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with Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday. Including:
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rev Dr Colin Morris.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Peter Hobday.
Unknown:
Dr Colin Morris.

Every two-and-a-half minutes one person attempts suicide. Every two hours one is successful. At the start of Samaritans Week, Jenni Murray talks to their Chairman, Sheila Coggrave.
(Revised repeat at 7.20pm LW) Serial:
Coroner's Pidgin by Margery Allingham. The 10th of 13 episodes read by Jeremy Nicholas. Abridged by Pat McLoughlin Editors Sally Feldman and Clare Selerie

Contributors

Talks:
Jenni Murray
Unknown:
Sheila Coggrave.
Unknown:
Margery Allingham.
Read By:
Jeremy Nicholas.
Abridged By:
Pat McLoughlin
Editors:
Sally Feldman
Editors:
Clare Selerie

A Question of Money The Money Box team answers questions put by listeners in Bury St
Edmunds. The panel:
Vincent Duggleby , Chris Gilchrist , Philip Hardman and Alison Mitchell.
Producer Frances Macdonald

Contributors

Unknown:
Vincent Duggleby
Unknown:
Chris Gilchrist
Unknown:
Philip Hardman
Unknown:
Alison Mitchell.
Producer:
Frances MacDonald

Listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain. Chairman Robert Robinson.
First Round: London and Home Counties: Howard Pizzey (accountant); Ian Sewell (retired printer); Rev Richard Sturch
(country parson); Kevin Ashman (civil servant). Producer Richard Edis. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson.
Unknown:
Howard Pizzey
Unknown:
Ian Sewell
Unknown:
Richard Sturch
Unknown:
Kevin Ashman
Producer:
Richard Edis.

Adapted from the Brensham Trilogy novels by John Moore.

A celebration of life in an English market town between the two world wars, performed by the Worcester Theatre Company and adapted for radio from an original production staged at the Swan Theatre, Worcester.

Contributors

Author:
John Moore
Dramatised by:
David Goodland
Music arranged and directed by:
Simon Walter
Director:
Pat Trueman
William Hart:
David Beames
The Colonel:
Willoughby Gray
Bardolph/General Bouverie:
Lennox Greaves
Pistol/Mr Rendcombe:
Simon Walter
Nym/Mr Bowles:
Robert Locke
Miss Benedict:
Maureen Flynn
Mr Chorlton:
Rob Swinton
John Moore:
Kim Durham
Pheemy:
Julia Winwood
Narrator/Mr Jeffs:
David Goodland

A Cruel Madness dramatised by Colin Thubron from his own novel.
A nightmare quest begins when Daniel Pashley sees a white-dressed woman in the grounds of the mental hospital where he teaches.
Psychiatrist.....PETER PENRY JONES Director John Theocharis. Stereo

Contributors

Dramatised By:
Colin Thubron
Unknown:
Daniel Pashley
Unknown:
Peter Penry
Director:
John Theocharis.
Pashley:
Robert Glenister
Sophia:
Harriet Walter
McQuitty:
Jonathan Adams
Nisbet:
Keith Drinkel
Orgill:
David Bannerman

In the first of two I programmes Jenni Mills talks to people who were famous for a short period t of time. On 7th August 1974, Patrick McCarthy was in the audience for the highlight of a Prom Concert. The soloist collapsed, and Patrick McCarthy took his place. Producer Sarah Rowlands.

Contributors

Unknown:
Patrick McCarthy
Unknown:
Patrick McCarthy
Producer:
Sarah Rowlands.

Regeneration by Pat Barker.
1917 - Siegfried Sassoon published his declaration of protest against the war. A portrayal of a generation trying to come to terms with , the intolerable.
The first of 10 episodes read by Alice Arnold. Abridged by Tessa Kendall Producer Claire Grove

Contributors

Unknown:
Pat Barker.
Unknown:
Siegfried Sassoon
Read By:
Alice Arnold.
Abridged By:
Tessa Kendall
Producer:
Claire Grove

The final episode of an epic adventure written by Douglas Adams.
Producer Geoffrey Perkins. Stereo

Contributors

Written By:
Douglas Adams.
Producer:
Geoffrey Perkins.
The Book:
Peter Jones
Arthur Dent:
Simon Jones
Ford Prefect:
Geoffrey McGivern
Zaphod Beeblebrox:
Mark Wing-Davey
The Allitnils:
David Tate
Marvin/The man in the shack:
Stephen Moore
The LintillaslThe Stewardess:
Rula Lenska
Poodoo:
Ken Campbell
Zarniwoop I The Autopilot:
Jonathan Pryce

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