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Presented by Peter Hobday and John Humphrys
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with SIMON GOMPERTZ
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport with CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Presented By:
John Humphrys
Unknown:
Simon Gompertz
Read By:
Brian Perkins
Unknown:
Charles Colvile

from the Chapel of Dean Close School, Cheltenham
Introduced by Shirley Scott
Music: The Lord gave the word (Handel); Psalm 119, vv 105-112 (Barnby); Word of the Father, source of all things living (NEH315)
Reading (niv): Proverbs 4, vv 18-27
Choirmaster PETER CAIRNS BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Introduced By:
Shirley Scott
Choirmaster:
Peter Cairns

Presented by Charles Tomlinson
Readers PATRICK ROMER and DIANA BISHOP
Producer SUSAN ROBERTS BBC Bristol
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC. Bristol BS82LR

Contributors

Presented By:
Charles Tomlinson
Presented By:
Readers Patrick Romer
Producer:
Susan Roberts

Presented by Debbie Thrower Editor KEN VASS
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 W1A 1AA

Contributors

Presented By:
Debbie Thrower
Editor:
Ken Vass

A nationwide general knowledge contest
Chairman Robert Robinson First Round: North Paul Monaghan (retired teacher)
Roy Hodson (technical author) Stephen Turnbull
(church administrator)
Paul Webster (civil servant) The programme includes Beat the Brains, in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
Programme devised by JOHN P WYNN Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Roy Hodson
Unknown:
Stephen Turnbull
Unknown:
Paul Webster
Unknown:
John P Wynn
Unknown:
Ian Gillies
Producer:
Richard Edis.

1.55 Listening Comer This week: Who's Your Friend? I Am! Presented by KATE COPSTICK Today's story: Wee Chick and Big Eddie Are Friends Written and read by ALEX NORTON Script written and produced by MARY KALEMKERIAN. Stereo (R)
2.05 Playtime Over the Sea and Far Away Presented by ALEC SABIN and SANDRA KERR. Stereo (e) (Re-broadcast on Friday at 11.20am FM)
2.20 Science Scope Minibeasts by ALISON NORMAN With FRED . HARRIS JULIE RICHMOND and CLIFFORD NORGATE (e)
2.40 Whirligig Unit 5: Maths Pack Mathematical plays, stories, games and puzzles
7: The Stone of Zynon 8: Arithmetrick! Stereo (e)

Contributors

Presented By:
Kate Copstick
Read By:
Alex Norton
Produced By:
Mary Kalemkerian.
Presented By:
Alec Sabin
Presented By:
Sandra Kerr.
Unknown:
Alison Norman
Unknown:
Fred . Harris
Unknown:
Julie Richmond

Join Jenni Murray and guests for an unpredictable cocktail of politics, places and people, fashion, fun, finance and food. Serial: The Phoenix Tree by JOHN CLEARY abridged in 15 episodes by DELIA PATON
Read by William Roberts (4) Editor CLARE SELERIE-GREY

Contributors

Unknown:
Jenni Murray
Unknown:
John Cleary
Unknown:
Delia Paton
Read By:
William Roberts

Raising Your Voice
Paul Allen reports on the independent Newcastle imprint with star poets on its list, the co-op in the Yorkshire coalfield with a burning commitment to the stories of ordinary people, and the one-man poetry publisher from a Pennine valley trying to persuade hard-nosed commercial booksellers to stock his product.

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Allen

Presented by Valerie Singleton and Bill Frost
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.20* Test Match Report
5.25 PM Letters Letters to: PM, BBC London W1A 1AA
5.31 City News
Editor ROGER MOSEY continued on FM 5.50-5.55

Contributors

Presented By:
Valerie Singleton
Presented By:
Bill Frost

by LEE GALLAHER with and A young Jewess is fleeing from the Nazis, and a down-at-heel journalist is trying to escape from his memories of the Spanish Civil War. While
Europe tears itself apart they find refuge - and love - in a small Irish town.
Directed by JEREMY HOWE
BBC Northern Ireland. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Lee Gallaher
Directed By:
Jeremy Howe
Eleshiva:
Elizabeth Morton
Nolan:
Ian McElhinney
Maisie:
Marcella Riordan
Costigan:
Oliver Maguire
Doran:
Paddy Scully
Ryan:
Joe Savino
Crane:
Stephen Ryan
Bruno:
David Goodland
Retainers:
Kevin Flood
Retainers:
Sean Kearns

Paul Vaughan presents tonight's arts magazine, which includes La traviata in Cardiff and the paintings of Beryl Cook. Producer
LIS EDWARDS Editor RICHARD BANNERMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Unknown:
Beryl Cook.
Unknown:
Lis Edwards
Editor:
Richard Bannerman

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