News, weather, papers and sport
Presented from Northern Ireland by John Johnston A regional view of farming in the week ahead BBC Northern Ireland
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at the EEC Summit
Mrs Thatcher and her fellow Community leaders meet again today to face some of the unresolved questions of Europe.
Libby Purves is in Luxembourg for the meeting. In London Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day With FR JOHN MCCULLAGH
7.9. 8.0 Today's News
Read by CHRISTOPHER SLADE
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
A look ahead with John Marsh
reflects on life in and out of the BBC Sound Archives.
(Repeated: Fri 11 45 pm)
The live talk programme which takes its own distinctive look at some of the topics and personalities of the coming week.
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NEM, p 50; 0 King enthroned on high (BBC HB 158); Psalm 86; Hebrews 9, vv 13-26 (RSV); Eternal ruler of the ceaselest round (BBC HB 321)
The Children of Dynmouth by WILLIAM TREVOR abridged in 15 parts by BARRY CAMPBELL
Read by JOHNNY MORRIS (15) Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol long wave only
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Introduced by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas
After ten years and one-and-a half-million visitors. The Lake District National Park looks forward to a new decade. Pat Callaghan talks to John Nettleton. Eric Simms looks at the bird life of the Cambridgeshire fenland and Robert Powell visits fens of a different kind - in Somerset's Sedgemoor. Martin Muncaster investigates a one-woman spinning industry in Sussex. Keith Allan looks for mad March hares in Northumberland and Helen Madden visits Rathlin Island in the North Channel...
BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Sat 11.15 pm)
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Some of the poetry requested by listeners Presented by Charles Tomlinson
Readers Elizabeth Bell and Douglas Leach
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
Requests: Poetry Please!, BBC, Bristol BSS 2LR
News, views and advfee for consumers. Including World of Work with ideas on careers and training. Presenters Nancy Wise, and Bill Breckon
Editor DAVID HARDING
HELP: page 11
Chairman Robert Robinson 12: Home Counties (2) * Anthony Kerron
(Chemical Engineer) Joan Townsend Tim Roberts
(Civil Servant) Ann Wheeler
The programme Includes Beat the Brains in which listeners put their questions to the contestants. Programme devised by JOHN p. WYNN. Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30 pm)
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Presenter Brian Wldlake and voices and topics in and behind the headlines
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Make it Your Business: can a hobby, of a dream, become a successful smaTl business? RON ALLDRIDGE reports.
Reading Your Letters.
Professional Ethics: ROBIN GOURLAY , Public Affairs Manager for BP, discusses his personal moral standpoint.
Entertaining at. Home: EVELYN ROSE offers advice to aspiring hostesses. 1: Getting into the Right Gear.
The Long Dark Day: DOREEN TAYLOR investigates the effects of the 24-liour night in Norway.
Never Cry Wolf (4)
Editor WYN KNOWLES long wave only
story Little Pig Perkins. . Looks for a Good Ho?ne by ELIZABETH ROBINSON
A Resistance to Pressure by STEVE GALLAGHER
Olympics in Paradise by ROBERT OVERTON
Read by Paul Eddington
' The South Sea Friendly Island Games has just been through something of a crisis. It all started with an unfortunate confrontatton between me and the Governor on the verandah of Government House.
' " It's hard luck Overton". said his Excellency, but your court-house will have to be demolished! "
Producer FRANCES DONNELLY (Postponed /rom 25 March) (Paul Eddington is in 'Middle Age Spread' at the Lyric Theatre, London)
The news magazine ' with Gordon Clough and Joan Bakewell Editor DEREK LEWIS
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5.55 Weather; programme news
Half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world including Financial Report
A marital black comedostarring Betty Marsden and Hugh Paddick
2: The Charity Shop ; With SHEILA STEAFEL TAMMY USTINOV and PATRICIA HAYES
Written by BARRY PILTON
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
Presented by Peter Evans
What is happening in science?, A weekly review of discoveries opments From i^laaiifTig iabo;ai ; leading laboratory
A Very Nuclear Family by JENNIFER PHILLIPS with Prunella Scales as Nora James Warwick as Harry Glynis Brooks as Jill Rod Beacham as Joe
For a newly married couple still living in her parents' home, an obsession with wedding presents In a consumer society is normal enough, but the fact that Joe poisons a rabbit, Jill threatens to kill herself and Nora is over-fond of her son-in-law, suggests that beneath the good humour and chat over the morning papers, someone hides a very private soft of weapon for destruction.
Directed by LIANE AUKIN
(Repeated: Sun 11 May)
. (Prunella Scales is in Make and Break ' at the Haymarket Theatre, London)
A series of three talks
Since the late 1960s, two distinct strands of American right-wing opinion have emerged, with similar ambitions but separate methods and membership. In his second talk, the British playwright David Edgar reveals what he learnt of both during his recent years travel in the United States.
(Next talk 12 May)
Presenter Paul Vauffhan Producer JANE STENNING
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world. Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
It's a gruelling business, but the more you do the better training you're in. I still exercise and work every morning at home. It should be part and parcel of one's life, as common as getting up. washing your face and doing your teeth.'
Beryl Grey talks about her life and work in ballet to Sue MacGregor. Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
The Death of the Heart (11) long wave only
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Book, The BBC Guide to Parliament, £4.50, from bookshops
Weather report; forecast long wave onty followed by an interlude
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