with Eugene Fraser
English Regions: see column I
6.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Brian Redhead in Manchester Derek Cooper in London
with Eugene Fraser
7.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Derek Cooper in London
Brian Redhead in Manchester
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport
Read by ROSEMARY LEACH (8)
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The Love Affair of the Century 3: 1930-1939 Monte Carlo or Bust
W. 0. BENTLEY, S. C. H. DAVIS , GEORGES ROESCH , WHITNEY STRAIGHT and JOHN THORNLEY recall life in the golden age of motor sport. Written and narrated by Brian Robins Producer JOHN HASLAM
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Presented by Susan Denny Producer OLIVIA seligman
NEM, p 97; For all thy saints, 0 Lord (BBC hb 228); Psalm 33, vv 1-12; Matthew 9, vv 1-13 (AV); 0 ttiou (BBC hb 225)
Today's author is \B. R. w. KEATING
Sheila Mitchell reads
What the Professor Didn't Know
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This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
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In the first of four programmesBridgetBolandshares some of the gardening wisdom she and her sister learnt from countrymen and women. Producer HELEN FRY
Presenter Nancy Wise
Beetles and Buckman with Sheridan Morley
4: Under One and a Bit Flags in which Colin Soppy soils the family name and seeks to regain his honour in the French Foreign Legion.
Doc: The desert rejects us, the Arabs loathe us, our own countrymen spit on us, and even a camel gave me a funny look yesterday. Written by Rob Buckman and Chris Beetles Producer Bob Oliver Rogers
BBC Manchester
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Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Brian Widlake
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: Eric Simms, naturalist and writer.
2.0-2.2 News
Atlanta-Newcastle Swop: Mike Sheils reports the views from both ends of President Carter's Friendship Force.
If I had a Sabbatical - 2: Rose Gamble would go on a sail training ship.
Rings on her Fingers - and lots else besides - 1: Elspeth Stephenson visits a shop selling Asian jewellery.
The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight (8)
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Rabbits by CA:ROLlNE AKRILL
Do Not Disturb
A comedy by EDWIN PEARCE with Paul Maxwell as Homer Peter Marinker as Sylvester
Good friend for Jesu's sake forbear
To dig the dust enclosed here
Blessed be the man that spares these stones
And cursed be he that moves my bones reads the curse on Shakespeare's tomb, but for Professor Homer, a devoted and eccentric Shakespearian scholar, the words seem to have lost their strength.
Directed by ROGER PINK BBC Birmingham
Jack Brymer dips into his fund of stories about music and musicians and illustrates them with gramophone records.
The House of the Seven Flies 3: The Opposition
Presented by Brian Widlak *
Sir John Colville considers some of the personal pleasures discovered amidst the bustle of a private life.
5.55 (medium only) Weather and programme news (VHF) Regional news; weather
Including Financial Report
starring Ian Lavender as Lenny Penfold and Elizabeth Counsell as Sally Penfold with Margery Withers as Mrs Grodzinski and Norman Bird as Rigour Morton 9: It's Not My Day, Is Itf Written by PETER SPENCE Producer SIMON BRETT
(Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
Today an estimated 16 million are classified as refugees in 80 countries.
Unwanted - or regarded as a burden by the country whose frontier he crossed - the stateless refugee spends weeks, months, even years, in the camps and centres run by the United Nations and voluntary organisations.
John Tusa discusses the problem with refugees, voluntary workers and officials around the world.
Producer HARRY SCHNEIDER
A series of four programmes in which Magnus Magnusson investigates some of the strands and threads in the history of Ireland, with the evidence of the people who lived it and created it.
3: A Nation's Wealth is in Its Land - 1845-1893
' The land of Ireland belongs to the people of Ireland, to be held and cultivated for the sustenance of those whom God declared to be the inhabitants thereof.' (MICHAEL DAVITT ) With JIM NORTON , KEVIN FLOOD
J. G. DEVLIN , ALARIC COTTER MICHAEL TUDOR BARNES and ANTHONY NEWLANDS
Producer HELEN FRY
(Repeated: Friday 11.5 am)
In a unique set of recordings, drawn from the BBC Sound Archives, several great figures from the past are recalled by people who were fortunate enough to meet them.
3: Gordon Craig remembers August Strindberg
Presented by Tony Palmer
John Tusa reporting
Yehudi Menuhin
A musical portrait of the distinguished violinist who this year celebrates 50 years as a recording artist, presented by Edward Greenfield. Records
Tender is the Night (13)
3: John Simpson in South Africa
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
