with Eugene Fraser
English Regions: see column 5
6.52 VHF Regional news, weather

Brian Redhead in Manchester Nigel Rees in London

with Eugene Fraser
7.52 VHF Regional news, weather

Nigel Rees in London
Brian Redhead in Manchester
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport

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In this six-part series Bill Breckon probes the personalities of modern innovators.
This week: The Big Team fighting for coal - and its ' captain ' Joe Gibson
Series producer RITCHIE COGAN

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Presented by Moira stuart Producer WILLIAM HORSLEY

NEm, p 79; From all that dwell below the skies iBBC RB 5); Psalm 148; Romans 8, vv 14-25 (NEB); Sing praise to God who reigns above (BBC HB 18)

meidum only. Today's author is GUY DE MAUPASSANT
William Roberts reads Regret

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A series in which current and controversial issues are put on trial before Diet Taverne, QC and an audience of jurors in Broadcasting House, London. Today's proposition:
The House of Lords should be Abolished
It is proposed by Eric Heifer , MP for Walton, and opposed by the Earl ef Gowrie Opposition Spokesman on Economic Affairs in the House of Lords. Each advocate will call witnesses, cross-examine his opponent's and argue his case. The jury will vote at the beginning and end of the trial, so that any swing of opinion may be measured and a verdict reached.
Producer DAVID ANTHONY TURNER

News and information that affects the way you live. Presenters Nancy Wise. Bill Breckon

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Weather and programme newt VHF Regional news and weather

Introduced by Brian Widlake

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Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: Sir Walter Winlerbottom. retiring Director of the Sports Council.
2.1-2.2 News
No Rural Lothario: JOHN CAIR-NEY, who has spent 12 years giving solo performances as Robert Burns , talks to DOREEN TAYLOR about Scotland's poet. Reading Your Letters.
From Our Own Correspondent's Wife: ELIZABETH MCDOUGALL talks about her 24 years of world travel with her BBC correspondent husband. Emma (8)

medium only. Story: The Tom Without a Tail by r. a. MOORE

by Stephen Wakelam

'It's my Dad, Carol. I've just come from doctor's. What he always said were that ulcer troubling him again, it's not. Doctor says it's up to me whether I tell him or not. I can't, Carol ... '

(BBC Manchester)
(Stereo)

from Magdalen College, Oxford
Responses (Stewart)
Psalms 11, 42, 43 (Buck and Turle)
Lessons: Isaiah 45, w 18-25; Philippians 3, w 1-14
Canticles (Stanford in G)
Anthem: Eternal Father (Stanford)

Bulldog Drummond (8)

Presented by Brian Widlake

by the Labour Party

Conversations with Cooper
* You never win forever - all you can do is a holding action.' Derek Cooper meets Walt Patterson of Friends of the Earth. Hero - or villain - according to your viewpoint, of many a battle over conservation and the environment. Producer DENNIS LOWER
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Weather and programme newt VHF Regional news, weather

(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)

Presenter 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

The Five Red Herrings by DOROTHY L. SAYERS adapted in eight episodes by CHRIS MILLER starring
4: Bunter Investigates
Producer SIMON brett

Change in British Society
3: The Reconstitution of Status Dr A. H. Halsey , Professor of Social and Administrative Studies, University of Oxford, argues that the Marxist emphasis on class interest trivialises status At the same time the liberal emphasis on status constitutes the trivialisation of class. The ultimate implication is that both theories lead to false doctrines of historical progress and neither deals adequately with the problem of social order.
(Repeated: next Sunday R3)

Presenter Edwin Mullins Producer ALAN nixon
9.59 Weather

Douglas Stuart reporting

England v Germany Round 2 (End of Round 1 Scores:
England IOJ - Germany llj)
England: Anthony Quinton (Chairman); with IreneThomas and John Julius Norwich
Germany: Gordon Clongh (Chairman), with Paul Noaek , Professor of Political Science, and Dieter Schroeder , Foreign editor of Suddeutsche Zeitung Question researcher DAVID MACKAY
Producer trevoh mLL BBC Manchester

Troubles by J G. fakrell (3)

Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude