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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 PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With JOHN INVERDALE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
John Humphrys
Unknown:
John Inverdale

The Programme with Listener Power
In a series often programmes, you, the punters, report on your own stories with the help and support of Susan Marling and Nigel Farrell.
You ask the questions and investigate an intriguing range of life's injustices, problems and quirks. Join the Punters chase for answers and share the informative, entertaining and often unexpected results.
Produced by the PUNTERS TEAM Editor MARY PRICE BBC Bristol
If you would like to take part in 'Punters' write, with address and telephone number, to: Punters, BBC Radio 4, Bristol BS8 2LR or telephone Bristol (0272) [number removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Marling
Unknown:
Nigel Farrell.

by PETER TINNISWOOD in five episodes starring with
Carter Brandon was given a week off work. So he decided he would spend the time taking day trips in his car. Uncle Mort went with him.
1: Par for the Course
Narrator Christian Rodska Producer PETE ATKIN. Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Tinniswood
Unknown:
Carter Brandon
Narrator:
Christian Rodska
Producer:
Pete Atkin.
Uncle Mort:
Stephen Thome
Carter Brandon:
Peter Skellern

Few can resist the sight of a helpless baby seal. But what should be done with an apparently abandoned animal? Jessica Holm visits Europe's leading seal sanctuary in Holland while Fergus Keeling and Lionel Kelleway look at the situation in Britain. Producer miles BARTON BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Jessica Holm
Unknown:
Fergus Keeling
Unknown:
Lionel Kelleway

'Hold the front page' was doubtless uttered on 6 October 1910, but for what great story? In the second of four programmes, Larry Harris invites The Rt Hon
Barbara Castle , MEP, to look back to the newspapers from the day that she was born, eking out the traumatic, the trivial and'the titanic'.
Producer KATHRYN MOORE BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Unknown:
Larry Harris
Unknown:
Barbara Castle
Producer:
Kathryn Moore

A few wanted death to all men. Others predicted a world without them. In the programme that measures women's aims and achievements and follows their movements, Jenny Cuffe asks today's radical feminists to describe their views, their values and their vision.
Serial: The Oaken Heart (3) Presenter Dilly Barlow

Contributors

Unknown:
Jenny Cuffe
Presenter:
Dilly Barlow

by Rodney Clark
with Jeremy Kemp as Bill Knightley and Ralph Nossek as Wally Dokes

Whittom and Knightley, an old established British company making water sensors, approach a Japanese firm who can make parts for a fraction of the cost back home. East meets West in the world of big business and the West has much to learn. Is it too late for an old dog to learn new tricks?
(Stereo)

Contributors

Writer:
Rodney Clark
Director:
Glyn Dearman
Bill Knightley:
Jeremy Kemp
Wally Dokes:
Ralph Nossek
Mr Imamura:
Togo Igawa
Julia Knightley:
Shirley Dixon
Stew:
Michael Siberry
Andy:
Ken Cumberlidge
Chris:
Peter Craze
Reiko:
Megumi Shimanuki
Tom:
John Baddeley
Alec:
Phllip Sully
Air hostess:
Sayo Inaba
Nightclub DJ:
Eiji Kusuhara
Maureen:
Joanna Mackie

Presented by Frances Coverdale and Hugh Sykes
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.20 Test Match Report
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55

Contributors

Presented By:
Frances Coverdale
Presented By:
Hugh Sykes

Written by GRAHAM HARVEY Cast for the week:
BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Written By:
Graham Harvey
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Phil Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Shula Hebden:
Judy Bennett
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Jack Woolley:
Arnold Peters
Nelson Gabriel:
Jack May
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Kathy Perks:
Hedli Nlklaus
Martha Woodford:
Mollie Harris
Joe Grundy:
Edward Kelsey
Eddie Grundy:
Trevor Harrison
Clarrie Grundy:
Rosalind Adams
Neil Carter:
Brian Hewlett
Susan Carter:
Charlotte Martin
Mike Tucker:
Terry Molloy
Caroline Bone:
Sara Coward
Mrs Antrobus:
Margot Boyd
Matthew Thorogood:
Crawford Logan
Lynda Snell:
Carole Boyd
Ruth Pritchard:
Felicity Finch
Jean Paul:
Yves Aubert

At the turn of the century, 80 per cent of all medicines came from plants. Has green medicine today been overtaken by synthetic drugs?
Recorded at Wellcome,
Dartford; the Pharmacy Dept, London University; King's
College Hospital; and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Reader
MICHAEL TUDOR BARNES Compiled by JOHN SCOTNEY and BOB BOOTH
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS Stereo (R)

Contributors

Reader:
Michael Tudor Barnes
Unknown:
John Scotney
Unknown:
Bob Booth
Producer:
John Theocharis

Social Insecurities
'The most substantial examination of the social security system since the Beveridge Report' is how Norman Fowler described the process which culminated in April's package of welfare reforms.
But is it a settlement or a stopgap? Does it strike a stable balance between effectiveness and cost? And will it weaken or entrench the 'dependency culture'?
David Walker explores the questions emerging from the new shape of social security. Producer FRASER STEEL

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman Fowler
Unknown:
David Walker

A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families, with countrywide news and views on all matters of concern to them.
Presented by Kati Whitaker Producer MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence and enquiries to: Does He Take Sugar?
BBC. London W1A 1AA Phone [number removed]
Lines open from 10.00am to 5.00pm Monday to Friday

Contributors

Presented By:
Kati Whitaker
Producer:
Marlene Pease

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