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Presented by Brian Redhead and John Humphrys
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport with GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
John Humphrys
Read By:
Bryan Martin
Unknown:
Garry Richardson

The programme where you right a wrong; cut red tape; expose a scandal; investigate a serious issue or share a funny tale.
This is the programme where you report on your own story with the help of Susan Marling and Nigel Farrell. Producers
JOHN HOLMES and MARY PRICE BBCBristol
Write to: Punters, BBC Radio 4 Bristol BS8 2LR, or telephone Bristol (0272) [number removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Marling
Unknown:
Nigel Farrell.
Unknown:
John Holmes

Johnny rooks and macaroni penguins are just two of the inhabitants of Diego Ramirez Island. Peter Harrison has just returned from the island after making the first birdwatching trip there in 50 years, and he tells Jessica Holm and Lionel Kelleway about what he saw. Producer MILES BARTON BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Johnny Rooks
Unknown:
Diego Ramirez
Unknown:
Peter Harrison
Unknown:
Jessica Holm
Unknown:
Lionel Kelleway

Presented by John Howard If you are concerned about health, education, housing or financial matters, or if you are the victim of incompetent or unhelpful traders or authorities, write to: You and Yours BBC, London WlA 1AA

Contributors

Presented By:
John Howard

A series of eight programmes by ALEX SHEARER
5: No Sudden Moves starring with and featuring
'It's hard enough coping with adult life as it is, without having children going about being cleverer than you are. And I speak not from ill-founded bigotry and prejudice, William, but as a fond parent and a family man.'
Producer PETE ATKIN. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Alex Shearer
Producer:
Pete Atkin.
HM Ambassador Mackenzie:
Dinsdale Landen
William Frost:
Peter Acre
Helen:
Moir Leslie
Keith Branley:
Richard Pearce
Colonel Surikov:
Christopher Benjamin

by ANDY BAKER
'There are voices in those mailbags. There are lives in this warehouse. Those love letters were a cry from the heart.
Those fragments of paper have ... affected me.'
For Don and David, clearing a warehouse full of dead letters is not as simple as it seems.
Directed by ANNETTE OGDEN. Stereo

Contributors

Writer:
Andy Baker
Directed By:
Annette Ogden.
Don:
Geoffrey Matthews
David:
Stephen Tompkinson
Beth:
Pauline Letts
Burge:
Jonathan Tafler

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

Contributors

Presented By:
Robert Williams
Presented By:
Frances Coverdale

Sheila Hancock 's guests this week are Dinsdale Landen Lynda Baron , Joss Ackland and Liz Smith
They answer questions about theatre, say what advice they'd give to a young actor, and talk about their favourite and least favourite roles.
Researchers JENNY BAYNES and BRIAN HAYWARD
Producer BILL DARE (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sheila Hancock
Unknown:
Dinsdale Landen
Unknown:
Lynda Baron
Unknown:
Joss Ackland
Unknown:
Liz Smith
Unknown:
Jenny Baynes
Unknown:
Brian Hayward

A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions? Introduced by Brian Gear
Producer LAURIE MASON. BBCBristol Send your letters to: Any Answers? BBC. Bristol BS82LR

Contributors

Introduced By:
Brian Gear
Producer:
Laurie Mason.

Forty Years of Indian Independence
Another chance to hear the five-part series in which the BBC's Delhi correspondent,
Mark Tully , charts India's progress in the four decades since the British left. Ranging from the stately corridors of power to the teeming pavements and villages, his view of the sub-continent combines archive material and personal reminiscence with the sounds and voices of contemporary India.
1: Revolution by Consent How India's first Prime
Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru , tried to lay the foundations of a secular, democratic and industrialised nation-state amid the shambles of partition and the rapid British withdrawal. Series producer ZAREER MASANI (R) Book, same title. £10.95 from booksellers
0 INFO: page 92

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Tully
Unknown:
Jawaharlal Nehru

The United States federal penitentiary at Marion, Illinois, houses prisoners who have proved uncontainable elsewhere. Leg-irons, strip-searches and solitary confinement are features of the regime, as are televisions in every cell.
David Wheeler talks to inmates and their lawyers, the prison psychologist and governor, and asks what British prison authorities can learn. Producer LOUISE PURSLOW

Contributors

Talks:
David Wheeler
Producer:
Louise Purslow

A magazine of interest to the disabled and their families Presented by Kati Whitaker Producer MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence and enquiries to-Does He Take Sugar?
BBC. London W1A 1AA Telephone [number removed]
Lines open from 10.00am toS.OOpm Monday to Friday

Contributors

Presented By:
Kati Whitaker
Producer:
Marlene Pease

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