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Presented by Brian Redhead 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 PAULINE BUSHNELL
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:
Peter Hobday
Read By:
Pauline Bushnell

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

Contributors

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

Sue MacGregor meets Timothy Waterstone , who in five years has established a chain of bookshops throughout the country, where customers can browse in the evenings and on Sundays, too.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Timothy Waterstone

In the last of eight programmes about the great days of music-making in British watering-places, Fritz Spiegl gathers together some of the loose ends, both historical and anecdotal. Reader JOHN WESTBROOK
Producer RAY ABBOTT. Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Fritz Spiegl
Reader:
John Westbrook
Producer:
Ray Abbott.

1.55 Listening Comer Today's story: A House Is a House for Me by MARY ANN HOBERMAN Stereo (R)
2.05 Looking at Nature Animals How to care for elephants and gerbils. More primary science projects from TIMMY MALLETT and ROBIN ROBBINS. Stereo (e)
2.20 Nellie and the Dragon by ELIZABETH LINDSAY
7: Nellie Goes to the Zoo with NICOLA KATHRENS and BERNADETTE WINDSOR. Stereo (e)
2.30 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry) Night Horses Compiled by PADDY BECHELY
2.40 Listen! Nicobobinus (2) by TERRY JONES dramatised by DAVID SELF Stereo (e)

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Ann Hoberman
Unknown:
Timmy Mallett
Unknown:
Robin Robbins.
Unknown:
Elizabeth Lindsay
Unknown:
Bernadette Windsor.
Unknown:
Paddy Bechely
Unknown:
Terry Jones
Dramatised By:
David Self

In the programme which offers a heady blend of the practical, personal and political,
Jean Snedegar investigates crying: why we do it, why women cry more than men, and whether weeping is good for us. Presenter Jenni Murray Serial: Home Life (2)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean Snedegar
Presenter:
Jenni Murray

by MIA NADASI
The English can be very nice to foreigners, particularly to refugees, but we never let them become 'one of us'. Maria came to England at the time of the Hungarian Revolution but even her children think she's a foreigner and she's suddenly made to feel the tugs of home and of her youth.
Directed by JANE MORGAN. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Mia Nadasi
Directed By:
Jane Morgan.
Maria:
Mia Nadasi
Janos:
Wolf Kahler
Charles:
Stephen Thorne
Janice:
Julie Berry
Nicholas:
Paul Russell
Susie:
Emma Harbour
Sarah:
Susie Brann

This week Nigel Forde talks to Rupert Christiansen about his new book Romantic Affinities - Portraits from an Age 1780-1830, and Ronald Frame discusses
Sandmouth People, his novel of a day in the life of a genteel south coast resort in the 1950s. Producer CATHY DRYSDALE (Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Contributors

Talks:
Nigel Forde
Unknown:
Rupert Christiansen
Producer:
Cathy Drysdale

written by TERRY RAVENSCROFT In which Captain Kirk and Mr Spock are affirmatively positive about a negative and negatively positive about
Donald Sinden , Radio 1 DJs and tourism in Algeria. Jeffrey Holland
Christopher Godwin , Susie Blake and Fred Harris boldly go where no comedy has gone before.
Producer MARTIN FISHER Stereo (R)

Contributors

Written By:
Terry Ravenscroft
Unknown:
Mr Spock
Unknown:
Donald Sinden
Unknown:
Christopher Godwin
Unknown:
Susie Blake
Unknown:
Fred Harris
Producer:
Martin Fisher

A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions? Introduced by Brian Gear Compiled by LAURIE MASON ProducerCAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Send your letters to: Any Answers? BBC Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Introduced By:
Brian Gear
Unknown:
Laurie Mason
Producer:
Carole Stone

The last of six programmes. The pianist Howard Shelley talks to June Knox-Mawer about some of the highlights in his career, including his first television appearance at the age of 11, a recital series made up of every solo piano work written by Rachmaninov, and the accident which nearly ended his career. He also introduces his recording of Mozart's Piano Concerto No 21 in c
(K 467), on which he is both soloist and conductor.
Producer DEREK DRESCHER. Stereo

Contributors

Pianist:
Howard Shelley
Producer:
Derek Drescher.

While There's Still Time Anyone drawing supplementary benefit will do well to check that they are claiming their full entitlement to all the weekly additional payments 'built into the system' before the beginning of April, which sees the introduction of Income Support and the Social Fund. You could be £10 or E20 a week better off if you claim now.
Presented by Kati Whitaker Producer MARLENE PEASE
Phone [number removed]. Lines open from 10. 00am to 5. 00pm Monday to Friday

Contributors

Presented By:
Kati Whitaker
Producer:
Marlene Pease

Margaret Howard believes that you can learn a great deal about people if you visit them in their own homes.
In the first of four programmes, she is given a guided tour of Jack Tinker 's tiny terraced house in Brighton. It was once described by a friend as 'Versailles in a miner's cottage', but Jack maintains that it merely reflects his love of the town and his enthusiasm for the theatre.
Producer PETER HOARE (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Tinker
Producer:
Peter Hoare

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