Market prices and intelligence, the weather, and what's new for farmers.
Producers LESLIE COTTINGTON and KEN POLLOCK
A note on Religious Affairs from Rabbi Dow Marmur
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Weather and programme news
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
7.40 Today's Papers
with Norman Tozer
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Tcny Lewis presents a magazine programme that highlights the personalities in the news and the issues that matter. including the Third Test between England and New Zealand and the world championships in swimming and cycling. A Radio Sport and OB production
8.45 Today's Papers
Tom Vernon continues his portraits of tourists and the places they visit with a walk along the crowded pavements of Oxford Street.
Producer DIANA rice
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Reports from BBC Correspondents around the world. A Radio News production
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Has legal aid really made the law more accessible to ordinary people? Or is it true that only the very poor and the very rich can afford to go to law? Why are legal services so low down on governments' public expenditure shopping lists? In the third of four programmes Hugo Young raises these questions with the Lord Chancellor. Lord Elwyn-Jones. Mr Justice Templeman , David Edwards of the Law Society and Peter Kandler of the Balham Law Centre.
Producer ANNE SLOMAN
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Anthony Howard reviews the weekly magazines.
Producer FRANCES DONNELLY
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New Every Morning, page 102; God of mercy, God of grace (BBC HB 455); Psalm 27, Pt 1; Isaiah 60. vv 1-5, 17-20 (NEB): King of Glory (BBC HB 325)
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Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days.
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20: Scottish Verse
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Presented by John Gardner China's ambitious eight-year scientific programme, launched earlier this year at the National Science Conference in Peking, indicates a change in the status of Chinese science. and marks a new period of scientific exchange with the West.
A distinguished British medical delegation recently visited China to observe research into the major diseases.
Members of the delegation talk to John Gardner about how the study of unique population patterns in China may lead to a better understanding of the environmental and genetic factors in vascular diseases and cancer.
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT
(Repeated: Wednesday 9.0 pm)
Joan Bakewell returns for the final programme in the present series with advice for people taking a late holiday this year.
The last seven days put by Barry Norman to Richard Ingrams Clement Freud , mp Barry Fantoni
Deirdre McSharry
Newsreader JOHN MARSH
Compiled and produced by JOHN LLOYD and DANNY GREENSTONE
(Repeated: Tuesday 10.30 pm)
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
Tony Britton presents
Hip Hip Hooray for ... ... The Seaside
A lighthearted review in prose and song of 250 years of the British by the sea. with Norma Ronald. Harry Landis and David Strong
Songs by DOREEN HERMITAGE
SHEILA MATHEWS , PETER REEVES and THE CHARLES YOUNG SINGERS
AND MUSICIANS
Devised and compiled by GERALD FROW
Producer JOHN DYAS
(Repeated: Thursday 8.45 pm)
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Presented by Frank Delaney
Thomas Hardy Festival: a report from Dorchester on the lectures, music and plays taking place to mark the 50th anniversary of Hardy's death. Producer BRIAN COOK
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Equal Terms by JILL HYEM
Giving a helping hand - it sounds like a good idea. helping someone worse off than ourselves. But the helpers are so often insufferably smug and patronising: why are they so sure that they're all right? Directed by JANE MORGAN
(Repeated: Tuesday 11.5 am)
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This week the programme takes a special holiday trip to Southend in Essex. Marilyn Alan has been finding out what this seaside town has to offer its disabled citizens, and talks to the people whose latest project has brought welcome relief to those whose lives are devoted to the care of disabled relatives.
Producer SUE LITTLEDALE Editor MARLENE PEASE
After the programme listeners can ring [number removed]until 4.30
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Sheridan Morley introduces a selection from the past week's programmes.
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Weather and programme news
. I was what they call a Dumb act but learned eventually how to speak on a stage thru' pantomimes and musical comedy, singing, dancing, and clowning around for over 30 years. Then I suddenly entered the legit. '
In his selection of poetry and prose Max Wall , with the help Of BRUCE BEEBY and HEATHER BELL presents extracts from stage plays in which he has starred in recent years, including. of course, The Entertainer. Producer ALEC REID
Christopher Grier with records
(Rev. repeat: Thursday 9.5 am)
The Amazing Dr Clitterhouse by BARRE LYNDON
First produced at the Theatre Royal. Haymarket, on 6 August 1936.
Adapted for radio by KENRIC HICKSON and CYNTHIA PUGHE
'Has it ever occurred to you to wonder why criminal activities should actually change a man's face and physique, gradually change someone who was once quite normal into something furtive and cringing? That's what I'm after - the pathology of crime, Nurse. '
Directed by IAN COTTERELL (First broadcast in 1976)
Professor Harry Armytage , Mary Bromly and William Feaver in conversation with Brian Redhead.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
A meditation for late evening led hy Ronald Farrow.
Weather report and forecast
EDWARD COLE presents a .sequence of late-night music.
