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Presented by Brian Redhead 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
7.45 Thoughtfor the Day
8.35 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
Sue MacGregor

Four programmes in which Jenny Cuffe charts the forward march of the marketing battalion.
3: Packaging the Professions
Dentists selling a sweeter smile, architects signing up image consultants and lawyers soliciting on radio commercials ... contrary to all traditional practice, the professions have now been pushed into the market place.
Producer JOY RATWOOD

Contributors

Unknown:
Jenny Cuffe

This 'round-robin series of biographers in conversation continues with Michael Holroyd asking
Robert Skidelsky about his work on Oswald Mosley and John Maynard Keynes. Producer ED THOMASON

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Holroyd
Unknown:
Robert Skidelsky
Unknown:
Oswald Mosley
Unknown:
John Maynard Keynes.

1.55 Listening Comer Today's story: Sophie Goes Shopping. Stereo (R)
2.05 Looking at Nature Worms and Slugs Primary science projects witn TIMMY MALLETT and ROBIN ROBBINS. Stereo (e)
2 20 GCSE: Real Maths Supports GCSE coursework and stimulates low-achieving pupils.
7: Quiz Show Presented by FRANK PARTRIDGE Stereo (e)
2.40 Quest
7: Christian Festivals Christmas Compiled by DAVID SELF (e)

Contributors

Unknown:
Timmy Mallett
Unknown:
Robin Robbins.
Presented By:
Frank Partridge

byTONYBENGE. With
Suffolk 1835: George Pulham is arrested on a charge of incendiarism and sent to
Suffolk assizes where he awaits his fate, which is either liberty or death.
Directed by CLIVE BRILL BBC Manchester. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
George Pulham
Directed By:
Clive Brill
George Pulham:
Tim Dantay
Motty:
Paul Slack
Orridge:
John Rowe
Baldry:
Brian Hewlett
Everitt:
Andrew Tansey
Gathercole:
Robert Whelan
Robert:
Paul Vlragh
Judge:
Neville Barber
Ma Sams:
Ann Rye
Harvey:
Nigel Carrington
Night turnkey:
Peter Rumney

Nigel Forde takes a look at the science of graphology, and meets Tony Parker , whose book A Place Called Bird, based on interviews with real people in Kansas, creates a portrait not just of one small town, but of America itself.
Producer EDWINA WOLSTENCROFT
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Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Forde
Unknown:
Tony Parker

Presented by Robert Williams and Frances Coverdale
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.20 The TimeslPM Environment Award
5.25PMLetters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55

Contributors

Presented By:
Robert Williams
Presented By:
Frances Coverdale

by JAMES HENDRIE and LAN BROWN. The return of the piping-hot comedy show served with extra relish, added capers, some new jokes and a side salad. Serving up the pizza fun are Robert Bathurst ,
Brenda Blethyn , Mike Grady ,
Jonathan Kydd and Enn Reitel. With special guest appearance by Jonathan Ross.
Producer DAVID TYLER. Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
James Hendrie
Unknown:
Robert Bathurst
Unknown:
Brenda Blethyn
Unknown:
Mike Grady
Unknown:
Jonathan Kydd
Unknown:
Enn Reitel.
Unknown:
Jonathan Ross.
Producer:
David Tyler.

Written by HELEN LEADBEATER
BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Written By:
Helen Leadbeater
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer Aldridge:
Angela Piper
Brian:
Charles Collingwood
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Pat Archer:
Patricia Gallimore
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Kenton Archer:
Graeme Kirk
Shula Hebden:
Judy Bennett
David Archer:
Timothy Bentinck
Elizabeth Archer:
Alison Dowling
Christine:
Lesley Saweard
Nelson Gabriel:
Jack May
Kathy Perks:
Hedli Nlklaus
Joe Grundy:
Edward Kelsey
Clarrie Grundy:
Rosalind Adams
Neil Carter:
Brian Hewlett
Caroline Bone:
Sara Coward
Nigel Pargetter:
Nigel Carrington
D S Barry:
David Vann
Mrs Antrobus:
Margot Boyd
Bert Fry:
Roger Hume
Matthew:
Crawford Logan
Robert Snell:
Graham Blockey
Lynda Snell:
Carole Boyd
Dawn Porrit:
Rachel Wright

A series of ten programmes. 6: Remandedfor Report
Steve Walker spends his time trying to keep people out of jail. This programme eavesdrops on the work of an inner-city probation officer as he juggles a caseload of three-dozen assorted offenders. Reporter Sue Talbot Producer PETER EVERETT BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Steve Walker
Reporter:
Sue Talbot
Producer:
Peter Everett

A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families, with country-wide news and views on all matters of concern to them.
Presented by Kati Whitaker Producer MARLENE PEASE
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Contributors

Presented By:
Kati Whitaker
Producer:
Marlene Pease

Verdi's comic opera Falstaff receives a new production by the English National Opera with Benjamin Luxon in the title role; and the Moscow-Jewish Shalom Theatre Company visits from the Soviet Union.
Presenter Anne Theroux Producer JOHN BOUNDY Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Benjamin Luxon
Presenter:
Anne Theroux
Producer:
John Boundy

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