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Presented by Sue MacGregor and Brian Redhead
6 30 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Todays News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Presented By:
Sue MacGregor
Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Read By:
Bryan Martin

Members of the Attenborough Garden Club. Nottingham, put their queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki , Fred Downham and Daphne Ledward Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
questions, on postcards -only, to:
Gardeners' Question Time, BBC, POBox27, Manchester M60 1SJ

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Stefan Buczacki
Unknown:
Fred Downham
Unknown:
Daphne Ledward
Producer:
Diana Stenson

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Playing at Home Stereo
2.05 WPFM Radical youth radio with music, opinion and youth politics. Presented by GARY CROWLEY Stereo (e) Ring [number removed] from 2. 15-3. 15pm for more information

Contributors

Presented By:
Gary Crowley

'Dear Woman Hour,
I really must protest at the attitudes expressed in your programme. They are outspoken, dangerous and immoral.' Are they? Find out for yourself in the company of Jenni Murray.
Serial: Home Life (6)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jenni Murray.

Boo! Hiss!! Squeak!!! Uproar at the Old Bailey when the Rodent Community take over to stage the trial they've all been waiting for....

Stereo

Contributors

Writer:
Albert Welling
Director:
Stuart Kerr
Justice Feral:
David Kelsey
William:
Alistair White
Sarah:
Zelah Clarke
Carver:
Steve Hodson
Bairstow:
David Goodland
Harris:
Michael Deacon
Court Clerk:
William Simons
Farmer's wife:
Tessa Worsley
Mouse One:
Stephen Tompkinson
Mouse Two:
Victoria Carling
Hardwicke:
Norman Bird

The National Health
How effective is the money we spend on health? How many operations and treatments are useful and how many are a waste of time? Nobody knows for sure, but efforts to find out are now underway.
In the second of two special reports, Michael Robinson asks if this information will lead to a better, more efficient health service or a different way of deciding who gets treatment and who does not.
Producer VICKY WHITFIELD Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Robinson
Producer:
Vicky Whitfield
Editor:
Brian Walker

And the Flashbulbs Went POP The photographer
Harry Hammond has chronicled the changes in popular music in Britain since the demise of the big band and the rise of the pop and rock band of post-war music; Cliff Richard ,
Little Richard and Keith Richard were all subjects of the Hammond treatment. Now his work is the subject of an exhibition at the Theatre Museum in London. Michael Oliver talks to Harry Hammond about his career. Producer CARROLL MOORE

Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Hammond
Music:
Cliff Richard
Unknown:
Little Richard
Unknown:
Keith Richard
Talks:
London. Michael Oliver
Unknown:
Harry Hammond
Producer:
Carroll Moore

Presented by Frances Coverdale and Robert Williams
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55

Contributors

Presented By:
Frances Coverdale
Presented By:
Robert Williams

A series of 12horror and suspense plays introduced by Edward de Souza , the Man in Black 10: Fat Andy by STEPHEN DUNSTONE
Many years ago, Fat Andy was involved in a certain crime, a crime that now comes back to haunt him. Andy prays to God to save him from a mounting horror - but are prayers enough and is God listening?
Directed by GERRY JONES. Stereo
0 HEAR THIS! page 10

Contributors

Introduced By:
Edward de Souza
Unknown:
Stephen Dunstone
Directed By:
Gerry Jones.
Mother:
Thora Hird
Andrew:
Sean Barrett
Joanne:
Daryl Back
Andy:
Susan Sheridan
Vicar:
Norman Bird

The exciting story of Britain's first communist football club. 4: 'Before everything else, we must save the revolution, and we can save it only by signing peace terms with the Germans. Better a split than the danger of an overthrow of the revolution.' Starring with Written by MARCUS BERKMANN and the producer HARRY THOMPSON Stereo

Contributors

Written By:
Marcus Berkmann
Producer:
Harry Thompson
Ricky Lenin:
Alexei Sayle
Terry Trotsky:
Keith Allen
Stevie Stalin:
Andrew McClean
the Colonel:
Donald Hewlett
Frank Lee Motson:
Phil Cornwell
Des Frankly:
Tony Alias

Judges wield huge power in British society. Traditionally they have been reluctant to speak about it in public.
Breaking their silence, six judges from different levels of the court system talk to
Hugo Young about their lives, their personal feelings about their jobs and the professional dilemmas they face every day. 1: Judge Alan Simpson , a circuit judge who sits in the Crown Court in Sheffield. Producer ANNE SLOMAN
0 FEATURE: page 69

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugo Young
Unknown:
Judge Alan Simpson
Producer:
Anne Sloman

In the Depression-hit America of the 1920s, a get-rich-quick promoter offered fabulous prizes for a 3,000-mile trans-continental footrace.
Hundreds of runners attempted the route from Los Angeles to New York, which took them across the sun-scorched Mojave Desert and the snow-bound Rockies.
Tom McNab recounts the story of the first trans-continental footrace.
Producer ANNE HINDS BBC Pebble Mill (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom McNab
Producer:
Anne Hinds

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