Presented from the North by KEN FORD
BBC Manchester
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Presenter Brian Redhead with LIBBY PURVES
6.45* Prayer for the Day With THE REV R. T. BROOKS
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by JOHN MARSH
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
with Christopher Slade
Treasures from the BBC Sound Archives.
Producer SIMON ELMES
Producer PETER ESTALL long wave only
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NEM P 67; Lord Christ, who on thy heart didst bear (BBC HB 380); Psalm 119, pt 3; Matthew 20, vv 1-16 (RSV); Come, labour on! (BBC HB 388)
by ERIC WILLIAMS abridged in 15 parti by BARRY CAMPBELL
Read by David March (1) The setting is Stalag Luft III, a prisoner-of-war camp in 1943. From the camp came the most ingenious and daring escape of the Second World War - and the escape was only part of the story. Producer GERRY JONES long wave only
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Derek Cooper visits just a few of the 1,000-pIus inhabited islands that make up the British Isles. 2: Eriskay
On a tiny strip of land only three miles long, the islanders of Eriskay, in the Outer Hebrides, live in a tight-knit community under the guidance of their Catholic priest and buffeted by the Atlantic weather.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
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Presenter D. M. Thomas Readers Gabriel Woolf and Elizabeth Bell
Producer BRIAN PATTEN
BBC Bristol. Requests to: Poetry Please!, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR long wave only
including Job News and MOLLY PRICE-OWEN With World of Work: ideas on careers and training.
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
Editor DAVID HARDING
HELP! page 11
Semi-final
(Details: Thurs 6.30 pm)
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Presenter Brian Widlake
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with Sue MacGregor
You Won't Tell My Parents ... : LUCY PARKER looks at medical confidentiality. Painting Winners: Border artist LESSA SANDYS-LUMSDAINE specialises in painting famous race-horses.
Almost in the Steps of Livingstone! : with the help of the Royal Geographical Society. MAUREEN GALVIN learns how to plan a small expedition. Who Wields the Screu;driver? HAZEL SHAW reports on a conference to encourage more women to become craft, design and technology teachers. Journey to Amritsar by juoy KING, abridged in five parts by PAT MCLOUGHLIN Read by Brenda Bruce
In the early summer of 1945, an army nursing sister, Judy King , was given the daunting assignment of transporting a dying Sikh officer across India from Poona to Amritsar in the Punjab. The train journey was some 1,500 miles, taking two nights and two days. (Music: Mathias's Vivat Regina )
Editor WYN KNOWLES long wave only
Story: The Dog Who Had No Name by LEILA BERG
The Sitting Tenant
The Sycamore by A. J. S. CRAWFORD
Read by Elizabeth Proud Producer PAT TAYLOR
with Gordon Clough and Joan Bakewell Editor DEREK LEWIS
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including Financial Report
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
In the second of two reports, Geoff Watts presents an account of the proceedings of the 146th annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco. Producer DAVID PATERSON
by JOHN WHITING. based on the book by ALDOUS HUXLEY
Grandier, a liberal sensualist priest, is destroyed by his enemies; and by a Nun, Sister Jeanne , who names Grandier as the cause of her apparent demonic possession.
The action of the play takes place In and near the town of Loudun between 1623 and 1634. Adapted for radio and directed by MARTIN JENKINS
(Peter Jeffrey and Michael Bryant are National Theatre players; Nigel Stock is in 'Stage Struck' at the Vaudeville Theatre, London)
Presenter Rob Buckman Producer CARROLL MOORE
1.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
A new, epic adventure in time and space.
Zaphod Beeblebrox and his mysterious friend Roosta are being taken in a flying building to the evil Frogstar, whilst Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent are stranded on pre-historic earth. Some of them are getting hungry.
Ford: "I don't believe it. It's impossible."
Arthur: "But it's happening."
[Starring] Peter Jones as the Book
with Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox, Simon Jones as Arthur Dent, Geoffrey McGivern as Ford Prefect, Alan Ford as Roosta, David Tate as Eddie/Frogstar Prison Relations Officer and Valentine Dyall as Gargravarr
(Stereo)
Feature: page 76
[Illustration caption] Gargravarr - custodian of the Total Perspective Vortex... knows where his towel is
Short Stories. The first of five by WILLIAM TREVOR
Read by Denys Hawthorne 1: The Introspections of J. P. Powers
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
