with Motra Stuart
English Regions: see column 5
6.52 VHF Regional news; weather
Brian Redhead in Manchester Nigel Rees in London
7.52 VHFRegional news; weather
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport
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Richard Baker considers the lives and characters of some great composers as revealed in their letters and music. 6: Richard Wagner
HAROLD KASKET as the composer and KAREN ARCHER as Mathilde Wesendonk
Producer GRAHAM SHEFFIELD
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Presented by Laurie Macmillan Producer OLIVIA SELIGMAN
NEM, p 21; 0 for a thousand tongues (BBC HB 278): Canticle 9; 1 Thessalonians 5, vv 1-11 (NEB); Ye servants (BBCHB287)
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Today's author is WILLIAM SAROYAN
Peter Marinker reads
The First Day of School
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Six programmes about famous books and their authors
Robinson Crusoe by DANIEL. DEFOE ' I walked about on the shore, my whole being wrapped up in the contemplation of my deliverance, reflecting upon all my comrades that were drowned, and that there should not be one saved but myself.' with Timothy West as Crusoe
Other parts: COLIN BEAN , DAPHNE OXENFORD and ANTHONY WINGATE Narrator David Mahlowe
Written by FRANCIS WATSON
Producer STANLEY WILLIAMSON - BBC Manchester Preview: page 17
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Hugh Ross describes some of the supernatural tales of these mythical monsters.
The first of six programmes
BBC Highland
(First broadcast on Radio Scotland)
Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Presented by Brian Widlakc
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
David Carrltt , art expert
2.0-2.2 News
North American Nomads: Canadian author and artist JAMES HOUSTON talks to JUNE KNOX-MAWER about life with the Eskimos and Indians.
Science in the Kitchen: SUSAN GOODMAN looks at water.
Poems: by JO MANNING-WILSON . 2 - Childhood.
One Child's War by victoria MASSEY, abridged in five parts by PAT MCLOUGHLIN Read by June Barry (1)
Vicky Massey began school two years before the war. Her home was near Liverpool so once the war had started, she and two of her brothers - ' our Eddie ' and ' little Jo ' - were inevitable candidates for evacuation.
(Music: Auber's'Marco Spada ")
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Story: Dustman Pie by MARY COCKETT
by DAVID PINNER
A young boy from the Western Highlands has won a competition instigated by a children's television programme. The title of the essay is "How I Would Run the Country". The prize, a visit to London to see the sights, and a chance to interview a politician on the TV programme.
BBC Birmingham
from Wells Cathedral
Responses (Smith); Psalm 78 (chants: Oakeley; S. S Wes ley; Crotch; Goss; Walmisley) Lessons: Jeremiah 37, vv 11-21; James 3, VV 13-18
Canticles (First Service: Tomkins); Anthem: When David heard (Tomkins)
Organist and Master of the Choristers ANTHONY CROSSLAND
Assistant organist DAVID COOPER Third organist PETER GILKS
The Buffalo Soldiers 3)
Presented by Brian Widlake
' The loot is irrelevant - what does money buy you but worthless baubles? '
Derek Cooper talks to novelist Allan Campbell McLean. Producer DENNIS LOWER
S.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news, weather
Devised hy EDWARD j. MASON and TONY SHRYANE
John Amis , and Frank Muir V'
Ian Wallace and Denis Nordea In the Chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STIEVE RACE. BBC Birmingham (Repeated: Friday 12.27pm)
Presented by Peter Oppenheimer
The background to current events at home and abroad with reports by STEVE BRAD-SHAW and DAVID HENSHAW. Editor MICHAEL GREEN BBC Manchester
Narrated by Edgar Lustgarten What sequence of events turned Donald Neilson from an ordinary law-abiding citizen into a murderer of chilling brutality? And what conclusions - in a world where the use of kidnapping for political or criminal purposes becomes increasingly commonplace - can we draw from this astonishing and terrible story?
Producer ALAN BURGLSS
Presenter Jacky Gillott Producer JOHN BOUNDY
9.58 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
An epic adventure in time and space.
Fit the second: after being saved from certain death during the demolition of the earth, Arthur Dent now faces a hopeless choice between meeting certain death in the vacuum of space or finding something pleasant to say about Vogon poetry.
Starring Peter Jones as The Book.
Esther Waters (3)
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
