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Presented by Brian Redhead and Chris Lowe
6.30, 7.30, 18.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8,00 Today's News
7.25*, 8.25* Sport with JOHN RAWLING
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
Chris Lowe
Unknown:
John Rawling

An Italia prize-winning snack at the 'Famous Delicatessen,
Philadelphia. pickled and shredded by Roberta Berke with the voices of Sam, Lilian and David Auspitz , their customers and helpers
A gem of a montage documentary
THE LISTENER
Recorded by ROGER DOWUNG Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Roberta Berke
Unknown:
David Auspitz
Unknown:
Roger Dowung
Producer:
Piers Plowright

Jackie Stewart is helping his son Paul launch his career in the dangerous and exciting world of motor sport, but what does the future hold? In the first of six chats with sporting families, Gerald Williams talks to father and son about sporting influences and whether the urge to succeed is in the blood. Producer CAROLINE ELLIOT

Contributors

Unknown:
Jackie Stewart
Talks:
Gerald Williams
Producer:
Caroline Elliot

by SHUSAKU ENDO dramatised by PENNY LEICESTER from the translation by VAN C. GESSEL. With
Suguro, a Catholic, lies in a hospital bed awaiting his third serious operation on the eve of his 40th birthday. Even if he survives, he is not sure that his marriage will.
Directed by MATTHEW WALTERS Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Shusaku Endo
Dramatised By:
Penny Leicester
Translation By:
van C. Gessel.
Directed By:
Matthew Walters
Suguro:
Denis Lill
Yoshiko:
Auriol Smith
Young nurse:
Susie Brann
Yasuko:
Janet Spencer-Turner
Michio:
Bern Adette Windsor
Young doctor:
Stephen Rashbrook
Yasuko's husband/Doctor:
George Parsons
Priest/Anaesthetist:
Garard Green
Old nurse:
Pauline Letrs

This week Nigel Forde offers a slice of England, with an anthology of writing edited by Richard Ingrams.
Professor John Honey asks 'Does accent matter?'
Producer MIKE GREENWOOD

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Forde
Edited By:
Richard Ingrams.
Edited By:
Professor John Honey
Producer:
Mike Greenwood

Presented by Robert Williams and Frances Coverdale
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters; 5.31 City News continuedon FM 5.50-5.55

Contributors

Presented By:
Robert Williams
Presented By:
Frances Coverdale

In October 1938, to celebrate his jubilee as a conductor, Sir
Henry Wood conducted the first performance of a work specially written for the occasion by Ralph Vaughan Williams. The piece was Serenade to Music. Fifty years on, John Steane looks back to that famous premiere and examines how
Vaughan Williams tailored the 16 vocal parts to the voices who sang them. With contributions from the three surviving original soloists,
Dame Eva Turner , Mary Jarred and Roy Henderson , the composer's widow
Ursula Vaughan Williams and the voices of Sir Henry Wood and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Producer ANDREW LYLE. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Henry Wood
Unknown:
Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Unknown:
John Steane
Soloists:
Dame Eva Turner
Soloists:
Mary Jarred
Soloists:
Roy Henderson
Unknown:
Ursula Vaughan Williams
Unknown:
Sir Henry Wood
Unknown:
Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Producer:
Andrew Lyle.

A series of six programmes.
1: H.P. Bulmer - Cider-Makers of Hereford
The Rev Charles Bulmer made cider from the apples in his rectory orchard. One hundred years ago, his son Percy turned the hobby into a business.
Now his grandson Esmond is chairman of a multi-million pound company.
Marjorie Lofthouse tells the story of the Hereford cider giants. Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Bulmer
Unknown:
Marjorie Lofthouse
Producer:
Jane Marshall

Orcadia
Organising an efficient network of services for people with handicaps is difficult enough, but how is it managed on an archipelago of 60 islands? Lyn ten Kate shares her conclusions in a special programme from the Orkney Isles.
Producer MARLENE PEASE

Contributors

Producer:
Marlene Pease

Jeremy Irons plays a pair of twin gynaecologists in Canadian film director David Cronenberg 's Dead Ringers.
Shock has been the hallmark of Cronenberg's recent films such as Scanners and The Fly. This one is less shocking, he thinks ... but Natalie Wheen has her point of view.
Producer us EDWARDS

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeremy Irons
Director:
David Cronenberg
Unknown:
Natalie Wheen

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