Presented from Wales by JOHN GLYN-JONES . BBC Wales
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Brian Redhead with LIBBY PURVES including at
6.45* Prayer lot the Day With ROSEMARY WAKEUN
7.1. 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.39, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Wyndham Lewis
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During the final phase of the campaign for the first directly elected European Parliament, you can putyourquestions to leading politicians of Parties contesting the Election in Britain.
Ring Robin Day to put your questions to the Labour Party on their policies and their views of the other Parties' policies.
Producer WALTER WALLICH Editor BERNARD TATE
Lines open from8.0 am
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NEM,p 17; 0 Jesu so meek (BBC HB 529); Canticle 3; Matthew 1, TV 18-25 (AV); How brightly beams the morning star! (BBC HB 141/
Not Yet Jayette by WILLIAM BOYD
Read by Barry Warren Producer MITCH RAPER
Introduced by Lord Oaksey celebrating the bicentenary of the world's most famous horse race.
Two hundred years ago this week, the Derby was run for the first time at Epsom on the Surrey Downs. Since then It's become one of the great occasions of the British sporting year, followed by millions of people throughout the world. With the 1979 race only two days away, Lord Oaksey, a former jockey himself, reflects on the history. tradition and background of the race recalls some of the outstanding moments of the past ... and talks with many racing personalities, the most successful Derby jockey of all time, Lester Piggott ; Sir Gordon Richards ;
Harry Wragg , the only man this century to have ridden and then trained a Derby winner: Vincent O'Brien ; and Roger Mortimer , an expert on the history of the Derby. Producer
IAN ROBERTSON (Repeated:
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Story: Ladder and Ropes by MARGARET GORE long wave only
Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
Including MARGARft KORVlNG'SWorld of Work. Editor JOHN TURTLE
Chairman Robert Robinson 15: Wales
DEREK MALING, cartographer (POWYS);DAVIDGREEN-SMITH, solicitor (South Glamorgan); JOHN COLEBY , research chemist (Clwyd); TIM RICHARDS, journalist (South Glamorgan)
Including Beat the Brains Devised by JOHN P. WYNN Questions set by IAN GILLIES and JOAN CLARK Producer RICHARD EDIS
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30 pm)
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Presenter Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
by the Labour Party
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with Sue MacGregor Talking Point.
Dog Dinner: a spring report from Hong Kong by FRENA BLOOMFIELD.
Reading Your Letters.
Entertainment Round-up: GORDON GOW reporting. Chelsea Child (5)
Editor WYN KNOWLES long wave only
Bournemouth Nights
Marriage by SUSAN FERRIER abridged in ten parts by ELIZABETH BRADBURY. Read by Anna Calder-Marshall (1) A touching romantic story of a young girl and a sparklingly satirical portrait of an era.
Producer PENNY GOLD
with Gordon Clough and Joan Bakewell
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5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
(Repeated. Tues 1.40 pm)
Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
Comrade Ananias by DAVID HUGHES , With
Arthur and Rose-Marie's romance was interrupted by the advent of the Second World War. They lost contact with each other but. spurred on by a war-time buddy, Arthur makes a journey to try to find Rose-Marie.
The play is set In New Zealand.
Pianoplayedbymarynash
Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING
I I farm to exist, I write poetry to live.'
DieJones,farmerand poet, lives near Aberporth, yfed. His poetry reflects what he likes and admires in the community and landscape around him. In this programme he talks of the influences upon him: the past and the present, the soil and the seasons.
The first of three programmes
Producerteleribeva* BBC Wales
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer ANNE WINDER
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
'I am obsessed with celebrations. I love painting people enjoying themselves.'
Sue MacGregor goes to Manchester to talk to the artist Pat Cooke about her life and work.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
The Fox by d. H. LAWRENCE abridged in five parts by ANGELA THOMAN
Read by Anna Massey (1) ' She felt him invisibly master her spirit. She knew the way he lowered his chin as he looked up, she knew his muzzle, the golden brown, and the greyish-white.' long wave only
(Anna Massey is a National Theatre player)
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Extracts from the day's major speeches recorded at campaign meetings.
Presented by John Hosken
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
