Producers
LESLIE COTTINGTON. HERBERT DAVBELL and BRYAN PLATT
A note on Religious Affairs by Christopher Jones S.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
A weekly review of the agricultural scene.
Producer ALLAN WRIGHT BBC Aberdeen
7.40 Today's Papers
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Norman Tozer with how to get the best value for your hard-earned cash.
7.55 Weather: programme news: long waveonly
Tony Lewis introduces this magazine programme that takes a different look at sport and leisure including news from the second Athletics World Cup in Montreal. And all the other news from home and abroad.
A Radio Sport and OB production
See feature: page 10
8.45 Today's Papers (Rpf
Russell Davies offers some helpless advice on summer activities around the house and garden.
8.59 Continental Travel Information
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190th Edition
You Asked For It
Since International As. signment first took to the air in October 1977, the BBC's Correspondents around the world have reported on a wide variety of topics, from economics to folk music, and from politics to Scotch whisky. For this week's edition, the 100th, they hand the choice over to the listener and they'll be answering questions like: How has Darwin recovered from the cyclone of Christmas 1974? What can Britain learn from Switzerland's system of direct democracy? and. What's the truth about Ecuador's mysterious valley of Vilcabamba - do people there really live to well over 100? Presented by Richard Anthony Baker Producer BOB DORAN A Radio News production long wave only
This summer Anthony King looks back on some issues of the past which held the headlines for days. weeks, or months and then disappeared from the public arena.
This week: The Great Drought of 1976 Producer JOSHUA ROZENBERG long mate only
Bill Grundy reviews the weekly magazines.
Producer WALTER WALLICH long wave only
NEM, p 84; Father of heaven, whose love profound (BBC HR 290); Canticle 4; Ephesians 4, vv 22-32 (RSV); A safe stronghold our God is still (BBC HB 297)
Margaret Howard presents her selection.
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' Does the size of a bird determine its brain capacity and hence intelligence? ' Is it true that some insects actually " herd greenfly as humans herd cattle? '
The Wildlife questions team answer your queries. Introduced by Derek Jones
Producer BRIAN LEITH BBC Bristol
Questions to Wildlife, BBC. Bristol BX8 2LR
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Charles Marowitz 'In England today. drama criticism is bogus, self-deluded and intrinsically uncritical.'
BBC Manchester
For the last time in this series Joan Bakewell is your radio agent with advice on where to go and how to cut the cost.
For information sheets, send a large sae to: Away From It All, [address removed]
The last seven days put in a questionable way by Barry Took to Alan Coren Richard lngrams Simon Hoggart Rachael Heyhoe Flint Compiled and produced by DANNY GREENSTONE and ALAN NIXON
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Tony Britton raises the cry of Hip Hip Hooray for...
...Our Glorious British Weather!
A seriously lighthearted look on Bank Holiday week at some of the wild and wonderful aspects of our unpredictable climate; a few of the ways we attempt. without much success, to predict it: and how we contrive to live with and even enjoy it. With WILLIAM ROBERTS NORMA RONALD , DAVID RYALL and songs by SHEILA MATHEWS, PETER REEVES and CHARLES YOUNG WITH HIS SINGERS AND MUSICIANS
Devised and compiled by GERALD FROW
Producer John DYAS
(Repeated: Wed 8.45 pm
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Pompeii
On the 1,900th anniversary of its destruction Malcolm Billings reports on an entirely new approach in the continuing study of Pompeii that involves a team of British archaeologists and specialists. Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol
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Deryck Guyler. Nigel Stock and Wilfrid Brambell in The Exception and the Rule by BERTOLT BRECnT translated from the German and adapted for broadcasting by GORONWY REES with music by PAUL DESSAU With
JOHN BODDINGTON
EVA STUART and PETER WILDE ARCHIE CAMDEN (bassoon)
JAMES BLADES (percussion) PETER GELLHORN (piano)
Adaptation of English words to music by HEDLI ANDERSON
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Presenter Marilyn Alan Reporter KEVIN MULHERN
Citizens' Advice Bureau Phone-in: Monday 2.0-4.0 [number removed], exl 2531
Correspondence address: BBC. Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
Producer JANE WOOD EditorMARLKNE PEASE long waveonly
Kenneth MeLeish chooses one of his favourite pieces - Stravinsky's witty Neapolitan ballet. Pulcinella. gramophone records
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The young Finlay J. Mac Donald goes to school for the first time.
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Sheridan Morley introduces a selection from the books, films, plays, music and other arts reviewed during the past week.
Editor ROSEMARY HART long wave only
Johnny Morris recalls. with records and mixed memories, the days when he had drifted away from the musical world, but wherever he went there was always more than a whiff of musical nostalgia. Producer
CHRISTINE HARDWICK
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followed by Continental Travel Information
A second chance to hear some lighthearted words and music originally heard in the new writing programme Just After Noon. Introduced by Brian Thompson
With DAVID FLEESHMAN , KATHLEEN HELME and GRAHAM ROBERTS
Lancashire Folk Songs: 1 Nightshift Army', 'Mill Girl's Lullaby ', and ' Coal Hole Cavalry' sung by GARY AND VERA ASPEY Music producer ANN STANGAR
Producer KAY JAMIESON
BBC Manchester
Richard Baker offers a recipe of popular classics on records.
Producer RAY ABBOTT
(Rev rpt: Friday 9.5 am)
by John Dighton, adapted for radio by Giles Cooper
Starring The BBC Drama Repertory Company and Master Adam Godley
Every schoolboy knows that the last time peace broke out in England was in 1945. Not so many schoolboys perhaps know about the war that broke out soon afterwards in the wilds of Hampshire, except of course the ones that were lucky enough to be at Hilary Hall School for Boys at the time. It was the start of the summer term...
Paul Barker
Dr Peter Brooks and Emma Tennant in conversation with Brian Redhead
ProducerGILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
An evening meditation
With JOHN STUART ROBERTS BBC Wales
Sidney Harrison offers some gentle advice to those who love music but don't know much about it. 2: How to Behave as a Music-Lover
Producer DENYS GUEROULT
by Ken Blakeson and Dave Simpson
When a couple buy a Victorian artist's self-portrait in a local junk shop they quarrel about it but they have no idea what the purchase will lead to ...
(BBC Manchester)
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
