Producers KEN POLLOCK and LESLIE COTTINGTON
A note from our Religious Affairs Correspondent, Gerald Priestland
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Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
7.40 Today's Papers
Norman Tozer with how to get the best value for your hard-earned cash.
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From the world of sport and leisure Tony Lewis presents a magazine programme that highlights the personalities in the news and the issues that matter.
A Radio Sport and OB production
Tony Lewis is in Saturday Night at the Mill starting tonight on BBCl at 11.0 pm
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We are a People
This week the people of Wales, and Scotland vote in the Devolution Referendums. In this edition the BBC s Welsh and Scottish Affairs reporters, Tim Maby and Jack Regan examine the trend towards separatism - sometimes violent - in other countries.
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Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with Matthew Coady
Producer PETER ROBINS long wave only
Anthony Howard reviews the weekly magazines
Producer WALTER WALLICH long wave only
New Every Morning, page 114; Lord of all being (BBC HB 11); Psalm 29; Isaiah 52, vv 3-10 (RSV); Behold, the mountain of the Lord (BBC HB 485)
Margaret Howard present* her selection.
Producer NICK HUGHES
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The fourth of a series of six programmes compiled and presented by the poet Seamus Heaney Producer ALEC REID
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with Fritz Spiegl BBC Manchester
with Joan Bakewell
The travel programme that takes you behind those glossy brochures to make sure your holiday lives up to its promise.
Producer JENNY THOMPSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD
The last seven days put in a questionable way by Barry Took to Alan Coren
Richard Ingrams
Clement Freud. mp and Claire Rayner
Newsreader JOHN MARSH Compiled and produced by DANNY GREENSTONE and ALAN NIXON
(Repeated: Tues 10.30 pm) Stereo. Preview: page 21
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Marcus Fox. mp
Alan Hart. Miriam Karlin Alan Fisher
Chairman David Jacobs
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Frank Delaney introduces the magazine programme about books.
Producer HELEN FRY
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Music to Remember by JOAN SADLER with Helena McCarthy and Susan Sheridan
Back in the late 20s a child's view of the world around her was coloured by the popular music of the time - gentle waltzes which 50 years later remind her of a tragedy she could not understand.
MARY NASH (piano) Directed by MARGARET ETALL long wave only
Marilyn Alan visits Yorkshire to hear about a method of communication for severely handicapped children, and Liverpool to talk to disabled holidaymakers about their experiences in Europe, while KEITH ALLAN visits a junior PHAB club in the North East.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester long wave only
Five programmes on the impact of white ' civilisation ' on native cultures. 3: The Disease of the Heart The Conquest of Central America by MICHAEL FOSS ' And the envoy asked Montezuma for gold to give the Captain of the Spaniards, for Cortez had demanded it saying: " Send me some of it, because I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold."'
With the voices of NIGEL GRAHAM , STEPHEN THORNE , MICHAEL SHANNON , DENIS MC CARTHY , PETER WILLIAMS , ALAN DUDLEY , MALCOLM HAYES , PETER WOODTHORPE , TRADER FAULKNER Producer
MAURICE LEITCH (First broadcast in 1975) long wave only
Let Neil Landor and the BBC Reference Library and other experts find the answer to your queries. Producer DENYS GUEROULT Questions, on postcards, to: Enquire Within, BBC, London [Postcode removed] long wave only
Donald Sinden gives the last of six talks introducing the season of Shakespeare's plays on BBC2. Henry VIII
'Henry is one of those few historical characters whose appearance is known to every man in the street, because of the endless reproductions of Holbein's portrait. There he stands, this great bulk of a man, his feet astride, hands on hips, with vast hunched shoulders. All the poor actor can do is to try to look like that portrait and therein lies the problem.'
Producer JUDITH BUMPUS
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Musical accompaniment by The Feetwarmers
Producer GERRY NORTHAM
Richard Baker offers a -recipe of popular classics on records: the mixture leavened occasionally by the unfamiliar, with the added ingredient of listeners' requests.
Producer RAY ABBOTT
Spin a Loving Thread by ALICK ROWE with Steven Pacey as Andy and Betty Hardy as Mrs Deans
' Ah hello! Like my name's Andy Nairn. From the college. I mean, could you come down to the door, please? Ah, Hello. Mrs Deans ? '
An adolescent boy, in ' taking on ' Mrs Deans as part of a scheme to help old people, comes under a considerable influence.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY
(First broadcast in 1976)
Margaret Drabble presents her personal choice of poetry and prose with readings by Eleanor Bron and Edward Petherbridge Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
Evening prayers led by THE REV DOUGLAS AITKEN BBC Scotland
A series of nine programmes in which Jeremy Siepmann follows the colourful progress of the piano from the palaces of 18th-century Europe to the saloons of the Wild West.
2: From Revival-Meeting to Rent-Shout
This week 'we meet the piano riding at the crest of the Ragtime wave. Accompanying us on the road to the jazz world are such larger-than-life figures as WILLIE 'THE LION' SMITH, LUCKEY ROBERTS. LIONEL HAMPTON and FATS WALLER.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON gramophone records followed by an interlude
by J. Mansel Thomas
A series of plays for late-night listening
With Fiona Walker as Vi and Gareth Armstrong as Iorry
'Good God, it's a body! Seaman by the looks of him. Not been long in the water, I reckon. And by damn that's not a bad bit of jacket you've got there, boy. No... no harm in having a quick dekko, eh?'
BBC Birmingham
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
