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What Britain is getting up to. News and views from home and around the world.
Presented by Brian Redhead with MIKE VESTEY Including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES 7.t. 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
by ROGER MASON (5)
Popular classics on records presented by Richard Baker
(Revised repeat of Saturday's broadcast at 7.30)
BBC Correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people.
Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
NEM, p 58; All poor men and humble 'Oxford Book of Carols 34); Canticle 2; Colossians 2, vv 6-15 (RSV); Rejoice and he merry (Carols for Choirs 32)
New Every Morning, hard-back £1.25; paperback £1.00, from bookshops
The Family Head by PAT BURCHARD
Read by June Barrie
'We got the brew adjusted to Fred's satisfaction and he was training steadily - six pints a day regular and hoping for seven by the end of the week.'
Producer PAMELA howe BBC Bristol
Brian Johnston recently visited the Third Armoured Division of the British Army at Soest, in West Germany
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
11.48 Announcements
Story: Hamish and the Wind by MOIRA HERITAGE
Presenters PATRICIA LEVEN-TON and MICHAEL DEACON
Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
News and information that affects the way you live.
Presenters Sue Cook and Andy Price
( Broadcast on Wed at 6.30)
12.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only
Presented by BrianWidlake Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Shipping forecast long ware only
Introduced from Bristol by Jenni Murray
' Shush, Mum's Writing a remarkable group of ordinary housewives talk to GWYN RICHARDS about their recently-published collection of stories and poems.
Communal Policing: an increasing number of men and women in the British Police Force are appointed as ' Community ' officers. We go out on the beat in Bristol, and discuss ' the Exeter experiment with the Devon and Cornwall Constabulary.
DIANE SHELLEY goes ' a-wassailing
On the Road: RENE WYND-HAM talks to some of the women who travel many miles in the course of a day's work, and who accustom themselves to staying away from home. BBC Bristol
Moon's Otlery (8)
A part science-fiction. part love story by Bruce Stewart
This is the first play to be especially written for Hi-Fi Theatre starring and
Tor Sands is a classified research centre in the West of England which is approaching a breakthrough in its work on A-Space, the space inside the atom. Then begins a series of manifestations - followed by the arrival of the Constant, and some basic beliefs are brought into question. Is evolution only a forward process - or is it possible to evolve in reverse? How strong is the force of love and what place is it allowed to occupy in the world of the future?
Other parts played by ADRIAN EGAN and JENNIFER PIERCEY
Technical realisation by LLOYD SILVERTHORNE
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN
1066 And All That (4)
(Starting on Monday: 'A Crime of Passion ' by Stanley Loomis)
The news magazine Presented by Gordon Clough and Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
Including
Financial Report and half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world.
with Barry Norman bringing you the stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport. Producer ROGER PARRY
Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)
June Knox-Mawer presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days
Producer DENYS GUEROULT (Repeated: Sat at 10.30am)
A personal portrait
A spontaneous discussion by Robert Kee. Lord Chalfont,
Helene Hayman. mp and Steve Race
Chairman David Jacobs from Uffington, Oxfordshire
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)
Presenter Sheridan Morley Producer JOHN BOUNDY
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting Including at
10.25* Market Trends
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 GUY JENKIN . JOHN LANGDON , RICHARD QUICK. ROGER WODDIS , JEREMY BROWNE and BARRY BOWES
Producer GRIFF RHYS JONES (Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm)
Woddis and Marc: page 19
Fritz Spiegl keeps a keen eye and ear on what's written and said. BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Sat 11.55 am)
The Slave (5) long wave only
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends long wave only
continues his search in the BBC Sound Archives. but. once again, comes to no serious conclusion.
by Christopher Russell
A series of plays for late-night listening
'What the matter with them? Don't they understand? All they do is sit out there and watch us' being crushed and drowned. Why don't they help us. Tom?
With James Bolam as Tom and Ian Holm as Titch
(James Bolam is in 'Who Killed "Agatha Christie"', at the Ambassadors Theatre, London)
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
