost
Unknown:
Garard Green
Unknown:
Paula Hannis
Unknown:
Jonathan Kydd
Unknown:
Sarah Thomas
Producer:
Harry Thompson.

Edwina Currie , mp Joan Lestor , mp
Roger Graef and Des Wilson tackle the issues raised in Bishop's Castle, Shropshire. Chairman John Humphrys

Contributors

Unknown:
Edwina Currie
Unknown:
Joan Lestor
Unknown:
Roger Graef
Unknown:
Des Wilson
Unknown:
John Humphrys

by JOHN HALL with Colonel Sam Mellors disputes the right of the Crowe Sand and Gravel Co to drive lorries over his beloved medieval bridge, and this leads him to refight old battles, relive old glories.... Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC BristoL Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
John Hall
Directed By:
Brian Miller
Sam Mellors:
Harry Andrews

In the last programme of the series Ray Smith tells
Martyn Williams about the hidden perils of playing tough roles on TV - such as Spikings, the hard-nosed cop in Dempsey and Makepeace.
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS
(First broadcast on BBC Radio Wales)

Contributors

Unknown:
Ray Smith
Producer:
Herbert Williams

by Diana Griffiths
This wicked comedy is set in pre-history when the balance of power between the sexes was altogether different. A wonderful time, when the women ruled the roost with a rod of iron. Then Tom the Thinker asks a question: 'Are the men playing a part in the continuation of the species?' Blasphemy!
BBC Manchester
(Stereo)

Contributors

Writer:
Diana Griffiths
Director:
Susan Hogg
Jess the Jewel:
Jane Hazelgrove
Tom the Thinker:
Neil Caple
Mag the Magic:
Meg Wynn Owen
Ken the Killer:
Peter Rumney
Mum:
Pam Ferris
Dad:
Malcolm Hebden
Old Jess:
Joan Campion
Old Tom:
Randal Herley
Brag:
Paul Codman
Child:
Susan Sheridan
Barman:
Robert Whelan
Harpist:
Davydd Huw Jones

The Domestic Mistake
It clears the brain, this business of washing-up, and is more useful than a game of liver-bestirring golf....
GENTLEMAN WITH A DUSTER, 1912
Christina Hardyment reflects on 400 years of housekeeping manuals, in search of an ideal of domesticity that works today. Readers DIANA OLLSON and JOHN ROWE
Producer ELIZABETH BURKE

Contributors

Unknown:
Christina Hardyment
Unknown:
John Rowe
Producer:
Elizabeth Burke

The second Baron Colwyn leads a busy life. His days are divided between his successful dental practice and the House of Lords; but at night he plays the trumpet m his own society dance band. Margaret Howard snatched some moments with him between engagements in this last programme of the series.
Producer GRAHAM TAYAR

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Howard

present
Beyond the Ultrasilence
A neo-Lermontovian radio piece examining the critical pain of being, and the unbearable darkness of the soul's primal torment.
Lots of big fun guaranteed. Written and presented by Paul Merton and John Irwin with Neil Mullarkey Josie Lawrence and Tony Hawks and featuring Julian Clary Song by TONY HAWKS
Additional material by the cast
Produced to conform with current British Big Fun standards by DAVID TYLER. Stereo

Contributors

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

Another in the series of the improvisation show with audience participation.
This week Stephen Fry and John Sessions are joined in the mire by Griff Rhys Jones and songwriter/impressionist Kate Robbins, for another wallow through the world of literary styles, TV theme tunes and film genres.
Clive Anderson, in the Chair, looks on aghast.
More absorbing than kitchen roll....
JOURNAL OF DOMESTIC PAPER STUDIES
Devised and compiled by MARK LEVESON with the producer DAN PATTERSON. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Fry
Unknown:
John Sessions
Unknown:
Griff Rhys Jones
Unknown:
Kate Robbins
Unknown:
Clive Anderson
Unknown:
Mark Leveson
Producer:
Dan Patterson.

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