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Presented by Sue MacGregor 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 DAVID SYMONDS
7.20* Your Letters Letters to: Today, BBC. London W1A 1AA
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Presented By:
Sue MacGregor
Presented By:
John Humphrys
Read By:
David Symonds
Unknown:
Garry Richardson

The 1988 World Tour begins at Uxbridge Cricket Club.
Brian Johnston umpires the proceedings and Captains
Tim Rice and Willie Rushton are ably assisted by Robin Bailey and Robert Powell. Written by PETER HICKEY and MALCOLM WILLIAMSON
Producer PAUL SPENCER. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Johnston
Unknown:
Tim Rice
Unknown:
Willie Rushton
Assisted By:
Robin Bailey
Assisted By:
Robert Powell.
Written By:
Peter Hickey
Producer:
Paul Spencer.

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Dogs and Dumplings. Stereo
2.05 Health Education: My Body The Discovery of Vaccines by EDWARD KELSEY (R) (e)
2.25 Mainstream GCSE Presented by SIMON MAYO and SUSIE GRANT A teenage resource magazine for GCSE students with reports from schools in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Coursework and assessment; examiner phone link; creative work; issue for discussion; career and course opportunities. 12: French. Stereo (e) (Re-broadcast next Tuesday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Kelsey
Presented By:
Simon Mayo

Carol Rumens begins a new series on modern women poets. Today she meets Grace Nichols. Serial: B-Movie by STAN BARSTOW abridged in eightepisodes by JANET HICKSON
Read by Christian Rodska (1)
Like most of the inhabitants of post-war Cressley, Frank and Amy, cousins and boyhood friends, are off to Blackpool for the August holiday. Elsewhere in the town, an old man lies unconscious, robbed of the takings of his pawnbroker's shop....
(Music: Tomasi's Trumpet Concerto) Presenter Jenni Murray

Contributors

Unknown:
Carol Rumens
Unknown:
Grace Nichols.
Unknown:
Janet Hickson
Read By:
Christian Rodska
Presenter:
Jenni Murray

by JILL TRUMAN
One seldom thinks of notes left on the kitchen board as the basis for drama, but this is what happens in one particular, struggling family....
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Jill Truman
Directed By:
Brian Miller
Mum:
Mary Wimbush
Anna:
Zelah Clarke
Rob:
Richard Pearce
Sally:
Natasha Knight
Julie:
Sophie Lane
Rodger the lodger:
Roger McKern
Steve:
David Plimmer

The harp may be one of the more glamorous instruments in the orchestra, but it is still a demanding taskmaster, as Richard Baker finds out when he talks to two leading players, Sioned Williams and John Marson.
Producer NIGEL WILKINSON. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Baker
Unknown:
John Marson.
Producer:
Nigel Wilkinson.

It Gets Right Up My Nose
Reporters Neil Walker and David Clayton link up with BBC Local Radio stations in search of the smelliest place in Britain.
Where the Wind Blows
Whiffy smells make small boys giggle. But people who live near chemical works, glue factories and battery chicken farms don't always share the joke. In the first programme of a new series, The Local Network investigates 'smell' pollution.
Producer GLYN JONES BBC North East
0 YOURS LOCALLY: pages 84-5

Contributors

Reporters:
Neil Walker
Reporters:
David Clayton

An eight-part comedy by ALEX SHEARER
1: The Bread and Butter starring with featuring and The era of glasnost has arrived in the small, poor, cold People's Republic of.... wherever it is; and that means, among other things, that HM Embassy has to deal with many more British tourists than have found their way there in the past.
Producer PETE ATKIN. Stereo (R)

Contributors

Comedy By:
Alex Shearer
Producer:
Pete Atkin.
HM Ambassador Mackenzie:
Dinsdale Landen
William Frost:
Peter Acre
Helen:
Moir Leslie
Harris:
Stephen Rashbrook
the US Ambassador:
Stephen Greif
Colonel Surikov:
Christopher Benjamin

Listen in on a group of New England crime-writers who meet every so often at each other's houses to talk about their work.
Readers Kerry Shale and Jana Shelden With LINDA BARNES
JEREMIAH HEALY. ROSEMARY HERBERT
SUSAN KELLY. JANE LANGTON
KATE MATTES. JOHN MCALEER
DENNIS SCHUETZ and DAVID SMITH Compiled by ROSEMARY HERBERT Producer ED THOMASON. Stereo

Contributors

Readers:
Kerry Shale
Readers:
Jana Shelden
Unknown:
Linda Barnes
Unknown:
Jeremiah Healy.
Unknown:
Rosemary Herbert
Unknown:
Susan Kelly.
Unknown:
Jane Langton
Unknown:
Kate Mattes.
Unknown:
John McAleer
Unknown:
Dennis Schuetz
Unknown:
David Smith
Unknown:
Rosemary Herbert
Producer:
Ed Thomason.

The programme made by and for people with a visual handicap.
Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Questions and comments regarding the programme can be phoned through to the 'In Touch' team tonight between 8.30 and 10. 15pm on [number removed]Free quarterly bulletin from: [address removed]
(send four large saesfor a year's supply)

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter White
Producer:
Thena Heshel

Natalie Wheen presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presented by Natalie Wheen Producer FIONA MCLEAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Natalie Wheen
Presented By:
Natalie Wheen
Producer:
Fiona McLean

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