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What Britain is getting up to. Two hours of news and views from home and around the world Introduced by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by JOHN MARSH
7.30, 8.30 News headline*
Talking Point
Discussing listeners' queries and comments about wildlife and the countryside. Introduced by Derek Jones. Producer JOHN HARRISON. BBC Bristol
Britain and America, two countries separated by the same language.
Continuing their weekly series, Pat Rowe in New York. and Bill Breckon in London investigate contrasting attitudes to ' The Protesters ' - people who say no and how they say it. Producers PAT TAYLOR and RITCHIE COGAN
Presented by Edward Cole Producer BRYAN HARRIS
NEM, p 34; 0 love, how deep, how broad, how high! (BBC HB 73i; Canticle 8; Luke 3, vv 12-22 (NEB); Christ, above all glory seated (BBC HB 121)
Chains bv ALIX MCCALLUM Read by Garard Green
Sue MacGregor meets Alistair Cooke , foreign correspondent, broadcaster and authority on the USA to talk about his life. Producer STANLEY WILLIAMSON BBC Manchester
6: The Insect World
Eric Simms ends this series by looking at some of the unusual sounds which insects make. Producer MICHAEL TOTTON
Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
Presented by Brian Wldlake
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: Ian Thomas , dress designer to hm The Queen.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading Your Letters.
A Bit of a Flutter: ANDY PRICE looks at some local lotteries. Fair, Fat and 40: Some thoughts from JENNIFER CURRY. .. Relax with Laura Mitchell : especially when you are driving.
Now Barabbas Was a Rotter (6)
Story: The Jumble Sale by LEILA BERG
A Blaggin' Job by JOAN LOCK with Edward Kelsey and Bruce Breby
Two prisoners wait for their cases to come up in court-Wallace, the old lag. is accused of a blaggin' job ' - robbery with violence - although he says he is innocent. But what has Rowan done? Wallace is curious because Rowan has been badly beaten up by someone Who? And why?
Other parts played by CLIFFORD NORGATE and ANNE ROSENFELB Directed by BETTY DAVIES (First broadcast in 1976)
from Chichester Cathedral
Responses (Avleward); Psalms 27-29 (chants: Hopkins. Bamby, Bairstow, Wadely, Russell, Attwood): Lessons: 1 Kings 17, Luke 6, vv 20-38; Canticles; (Blair in B minor); Anthem: Where thou reignest (Schubert) Organist and Master of the Choristers: JOHN BIRCH
Assistant organist IAN FOK BBC Bristol
The Terrific Kemble (3)
Presented by Brian Widlak *
Vincent Kane includes some incredible new research on smoking and health; the fascination of the World Cup in heroic couplets - the only way to treat it; and continuing his series of political profiles, there's a portrait of a left winger. BBC Wales
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme newt
A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON. TONY SHRYANZ John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the Chair: Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE. BBC Birmingham (Repeated: Friday 12 27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
Presented by Peter Oppen heimer. The background to current events at home and abroad with reports by STEVE BRADSHAW and DAVID HENSHAW. Editor MICHAEL GREEN BBC Manchester
A portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife Fanny Written and presented by JUNE KNOX -MAWER
III health drove Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife to the Pacific, in search of a kindly climate. They settled in Samoa - where they were christened by the natives ' Tusitala - teller of tales ' and ' Swift Cloud '. This programme recalls their life through their letters. Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING
(B'cast on Sat at 11.30 am)
Art Among the Gondolas Edwin Mullins reports on the International Venice Biennale Exhibitions (the theme this year is art and nature); on restoration work in the sinking city; and on the 300th anniversary of Venetian composer Vivaldi. Producer ANNE WINDER
Douglas Stuart reporting
For the 1978 series, the Resident London Team accepts Round 1 and Round 2 challenges from teams in Wales, Scotland, the North of England, the Midlands, Ulster, from the West of England and from the Republic of Ireland
London: Anthony Quinton (Chairman) with Irene Thomas and Professor John B. Mays
Wales: Gordon Clough (Chairman) with Dr Mostyn Lewis and Fred Nicholls
BBC Manchester
The Secret Agent (3)
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
