Presented from the South West by DAVID BUTLER Producer SARAH PITT BBC Bristol
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presented by Brian Redhead
With LIBBY PURVES including at
6.45- Prayer for the Day With ROBERT RIETTY
7.0-8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
A look ahead with Moira Stuart
reflects on life in and out of the Sound Archives.
Studio guests join Mavis Nicholson. Kenneth Robinson and Fritz Spiegl for an unpredictable 55 minutes of argument, humour and some music, all of which is intended to start your week off in fine style.
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NEM. page 62; Father, we praise thee iBBC HB 405); Psalm 36; Acts 19, vv 1-12 (RSV); Holy Father, in thy mercy (BBC HB 386)
Great Day
Written and read by ' Shirley Cooklin
Producer MITCH RAPER long wave only
Michael Charlton examines news and news values.
Alan Protheroe , BBC News Editor, David Nicholas , Editor-in-Chief ITN, Bill Deedes , Editor Daily Telegraph, Mike Molloy. Editor Daily Mirror, discuss the priorities they adopt in their selection of news. They explore the extent to which this selection is affected by commercial considerations and other pressures, and reply to criticisms that important issues tend to be trivialised, and as a result a distorted picture of the world is conveyed.
Producer JENNY DE YONG BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Tues 8.0 pm) long wave only
Story: Daiid's Own Chair by JOHN FARRINGTON long wave only
News and information that affects the way you live.
Including today:
The World of Work
With MARGARET KORVING Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
Editor DENNIS LOWER
The quotations game in which James Burke P. D. James Robert Lacey and Kenneth Williams are quizzed on sayings funnv and fatuous-taken from books, journals and walls, or simply overheard.
' Normally I read my Classics in strip form
(TOMMY STEELE)
Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher
Devised and presented by Nigel Rees
Producers JOHN LLOYD and GEOFFREY PERKINS
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only
Presented by Brian Widlake Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
My Idea of Heaven: ANNE SUTER examines some thoughts and images with help from, among others, JOYCE GRENFELL and ELAINE STRITCH.
A View from the Continent: a regular reflection of events and reactions in the rest of Europe.
Reading Your Letters.
You May Not Hear The Robin ...: FRANCES BERTHELSEN finds out about hearing aids.
Tortoise By Candlelight by NINA BAWDEN read by ANGELA DOWN (5) Editor WYN KNOWLES long wave only
The Silent Scream by WALLY K. DALY
Kai Lung Stories by ERNEST BRAMAB abridged by TERENCE TILLER Three tales of a mythical China of long ago.
Wong Ts'in and the Willow Pattern Embellishment.
Read by David March
Producer DENYS GUEROULT
Presented by
Gordon dough and Joan Bakewell Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
Tim Brooke-Taylor in The Citadel
With KENNETH CONNOR
PATRICIA HAYES , MOLLY WEIR JOHN GRAHAM and LOLLY COCKERELL
Written by DONALD BULL Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
Episode on a Thursday Evening by DON HAWORTH
The dilemma of two owners of a seedy local cinema faced with a bomb scare and the adverse publicity it will bring to the sale of their property. To evacuate or not....? tom; If they could get buildings evacuated on the strength of a phone call they could paralyse the civilised world from a telephone box.
ROSE: You've got to keep a sense of proportion. There's scores of spoof calls every day. It's a fashionable yobbo's hobby. The big hotels and banks and whatnot don't react any more and we wouldn't here, if it happened again.
Pianist MARTIN GOLDSTEIN
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY
With less than two weeks to the Referendum which will decide Scotland'spolitical future and have wide repercussions for the UK as a whole, James Cox and Richard McAllister trace the rise of nationalism and examine the current arguments for and against an Assembly in Edinburgh. Producer
GEOFFREY M. CAMERON
David Winter sets the scene for this week's proceedings in the General Synod of the Church of England.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer ANNE THEROUX
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
In tracing. some of the political and social trends in Britain since the last war. George Scott talks to the people who were central to the most significant changes and invites them to view, with the benefit of hindsight, their personal part in events.
Jack Jones , former General Secretary of Britain's biggest union, the Transport and General Workers' Union, talks about the growing influence and power of trade unions. Producer JENNY DE YONG BBC Birmingham
The Bottle Factory Outing by BERYL BAINBRIDGE abridged in ten parts and read by CAROLE HAYMAN (6)
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude