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Presented by Brian Red -head in Brighton for the Labour Party Conference and John Timpson in London
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV LESLIE STOKES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Read by IAN HOLM (3)
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The Silkies
This is a time of great activity for grey seals. The cows are coming ashore to have their pups and each bull is stak.ng his claim to a patch on the beach for mating We visit a rookery to follow the action.
Introduced by peter France
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
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of the Third Baron Colwyn
Sue Cook visits a charity ball to meet trumpeter. tuba plaver, singer and band leader, Anthony, Lord Colwyn, and discovers his secret life. where sounds are not always music to the ear. First of four programmes Producer JOHN TURTLE long wave only
NEM, p 9; From all that dwell below the skies (BBC HB 5); Canticle 6, pt 1; Isaiah 11, vv 1-9
(AV); All creatures of our God and King (BBC HB 2)
Read by JUNE BARRIE '4) long wave only
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Patricia Carroll introduces and plays Victorian piano music.
This week: Sparkling Cascades and Other Gems Producer ANDREW MUSSETT long wave only
JILL TODD and the BBC Shopping Basket.
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breekon
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Presenter Brian Widlake
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with Jill Cochrane
In Attendance: FRANcrs BERTHELSEN talks to nurses on escort duty.
Talking Point: opinions and ideas.
Reading Your Letters.
Facts about Fats: GAIL DUFF with the 'low down' on oils.
'The Most Isolated Island in the World 1: JACK DOBSON lived for a while on Pitcairn Island made famous by the mutineers of HMS Bounty
The Compleat Bachelor 2) long wave only
Mrs McMuddle 's Chinese Dinner by MOIRA MILLER
Fnrest Lodge by PETER TERSON
' I made that man. Once he got started there wasn't one branch of his Empire I didn't help graft on to the trunk. The lorry fleet, the Transport Cafés, the sealink, the Container Depot.... No, Forest Lodge it is called, and so Forest Lodge it shall remain. He gave it that name for our home and it collapsed. I shall keep that name for our Club and it shall build.'
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN. BBC Bristol
A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questionsf Introduced by David Jacobs
ProducerCAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Swan Song by ERIC W. SHAW
Read by Gaynor M. Recs BBC Wales
with Robert Williams 3nd Stephen Jessel
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5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
Written by HELEN LEADBEATER
Thirteen programmes on the theme of childhood to mark the International
Year of the Child
Compiled and introduced by David Davis
12: Unwillingly to School Reader Robin Holmes
Producer GRAHAM GAULD
conductor RAYMOND LEPPARD
MICHAEL ROLL
(piano)
Walton Overture: Scapino Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3, in c minor
In the first of four interviews June Knox-Mawer talks to celebrated biographers about their craft, and the fact that 'living' with a person from another age can often make their life and times seem more real than your own.
In the first programme Elizabeth, Countess of Longford, describes her very special relationship with Queen Victoria. Producer
FRANCES DONNELLY
Part 2 Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4, in F minor (A public concert promoted by Hong Kong Urban Services Department from the City Hall on 24 Sept) (Another concert from Hong Kong next Thursday; also broadcasts on Radio 3 next week) BBC Manchester
Presenter Richard Cork Producer CLARE SELERIE
Anthony Howard presents the first of the hour-long Thursday editions from the Labour Party Conference at Brighton.
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Annie Powell has lived in the Rhondda all her life. She has witnessed the demise of the coal industryinthevalleys and the weakening of the ' old ' community spirit.
Recently she became the first Communist Mayor in Britain and in this programme she reflects on the influences which have shaped her life and opinions.
Producer TELERI BEVAN BBC Wales
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
