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Presented by John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor. Including:
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Jonathan Fryer

Contributors

Presented By:
John Humphrys
Presented By:
Sue MacGregor.
Unknown:
Jonathan Fryer

From the Lady Chapel of Liverpool Cathedral, Canon Noel Vincent introduces a service on the theme 'Temptation and Testing'. The choir of St Julie 's Comprehensive School is directed by Jill Simms.
In the Hour of My Distress (Hurford);
Father, Hear the Prayer
We Offer; Oh Jesus I Have Promised 0 S Bach); Dear Lord and Father;
Leviticus 19, w 1-2,11-18

Contributors

Introduces:
Canon Noel Vincent
Unknown:
St Julie
Directed By:
Jill Simms.

Simon Rae introduces your poetry requests, with readers
Rosalind Shanks and Ben Onwukwe and guest James Berry.
Producer Susan Roberts. Stereo 0 REQUESTS to: Poetry Please!, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Introduces:
Simon Rae
Readers:
Rosalind Shanks
Readers:
Ben Onwukwe
Unknown:
James Berry.
Producer:
Susan Roberts.

Professor Anthea Tinker , Director of the Age Concern Institute of Gerontology, King's
College, London, talks to Jenni Murray.
Serial: The Skeleton in the Cupboard by Alice Thomas Ellis. The fifth of seven episodes read by Irene Sutcliffe.
Abridged by Janet Hickson Editor Sally Feldman

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Anthea Tinker
Unknown:
Jenni Murray.
Unknown:
Alice Thomas Ellis.
Read By:
Irene Sutcliffe.
Abridged By:
Janet Hickson
Editor:
Sally Feldman

A love story in three plays by Victor Pemberton. 2: Don't Talk to Me
About Kids!
Like so many other
London families, Letty and Oliver live through the horrors of another world war. But their kids stay with them and despite tensions and tragedies, Letty is determined that her family should survive. Time: 1939-45
Pianist Mary Nash Director David Spenser Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Victor Pemberton.
Pianist:
Mary Nash
Director:
David Spenser
Letty Hobbs:
Nerys Hughes
Oliver Hobbs:
Nigel Anthony
Beatrice:
Sheila Grant
Sam:
Philip Sully
Violet:
Wendy Richard
Ron:
Jonathan Tafler
Florrie:
Eva Stuart
Colonel Meecham:
Laurence Payne
Bill Brooks:
Michael Tudor Barnes
Tilly Brooks:
Emily Richard
Mother Superior:
Julie Berry
Mick:
Rickey Coombes
Eddie:
Nicholas Delve
Janey:
Zelah Clarke

Paul Vaughan visits
Cardiff where the Welsh
National Opera performs Rossini's opera Count
Ory, with the company's future now assured; and in Hornchurch, playwright Willy Rushton combines with singer Suzi Quatro to evoke the life of Tallulah Bankhead.
Producer John Goudie

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Unknown:
Willy Rushton
Singer:
Suzi Quatro
Unknown:
Tallulah Bankhead.
Producer:
John Goudie

Clement Freud , Peter Jones , Derek Nimmo and Wendy Richard try to stop each other talking for just a minute on subjects flung at them by Nicholas Parsons.
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Peter Jones
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo
Unknown:
Wendy Richard
Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons.

Campanology by Derek Lister.
Rape: that is how Josef Bossowski sees the destruction of St
Stephen's Church. It's too late to save the building, but what about the bell?
Brian Milligan as himself Director Jane Morgan Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Lister.
Unknown:
Josef Bossowski
Unknown:
Brian Milligan
Director:
Jane Morgan
Josef Bossowski:
Freddie Jones
Alex:
Emma Gregory
The Recorder:
Brett Usher
DS Daly:
Michael McCstay
Mother:
Penelope Nice
Foreman:
David Sinclair
Architect:
Fraser Kerr
Peter Vivian:
Mark Straker
Radio presenter:
Nigel Carrington
Vicar:
Alan Barker
Bill Hughes:
Alan Dudley
Duty officer:
Angus Wright
Dottie:
Helena McCarthy

Another chance to hear selected editions of the comedy show written and presented by Andy Hamilton and Nick Revell. Featuring Felicity Montagu and Harry Enfield.
Producer Paul Mayhew-Archer Stereo (R)

Contributors

Presented By:
Andy Hamilton
Presented By:
Nick Revell.
Unknown:
Felicity Montagu
Producer:
Paul Mayhew-Archer

BBC Radio 4 FM

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