News, weather, papers and sport
A regional view of farming in the week ahead
Presented from Scotland by Allan Wright BBC Scotland
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Presenter Brian Redhead With LIBBY PURVES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day With FR JOHN MCCULLAGH
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by CHRISTOPHER SLADE
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Dag Thoughts, Prayers. Reflections: a collection of short talks, £1.35, from bookshops
A look ahead with John Marsh
continues his search in the BBC Sound Archives but once again comes to no serious conclusion.
(Repeated: Fri 11.45 pm)
with Richard Baker
'Monday always begins too early, with tantrums, traumas and terrible jokes, but I still can't think of a better way to Start the Week.'
Producer PETER ESTALL
NEM, .p 5; Enthrone thy God (BBC HB 320); Psalm 19, w 1-11; Hebrews 1, vv 1-9, 13-14 and 2, vv 1-4 (RSV); Rejoice today with one accord (BBC HB 281)
The Children of Dynmouth, by WILLIAM TREVOR abridged in 15 parts by BARRY CAMPBELL. ..',
Read by Johnny Morris (5) Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
The first of two programmes written and narrated by June Knox Mawer 1: Paradise Found
The South Sea Islands and their people have held a special place tn the European imagination ever since the English discovery of Tahiti in 1767. June Knox-Mawer consulted diaries and contemporary accounts to discover some of the turning-points in a long and sometimes stormy relationship.
Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING
(Repeated: Sat 11.15 pm)
Presented by ' Charles Tomlinson
Readers Gabriel Woolf and Elizabeth Havelock * Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
Requests: Poetry Pleasel. BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
News, views, and advice: for consumers. Including World and Work with Ideas on careers and .training.
Presenters Nancy Wise
'and Bill Breckon . ' editor DAVID HABDING
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Chairman Robert Robinson 10: North of England
. Betty Evans
(Schoolteacher) Richard Boam (Male nurse)
Sheila Ramsden
(Hospital domestic) lail Spafford
(Solicitor)
Including Beat the ' Programme devised by JOHN P WYNN Questions set by IAN GILLES Producer RICHARDS EDIS (Repeated Thurs 6.30 pm)
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Presenter Brian Widlake
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Make it Your business: can a hobby, or a dream become a successful small business? Ron Alldridge reports
Professional Ethics: James Anderton, Chief Constable of Greater Manchester, discusses his personal moral standpoint.
Parents' Night: and a ray of hope for Margaret Korving and son.
Portrait of Islay: Doreen Taylor has visited this island in the south of the Hebrides.
'An Unlessoned Girl' by Margaret Maddocks, abridged in seven episodes by Doreen Estall
Read by Clare Horne (1)
Margaret Maddocks's parents come from very different stock: her mother from a handsome and easy-going Worcestershire family; her father's birthplace was Kettering - a world very similar to Arnold Bennett's Five Towns. 'There was the same provincial integrity, the same stifling convention, the same yearning for the stars.'
(Music: Grainger's Youthful Suite)
Story: The Boy with the Red Shoes by LEILA BERG
The Circus of State by VALERIE EDDEGESON
Canonising Sykes by DORIS BAILEY
Road by Sheila Mitchell
'It wasn't that people didn't Itke Uncle Sykes-there was nothing much-to like or dislike about him, but during the 30 years I knew him, I can only remember him opening his mouth to eat, drink, and to utter some utterly pessimistic comment oh tt'hat he considered to be his children's headlong flight into a life of sin.
Producer FRANCES DONNELLY
with Gordon Clough -and Janet Cohen
Editor DEREK LEWIS
including Financial Report
Frank Muir and .Alfred Marks investigate the humour of the subject,Ã with the voices of Woody Allen, Joyce Grenfell, Tom Lehrer, Max Boyce, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
(Record on Tues 1.40 pm)
Presented by Peter Evans
What is happening, in science. A weekly review
of discoveries and developments from the world's finding laboratories
Producer
DEBORAH COHEN
A Love Match
(on ne badine pas avec l'Amour)
by ALFRED DE MUSSET in an English version by DEREK COLTMAN with Marian Diamond and Simon Cadell Camille and Pedican were obviously made for each other and their marriage has long been planned. The fact that they're cousins is a slight snag, but one that can surely be got round, but Camille's desire to become a nun is a rather bigger obstacle. '
With ANTHONY HYDE and DAVID TIMSON
Directed'by JANE MORGAN (Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)
In the second of two talks about life in South Africa, Mary Goldring gives her impression of what it's life for the blacks and coloureds in the shanty towns like Crossroads, and in the plush middle-class suburbs like Mitchell's Plain.
A nigtitly review ot books. films, and broad
- casting, music and exhibitions. Presented by Paul Vaughan
Producer ANNE WINDER
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world. Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
(Broadcast Sat 12.27 pm)
The Death of the Heart by ELIZABETH BOWEN abridged for, radio in 15 parts by ANGELA THOMAE .Read by Jane Asher (1)
In London during the 30s,'
16 year-old Portia is sent to live with her wealthy half-brother, Thomas, after the death of her mother: She Is made to feel quite out,of place in the fashionable world of high society and Thomas's 'wife is remote and cold towards her. Her sense Of isolation leads to a pain-, ful first love affair Producer CHERRY COOKSON long' wove only
(Jane Asher is in ' Before the Partyj at the Queen's Theatre, London)
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