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Presented by John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News 7 25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Presented By:
John Humphrys
Presented By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Garry Richardson

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: The Giant Pot Plant. Stereo (R)
2.05 Let's Join In The Sleeping Beauty Retold by ANGELA CARTER with music by TOBY SIMS Producer COUN SMITH. Stereo (R) (e)
2.25 The Song Tree The Music Menagerie (1) Presented by HILARY JAMES and SIMON MAYOR With PYEWACKETT Written and produced by BARRY GIBSON. Stereo (R) (e)
2.40 The Friday Serial Erik the Viking (1) Read by TERRY JONES. Stereo (e)

Contributors

Unknown:
Angela Carter
Music By:
Toby Sims
Producer:
Coun Smith.
Presented By:
Hilary James
Presented By:
Simon Mayor
Produced By:
Barry Gibson.
Read By:
Terry Jones.

from Birmingham.
Sally Jones and guests invite you to share the hour that no woman can afford to miss! Serial: The Skin Chairs(10) by BARBARA COMYNS abridged in ten episodes by SALLY SKRIMSHIRE.
Read by Susie Brann
(Music: Richardson's Roundelay)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sally Skrimshire.
Read By:
Susie Brann

by VICTOR HUGO , dramatised in five parts by CATHERINE LUCY CZERKAWSKA. With and 2: Monster and Maiden
'The 6 January 1482 was not a good day as far as I was concerned ... I had been attacked by Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre Dame, when I tried to rescue the gypsy girl La Esmeralda from his clutches.'
Music by PHILIP PICKETT ,
TOM FINUCANE. STEPHEN HENDERSON Directed by MARILYN IMRIE. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Victor Hugo
Unknown:
Catherine Lucy Czerkawska.
Music By:
Philip Pickett
Music By:
Tom Finucane.
Music By:
Stephen Henderson
Directed By:
Marilyn Imrie.
Phoebus:
Christopher Bowen
Pierre Gringoire:
Dermot Crowley
Quasimodo:
Jack Klaff
Esmeralda:
Emily Morgan
Dom Claude Frollo:
Nigel Terry
Robert D'Estouteville:
Richard Tate
Clopin:
Joe Dunlop
Dame de Gondelaurier:
Eva Stuart
Jehan Frollo:
Ian Michie
Robin Poussepain:
Dominic Rickhards
Florian Barbedienne:
Norman Bird
Clerk:
Ian Targett
Mahiette:
Joanna MacKie
Oudarde:
Jo Kendall
Therese:
Elaine Claxton
Recluse:
Joan Matheson
Fleur de Lys:
Zelah Clarke
Berangere:
Alice Arnold
Ametotte:
Melinda Walker
Diane:
Marcia King
Beggar:
David Goudge

Presented by Frances Coverdale and Gordon Clough including PM World Watch
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters; 5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55

Contributors

Presented By:
Frances Coverdale
Presented By:
Gordon Clough

Tonight's panel includes David Blunkett , MP Rosie Barnes , mp The Rt Hon
Michael Heseltine , mp from Hereford.
Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby Producer CAROLE STONE. BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
David Blunkett
Unknown:
Rosie Barnes
Unknown:
Michael Heseltine
Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Producer:
Carole Stone.

Who Killed Prees Heath ?
This piece of common land on the Shropshire/Cheshire border has suffered the paws of dinosaurs, the boots of Cromwell's troops, the crash of Second World War planes, the deceit of EEC grain silos, and the light touch of rare butterflies.
Eleanor Cooke captures this threatened area of land in a work which is both poem and documentary.
Producer CHRIS ELDON LEE. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Prees Heath
Unknown:
Eleanor Cooke
Producer:
Chris Eldon Lee.

with Bill Wallis , David Tate and Sally Grace.
Written by MIKE COLEMAN. BILL MATTHEWS. ROBERT LINFORD.
MAX HANDLEY , GED PARSONS.
ALISON RENSHAW , SIMON BULLIVANT.
MARK BRLSENDEN. DAVID BADDIEL.
ROB NEWMAN. BARRY ATKINS. MICHAEL DINES, PETER HICKEY and others. Producer LISSA EVANS. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
David Tate
Unknown:
Sally Grace.
Written By:
Mike Coleman.
Written By:
Bill Matthews.
Written By:
Robert Linford.
Unknown:
Max Handley
Unknown:
Alison Renshaw
Unknown:
Simon Bullivant.
Unknown:
Mark Brlsenden.
Unknown:
David Baddiel.
Unknown:
Rob Newman.
Unknown:
Barry Atkins.
Unknown:
Peter Hickey
Producer:
Lissa Evans.

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