News, weather, papers and sport
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Presented by John Timpson in Blackpool for the Conservative Party Conference and Libby Purves in London including at
C 45* Prayer for the Day THE REV FRANK WRIGHT
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.451 Thought for the Day
Read by IAN HOLM (8)
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TalkingPoint
Discussing listeners' queries and comments about wildlife and the countryside.
Introduced by Derek Jones
ProducerBRIAN LEITH
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of a Sanitary Man
Molly Price-Owen meets
Gordon Manly , one of Belfast's public health inspectors coping with the problems of run-down housing, and pubs and restaurants operating under difficulties. In the evening, unknown to most of his clients, he takes banjo, spoons, tin whistle and flute to join his friends of BLACKTHORNE, a folk group that plays to packed audiences around Northern Ireland.
Producer JOHN TURTLE long wave only
NEM, p 5; O Lord, thou art My God and King (BBC HB 470); Psalm 19, vv 1-11; Wisdom of Solomon 12, vv 12-22 (RSV); King of glory. King of peace (BBC HB 325)
Read by JUNE BARRIE (9) long wave only
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Patricia Carroll introduces and plays Victorian piano music.
This week: Twilight Bells long wave only
News, views and advice for contumers. Including JILL TODD and the BBC Shopping Basket.
Presc nters Sue Cook and Andy Price
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Eleanor Summerneld Gillian Reynolds and Tim Rice
Lance Percival
Tune Twisters from Steve Race in the Chair Hoy Plomley Devised and written by IAN MESSITER Producer PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
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Presented bv
Brian Widlake
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Introduced by Jill Cochrane
Nanny Giles : BARBARA TONER talks to 82-year-old MRS GILES who has had three careers.
Talking Point takes up some of the issues raised In Tuesday's item on abortion.
Reading Your Letters.
A Drop in the Indian Ocean: CHRISTABEL KING has visited the tiny island of Lamu - where time seems to have stood still. Look Back with Mixed Feelings by DODIE SMITH abridged by JANET HICKSON Read by Patricia Routtedge (1)
This second volume of Dodie Smith 's autobiography begins in 1910. It concentrates mainly on her years as a hopeful, but disaster-prone actress. The writer of Dear Octopus and A Hundred and One Dalmatians was yet to emerge.
(Music: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme by Strauss) long wave only
Story: The Paintbrush and the Paint Pot by t. MELROSE
Earthquakes in Peru by JAMES DOUGLAS
During his weekly ramble around the Supershoppe Supermarket , Joe looks at his wife Sadie and mourns his youth. So, amidst the coy adverts for ' men's outsized inner wear ', Joe and his alter ego try to remember what went wrong.
Directed by ROBERT COOPER
A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions?
Introduced by David Jacobs
Producer CAROLE STONE
Leave It To Me, Edna by PAT BURCHARD
Read by Cecile Chevreau On the day on which he was due back at the office, Charles vanished for ever from Edna's life ... Producer PAMELA HOWE
with Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
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5.55 Weather; programme news
Including Financial Report
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Written by SUSAN HILL Cast for the week:
PC Coverdale.LEON TANNER
Thirteen programmes on the theme of childhood to mark the International
Year of the Child
Compiled and introduced by David Davis
13: I Remember, I Remember ..
Readers Eva Haddoa and Gabriel Woolf
Producer GRAHAM GAULD
leader DENNIS SIMONS conductor RAYMOND LEPPARD
GYORGY PAUK (violin) Part 1 Elgar Introduction and Allegro for strings
7.47* Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in s major
2: Jerrold Northrop Moore In the second of her series about biographers and their subjects, June Knox-Mawer talks to JERROLD NORTHROP MOORE about his definitive biography of Elgar which, to date, has taken 16 years to write and will be published sometime in the 1980s. Producer
FRANCES DONNELLY
Part 2 Dvorak
Symphony No 8, In G major
(A public concert promoted by Hong Kong Urban Services Department from the City Hall on 25 September 1979) BBC Manchester
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting. music and exhibitions. Presented by Richard Cork
Producer CLARE SELERIE
9.59 Weather
Anthony Howard presents this hour-long Thursday edition from the Conservative Party Conference at Blackpool.
The Drowned World (14) long wave only
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends long wave only
' Everything I did was to prove to others that being black and from the Docks didn't mean that one had to be written off.'
In 1973 Betty Campbell became Wales's first Black Headmistress. Born and brought up in Cardiff's Tiger Bay, she has never left the area and in this programmeshereflects on the ' mixed ' society in which she has lived all her life.
Producer TELERI DEVAN BBC Wales
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
