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Presented by Peter Hobday and Brian Redhead
Today's finalist in the Best of British Youth awards is
Katherine Stewart , 20, from
Banbury, who is nominated for her constant spare-time activity in the service of others. As well as spending three years helping mentally-handicapped adults, she has most recently spent a year overseas working with the blind in schools and eye hospitals in Kenya and India.
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with PETER DAY
7.00, 8.00 Today's News Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Katherine Stewart
Read By:
Peter Donaldson
Unknown:
Garry Richardson

visits Shropshire. Members of the Telford Development
Corporation Gardening Club put their queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki , Fred Downham and Dick Robinson.
Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Stefan Buczacki
Unknown:
Fred Downham
Unknown:
Dick Robinson.
Producer:
Diana Stenson

60th Anniversary Week
From Coventry Cathedral introduced by THE REV ROGER HUTCHINGS
0 worship the Lord (Was lebet); Take my life (Emma);
Taize responses (Berthier); Ephesians 3, w 1-3,14-21 ST MICHAEL 'S SINGERS conducted by PAUL WRIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Hutchings
Unknown:
St Michael
Conducted By:
Paul Wright

A critical look at six pillars of society.
4: The National Farmers Union Up until the 1980s, farmers were urged to produce as much food as possible. But now, with growing unease over food surpluses, the economic and political climate has drastically changed. Can the NFU still wield the political muscle it used to? Does it really represent the interests of all farmers? And how far does it lead the way in solving agriculture's many problems? John Humphrys raises questions with farmers from all over the country. Producer EMILY BUCHANAN
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 7.30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Humphrys
Producer:
Emily Buchanan

by E.W. HORNUNG Six stories dramatised by DAVID BUCK with and 5: A Trap to Catch a Cracksman When an American pugilist boasts that he has invented a trap to catch the cleverest cracksman alive, he is issuing a challenge that Raffles, for one, is quite unable to resist ... with disastrous consequences.
Signature tune by JIM PARKER Directed by GORDON HOUSE

Contributors

Unknown:
E.W. Hornung
Dramatised By:
David Buck
Unknown:
Jim Parker
Directed By:
Gordon House
Raffles:
Jeremy Clyde
Bunny:
Michael Cochrane
Insp Mackenzie:
Henry Stamper
Maguire:
Alan Tilvern
Hambone:
Peter Banks
Cruncher:
Michael Deacon
Ruby:
Frances Jeater
Cabby:
Alan Dudley
PC:
Alan Dudley

by DAVID MORGAN
Sony Radio Award winner for Best Drama Production
1965: Every week, 10-year-old Max is packed off to Sunday school with a shilling for the collection plate. But Max spends his shilling on a Mars bar and the News of the World, finds a park bench and begins to unravel life's mysteries. and the children of HURST HEAD
JUNIOR SCHOOL, CHEADLE HULME Directed by ROBERT COOPER

Contributors

Unknown:
Cheadle Hulme
Directed By:
Robert Cooper
Max:
Steven Rendall
Dad:
Rob Whelan
Mum:
Pam Ferris
Sally:
Jane Hazlegrove
Miss Hope:
Joan Campion
Headmistress:
Rosal
Mrs FOX:
Daphne Oxenford
Presenter:
Randal Herley

Nine years ago, Soviet-backed Vietnamese forces invaded the killing fields of Cambodia. As super-power relations improve, the Vietnamese claim to be pulling out. But will Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge fill the vacuum? Reporter David Levy
Producer STEPHEN SACKUR Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester

Contributors

Reporter:
David Levy
Producer:
Stephen Sackur
Editor:
Brian Walker

The Master of Cherryburn
Today the Queen Mother opens a museum on the banks of the Tyne, dedicated to the life and work of Thomas Bewick , an artist whose delicate engravings of the richness of nature around him in his native North East give him a place as one of the great masters in British art history.
Paul Allen talks to some of those involved in establishing the museum on the site of Bewick's house and workshop at Cherryburn, and assesses the contribution he made, both to natural history and to the art of engraving.
Producer DAVE SHEASBY

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Bewick
Talks:
Paul Allen
Producer:
Dave Sheasby

Presented by Robert Williams and Frances Coverdale
5.00,5,30 News Summary
5.20 Wimbledon Report
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5. 50-5.55

Contributors

Presented By:
Robert Williams
Presented By:
Frances Coverdale

What does 'Sagan um Tuma Kettling ' have to do with Beatrix Potter ? And who preferred sucking boiled sweets to writing poetry?
Cogitating the answers to these, and other queries, are John Julius Norwich , Mavis Nicholson , Sir David Hunt and Beryl Bainbridge. Devised and presented by Nigel Rees
Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher
Producer LISSA EVANS. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Tuma Kettling
Unknown:
Beatrix Potter
Unknown:
John Julius Norwich
Unknown:
Mavis Nicholson
Unknown:
Sir David Hunt
Unknown:
Beryl Bainbridge.
Presented By:
Nigel Rees
Read By:
Ronald Fletcher
Producer:
Lissa Evans.

Contributors

Written By:
David Hopkins
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:
Patricia Greene
Mark Hebden:
Richard Derrington
Elizabeth Archer:
Alison Dowling
Jack Woolley:
Arnold Peters
Nelson Gabriel:
Jack May
Martha Woodford:
Mollie Harris
Joe Grundy:
Edward Kelsey
Eddie Grundy:
Trevor Harrison
Neil Carter:
Brian Hewlett
Susan Carter:
Charlotte Martin
Caroline Bone:
Sara Coward
Nigel Pargetter:
Nigel Carrington
Lynda Snell:
Carole Boyd
Ruth Pritchard:
Felicity Finch
Mrs Walker:
Gillian Goodman
Bert Fry:
Roger Hume

A series of eight portraits presented by Hugh O'Shaughnessy 6: Evaristo Nugkuag
Anthropologists, missionaries, politicians, oil-men and even film directors have tried to meddle with the Aguaruna community in Peru, and have fallen out with their leader, Evaristo Nugkuag.
Hugh O'Shaughnessy makes an eventful journey into the jungle with Evaristo and meets some of his supporters - and enemies. Series producer MICK WEBB Stereo

Contributors

Presented By:
Hugh O'Shaughnessy
Leader:
Evaristo Nugkuag.
Leader:
Hugh O'Shaughnessy

Nigel Andrews presents the arts magazine which tonight includes the new novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and a report on salsa music. Producer SIMONBROUGHTON (Rev re-broadcast tomorrow at
4.35pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Andrews
Novel By:
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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