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Presented by Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor
6.30, 7.30.8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by CHARLOTTE GREEN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport With JULIAN TUTT
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
Sue MacGregor
Read By:
Charlotte Green

The promotion of good health is an expanding industry in the late 1980s. Which approaches to health promotion are most successful in keeping people away from the doctor?
3: Sex n' Drugs 'n' Car-Crashes Teenagers and young adults have always been the most difficult age group to persuade to adopt healthy habits.
Georgina Ferry discovers how a project in Hackney is helping young people cope with the consequences of sex, and how a scheme in Reading is reducing the number of accidents among young motorcyclists. Producer DEBORAH COHEN
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Contributors

Unknown:
Georgina Ferry
Producer:
Deborah Cohen

Presented by Debbie Thrower 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

This week in the quotation game, Martin Jarvis reveals the fastest Hamlet on record, and Humphrey Lyttelton reviles the most famous song in the world! The other guests are Gemma O'Connor and Dr Stefan Buczacki. Devised and presented by Nigel Rees
Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER Producer LISSA EVANS Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Jarvis
Unknown:
Humphrey Lyttelton
Unknown:
Gemma O'Connor
Unknown:
Dr Stefan Buczacki.
Presented By:
Nigel Rees
Read By:
Ronald Fletcher
Producer:
Lissa Evans

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: The Letter Stereo
2.00 Recorder Club Stage II Written and presented by DOUGLAS COOMBES (2) Stereo (e)
2.20 11-14 Project: English Poetry Anthologies
3: Futures and Fantasies by DAVE CALDER
4: Wordplays by DAVE WARD Stereo (e)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dave Calder

Six 30-minute plays The Bright Red One by RENNY KRUPINSKI
ALAN: We have it in red, sir. KEITH: Red, eh?
ALAN: A sort of bright red, sir.
Immaculate throughout. 19,000 miles.
KEITH: And 3,450 you said? I'll come down.
But Keith is to regret the day he had this telephone conversation -the first of many.
Directed by JANET WHITAKER Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Renny Krupinski
Directed By:
Janet Whitaker
Alan:
With John Baddeley
Keith:
And Renny Krupinski
Sharon:
Camille Coduri
Meetek:
Paul Gregory
Operator/Secretary:
Caroline Gruber

by JOHN LE CARRE adapted in seven parts by RENE BASILICO starring with and 6: Smiley's investigations are almost complete. But there are still one or two loose ends to tie up.... and one of them leads him to a man who has been savagely betrayed - a victim of the Russian 'mole' inside the 'Circus'.
Theme music by MAX HARRIS Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
John Le Carre
Unknown:
Rene Basilico
Music By:
Max Harris
Producer:
John Fawcett Wilson
George Smiley:
Bernard Hepton
Jim Prideaux:
Denis Lill
Toby Esterhase:
Charles Kay
Oliver Lacon:
John Quayle
Peter Guillam:
Douglas Blackwell
Mendel:
John Bennett
Mrs Pope-Graham:
Ann Lynn
Jumbo:
Adam Bromley
Shrimp:
Corrin Heluwell
Receptionnist/Waitress:
Jenny Funnell

7: A Golden Applefrom the Emperor
On his 12-part journey towards the Middle Ages,
Brian Redhead stops off this week in ninth-century Byzantium and explores the world of Kasia, talkative debutante, wit, epigrammatist and abbess.
He unravels the arguments of the iconophiles and iconodules, meets an emperor with a reputation for ingenious sacrilege and discovers why the Bulgarians were worried about having baths on Wednesdays. Reader JOANNA MCKIE .Researcher IAN MORGAN
Series producer FRANCES GUMLEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Reader:
Joanna McKie
Producer:
Frances Gumley

The poet Roger McGough. in company with Polly James and Bill Nighy , presents, before an audience in the Liverpool
Playhouse, a selection of his favourite poetry and prose.
'So much of what you learn at college is picked up, not in the lecture halls, but in conversation in pubs, cafes, common rooms.'
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger McGough.
Unknown:
Polly James
Unknown:
Bill Nighy
Producer:
Brian Patten

News, views and information for people with a visual handicap.
Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Questions and comments can be phoned in on [number removed]between 8.30 and 10.15pm. For weekly factsheets or quarterly bulletins summarising broadcast information, send a large sae, approx 13" x 9", to:[address removed]

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter White

Natalie Wheen presents the arts magazine which includes a newly published novel by Graham Greene. and a report on the publishing rush that happens at this time each year. Producer NOAH RICHLER

Contributors

Unknown:
Natalie Wheen
Novel By:
Graham Greene.

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