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Presented by Peter Hobday and Chris Lowe
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With RICHARD QUEST
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Presented By:
Chris Lowe
Read By:
Bryan Martin

from
St George 's Church, Belfast led by The Rev Trevor Williams with the CHOIR OF BELFAST ROYAL ACADEMY conducted by NORMAN FINALY
Be thou my vision (BBC HB 316); Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake (Hilton); When I survey the wondrous cross (BBC HB 97) BBC Northern Ireland

Contributors

Unknown:
St George
Unknown:
Trevor Williams
Conducted By:
Norman Finaly

Presented by Dannie Abse Readers CHRISTOPHER SCOTT and LIN SAGOVSKY
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol
Requests to: Poetry Please!
BBC Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Presented By:
Dannie Abse
Presented By:
Readers Christopher Scott
Producer:
Margaret Bradley

Presented by John Howard
Revealed today, the results of the special You and Yours pre-Budget survey into what people would like to hear from tomorrow's Budget speech. Last year's survey produced some surprising findings.... will this year's be surprising too? Editor PAT TAYLOR

Contributors

Presented By:
John Howard
Editor:
Pat Taylor

by JIM ELDRIDGE starring and 5: Pressures featuring the school secretary and Drills, speeches, and the 'big boys' - who is putting pressure on whom?
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Jim Eldridge
Producer:
John Fawcett Wilson
Philip Sims:
Karl Howman
Mr Beeston, the Headmaster:
James Grout
Mr Holliday, the Deputy Head:
Tom Watson
Mrs Stone,:
Margaret John
Mr Long:
Paul Copley
Mrs Rudd:
Vivienne Martin
Mrs Patterson:
Deirdre Costello
Miss Lewis:
Marlene Sidaway
Sundar:
David Crane
Chandra:
Leon Hamilton
Maureen:
Victoria Keady
CarlOS:
Mark Denham

1.55 Listening Corner This week: Let's Be Pirates Presented by SHEELAGH GILBEY and BERNARD CRIBBINS Today's story: Captain Crab's Secret Weapon by ALEXA ROMANES Script written and produced by MARY KALEMKERIAN. Stereo (R)
2.05 Playtime: In the Garden Presented by JOANNE ZORIAN and LIONEL MORTON Stereo (e) (Re-broadcast on Friday at 11.20am FM)
2.20 Science Scope It's About Time by FRED HARRIS Presented by FRED HARRIS JULIE RICHMOND and CLIFFORD NORGATE. Stereo (e)
2.40 Whirligig Where We Live by JILL BRAND 4: The Changing Street Presented by JOE HALL . Stereo (e)

Contributors

Presented By:
Sheelagh Gilbey
Presented By:
Bernard Cribbins
Produced By:
Mary Kalemkerian.
Presented By:
Joanne Zorian
Presented By:
Lionel Morton
Unknown:
Fred Harris
Presented By:
Fred Harris
Presented By:
Julie Richmond
Presented By:
Clifford Norgate.
Unknown:
Jill Brand
Presented By:
Joe Hall

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Presenter Jenni Murray
Serial: Out of the Shelter (3) by DAVID LODGE abridged in 12 episodes by JACK SINGLETON
Read by Trevor Nichols (Music: Leigh's The Frogs) Editor CLARE SELERIE GREY 0 INFO: page 75

Contributors

Presenter:
Jenni Murray
Unknown:
Jack Singleton
Read By:
Trevor Nichols

Revolution Seen through English Eyes by BRIAN GEAR
Read by Rosalie Crutchley When Marianne North was 18, she travelled extensively with her family for three years in Europe during the revolutions of the late 1840s. But what did she make of the tumult around her?
Producer BRIAN MILLER. BBC Bristol

Contributors

Read By:
Rosalie Crutchley
Unknown:
Marianne North
Producer:
Brian Miller.

Presented by Valerie Singleton and Frances Coverdale
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News
Editor ROGER MOSEY continued on FM 5.50-5. 55

Contributors

Presented By:
Valerie Singleton
Presented By:
Frances Coverdale

Special Cruise Offer for the Over 4,500- Year-Olds
Last year an unusual team of scientists met in the shadow of the Great Pyramid near Cairo. Space technologists and atmospheric analysts were to bring their skills to bear on a sealed chamber containing a boat for a dead Pharaoh's soul. They told Peter Evans what they found - and it wasn't quite what they expected.
Producer NICHOLAS MORGAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Evans
Producer:
Nicholas Morgan

by DAVID CAUTE with and
Ben Brandt is a political prisoner in South Africa. His exiled white liberal family have been trying to get him released for 23 years. There is Amy, the mother, dedicated and diplomatic; her daughter, Lisa, dedicated and less diplomatic. But then there is John, the son, who is much more ambivalent. And what of the mysterious South African 'Manager
Consultant', Colonel Coetzee?
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY

Contributors

Unknown:
David Caute
Unknown:
Ben Brandt
Directed By:
Richard Wortley
Amy Brandt:
Barbara Jefford
John Brandt:
Bill Nighy
Lisa Brandt:
Elaine Claxton
Piet Coetzee:
Alfred Hoffman
Hennie van der Merwe:
Adrian Egan
SamNkosi:
Christopher Asante
Sally Abercrombie:
Shirley Dixon
Percy Abercrombie:
Laurence Payne
Foreign Office official:
Michael Tudor Barnes
Bryn Owens:
Simon Cuff
Betsy Owens:
Zelah Clarke
Sikh:
Renu Setna
Dave Murdoch:
William Simons
Hippy:
Steven Harrold

Mark Steyn presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer ANNE WINDER
Editor RICHARD BANNERMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Steyn
Producer:
Anne Winder
Editor:
Richard Bannerman

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