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Presented by Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by SIMON VANCE
7.25*, 8.25 Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Presented By:
Sue MacGregor
Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Read By:
Simon Vance
Unknown:
Garry Richardson

To mark 40 years of the world's self-proclaimed supreme small car David Willmott introduces a birthday treat with drivers, devotees and its designer, the late Sir Alec Issigonis. producer ANDREW PARFITT. Stereo

Contributors

Introduces:
David Willmott
Unknown:
Sir Alec Issigonis.
Producer:
Andrew Parfitt.

Lionel Kelleway has some fireside wildlife as he selects from the year's crop of natural history books with a view to the perennial Christmas rush.
Also some armchair travel is on offer from mountain walker Stephen Pern , just back from the Pyrenees, and from veteran Amazon explorer Margaret Mee.
Producer KATE WHITEHEAD

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Pern
Unknown:
Margaret Mee.
Producer:
Kate Whitehead

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Morgan the Milkman 's Mistake. Stereo
2.05 Looking at Nature - Goes Science Winter Wind. Stereo (e)
2.20 Slambash Wangs of a Compo Gormer by ROBERT LEESON with REECE DINSDALE as Arnold and Dornal (7) Stereo (e)
2.40 Science for All Feed the World by TONY JAMES Presented by STEVE BLACKNELL Stereo (R) (e)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Leeson
Unknown:
Reece Dinsdale
Presented By:
Steve Blacknell

How about a two-bed house for £25,000? Quite good value. But when it's only three feet high... ? Frances Donnelly discovers that doll's houses offer far more than child's play. Serial: Memory (2)
Presenter Jenni Murray

Contributors

Unknown:
Frances Donnelly
Presenter:
Jenni Murray

by GUY SLATER
For Anneke and Mick the world is set fair. For Sarah and Dave the future is more perilous. Can one couple be held responsible for the fate of the other? As a social worker,
Anneke is inclined to believe it can.
Directed by PENNY GOLD . Stereo

Contributors

Directed By:
Penny Gold
Anneke:
Susan Tracy
Mick:
Daniel Webb
Sarah:
Brenda Bruce
Dave:
Dermot Crowley
Doctor:
Joan Walker
Director of Social Services:
Ken Cumberlidge
Social workers:
Zelah Clarke
Social workers:
John Samson
Secretary:
Diana Olsson
Coroner:
Michael Deacon
Judge:
David Sinclair
Newsreader:
Simon Cuff

with Nigel Forde , featuring a biography of Gerard Hoffnung and an interview with poet and novelist Patricia Beer. Producer MIKE GREENWOOD

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Forde
Unknown:
Gerard Hoffnung
Unknown:
Patricia Beer.
Producer:
Mike Greenwood

Presented by Robert Williams and Frances Coverdale
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters Letters to: PM, BBC London W1A 1AA
5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55

Contributors

Presented By:
Robert Williams
Presented By:
Frances Coverdale

Written by PAUL BURNS Cast for the week:
BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Written By:
Paul Burns
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Pat Archer:
Patricia Gallimore
Phil Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Green
Kenton Archer:
Graeme Kirk
Shula Hebden:
Judy Bennett
Mark Hebden:
Richard Derrington
David Archer:
Timothy Bentinck
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Nelson Gabriel:
Jack May
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville
Joe Grundy:
Edward Kelsey
Eddie Grundy:
Trevor Harrison
Clarrie Grundy:
Rosalind Adams
DetSgt Barry:
David Vann
Matthew Thorogood:
Crawford Logan
Ruth Pritchard:
Felicity Finch
John Archer:
Sam Barriscale
Mrs Walker:
Gillian Goodman

A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions? Introduced by Brian Gear. Producer LAURIE MASON BBC Bristol
Send your letters to: Any Answers? BBC Bristol, BS82LR

Contributors

Introduced By:
Brian Gear.
Producer:
Laurie Mason

Philip Glass's opera Akhnaten packed out the Coliseum in London in 1985 and 1987. Last night his new collaboration with Doris Lessing had its European premiere at the English National Opera; while in Stratford-upon-Avon it was curtain up for the world premiere of a new play by Timberlake Wertenbaker.
Presented by Prabhu Guptara Producer CHRIS ELDON LEE

Contributors

Unknown:
Doris Lessing
Play By:
Timberlake Wertenbaker.
Presented By:
Prabhu Guptara
Producer:
Chris Eldon Lee

at 12.30 Deutsch fur die Oberstufe
5: Nachrichten und Neuigkeiten compiled and produced by INGRID HASSLER (e) and at 12.50 Deutscher Club
1: Die Globetrotter compiled and presented by CHRISTOPHER LINDENMEYER Producer RICHARD SMITH. Stereo (e)

Contributors

Produced By:
Ingrid Hassler
Presented By:
Christopher Lindenmeyer
Producer:
Richard Smith.

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