News. weather, papers and sport
Presented from the North by KEN FORD
A regional view of farming in the week ahead BBC Manchester
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
what Britain is getting up to. Two hours of news and views from home and around the world. Presented by John Timpson with LIBBY PURVES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day With TONY BLACK
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read bV EUGENE FRASER
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
A look ahead with Moira Stuart
continues his search in the BBC Sound Archives, but once again 'comes to no serious conclusion,
The live talks programme which takes its own distinctive look at some of the topics and personalities of the forthcoming week.
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 34; The Saviour died (BBC HB 497); Psalm 114; Acts 26, VV 9-20 (RSV); Crown him with many crowns (BBC HB 124)
I Don't Want to Know Anyone Too Well by NORMAN LEVINE
Read by Jon Glover
'I wonder why I feel Insulted after Interviewing people - I meet people all the time - but I've never got to know anyone.
Producer MITCH RAPER long wave only
George Spenceley tells how he and TOM PRICE set out to canoe across the Barren Lands of Canada. (Details Tues 8.0 pm) long wave only
Story: Little Pig and The Pink Dog by MARGARET GORE long wave only
Including today:
The World of Work
With Margaret Korvino
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain.
Chairman Robert Robinson 4: Scotland (2)
ROSE ARNOLD, Teacher (Lanarkshire); JOHN HARRIS , Hotelier (Argyllshire); ROBERT CAIRNS , Teacher (Edinburgh); DR davidlees.RetiredHeadmaster (Glasgow)
Including Beat the Brains in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
Devised by JOHN p. WYNN Questions set by IAN GILLIES and JOAN CLARK Producer RICHARD EDIS
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presented by Brian Widlake Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Bocall by Bacall - Lauren Bacall has written her own story and talks to SUE MACGREGOR about how she sees herself; the woman behind the Holly-wood image.
Reading Your Letters.
Talking Point: opinions and ideas.
The Sounds of the Sea: waves of words and music compiled by DAVID MILES.
The Hiding Place (6) Editor WYN KNOWLES long wave only
Patrick Mower in The Humane Solution by STEVE GALLAGHER
Risk (6)
Presented by Gordon Clough and Joan Bakewell
Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
Tim Brooke-Taylor In The Miracle of the O'Gagans with KENNETH CONNOR ,
MOLLY WEIR , JOHN GRAHAM , LOLLY COCKERELL, JOHN BADDELEY
Written by DONALD BULL Producer EDWARD TAYLOR (Repeated: Wed at 12.27)
(Repeated: Tuet 1.40 pm)
BBC Correspondents throughout the world report
Producer ALAN MACDONALD
China by FREDERICK HARRISON
'I need information. You might say it's almost a matter of life and death. Which is why I'm sitting here with a pint ordered for you across the table just as I did IS years ago. You know, Jimmy, when I "visit" our former selves, our. collective past, I feel like a visitor to another planet ...'
Directed by TONY CLIFF
BBC Manchester (fiepeot)
1: A Hotel in the Highlands
' London no longer had any attraction for me.'
* To have some say In the running of things.... to be responsible for my own actions.'
'Now are you really serious about this? Because if you are, I'll sell the house, I'll resign, which will commit me right the way down the line ...'
Would you voluntarily give up an affluent but hectic life, and take on something involving even longer hours and often very menial tasks? In the first of two programmes about people who are drastically changing their way of life, Leslie Smith meets a family from south-east England who decided they could. Producer
BARBARA CROWTHER
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer CARROLL MOORE
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world. 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. Lord Chalfont, the former Labour Minister for Disarmament, talks about Britain's changing role in a world of super powers.
BBC Birmingham
Wind, Sand and Stars by .ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPfRY abridged in ten parts by JOY OSBORNE
Read by John Bennett (1) ' The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth'. The account of a pioneer pilot flying the French' mails across the continents of Africa and America and described as 'the voice of man's ceaseless challenge to the elements'. It remains not only a classic of aviation but also one of human courage.
Producer MAURICE LEITCH long wave only
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
