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goes to Hampshire, a county of contrasts. There is the full range of agriculture - arable cropping, horticulture, and milk and meat production. The huge flock of sheep includes the traditional
Hampshire and South Down breeds.
Producer ALLAN WRIGHT BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Producer:
Allan Wright

Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by CLIVE ROSLIN
7.20* Letters
7.25* Sport
With ANDY SMITH
7.30,8.30 News Summary
7.40*, 8.47* Today's Papers
7.45* In Perspective
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament Editor PHILIP HARDING

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Presented By:
Sue MacGregor
Read By:
Clive Roslin
Unknown:
Andy Smith
Editor:
Philip Harding

The holiday programme presented by Bernard Falk.
The Yangtze River is known as the 'Mother of China'. Its source is in Tibet, it flows into the East China Sea and is one of the longest rivers in the world.
Cindy Selby went on a cruise along an 800-mile stretch of the river from the Szechwan region, travelling east towards Shanghai.
Producer HELEN ROBSON

Contributors

Presented By:
Bernard Falk.
Unknown:
Cindy Selby
Producer:
Helen Robson

with Ned Sherrin and Robert Elms , Craig Charles and Victoria Mather
Additional material from NEIL SHAND Producers IAN GARDHOUSE
JANE BERTHOUD and CHARLIE BUNCE

Contributors

Unknown:
Ned Sherrin
Unknown:
Robert Elms
Unknown:
Craig Charles
Producers:
Ian Gardhouse
Unknown:
Jane Berthoud
Unknown:
Charlie Bunce

at Money 88
The Money Box team is at the Olympia Exhibition Hall in London to answer questions on personal finance put by visitors to the Money 88 show.
The panel: Vincent Duggleby Louise Botting Philip Hardman and Christopher Gilchrist

Contributors

Unknown:
Vincent Duggleby
Unknown:
Louise Botting
Unknown:
Philip Hardman
Unknown:
Christopher Gilchrist

with intrepid Richard Ingrams bold Alan Coren and Barry Took in the Chair. Special guest Victoria Mather Written and compiled by JOHN LANGDON and producer BILL DARE. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Ingrams
Unknown:
Alan Coren
Unknown:
Barry Took
Unknown:
John Langdon

A play by BRIAN THOMPSON Prince Peter Kropotkin is transferred from jail to a military hospital.
This move inspires a band of activists to hatch a somewhat surreal escape plot.
Directed by DAVE SHEASBY BBC North East. Stereo

Contributors

Play By:
Brian Thompson
Play By:
Prince Peter Kropotkin
Directed By:
Dave Sheasby

Meeting at Magdala by HERBERT JARMANY
In 1864 the ruler of Ethiopia clapped the British consul in chains and incarcerated him. The British Government realised that the only way to avenge this insult was to despatch a huge task force.
Directed by MATTHEW WALTERS

Contributors

Unknown:
Herbert Jarmany
Directed By:
Matthew Walters
the Emperor Theodore:
Zia Mohyeddin
Hormuzd Rassam:
Sam Dastor
The Rev Stern:
Michael Graham Cox
Cameron:
Colin Starkey
Abu:
Ian Michie
Samuel:
Ben Onwukwe
Lord Russell:
John Moffatt
Murray:
Norman Bird
Lt Prideaux:
Simon Cuff
Dr Blanc:
Christopher Scott
Stanley:
Peter Craze

Flights of Fancy
... in which you can hear of the airline pilot who never wore trousers, the navigator who ploughed the desert to guide his airliners, and of passengers greeted by men who wore nothing but bottle-tops. All this and more when
Christopher South talks with three grand old men of Imperial Airways: Chopper Hatchett, Howard Fry and Hilary Watson.
Producer LES WOODLAND BBC Manchester. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Howard Fry
Unknown:
Hilary Watson.

A light-hearted seven-part anthology from writers largely new to radio.
Poems by PETER craig.
LEKHA DESAI and JANET MITCHELL. Prose from LEONARD BARRAS
JENNY HOLLIDAY. SUE RILSTONE and HILARY PALMER.
Readers JULIE HIGGINSON
BARBARA MARTEN. ANN RYE and PETER WHEELER
Song written and performed by MERVYN STUTTER
Recorded in the Little Theatre, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire Producer IAN STRACHAN BBC Manchester. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Craig.
Unknown:
Lekha Desai
Unknown:
Janet Mitchell.
Unknown:
Leonard Barras
Unknown:
Jenny Holliday.
Readers:
Hilary Palmer.
Readers:
Julie Higginson
Readers:
Barbara Marten.
Readers:
Peter Wheeler
Producer:
Ian Strachan

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