with Laurie Macmillan
6.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
English Regions: see column 5
with Nigel Rees in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
with Laurie Macmillan
7.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Brian Redhead in Manchester and Nigel Rees in London
8.35 News headlines, weather. papers and sport
by HERMAN MELVILLE
Read by DAVID MARCH (D
Ring Birmingham [number removed]and discuss your point of view on the air with George Scott Producer JENNY de YONG BBC Birmingham
The lines are open from 8.0 am
A weekly investigation of how bureaucracy, big business or bad traders affect you.
Conducted by Roger Cook
NEM, p 5; Father, we praise thee (BBC HB 405); Psalm 47; Revelation 21, vv 1-7 (rsv); King of glory (BBC HB 325)
Gwenda by PETER FRANCIS BROWNI Read by J. 0. Roberts Producer HARRI gwynn BBC Wales
Introduced by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas eric simms's bird-watching takes him to northern Scotland where he sees the eider and the tern on the River Ythan estuary.
DEREK THOMPSON visits a leisure centre on the North York moors and MOLLIE HARRIES recalls summer festivals in the Cotswolds.
Cumbrian gamekeeper hughie MCGINN talks about the life he loves so much that he hasn't taken a holiday for 40 years, and keith ALLEN sees the salmon and sea trout come home to the Border Esk in Dumfriesshire.
In Bedfordshire, BOB DANVERS WALKER learns something about that trenchant guardian of the farmyard, the old grey goose, and MARTIN MUNCASTER meets a man whose mission in life is to preserve a disappearing species of pheasant. Producer don mosey
(Rptd: next Sunday 10.15 pm)
The fifth of six programmes. Rene Cutforth looks back on an acquaintance called ' The Fiddler '. ' I met Ron, also known as " The Fiddler ", in a pub in Penge, SE20. It was soon after I'd returned from two years in a German prisoner-of-war camp - in a very strange state of mind.'
Mind and Body Edition Presenter Bill Breckon with your letters
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
Introduced from Manchester by June Knox-Mawer
Art for All: CELIA THOMSON visits an unusual Manchester school.
2.0-2.2 News
The World of the Tatter: impressions collected by WILL SUMMERS.
Small is Beautiful: awn* HOLIAN makes pottery in miniature. BBC Manchester
A Detail on the Burma Front by WINIFRED BEAUMONT (3) Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Mr Arthur Stocking in Space by MARY CALVERT
Presenters GLADYS WHITRED and TONY AITKEN
Written by GLADYS whitred Producer MARY haydon
Foreigners by DELORES BARON with Victor Lucas and Petra Davies
John and Pat Cooper have a weekend cottage in the country. Its peace and quiet contrast sharply with the bustle of London, until they come to realise that they are not as welcome in the village community as they think they are.
Produced and directed by GRAHAM GAULD
Castle Dor
5: Dr Carfax Disturbed
Presented by Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
JUNE KNOX-MAWER presents her selection of extracts from BBC radioandtelevisionprogrammes. Producer HELEN FRY
A spontaneous discussion by Lord Boyle Lord Willis. Michael Parkinson Fay Weldon
Chairman David Jacobs from Yorkshire
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
(Rptd: Sat 1.15pm; Mon 11.5 am)
'If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man ... it stays with you; for Paris is a moveable feast.'
(ERNEST HEMINGWAY)
Richard Mayne considers the cultural menu in the French capital today, which includes traditional attractions like the Folies Bergere and recent innovations like the acoustic research centre at the new Pompidou Arts Centre, Producer DAVID PERRY
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
A Bullet in the Ballet (5)
David Jason , Bill Wallis David Tate and Bill McGuffie at the piano take a late-night look back over the week's news and illustrate the funny side.
Script by COLIN bostock-smith and ALASTAIR BEATON , With ANDY HAMILTON , BARRY PILTON and others.
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
(Repeated: Saturday 5.30 pm)
(David Jason is in A Bedfull of Foreigners ' at the Duke of York's Theatre, London)
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