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Presented by John Humphrys and Peter Hobday in London with Brian Redhead at the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool
6 30 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7 00, 8.00 Today s News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport With JULIAN TUTT
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Letters
Write to: Today Letters BBC, London W1A 1AA

Contributors

Presented By:
John Humphrys
Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Read By:
Bryan Martin

This week Clay Jones digs into the bulging postbag and calls on Dr Stefan Buczacki Fred Downham and Sue Phillips to solve listeners gardening problems. Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
Questions. onpostcardsonlyto:
Gardeners' Question Time, BBC. POBox27. Oxford Road. Manchester M60 ISJ

Contributors

Unknown:
Clay Jones
Unknown:
Dr Stefan Buczacki
Unknown:
Fred Downham
Unknown:
Sue Phillips
Producer:
Diana Stenson

by LAURENCE PAYNE
Dramatised in four parts by ALAN DOWNER with and 1: The Package
Private investigator Mark Savage is visited by the mysterious Mr Morton , who is willing to pay him three times his usual fee to deliver a package to Wales.
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Downer
Unknown:
Mark Savage
Unknown:
Mr Morton
Directed By:
Glyn Dearman.
Mark Savage:
Mick Ford
Julie Remington:
Janet Dibley
'Mitch':
Zelah Clarke
George Morton:
Roger Hammond
Mike Davies:
Simon Cuff
'Auntie':
Christine Pollon

In the programme that celebrates women of achievement, Jenni Murray talks to Annie Davies. forensic scientist at Scotland Yard. Serial: Letters from a Faint-Hearted Feminist by JILL TWEEDIE
Last of eight episodes abridged by PAT MCLOUGHLIN Read by Rosemary Martin Music: Bolcom's Second Sonata

Contributors

Talks:
Jenni Murray
Unknown:
Annie Davies.
Unknown:
Jill Tweedie
Abridged By:
Pat McLoughlin
Read By:
Rosemary Martin

by NICK FISHER
An isolated, wind-swept house in East Anglia provides the ideal setting for a 'perfect murder'.
Directed by MARTIN JENKINS. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Nick Fisher
Directed By:
Martin Jenkins.
Lucy:
Elizabeth Proud
Susan:
Joan Walker
Matthew:
Kim Wall
Leonard:
Peter Tuddenham
Local man:
Peter Craze

The Dublin Theatre Festival celebrates the city's millennium this year with an emphasis on Irish events, presenting new plays by Frank McGuinness and Antoine 0 Flatharta.
Paul Allen talks to some of those involved in the festival. Producer FIONA MCLEAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank McGuinness
Talks:
Paul Allen
Producer:
Fiona McLean

Presented by Robert Williams and Frances Coverdale
Including reports from the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool
5.00, 5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters; 5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55

Contributors

Presented By:
Robert Williams
Presented By:
Frances Coverdale

with Clement Freud
Derek Nimmo , Wendy Richard Kenneth Williams and Nicholas Parsons Devised by IAN MESSITER
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR. Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo
Unknown:
Wendy Richard
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
Edward Taylor.

by Ian Brown and James Hendrie
Starring Roy Kinnear as Mr Tilly and Patrick Allen as Julius Venn.
(Stereo)
(Broadcast on Saturday at 11.00pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Ian Brown
Writer:
James Hendrie
Music:
Max Harris
Producer:
Paul Spencer
Mr Tilly:
Roy Kinnear
Julius Venn:
Patrick Allen
Mrs Boyle:
Patti Coombs
Stranger:
Peter Howell
Honesty:
Polly James
Bertie:
John Baddeley
Freddie:
John Samson
Felch:
Michael Ripper

A reflected history in seven reels
Reel 2: Print the Legend!
With the opinions of Jeffrey Richards , Kevin Brownlow and the voices of JOHN BAXTER
LINDSAY ANDERSON. DAN FORD
JOHN WAYNE and HENRY FONDA Narrated by Christopher Frayling Compiled and researched by PAUL WELLS
Script by CHRISTOPHER FRAYLING
Directed by JOHN POWELL. Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeffrey Richards
Unknown:
Kevin Brownlow
Unknown:
John Baxter
Unknown:
Lindsay Anderson.
Unknown:
Dan Ford
Unknown:
John Wayne
Unknown:
Henry Fonda
Unknown:
Christopher Frayling
Script By:
Christopher Frayling
Directed By:
John Powell.

A six-part series.
Sally Hardcastle travels across the United States talking to Americans about the last 25 years of their country's life. 2: The Divided Society
The Johnson years, when civil rights for blacks were won but a faraway war was lost - the result was a fractured America. Producer DAVID POWELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Sally Hardcastle
Producer:
David Powell

The career of Swedish actor Max von Sydow has spanned the roles of Jesus in Cecil B. de Mille's The Greatest Story Ever
Told and a priest in The Exorcist.
Now he is in London to appear as Prospero in Jonathan Miller 's production of the Tempest.
He talks about his work in films and theatre with Christopher Cook. Producer JOHN BOUNDY

Contributors

Unknown:
Max von Sydow
Unknown:
Jonathan Miller
Unknown:
Christopher Cook.
Producer:
John Boundy

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