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Presented by Peter Hobday 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
8.50* Your Letters

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Presented By:
John Humphrys
Read By:
Simon Vance
Unknown:
Garry Richardson

Five programmes in which Kerry Shale performs selections from WOODY ALLEN 'S s three volumes of thoughts on love sex, death and herring. 1: MrBig
New York private detective Kaiser Lupowitz is hired to find a very special missing person ... God.
Producer DAVID TYLER. Stereo (Re-broadcast next Sunday)
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Contributors

Unknown:
Kerry Shale
Unknown:
Woody Allen
Unknown:
Kaiser Lupowitz
Producer:
David Tyler.

Introduced by Penelope Lively from Boston, Massachusetts, where writers Jane Langton and Betty Levin discuss US children's books and publishing. Producer SALLY FELDMAN
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 2. 47pm)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Penelope Lively
Unknown:
Jane Langton
Unknown:
Betty Levin
Producer:
Sally Feldman

1.55 Listening Corner Sophie Meets a Clown. Stereo (R)
2.05 Let's Join In Wiley, His Mama and the Hairy Man Black American folk tale retold by VIRGINIA HAMILTON with music by TOBY SIMS. Stereo (e)
2.25 The Song Tree Drums, Dragons and Dreams (6) Presented by HILARY JAMES and SIMON MAYOR With PYEWACKETT Written by BARRY GIBSON. Stereo (e)
2.40 Folk Dance Wales
6: Twmpath (A grand folk dance) Script by PATRICIA HOLLISTER Stereo (e) (First broadcast on BBC Radio Cymru)

Contributors

Unknown:
Virginia Hamilton
Music By:
Toby Sims.
Presented By:
Hilary James
Presented By:
Simon Mayor
Written By:
Barry Gibson.
Script By:
Patricia Hollister

from Manchester
Two major exhibitions of traditional crafts have just opened in Manchester. Do they represent the work of women at their most submissive or something a little more subversive?
Serial: The Phoenix Tree (13) Presenter Lesley Judd

Contributors

Presenter:
Lesley Judd

by ANTHONY TROLLOPE dramatised in eight parts by DAVID SPENSER
2: Sir Felix Carbury has become a director of the South Central Pacific and Mexican Railway Company: he sits on the same board as the great merchant prince, Augustus Melmotte. His mother, Lady Carbury, is determined that her son shall marry Melmotte's daughter.
Narrator ALAN DUDLEY
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Trollope
Unknown:
David Spenser
Narrator:
Alan Dudley
Directed By:
Graham Gauld.
Lady Carbury:
Rosalind Shanks
Sir Felix:
Stephen Rashbrook
Hetta:
Debby Cumm1ng
Roger:
Michael Tudor Barnes
Melmotte:
David March
Marie Melmotte:
Emily Richard
Mr Longstaffe:
John Westbrook
Lady Pomoma Longstaffe:
Joan Matheson
Adolphus Longstaffe:
Steve Hodson
Sophia Longstaffe:
Zelah Clarke
Georgiana:
Caroline Gruber
Ruby Ruggles:
Christine MacKie
Lord Grendall:
Michael Deacon
Mr Broune:
John Samson
Mr Alf:
Peter Craze

A series of six conversations with Cliff Morgan 3: Baroness Seear
Life peer, deputy leader of the SLDP, guru of British personnel management, author, and 'mother' of the 1975 Sex
Discrimination Act,
Nancy Seear has debated with vigour through four decades of British politics, armed always with an unbudging determination to 'sock 'em with the facts'.
Has she observed any heroes along the way?
Producer PETER GRIFFITHS. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Nancy Seear
Producer:
Peter Griffiths.

The weekend starts here with Barry Norman. Mike Dicken is on his phone with the Code
Cracker clues. 'You'll find me this week in Bristol, where the cream of the world's drivers will be racing for the grand prize.
You could win a prize too, if you find the key to where I am.' This week's Code Cracker symbol: X ->
Producer IRENE MALLIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Norman.
Unknown:
Mike Dicken
Producer:
Irene Mallis

Written by GRAHAM HARVEY Cast for the week:
BBC Pebble Mill
(Re-broadcast next Monday)

Contributors

Written By:
Graham Harvey
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer Aldridge:
Angela Piper
Brian:
Charles Collingwood
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Pat Archer:
Patricia Gallimore
Phil Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Particia Greene
Shula Hebden:
Judy Bennett
Elizabeth Archer:
Alison Dowling
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Walter Gabriel:
Chriss Gittins
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville
Martha Woodford:
Mollie Harris
Caroline Bone:
Sara Coward
Nigel Pargetter:
Nigel Carrington
Helen Archer:
Frances Graham
Mrs Walker:
Gillian Goodman
Bert Fry:
Roger Hume
Auctioneer:
Philip Sully

The Rt Hon Sir Rhodes Boyson , mp Frank Dobson , mp
Charles Kennedy , mp
Jean Denton , deputy chairman Black Country Development Corporation
Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.10pm) Send your letters to: Any Answers? BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Rhodes Boyson
Unknown:
Frank Dobson
Unknown:
Charles Kennedy
Unknown:
Jean Denton
Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Producer:
Carole Stone

Paul Allen talks to British director Peter Brook , for many years one of the most influential figures in world theatre. His treatment of some of the great classics like
A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the creation of new works like the Mahabharata, currently nearing the end of a world tour, have left indelible impressions on audiences in locations ranging from the African bush to a Glasgow tramshed. Producer MIKE GREENWOOD (Re-broadcast next Monday)

Contributors

Talks:
Paul Allen
Director:
Peter Brook
Producer:
Mike Greenwood

with Bill Wallis
David Tate and Sally Grace Written by MIKE COLEMAN
MARK BURTON , JOHN OFARRELL PETER HICKEY , BILL MATTHEWS ROBERT LINFORD , MAX HANDLEY GED PARSONS , DAVID BADDIEL
ROB NEWMAN , ALISON RENSHAW
SIMON BULUVANT , MARK BRISENDEN PAUL B. DAVIES and others
Producer LISSA EVANS. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 5.25pm L 99

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
David Tate
Written By:
Mike Coleman
Written By:
Mark Burton
Written By:
John Ofarrell
Unknown:
Peter Hickey
Unknown:
Bill Matthews
Unknown:
Robert Linford
Unknown:
Max Handley
Unknown:
Ged Parsons
Unknown:
David Baddiel
Unknown:
Rob Newman
Unknown:
Alison Renshaw
Unknown:
Simon Buluvant
Unknown:
Mark Brisenden
Unknown:
Paul B. Davies
Producer:
Lissa Evans.

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