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What Britain is getting up to. Two hours of news and views from home ana around the world. Presented by John Timpson with LIBBY PURVES
6.45* Prauer for the Day With THE REV BILLY MAGEE
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
plus Angela Rippon with a birthday interview of the week, and other familiar names playing unfamiliar roles in this live miscellany of reassuring entertainment, disturbing oddities and serious arguments.
From Glasgow. Fran Morrison. from Cardiff. Gerry Monté, and from Dublin, Frank Delaney tell true stories of popular interest.
Live musical interludes and punctuations by THE BOWLES BROTHERS
Producer MICHAEL EMBER long wave only
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A weekly investigation into accusations of unfairness, fraud and injustice.
Presented by Roger Cook Editor DENNIS LOWER long wave only
NEM. p 54: Breathe on me (BBC HB148); Psalm 143; Acts 18, vv S-17 (RSV); Love of the Father (BBC HB522)
The Second Time Around by JUDY ARLISS
Read by Alan Devereux
' He sighed, " wouldn't mind meeting her again." He drove slowly to Birmingham wondering how he could contact Gayle. It was fate giving him another chance. She had been the right girl all along.'
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham long wave only
The Saudi Dimension
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Story: Rags and Bones by MRS E. M. WATERHOUSE long wave only
News and information that affects the way you live. Including today:
The BBC Shopping Basket Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
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Presented by Robin Day
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Talking Point: opinions and ideas.
Reading Your Letters.
Maybe I Can Help....: WENDY GREENGROSS with some of your problems.
Composers and Cash; TONY BARNFIELD finds out if they can make a living from writing serious music.
Tortoise By Candlelight (3) long wave only
Live from the House of Commons
Honour's for the Birds by PETER BRENT
' When a foreign national is found wandering in a prohibited area with notebooks. binoculars, a telephoto lens on his camera ...' Accused of being a spy in a foreign country, a young birdwatcher, Phil Brodie. protests his innocence. But, as a diplomatic pawn, is his innocence enough?
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
(First broadcast in 1977)
The Space Machine (9)
Presented by Robert Williams and Gavin Scott
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5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report and half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world.
The quotations game in which Martin Jarvis John Mortimer Molly Parkin and William Rushton are quizzed on sayings funny and fatuous-taken from books, journals and walls, or simply overheard. ' It may be a damned amusing game.'
(CLYDE FITCH)
Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher
Devised and presented by Nigel Rees
Producers GEOFFREY PERKINS and JOHN LLoYD
Written by HELEN LEADBEATER
(Repeated: Friday 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
PC Coverdale.LEON TANNER BBC Birmingham
The third of a series of six programmes compiled and presented by the poet Seamus Heaney with readers RONALD PICKUP and JENNY TWIGGE Producer ALEC REID
(Repeated: Sat 11.20 am)
Presenter Gillian Reynolds Producer CHRIS SWANN
Clifford Curzon (piano) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra leader BARRY GHIFFITHS conducted by Leonard Slaikin
Beethoven Overture: Prometheus. Op 43
Mozart Piano Concerto No 26. in D (Coronation) (K 537)
Bryan Forbes reads the second of four extracts from his autobiography.
' I don't think I ever succeeded in gaining a role through an audition or test ... and when I'eventually directed my own films I made it a matter of principle never to test an actor. I loathe interviewing actors because I know what they're suffering.'
Bryan Forbcson Films : p 11
Part 2 Rachmaninov Symphony No 1
Preview: page 15 followed by an interlude
Anthony Howard reporting
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by David Jacobs. Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
The Bottle Factory Outing (4) long wave only
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
