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Presented by Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor.
Details as yesterday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rev Jimmy Morrison
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
Sue MacGregor.
Unknown:
Jimmy Morrison

The Kite by Peter Harrison.
'At least, she told herself. I'm teaching the boy to curse like his father, but who will teach him how to fly a kite or how to make a catapult?'
Read by Valerie Windsor . Producer Gillian Hush

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Harrison.
Read By:
Valerie Windsor
Producer:
Gillian Hush

Written by Scott Cherry
Director Tracey Neale. Stereo

Contributors

Written By:
Scott Cherry
Director:
Tracey Neale.
JJ:
Adjoa Andoh
Mary:
Alice Arnold
Suzi:
Hetty Baynes
Zena:
Maria Charles
Mireille:
Tara Dominick
Mike:
Scott Farrell
Cliff:
Jeffrey Gear
Toby:
Christopher Godwin
Julia:
Beverley Hills
Joe:
John Hollis
Terry:
Anthony Jackson
Hugh:
James MacPherson
Ernest:
Brian Murphy
Darius:
Cyril Nri
Colin:
Ben Onwukwe
Pat:
Marcella Riordan
Tony:
Richard Tate

The first of four programmes about jobs often taken for granted and what they mean to the people who do them.
'Ninety per cent of people don't realise what's involved - they tend to think you're bionic ...' David Jackson Young meets removal men Ian Borthwick and Tony Marshall.
Producer David Jackson Young (First broadcast on Radio Scotland)

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jackson Young
Unknown:
Ian Borthwick
Unknown:
Tony Marshall.
Producer:
David Jackson Young

Jenni Murray meets the fashion designer Edina Ronay.
Serial: The Skeleton in the Cupboard by Alice Thomas Ellis. The first of seven parts read by Irene Sutcliffe. 'I thought the proposed marriage the stupidest thing I'd ever heard of. Syi, my son, was an ordinary mortal and there was something strange about Margaret. I found it impossible to picture her pushing a pram.'
Abridged by Janet Hickson
(MusIc: Danzis s Quartet No 3 for Bassoon and String Trio)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jenni Murray
Designer:
Edina Ronay.
Unknown:
Alice Thomas Ellis.
Read By:
Irene Sutcliffe.
Abridged By:
Janet Hickson

Spa Wars
Could the spring or well at the bottom of the garden be a gold mine? Yuppie water, the 80s phenomenon, could become the 90s holiday destination. Reporters Neil Walker and David Clayton take the waters in Droitwich, Upwell and Hartlepool. Producer Nick Clarke

Contributors

Reporters:
Neil Walker
Reporters:
David Clayton
Producer:
Nick Clarke

Robert Dawson-Scott investigates the life of the Russian writer
Maxim Gorky in a new biography; and the young soul singer, Omar, visits the studio. Producer Tony Phillips. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Dawson-Scott
Unknown:
Maxim Gorky
Producer:
Tony Phillips.

A musical panel game. John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden.
In the chair: Steve Race.
Producer Richard Edis. Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Ian Wallace
Unknown:
Denis Norden.
Unknown:
Steve Race.
Producer:
Richard Edis.

The last of six talks by Charles Arnold-Baker , born Wolfgang Werner von Blumenthal, a Prussian aristocrat, in which he reflects on the English society of which he became such a 'compleat' example. Producer Louise Purslow Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Arnold-Baker
Producer:
Louise Purslow

News, views and information for people with a visual handicap. Presented by Tony Barringer.
Producer Thena Heshel
0 QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS: tel 07 1 -[number removed]between
9.15and 10.15pm
* FACTSHEET No 7: send large sae to [address removed]
0 HANDBOOK: L 10.50, from [address removed]

Contributors

Presented By:
Tony Barringer.
Producer:
Thena Heshel

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