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Presented by Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

Contributors

Presented By:
Sue MacGregor
Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Read By:
Brian Perkins

John Howard presents the second of four programmes looking at the radical changes in the social security system which come into effect in April. Are any of your family unemployed? On a low wage? On an occupational pension? A widow, a one-parent family, disabled, or caring for someone who is? If so, they will probably be affected by the new legislation. You and Your
Benefit looks at the difference it will make to elderly people. Producer BRIDGET OSBORNE

Contributors

Unknown:
John Howard
Producer:
Bridget Osborne

1.55 Listening Comer Today's story: Daphne the Dry Duck. Stereo
2.05 Let's Join In Bram Meets the Fones by FRANCESCA ZEISSL and The Man Who Loved Pancakes by JEAN KENWARD. Stereo (e)
2.25 The Song Tree
6: The Amazing Secret Music-Maze by BARRY GIBSON Presented by HILARY JAMES and SIMON MAYOR with PYEWACKETT. Stereo (R) (e)
2.40 Scottish Traditional Dancing Presented by BILL TORRANCE This week: A Harvest Kim, Dirleton, East Lothian BBC Scotland. Stereo (e)

Contributors

Unknown:
Francesca Zeissl
Unknown:
Jean Kenward.
Unknown:
Barry Gibson
Presented By:
Hilary James
Unknown:
Simon Mayor
Presented By:
Bill Torrance

from Newcastle upon Tyne Gillian Reynolds talks to
Catherine Cookson , one of the world's best-selling authors, whose stories centre around the people and the history of the north east of England.
Serial: Corporal Jack (10)

Contributors

Talks:
Tyne Gillian Reynolds
Unknown:
Catherine Cookson

by ARNOLD BENNETT dramatised in six parts by PETER MACKIE withand
4: 1871-84
In Bursley, Constance must cope with her husband's obsessive involvement in a murder case, while across the Channel, despite the siege of Paris, Sophia is dining out with an admirer.
Directed by PHILIP MARTIN
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Contributors

Unknown:
Arnold Bennett
Unknown:
Peter MacKie
Directed By:
Philip Martin
Constance:
Annie Raitt
Sophia:
Susan Tracy
Arnold Bennett:
Terry Molloy
Samuel Povey:
Kim Durham
Chirac:
Simon Cuff
Daniel Povey/Carlier:
Stephen Hattersley
Critchlow/Louis:
Edwin Richfield
Miss Insull/Honorine:
Hekli Niklaus
Cyril Povey:
David Learner
Amy:
Cynthia Cherry
Sailor:
Terry Molloy

The 'Isle of Wight County Press' versus the 'Isle of Wight Weekly Post'
The third leg of Tony Wilkinson 's tour of Local
Newspaper Britain takes him to the Isle of Wight. Two papers are battling for the island's readers. For the long-established County Press nothing is too parochial - even library book fines are listed. But the younger, newsier Weekly Post can't dent its rival's massive circulation. Producer JULIAN HALE

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Wilkinson
Producer:
Julian Hale

The Rt Hon Norman Fowler , mp, Secretary of State for Employment
The Rt Hon Roy Hattersley , mp Farrukh Dhondy , writer and commissioning editor, Channel 4 Multicultural Programmes Roland Long, industrialist, Member, CBI Council from Enderby, Leicestershire Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby Producer CAROLE STONE. BBC Bristol (Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 10pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman Fowler
Unknown:
Roy Hattersley
Unknown:
Farrukh Dhondy
Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Producer:
Carole Stone.

Bhundu Beats
After touring the UK for nearly two years, the Bhundu Boys have gone back to their home, Zimbabwe.
Phil Korbel went with them to find out more about the music of a country which is now so firmly placed on the map of world music.
Producer PETER EVERETT BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast next Monday)

Contributors

Producer:
Peter Everett

with Bill Wallis , David Tate Sally Grace and Royce Mills. Written by MARK BURTON
JOHN O'FARRELL , PAUL B. DAVIES STEVE PUNT, MIKE COLEMAN
BILL MATTHEWS. ROBERT UNFORD MAX HANDLEY. GED PARSONS PETER HICKEY , DAVID BADDIEL ROB NEWMAN. ALISON RENSHAW and others
Producer BILL DARE. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow 5.25pm L W)

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
David Tate
Unknown:
Sally Grace
Unknown:
Royce Mills.
Written By:
Mark Burton
Written By:
John O'Farrell
Written By:
Paul B. Davies
Unknown:
Mike Coleman
Unknown:
Bill Matthews.
Unknown:
Robert Unford
Unknown:
Max Handley.
Unknown:
Parsons Peter Hickey
Unknown:
David Baddiel
Unknown:
Rob Newman.
Unknown:
Alison Renshaw

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