News, weather, papers and sport
Presented from East An-by DAVID RICHARDSON BBC Norwich
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 Todav's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.31, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
by THOMAS HARDY abridged in five parts by VIVIEN CREEGOR
Bead by Jack Watson (1) ' Barnet sat down to his lonely meal. His mind fell back into past years upon a certain pleasing and gentle being whose face would loom out of their shades at such times as these. "I wonder if she lives there still! ", he said.'
Producer MAURICE LEITCH
When he and the regulars, Mavis Nicholson, Dr Rob Buckman and Kenneth Robinson will be among those helping to find antidotes to that Monday morning feeling.
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'Swimming in the sea last summer we were horrified to see a girlrushing from the water with an eel-like fish attached to her thigh. Was it a lamprey that had made a mistake?' The team answers your wildlife questions.
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
Questions to: Wildlife, BBC. Bristol [Postcode removed]
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NEM, p 93; O dearest Lord, by all adored (BBC HB 2661; Psalm 34, vv 1-10; Acts 20, vv 16-27 (RSV); Now thank we all our God (BBC HB 277)
Living Free by PHILIP BRIDGES
Read by Jonathan Cecil Producer MITCH RAPER long wave only
With the continually increasing number of divorces every year, more and more men and women with children from their first marriages are remarrying for a second time. A new generation of step-families has been created. Leslie Smith explores the life-style that these families enjoy and the problems they encounter, and asks if the myth of the wicked step-mother lives on! Producer MARLENE PEASE (Repeated: Tuesday 8.0) long wave only
Story: The Arrogant Flea by ANNE WELLINGTON long wave only
Including today
The World of Work
With MARGARET KORVING Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
\Editor DENNIS LOWER
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain
Chairman Robert Robinson 1: West of England (1)
MICHAEL HARRIES , Chartered Civil Engineer (Bristol); MRS PRIMROSE WOOD, Physiotherapist (Devon); JAMES COATES , Retired Bank Official (somerset); NIGEL MELVILLE, Adult Education Organiser (Devon)
Including Beat the Brains in which listeners put their own auestions to the contestants. Devised by JOHN P. WYNN
Questions set by IAN GILLIES and JOAN CLARK Producer
RICHARD EDIS.
(Rptd: Thursday 6.30 pm) Stereo
Book (same title) 35p, from bookshops
12.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only
Presented by Brian Widlake Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
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Introduced by • June Knox-Mawer
Gentle Words for the Gentle Sex: JENNY MAR SHALL with a monthly review of newly published magazines.
Talking Point; opinions and ideas.
Encore: JACK DE MANIO meets again a guest from Jack de Manio Precisely. 1: HARRY HOLLIS , ex-busker. Quiet Corner of England <3t: The Heath and the Brecks of East Anglia. Tortoise By Candlelight (10)
Editor WYN KNOWLES long wave only
At Your Service
A pastoral comedy for radio by ALAN MELVILLE with Michael Spice and Mary Wimbush
The rural peace of Dallingford is shattered by the news that the BBC plans to televise Songs of Praise from the local church. Despite parochial rivalries the holy show must go on - or must it?
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN (First broadcast in 1976)
A Child in the Forest by WINIFRED POLEY abridged in eight parts by VIRGINIA BROWNE
Read by June Barrie (1)
Sixty years ago a coal-miner's daughter grew up in the Forest of Dean until, at the age of 14, she left her childhood behind and went ' into service ' in London.
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
Presented by Gordon Clough and Joan Bakewell Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
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5.55 Weather; programme news
[Starring] Tim Brooke-Taylor
with Kenneth Connor, Molly Weir, John Graham, Lolly Cockerell, Norma Ronald
(Repeated: Wed at 12.27)
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
BBC Correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people.
Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
The Last Burning by PATRICK GALVIN
' We must find the mark, Michael. Changeling or Witch - she must have the Devil's mark. We must find it.'
Based on the extraordinary events that took place in a small village near Cork in 1885, Patrick Galvin 's play portrays an isolated community still shockingly medieval in its superstitions and prejudices.
Radiophonic music by DICK MILLS
Directed by ROBERT COOPER
In the second of four programmes Jack Body introduces some of the music he has recorded in Indonesia and describes various aspects of life there. 2: Street Music
Presenter Paul Vaughan
Producer ANNE THEROUX
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 signficant changes and invites them to view. with the benefit of hindsight, their personal part in events.
Eirlys Roberts, former Editor of Which? magazine, talks about the development of consumer protection.
BBC Birmingham
Mother Ireland
Written and read by Edna O'Brien
Ireland for me is moments of its history, and its geography, a few people who embody its strange quality, the features of a face. a holler, a line from a Synge play, the whiff of night air. but Ireland insubstantial like the goddesses poets dream of. who lead them down into strange circles.' 1: My Home Town
Producer MAURICE LEITCH long wave only
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Jack Regan in Scotland and Tim Maby in Wales, report on the campaign
Introduced by John Hosken in London
Producer KAROLYN SHINDLER
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
