News. weather, papers, sport
What Britain's getting up to. Two hours of news and views from home and around the world.
Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With CANON ERIC DAVENPORT
7.6. 8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.34. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
13: Parting at Sea
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A magazine edition of this programme about wildlife and the countryside.
Producer MOIRA MANN BBC Bristol
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There s nothing so obscure as somebody else's hobby, so in this new series of six programmes Anita Morgan talks to ' the enthusiasts ' to discover why they follow their own particular enthusiasms. Producer ALAN STENNETT BBC Wales
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Presented by Edward Cole Producer WILLIAM HORSLEY
NEM, p 62; Father, we praise thee, now the night is over (BBC HB 405); Psalm 25, vv 1-10: Luke 18, vv 18-30 (NEB): Forth in thy name, O Lord, I go (BBC HB 406)
Ship in a Bottle by ANTON SOLJAN translated by the author and b. S. JOHNSON
Read by Robert Rietty
' The sky got lower and lower, then suddenly it swept down right in front of us, almost vertically into the sea, like a huge sheet of thick, greenish glass.'
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6: Books and Films
Charles Thompson concludes this special six-part series. which has been examining the importance of image in various aspects of our lives, with a look behind the scenes of publishing and lilm-making. Can you accurately judge a book by its cover? How important is the reputation and image of an author? Must actors always be larger than life to succeed, and do they live up to their public images?
Written by CHARLES THOMPSON Researcher SHARON BANOFF Producer JOHN EDWARDS
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People in the British Isles and abroad tell of the doings and concerns of their own part of the world - and those they visit. Producer PADDY O'EIEFFE
Presenters Nancy Wise and Andy Price
After two months of enforced living together. Jack and Leslie make one last desperate effort to get their hands on the money - to contact Mother through a medium. Unwilling to leave anything to chance. and anxious to get the biggest share for himself, Jack sets up a phoney seance. with ELIZABETH MORGAN and DENIS BOND S: The Seance
Guest appearances by Written by HAROLD SNOAD and MICHAEL KNOWLES Producer JOHN DYAS
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Weather and programme news
Presented by Brian Wtdlakc
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: James Ellis , alias Inspector Lynch of Z Cars. (Z Cars tonight 8.0 BBC1)
2.0-2.2 News
Reading Your Letters.
Paying for Our Sunday Lunch: the economics of sheep farming in the Australian Bush have left the Blacker family ' broke '. A report from Sydney by JOHN THORNE.
' Why Worry 1: psychologist JOHN NICHOLSON takes another reassuring look at some of our more common anxieties. Today: The Games Children Play. Dr Worllc's School (8)
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Story: Wriggly Worm and the Straggly Dog by Eugenie SUMHERPIELD
Foolish Painted Things by JOHN WACSTAFF
The Reverend Michael Tilley 's quiet and conventional world is shattered by the arrival of a totally unexpected and unconventional visitor.
Directed by MARTIN JENKINS
for the eve of St Matthew from Wakefield Cathedral
Responses (Rose); Hymn: The eternal gifts of Christ the King (EH 175); Psalm 104 (Hopkins and Parratt); Lessons: I Kings 19, vv 15-21; Matthew 6, vv 19-34
Canticles (Drayton: Wakefield Service); Anthem: Sing we merrily (Campbell)
Organist and Master of the Choristers JONATHAN BIELBY
Assistant Organist PETER GOULD
BBC Manchester
Jane and Prudence (3)
The news magazine
Presented by Brian Widlake with PM's reporting team
Vincent Kane once more invites you to look with him at the lighter side of life. Culture, politics, money, sex, work, history, justice, religion - all of them serious topics of course, but none entirely devoid of humour.
Written and produced by VINCENT KANE. BBC Wales
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Weather and programme news
Including Financial Report and half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen
A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE
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)
(My Music returns to BBC2 on Saturday)
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
Presented by Peter Oppenheimer
The background to current events at home and abroad with reports by STEVE BRADSHAW and DAVID HENSHAW. Editor COLIN ADAMS BBC Manchester
Uranium 235, A Taste of Honey, The Hostage, Oh, What a Lovely War, Mrs Wilson 's Diary ... From a group of young players performing in makeshift conditions in Manchester in the 1930s grew a company whose philosophy and productions revolutionised the post-war British theatre. Howard Goorney. a founder member of Theatre Workshop. recalls its achievements, and discusses its significance with former members of the company, including EWAN MACCOLL , AVIS BUNNAGE, JOHN BURY , GEORGE A. COOPER , BRIAN MURPHY , DAVID SCASE , JOHN WELLS and ROSALIE WILLIAMS and with contributions from SIR HAROLD HOBSON , OSCAR LEWENSTEIN and BILL BRYDEN
Producer STANLEY WILLIAMSON BBC Manchester
(Howard Goorney is a National Theatre player)
Presenter Jim Hiley
Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN
John Tusa reporting
The Turn of the Screw (3)
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
