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with Chris Lowe and Jenny Bond.
7.20 Listeners' Letters
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Rev James Jones.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament
Editor Philip Harding

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Lowe
Unknown:
Jenny Bond.
Unknown:
James Jones.
Editor:
Philip Harding

A Question of Money The team Goes to Town to answer listeners' questions in Derby. With panellists Louise Botting ,
Philip Hardman and Christopher Gilchrist. Chairman
Vincent Duggleby.
Producer Frances Macdonald

Contributors

Unknown:
Louise Botting
Unknown:
Philip Hardman
Unknown:
Christopher Gilchrist.
Unknown:
Vincent Duggleby.
Producer:
Frances MacDonald

Another series of six classic Marx
Brothers radio scripts, written by Nat Perrin and Arthur Sheekman.
Music: David Firman.
Adapted by Mark Bnsenden Producer Dirk Maggs. Stereo

Contributors

Written By:
Nat Perrin
Written By:
Arthur Sheekman.
Music:
David Firman.
Adapted By:
Mark Bnsenden
Producer:
Dirk Maggs.
Waldorf T Flywheel:
Michael Roberts
Groucho Marx:
Michael Roberts
Emmanuel Ravelli:
Frank Lazarus
Chico Marx:
Frank Lazarus
Jamison:
Graham Hoadly
Dr Perrin:
Vincent Marzello
All ladies:
Lorelei King

The panel includes: Rosie Bames , MP,
Baroness Blackstone, and John Taylor.
From Chester. Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby. and at 2.00pm
Any Answers? [number removed]with Jonathan Dimbleby. Producers Anna Carragher and Charlotte Blofeld
0 LINES OPEN from 12.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Rosie Bames
Unknown:
John Taylor.
Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby.
Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby.
Producers:
Anna Carragher

Written by Bruce Stewart.

In the early 60s Felix Culper, a Third Programme producer, attended an ecumenical conference of Christians, Jews and Moslems in Israel. He recorded some startling information about the end of the world, but the programme was never made. In the 90s, Clare Cassidy, a young features producer, discovers the tapes and is determined to make the programme.

(Stereo)

Contributors

Writer:
Bruce Stewart
Director:
Shaun MacLoughlin
Clare:
Imogen Stubbs
Culper:
Bill Wallis
Gwenda:
Julia Hills
Giles:
Bruce Stewart
Sister Hedwig:
Phyllida Nash
Rabbi Ornstein:
Clive Swift
Fr Wilfred:
Peter Copley
Prof Townley:
Bradley Lavelle
Miss Gopal:
Shireen Shah
[Actor]:
Simon Treves
[Actress]:
Danielle Allen
Singer:
Richard Connolly
Singer:
Margaret Small

A nunnery set amid woods, water meadows, gravel pits and riverbanks is the new headquarters of the British Trust for
Ornithology - and home to a rich chorus of songbirds. With Derek Jones. Producer John Harrison

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Jones.
Producer:
John Harrison

Ferdinand Dennis meets five people born in the former colonies but living in Britain.
4: Chief Emeka Anyaoku talks about his work for the Commonwealth. Now Secretary General of the Commonwealth Secretariat, he was Foreign Minister of Nigeria for just three months when a coup ousted him.
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Ferdinand Dennis
Talks:
Emeka Anyaoku

The Mill on the Floss
The last of a five-part adaptation of George Eliot 's novel.
Loving and Losing
Despite the continuing feud between their families, Philip has a plan that he believes will restore happiness to Maggie Tulliver.
Pianist: Harold Rich.
Dramatised by Michelene Wandor Director Philip Martin. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
George Eliot
Unknown:
Maggie Tulliver.
Pianist:
Harold Rich.
Dramatised By:
Michelene Wandor
Director:
Philip Martin.
Philip:
Michael Fitzgerald
Maggie:
Sylvestra Le Touzel
Tom:
Richard Pearce
Mrs Tulliver:
Tina Gray
Lucy:
Moir Leslie
Stephen:
Nicholas Gilbrook
Mr Wakem:
Roger Hume
Bob:
Paul Downing
Torry:
Paul Downing
Dr Cairn:
Simon Carter
Sailor:
Simon Carter

Deborah Kerr
Last month the actress
Deborah Kerr received the Special Award from BAFTA for her contribution to film over her long career. Plucked from the British school of leading ladies, she became Hollywood's well-behaved star until she sizzled on the screen as the adulterous wife in From
Here to Eternity. She talks to Nigel Andrews about her early work with Michael Powell , her starring role in The King and I, and her survival in the film jungle.
Producer Ariane Koek. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Deborah Kerr
Unknown:
Deborah Kerr
Unknown:
Nigel Andrews
Unknown:
Michael Powell
Producer:
Ariane Koek.

This tiny, deserted island, lying between
John O'Groats and Orkney, once boasted a thriving community. Billy Kay presents an oral history of a lost way of life.
Producer Steve Greenwood
(First Broadcast on Radio Scotland)

Contributors

Unknown:
John O'Groats
Unknown:
Billy Kay
Producer:
Steve Greenwood

From busking to opera, from speed sightreading to Vivaldi. Tom Miles and Rob Millner take you to the farthest horizons of music, in the fourth of six programmes. With special guests Jonathan Cecil , Flaminia Cinque,
Professor Jim Tavare and Anthony Crisp.
Producer Harry Thompson. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Rob Millner
Unknown:
Jonathan Cecil
Unknown:
Professor Jim Tavare
Unknown:
Anthony Crisp.
Producer:
Harry Thompson.

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