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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 SIMON VANCE
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
John Humphrys
Read By:
Simon Vance
Unknown:
Garry Richardson

Four programmes in which
The Rev Dr Edward Norman ,
Dean of Peterhouse, Cambridge, talks to four clerics who have chosen to interpret their loyalty to God in political terms.
3: The Rev Dr Ian Paisley , mp, MEP
Researcher KATE HALE Producer ERNEST REA BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Edward Norman
Unknown:
Dr Ian Paisley
Unknown:
Kate Hale

Clement Freud , Peter Jones Derek Nimmo and Kenneth Williams try to stop each other talking for just a minute on subjects flung at them by Nicholas Parsons
Devised by IAN MESSITER
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Peter Jones
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
Edward Taylor.

1.55 Listening Corner Up in a Big Balloon (4) Stereo (R)
2.05 Looking at Nature (RV) Summer Activity The Swanage YHA is the base for an exploration of the area in search of primary science opportunities for your Natural Investigators to try. Producer MIKE HOWARTH. Stereo (e)
2.20 Talk to Me
1: What Can You Say? The Arrival of the Doofernow by ANITA HEWETT Producer PADDY BECHELY Stereo (R) (e)
2.30 Pictures in Your Mind (Poems/Music) Water in the Pipes by KATHY HENDERSON Producer PADDY BECHELY (R) (e)
2.40 Listen! The do-it-yourself cliffhanger serial by VICKY IRELAND
1: So What Can You Do about It? Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN Stereo (e)

Contributors

Producer:
Mike Howarth.
Producer:
Paddy Bechely
Unknown:
Kathy Henderson
Producer:
Paddy Bechely

In the programme where women and men tell their own stories, the partners of rape victims describe how they have had to reshape their relationships and their attitudes to women.
Serial: All the Best, Kim (3) Presenter Jenni Murray

Contributors

Presenter:
Jenni Murray

by George Orwell
Dramatised by Sam McBratney
A series of five dramatised stories
On the streets of 1930s London, Gordon Comstock wages war on the money god. He aims to drift below ambition and shake off those friends who want him to make something of himself. But is he strong enough to resist the call of the aspidistra?
(Stereo)
(2: "Mary Postgale" by Rudyard Kipling next Wednesday)

Contributors

Author:
George Orwell
Dramatised by:
Sam McBratney
Director:
Jeremy Mortimer
Gordon Comstock:
Jonathan Tafler
Rosemary Waterlow:
Victoria Carling
Mr Clew/Clerk:
Michael Deacon
Philip Ravelston:
Valentine Pelka
Julia Comstock:
Polly James
Hermione Slater:
Emily Richard
Bookseller/Waiter/Tramp:
William Simons

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

Contributors

Presented By:
Robert Williams
Presented By:
Frances Coverdale

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 BBC Bristol
Send your letters to: Any Answers? BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Introduced By:
Brian Gear
Producer:
Laurie Mason

Forty Years of Indian Independence
5: Fortress India
Mark Tully asks if India, beset by regionalism, sectarian violence, economic and administrative lethargy, and political in-fighting can survive another 40 years as a democratic nation?
Series producer ZAREER MASAN] (R)

The ace anecdotalist and sometime development worker bids for a pile of archive recordings marked 'African - miscellaneous', and tells a story or three about why he wants them for keeps.
Producer SIMON ELMES

Contributors

Producer:
Simon Elmes

To what extent will national issues like the Conservative
MPs' revolt over the community charge - or poll tax - and the re-organisation of the former Alliance into the Democrats - have affected voting behaviour in today's local elections? That's one of the questions
Sally Hardcastle addresses in this programme of results and analysis of the fight for more than 3,700 seats on local councils in Scotland, England and Wales. Assisting her in the studio are political commentator Robert Carvel , psephologist Peter Kellner of the Independent and the BBC's Local Government
Correspondent, Steve Richards. Producer MARGARET BUDY Editor BLAIR THOMSON including at 12.33 Shipping forecast
FM joins at 1.10

Contributors

Unknown:
Sally Hardcastle
Commentator:
Robert Carvel
Unknown:
Peter Kellner
Unknown:
Steve Richards.

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