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Presented by Peter Hobday and Jennie Bond
7.00,8.00 Today's News
7.20* Letters
7.25* Sport with JOHN RAWLING
7.30,8.30 News Summary
7.40*. 8.47* Today's Papers
7.45* In Perspective Editor PHILIP HARDING

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Presented By:
Jennie Bond
Unknown:
John Rawling
Editor:
Philip Harding

Ned Sherrin introduces a compilation of some of the year's least ephemeral Loose Ends.
Contributions from the likes of Robert Elms, Craig Charles ,
Victoria Mather , Emma Freud , John Walters , Mark Steyn ,
Stephen Fry , David Thomas , Victor Lewis Smith ,
Dylan Winter, Richard Jobson , Jonathan Ross , Carol Thatcher and Rowland Rivron.
Producers BEN RICH, JANE BERTHOUD. CHARLIE BUNCE and the nice MRGARDHOUSE

Contributors

Introduces:
Ned Sherrin
Unknown:
Craig Charles
Unknown:
Victoria Mather
Unknown:
Emma Freud
Unknown:
John Walters
Unknown:
Mark Steyn
Unknown:
Stephen Fry
Unknown:
David Thomas
Unknown:
Victor Lewis Smith
Unknown:
Richard Jobson
Unknown:
Jonathan Ross
Unknown:
Carol Thatcher
Unknown:
Rowland Rivron.
Unknown:
Jane Berthoud.
Unknown:
Charlie Bunce

Chairman Peter Jenkins , Associate Editor of The Independent, with Robin Oakley , Political Editor of The Times, Michael Elliott ,
Political Editor of The Economist and Andrew Marr , Political Editor of The Scotsman looks ahead to 1989.
Producer DENNIS SEWELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Jenkins
Unknown:
Robin Oakley
Unknown:
Michael Elliott
Unknown:
Andrew Marr
Producer:
Dennis Sewell

A Question of Money
The panel: Louise Botting , Christopher Gilchrist and Philip Hardman.
In the Chair Vincent Duggleby (More questions answered on Holiday Monday at 10. 00am)

Contributors

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

... or So You Think You Can Be a Newsreader.
Michael Aspel investigates network presentation with Charlotte Green, Eugene Fraser and Laurie Macmillan from Radio 4,
Patrick Lunt , Jean Challis and Steve Madden from Radio 2.
Adjudicator Graham Pointon Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Aspel
Unknown:
Eugene Fraser
Unknown:
Laurie MacMillan
Unknown:
Patrick Lunt
Unknown:
Jean Challis
Unknown:
Steve Madden
Unknown:
Graham Pointon

A Thousand and One Nights at the Ballets Russes by BARBARA NEWMAN. With and Eva Stuart. Nicholas Courtney , Steve Hodson , Michael Graham Cox ,
Ian Michie and Marcia King. MARY NASH (piano)
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Barbara Newman.
Unknown:
Eva Stuart.
Unknown:
Nicholas Courtney
Unknown:
Steve Hodson
Unknown:
Michael Graham Cox
Unknown:
Ian Michie
Unknown:
Marcia King.
Colonel Vassily de Basil:
Edward de Souza
Olga Morosova:
Diana Olsson

1914-22 dramatised by PETER MACKIE from the novel To the Victor the Spoils by JOCK GALLAGHER. With and The Ambridge summer fete: where young Dan Archer sees Doris Forrest , and where the band is chivvied along by a teenage Walter Gabriel.
Stereo

Contributors

Dramatised By:
Peter MacKie
Unknown:
Dan Archer
Unknown:
Doris Forrest
Unknown:
Walter Gabriel.
Dan Archer:
Michael Maloney
Doris:
Holly Aird

The last of four weird tales. The Old Man by DAPHNE DU MAURIER
Read by Anna Massey.
The family shuns people. He rules the roost, speaks strangely, forever gazing out to sea. She never speaks. And one day the children vanish....
Producer DUNCAN MINSHULL

Contributors

Writer:
Daphne du Maurier
Reader:
Anna Massey
Producer:
Duncan Minshull

The classic mystery story by Michael Innes dramatised by Kathleen Jamie.
With John Shedden as Aljo Wedderburn
A mad laird, an eerie tower, dark deeds, and a devilish plot.
BBC Scotland. Stereo

Contributors

Author:
Michael Innes
Dramatised by:
Kathleen Jamie
Director:
Patrick Rayner
Aljo Wedderburn:
John Shedden
Guthrie:
David McKail
Christine:
Anne Lacey
Bell:
Callum Mill
Appleby:
Michael MacKenzie
Gylby:
Ernest Blake
Sybil:
Gerda Stevenson
Hardcastle:
Martin Black
Mrs Hardcastle:
Edith MacArthur
Lindsay:
Benny Young
Isa:
Victoria Da Vidson
Miss Strachan/Mrs Roberts:
Gwyneth Guthrie
Clanclacket/Minister:
Brown Derby
Speight/Tammas:
Robert Paterson

A baroque portrait in two parts by GRAEME FIFE.
1: Music Triumphant With and Edward de Souza
Joe Dunlop , Peter Craze Nicholas Courtney
Melinda Walker , Michael Deacon Norman Bird and Cara Kelly. Stereo (Part 2 tomorrow at 10. 15pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Graeme Fife.
Unknown:
Edward de Souza
Unknown:
Joe Dunlop
Unknown:
Peter Craze
Unknown:
Nicholas Courtney
Unknown:
Melinda Walker
Unknown:
Michael Deacon
Unknown:
Norman Bird
Unknown:
Cara Kelly.
Antonio Vivaldi:
David Buck

or A Night at the Old Gaff
Featuring Tim Brooke-Taylor Paula Wilcox , Julia Hills
Chris Harris and Robert Austin with John Telfer and the Skeggy Syncopators.
Presented by Tony Staveacre. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Unknown:
Paula Wilcox
Unknown:
Julia Hills
Unknown:
Chris Harris
Unknown:
Robert Austin
Unknown:
John Telfer
Musicians:
Skeggy Syncopators
Presented By:
Tony Staveacre.

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