News, weather, papers and sport
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What Britain is getting up to. Two hours of news and views from home and around the world. Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day With THE REV ADAM FORD
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45' Thought for the Day
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A series of six programmes in which Tony Bilbow takes a fresh look at some favourite stereotypes and asks but what's it really like?
2:Cowboys
' The real code of the West was that if you shot a fellow and he'd got a gun on him, even if it was nowhere near his hand, that was fair play.'
(ROBIN MAY, historian)
Producer PETER EVERETT BBC Manchester long wave only
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(A revised repeat of Sunday's broadcast at 2.0pm) long wave only
NEM, P 122; He wants not friends (BBC HB 245); Canticle 10: Acts 22, vv 17-29 (rsv); Jerusalem the golden (BBC HB 248)
Circumspection by I... H. JONES
Read by Jeffrey Segal
' " It It could have been m the sea for years and years and years." Mr Tramor said, putting the telescope on his lap. "Might even have seen service at Trafalgar. Amazing what you see if you just keep your eyes open ".' long wave only
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Story: Where Shall I Spin My Web? by ANNE WELLINGTON long wave only
News and information that affects the way you live.
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
12.55 Weather: programme news: long trace only
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines. Presented by Robin Day
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: Nicholas Goodison, Chairman of the Stock Exchange.
On the Bathroom Shelf: JANE FINNIS investigates bath additives. What are they made of and how do they work?
Why Did I Leave My Little Back Room in Bloomsbury?: HELEN PALMER Continues her series on relationships.
Sewing Club: BETTY FOSTER helps solve the problems which arise in home fashion sewing and looks at developments in the industries which serve the needlewoman.
Call For The Dead (5) long wave only
by Peter Terson
'I'm frightened of living alone for the rest of my life; I might grow queer and hit the cheap sherry; I might wear purple hats and too many beads and rattle the railings of the park with my stick.'
BBC Bristol
from the Temple Church, London, where Dr George Thalben-Ball has been organist for 60 years
Psalm 119. vv i-32 (Thalben-Ball)
Canticles (Walford Davies in n, Ferial setting)
Anthem: Like the beams that from the sun (Leo Sowerby )
Lessons: Numbers 14, vv 1-11; James 3, vv 13-18
Organist and director of music
DR GEORGE THALBEN-BALL
A Child in the Forest (7)
Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
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5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
Devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden
In the Chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE
BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
A weekly investigation into accusations of unfairness, fraud and injustice.
Presented by Roger Cook Editor DENNIS LOWER
A radio portrait of the Queen of Egypt (69-30 BC), created by Roger Bunce from the writings of the Greek and Roman historians.
Music specially composed and conducted by Christos Pittas
'Plato speaks of four kinds of flattery, but Cleopatra knew a thousand.'
'By love she gained the title of Queen of the Egyptians, and when she tried by the same means to win that of Queen of the Romans she lost everything. She captivated the two greatest Romans of her day. and because of the third she destroyed herself.'
'The asp was smuggled in to her with the figs. But there is another story that she carried the poison in a hollow comb.'
With PETRA DAVIES, GREGORY DE POLNAY, JOE DUNLOP , LEONARD FENTON , JOHN GABRIEL , RONALD HERDMAN , DAVID MARCH and PHILIPÃ VOSS
Music recorded by Members of the New Chamber Soloists
Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS
Of all the world religions, the revival of Islam is the most dramatic. Because Islam is not confined to the spiritual, politics and Islam go hand in hand. In Libya the Koran justifies socialism, in Saudi Arabia free enterprise, but what is the true Islamic society?
John Tusa chairs an international discussion on the debate within Islam. Producer RACHEL ATTWELL
Presenter Michael Older Producer JOHN POWELL
Douglas Stuart reporting
Presented by Orson Welles written by BENNY GREEN 3: Adolph Zukor (1873-1976)
'The Hungarian fur trader who was there at the birth of the motion picture industry, and still around when the era of moguldom had passed. He nearly outlived Methu selah in his journey from penny arcades to make Paramount Pictures.'
With the voices of ALLAN
DWAN, DOROTHY LAMOUR , JESSE LASKY JR. ROUBEN MAMOULlAN , BUDD SCHLBERG. MAE WEST, BILLY WILDER , ADOLPH ZUKOR and EUGENE ZUKOR
Research JANE MERCER and BILL SULLIVAN
Reporters CATHERINE PAVIOT and PAT ROWE Producer
DAVID RAYVERN ALLEN
Wide Sargasso Sea (3) long wave only
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
