6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presented by Brian Redhead
With Libby Purves
Including at:
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With The Rev Billy Mages
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by Peter Donaldson
7.30, 8.30 News Headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Good Morning Happy Campers and Caravanners!
This year that will apply to about five million of us who will choose to take a Summer holiday either in a caravan or under canvas.
The two experts in the studio this morning, Christine Fagg and Barry Williams, both know how to beat the summer crowds and can advise on all aspects of your holiday: from camping on the Continent to campfire cooking, from keeping warm to caravans and the law, from buying a luxury caravan to a simple one-man tent. In the Chair Sue MacGregor
Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Lines are open from 8.0 am long wave only
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Material from local and regional broadcasting, selected and presented by Bob Langley
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham long wave only
NEM. page 42: How sweet the name (BBC HB 142); Psalm 98; Acts 17, vv 16-27 (RSV); Glorious things of thee (BBC HB 176)
Who Killed Mother? by VIRGINIA NEWLIN Read by Sally Mates long wave only
Past Appearances by JENNIFER PHILLIPS withand
More adventures of two fading opera stars, in which Alex and Sonya rediscover old friends from their profession now busy with a chicken farm.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLET long wave only
An occasional series of talks written and narrated by John Laffin
New Guinea Adventure
A story surrounding the arrest of a miscreant native whose tribe were unwilling to give him up. long wave only
Story: The Uncle Who Shrunk by c E. ELLIS long wave only
News and information that affects the way you live. Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
Presented by Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Erica Wilson Inc - or How to Export Needle-work Craft to America-a report from New York by PAT ROWE.
Reading Your Letters.
A Plain Woman's Guide to . , . the Common Agricultural Policy, explained by journalist CHRISTOPHER PARKES -
Good as New?: JENNIFER MAY talks to ROBERT AKERS about restoring paper and parchment.
Chalk and Talk: DAVID HAWKSWORTH looks at some current educational issues. Tortoise By Candlelight by NINA BAWDON , abridged in 12 parts by EVANGELINE BANKS
Read by Angela Down (1) Emmie is 14, desperately loyal to her family and fiercely determined they should be perfect. This is difficult when her father is a failure and a drinker, her grandmother is old and frail her elder sister is obsessed with boy-friends and her young brother steals. Then Nick and Marjorie Sargent and the problems of their shaky marriage - move in next door ...
(Music: Milhaud's Frintemps) long wave only
Live from the House of Commons
6: Hamer's Women
Directed by TREVOR HILL BBC Manchester
4.34 Announcements
The Space Machine (7)
Presented by Robert Williams and Joan Bakewell
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
A panel game whose unluly members are occasionally kept in disorder by the Chairman, Nicholas Parsons and in which Kenneth Williams. Peter Jones. Clement Freud and Derek Nimmo endeavour to prevent each other from talking for just* minute on this - or that.
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer DAVID HATCH
(Rptd: Thurs at 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
Presented by Peter Oppenheimer with reports by STEVE BRADSHAW and DAVID HEN-SHAW. Editor COLIN ADAMS BBC Manchester
.. the treetops, that is, where the vocalists are birds, not human beings. Why do birds sing? Do they need to learn their songs? And how does the song of a wren, for example, sound to the wren next door?
Jeffery Boswall tries to answer these questions and illustrates his replies with his personal ' top 20 ' - the 20 most musical of our British bird songsters. Producer dilysbreese.BBCBristol Bird Sounds and Their Meaning: Book £4.95, Record £ 3.24, from bookshops
In November 1978. Arno Penzias and Robert Wil son shared the Nobel Prize for Physics. These two scientists, unlike most Nobel Prize winners, do not work in a university but In a commercial research organisation - the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey. Peter Evans visited the laboratories to find out how Bell can reconcile the flights of fancy of aspiring Nobel Prize winners with the reality of developments for telecommunications.
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
(Revised repeat. First broadcast on Radio 3)
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer CARROLL MOORE
Anthony Howard reporting
The Bottle Factory Outing 421 long wave only
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
