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Presented by Peter Hobday and Jennie Bond
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.20* Letters
7.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
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:
Jennie Bond
Read By:
Bryan Martin
Unknown:
Garry Richardson
Editor:
Philip Harding

Unravelled, dangled or tied up by Ned Sherrin and the likes of Robert Elms, Victoria Mather and Carol Thatcher.
Producers IAN GARDHOUSE
JANE BERTHOUD and CHARLIE BUNCE

Contributors

Unknown:
Ned Sherrin
Unknown:
Victoria Mather
Unknown:
Carol Thatcher.
Producers:
Ian Gardhouse
Unknown:
Jane Berthoud
Unknown:
Charlie Bunce

A tour around the headlines with lost Richard Ingrams , uncharted Alan Coren and Barry Took holding the compass.
Special guests this week are Peter Cook and Bill Tidy. Written and compiled by JOHN LANGDON and producer BILL DARE. Stereo

Contributors

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

-the Worst of Times
The life of Charles Dickens - reflected in his own writings, the words of his family and friends, and the characters who people his novels.
Compiled in seven parts by MICHAEL BAKEWELL with Martin Jarvis as Charles Dickens.
5: A Vague Unhappy Loss of Something
Other parts played by GWEN CHERRELL. SIMON CUFF
ALAN DUDLEY. ELIZABETH LINDSAY
JOAN MATHESON. RICHARD TATE and STEPHEN TOMPKINSON
Researcher MEUSSA BAKEWELL Directed by ROSEMARY HART Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Dickens
Unknown:
Michael Bakewell
Unknown:
Martin Jarvis
Unknown:
Charles Dickens.
Played By:
Gwen Cherrell.
Played By:
Simon Cuff
Played By:
Alan Dudley.
Played By:
Elizabeth Lindsay
Played By:
Joan Matheson.
Played By:
Richard Tate
Played By:
Stephen Tompkinson
Unknown:
Meussa Bakewell
Directed By:
Rosemary Hart
John Forster/Narrator:
Paul Daneman
Macready:
Harold Innocent
Miss Flite:
Patricia Hayes
Georgina Hogarth:
Rosalind Ayres
YateS:
Peter Marinker
Thackeray:
Anthony Jackson
Kate Perugini:
Zelah Clarke
Scrooge:
Garard Green
Jane Carlyle:
Eva Stuart
Amy Dorrit:
Polly James
De La Rue:
Arnold Diamond
Dombey:
Anthony Jackson
Martha:
Caroline Gruber
Whiffler:
John Baddeley
Rose Maylie:
Victoria Carling

A play by WILLIAM TREVOR with Paula Dionisotti as Henrietta. x Sitting one summer evening in their charming garden, Henrietta and Roy have a conversation that changes her world:
'For the first time in our married life I considered my husband shifty.'
Directed by PENNY GOLD . Stereo

Contributors

Play By:
William Trevor
Unknown:
Paula Dionisotti
Directed By:
Penny Gold

A series of three programmes. New education laws aim to introduce testing for 7-, 11- and 14-year-olds. But what do children of these age groups think of themselves, their lives and the world around them? With children so much in the public eye, Nick Baker travelled the country, and-this week listens to the forthright views of some serious-minded 11-year-olds.
2: A Right to Speak
Producer CATHY DRYSDALE (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Nick Baker
Producer:
Cathy Drysdale

The Watched Pot by SAKI adapted by GABRIEL WOOLF. With Mary Morris.
This is the last radio play that the distinguished actress Mary Morris recorded before her death in October. She takes the role of a grande dame - 'a Catherine II of Russia, without any of her redeeming vices' - whose power for relentless good would pass from her if only her negative son Trevor would marry. Which designing female will succeed in capturing him?
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD Stereo

Contributors

Adapted By:
Gabriel Woolf.
Directed By:
Graham Gauld
Hortensia:
Mary Morris
Clare:
Rosalind Shanks
Ludovic:
Gabriel Woolf
Mrs Vulpy:
June Tobin
René:
Malcolm James
Sybil:
Emily Richard
Trevor:
Alaric Cotter
Colonel MICHAEL:
Tudor Barnes
Agatha:
Caroline Gruber
Sparrowby:
Michael Deacon
William:
Richard Pearce
John:
Norman Bird

A light-hearted anthology from writers largely new to radio. Readers EMMA GARNER CLARKE , BARBARA MARTEN. ANN RYE and PETER WHEELER.
Song written and performed by MERVYN STUTTER
Producer IAN STRACHAN BBC Manchester. Stereo

Contributors

Readers:
Emma Garner Clarke
Readers:
Barbara Marten.
Readers:
Peter Wheeler.
Producer:
Ian Strachan

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