A regional view of farming in the week ahead
Presented from Scotland by Roy Gregor. BBC Scotland
with Edward Cole
Headlines and weather, a look at the papers, news for sports fans, Prayer for the Day (Mon THF. REV LESLIE STOKES , TueS-Thurs ROBERT RIETTY , Fri THE REV RICHARD HARRIES )
English Regions: see column 5
6.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Brian Redhead in Brighton at the Labour Party Conference and Nigel Rees in London look at Britain and the world this morning
with Edward Cole
Headlines, weather, sport and papers, a spot of music and Thought for the Day.
7.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Nigel Rees in London and Brian Redhead in Brighton Editor MIKE CHANEY
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport
6: Abelards
Preview: page 17
A live and lively talk show with guests for whom the coming week promises to be a special one.
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
medium only
Wild life on the move to evade the approaching winter chill; the competition; your letters; and should a hotchi be called a fuzzpég or a tiggyhog?
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
NEM, p 34; Jesus, where'er thy people meet (BBC HB 263); Psalm 57; Mark 9, vv 2-13 (Rsv); Come, ye faithful, raise the anthem (BBC HB 123)
Malayan Incident by CAMPBELL MUIRHFiAD
Read by Geoffrey Matthews Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
medium only
Preview by Wilfrid De'Ath
11.50 medium only Announcements
Presenter Derek Cooper
Volunteer Week - Opportunities Also the World of Work with MARGARET KORVING
Editor DENNIS LOWER
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A weekly quiz on music and general knowledge in which the panel pit their wits against service teams stationed in Northern Ireland, Germany, Malta and Gibraltar.
2: The residents, Neil Durden -Smith and Ted Moult with their guest, Sue Lawley , meet a Combined Services team from West Berlin.
TONY MILLS, ROSEMARY MORGAN DICKIE BATES and JOHN QUIN
Questionmaster Desmond Lynam
Recorded on 30 June 1977 at RAF Gatow in West Berlin
(By arrangement with the British Forces Broadcasting Service)
A Radio Sport and ob production (Repeated: Thursday 6.30 pm)
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by \Robert Williams
medium only from 2.0 Introduced by June Knox-Mawer
Entertainment Round- Up: con-DON gow reporting.
2.0-2.2 News
Living Together: JACKY GILLOTT and GERALD DURRELL , who live with and write about animals, discuss their importance in our understanding of ourselves.
Guildford, Surrey, to Guilford, - Connecticut: BASIL BANKS with a transatlantic comparison. Pastoral by NEVIL SHUTE abridged in 12 parts by ElVANGELINE BANKS
Read by EDWARD KELSEY (1)
' That night the aircraft took off for a bombing raid over Dortmund between 7.30 and
8.1"5. At 10.35 the first ' mission completed ' signal came through. One by one the WAAF Section Officer Gervase Robert son marked them up - D for Donald, L for London, R for Robert. That was Peter Marshall 's plane. The room seemed suddenly more cheerful.'
(Music: Glazunov's Eighth Symphony) Editor WYN KNOWLES
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Story: Baby Sparrow by MARY COCKETT
by Shelagh Delaney
Geoffrey: "Do you still love him?"
Jo: "I don't know. He was only a dream I had. You know, he could sing and he was so tender. Every Christmas my mother used to go off with some boyfriend or other and leave me all on my own in some sordid digs, but last Christmas I had him."
Geoffrey: "Oh well, the dream's gone, but the baby's real enough."
BBC Manchester
Preview: page 17
The Hanoverian Georges
Portraits of four British monarchs, drawn from the writings of Horace Walpole and W. M. Thackeray , abridged in five parts by TERENCE COOPER. 1: Memoirs of the Courts of George II (above) and George III by HORACE WALPOLE
Read by Robert Eddison Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
Presented by Robert Williams
Professor Arthur Hutchings considers some delights - musical and otherwise - in the Sound Archives. Producer
DENYS GUEROULT
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news; weather
Including Financial Report
Beetles and Buckman with Sheridan Morley
6: A Day and a Bit at the Races Ascot 1910 and. in the cause of female emancipation. Soppy throws himself under a woman.
RUBELLA: Tell me, Mr Soppy. are you a devotee of the horse? soppy: No - prefer the bloater paste. Written by ROB BUCKMAN and CHRIS BEETLES Producer BOB OLIVER ROGERS BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
(Next edition: Thurs 10.5 am',
by FAY WELDON with Peter Jeffrey as Dr Philip Bailey and Miriam Margolyes as Margot, his wife.
"My wife is certainly a stable person, good-tempered, even-natured, and never ill. Not given to any remarkable ups and downs. And yes, she is typical, I suppose."
Hamish MacInnes remembers some of the climbing spectaculars he has helped to arrange for the cinema and for TV and talks about
The Climbing Circus Producer JOHN GRAY BBC Scotland
Presenter Michael Oliver Editor ROSEMARY HART
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting, including reports from the Labour Party Conference in Brighton.
People in the public mind
Laughter in the Dark by VLADIMIR NABOKOV (1899-1977) abridged for radio in ten parts by MADGE HART Read by Hugh Burden (1)
' Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mis. tress.; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster. Producer MAURICE LEITCH Preview: page 17
A Jubilee trip to four different communities in Britain. How has life changed for their inhabitants over the past 25 years?
1: Cumbernauld - a Scottish New Town. Reporter Jack Regan Series producer DAVID BROOKE
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude