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with Sue MacGregor and John Humphrys. Including the launch of the YMCA/Today Youth Awards.
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Dr Pauline Webb.
0 WRITE about your nominee to: YMCA/Today Youth Awards, BBC, Broadcasting House. London W I A I AA or phone 08 1-[number removed]for a nomination form

Contributors

Unknown:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
John Humphrys.
Unknown:
Dr Pauline Webb.

A series of three NEW programmes in which people in different professions explore the way their jobs have been seen and done in the past - with the help of the BBC Sound Archives.
1:Politicians
Tony Banks, the Labour MP for Newham North
West, elects to find some order in the life of an MP.
Producer Mark Savage. Stereo

Contributors

Producer:
Mark Savage.

Simon Rae introduces your poetry requests.
Readers Tim Pigott-Smith and Elizabeth Bell and guest Gavin Ewart.
Producer Susan Roberts. Stereo ● REQUESTS to: Poetry Please!. BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Introduces:
Simon Rae
Readers:
Tim Pigott-Smith
Unknown:
Gavin Ewart.
Producer:
Susan Roberts.

A nationwide general knowledge contest. Chairman
Robert Robinson.
First Round - the North. Philip Ellis (local government officer);
Dr Patricia Cullum (lecturer); Malcolm Collier (teacher); John Slater (legal support clerk). The programme includes Beat the Brains. Producer Richard Edis. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson.
Unknown:
Philip Ellis
Unknown:
Dr Patricia Cullum
Unknown:
Malcolm Collier
Unknown:
John Slater
Producer:
Richard Edis.

with Jenni Murray.
How does a widow cope with being in the spotlight and carrying the mantle after a famous partner dies? Kathleen Griffin talks to bereaved women. Story: The Executor by Margaret Oliphant.
When old Mrs Thomson dies, the attorney John Brown is charged with finding her long-lost - and unheard-of - daughter, much to the dismay of her impoverished relations. At stake is £20,000.
The first of three parts read by Geoffrey Beevers. Music: Waldteufel's Pluie d'etoiles Abridged by Janet Hickson Editor Sally Feldman

Contributors

Unknown:
Jenni Murray.
Talks:
Kathleen Griffin
Unknown:
Margaret Oliphant.
Unknown:
Mrs Thomson
Unknown:
John Brown
Read By:
Geoffrey Beevers.
Abridged By:
Janet Hickson
Editor:
Sally Feldman

One of the most famous true-life romances is portrayed in Rudolf Besier 's celebrated stage play. The secret courtship of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning took place at No 50 Wimpole Street, her father's forbidding household.
Director Archie Campbell

Contributors

Unknown:
Rudolf Besier
Unknown:
Elizabeth Barrett
Unknown:
Robert Browning
Director:
Archie Campbell
Elizabeth Barrett:
Dorothy Tutin
Robert Browning:
Jeremy Brett
Edward Moulton Barrett:
Paul Rogers
His other daughters: Arabel:
Kate Binchy
Henrietta:
Jane Knowles
Octavius, his son:
Christopher Good
Henry Bevan:
Kenneth Fortescue
Bella Hedley:
Helen Worth
Capt Surtees Cook:
Michael Kilgarriff
Dr Chambers:
Rolf Lefebvre
Dr Ford-Waterlow:
John Ruddock
Wilson:
Sheila Grant
Mr Barrett's other sons::
John Rowe
Mr Barrett's other sons::
William Eedle
Mr Barrett's other sons::
John Samson
Mr Barrett's other sons::
Robin Browne
Mr Barrett's other sons::
David Valla

Alan Berrie's powerful play in which old Rosie Mahon opposes a monument commemorating her bravery in an ambush before the Irish uprising of 1916. Stereo

Contributors

Writer:
Alan Berrie
Director:
Sue Wilson
Young Rosie:
Sylvestra le Touzel
Old Rosie:
Elizabeth Kelly
Fitzpatrick:
Mark Lambert
Paddy:
David Bannerman
Dan Mahon:
James Ellis
Canon Hayes:
Denys Hawthorne
Scully:
Sean Barrett
Nita:
Joanna Myers
O'Brien/Jimmy:
Nigel Anthony
O'Gorman:
James Greene
Eamonn Savage:
Malcolm McKee
Power:
Brian Miller
O'Keefe/Old Willy/Mick Ryan:
Christopher Scott
Father Burke/Barman/George Gibson:
Michael Vaughan
Kitty Tyrell:
Teresa Gallagher
Sgt Delany/Liam/Billy Boy:
Nigel Carrington

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