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Introduced by John Timpson in London, and Brian Redhead in Belfast
Including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day with THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Popular classics on records presented by Richard Baker
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Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
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NEM page 42; 0 for a heart to praise mv God (BBC HB 334); Psalm 84; Isaiah 49. vv 1-13 (AV); City of God. how broad and far (BBC HB 173)
The Rabbit Breeders by JENNIFER GUBB
Read by Patrick Brannigan ' That autumn, the children longed for a rabbit each ... every time they saw their father, they raised the question of rabbits and they continued to view the world through a rabbit breeder's eye.'
Producer JUDITH ELLIOTT BBC Northern Ireland long wave only
Brian Johnston recently visited Duisberg in West Germany and Portsmouth its twin city in England. Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
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11.40 Announcements long wave only
Story: The Dragon of Kaa-Ling by DAPHNE SOUNES Presenters LUCY SKEAPING and TONY AITKEN
Written by TONY AITKEN
Producer JENYTH WORSLEY long wave only
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
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Presented by Brian Wldlake
Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
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Introduced from Manchester by June Knox-Mawer
Into the Open: FAY WATSON reports on a North-east scheme to persuade women with drinking problems to seek help.
The Man who Invented Slimming: FRITZ SPIEGL celebrates the work of William Banting.
Magical Mysteries: CELIA THOMSON explores the unusual work of the Northern Black Light Theatre. BBC Manchester
The Tiger In the Smoke (10) long wave only
Albert's Bridge by TOM STOPPARD with John Hurt
Clufton Bay is spanned by a huge cantilevered railway bridge which needs painting endlessly.
Directed by CHARLES LEFEAUX
(First broadcast in 1967)
A portrait of Margaret Kelly , the girl from Liverpool who founded the world-famous troupe of dancers - The Bluebell Girls.
Compiled and presented by Roger Snowdon who interviewed Miss Bluebell in Paris, and also MICHAEL INGLETON, GEORGE KELLY , ENID MILLS and RUTH ASHLEY.
Producer
CHRISTOPHER VENNING
The Master of Ballantrae by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON adapted for radio in ten parts by DONALD BANCROFT Read by lain Cuthbertson (10)
Producer TOM KINNINMONT BBC Scotland
The news magazine Presented by Gordon Clough and Rachael HeyhoeFIint Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
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5.55 Weather; programme news
Including Financial Report
to look at the Australian way of transport. Barry Norman reports direct from Sydney.
Producer ROGER PARRY
Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days.
Producer ALASTAIR WILSON (Repeated: Sat 10.30 am)
A personal portrait
Dr Tessa Blackstone Graham Dowson Lord Parry
Wynford Vaughan-Thomas Chairman David Jacobs from Merthyr Tydfil, Wales Producer CAROLE STONE
(Repeated: Sat 1.15 pm)
Kaleidoscope with Michael Billington takes a critical look at the plays of William Shakespeare in performance - for instance. this weekend BBC Television begins an ambitious season which will present productions of every play in the Shakespeare canon. In the theatre, the Young Vic stages a trilogy in modern dress with the title Action Man. and in a study, American scholar MARVIN ROSENBERG offers a new and lively critical approach to the major tragedies.
Producer JOHN POWELL
Douglas Stuart reporting
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with David Jason. Bill Wallis
David Tate. Sheila Steafel and the DAVID FIRMAN TRIO Written by JOHN LANGDON , GUY JENKIN, BARRY BOWES , RICHARD QUICK, JEREMY BROWNE , ROGER WOODIS
Producer GRIFF RHYS JONES (Repeated:Sat5.25pm)
Woadis on page 11
with Fritz Spiegl BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Sat 11.55 am)
On the Eve (5) long wave only
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by Michael Hardwick
A series of plays for late-night listening.
A music teacher, asked to give private lessons in a Stately Home. finds his pupil very unusual.
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
