News, weather, papers and sport
A regional view of farming in the week ahead
Presented from the South East by Bryan Platt
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Presented by Libby Purves and Mike Wooldridge
6.45* Prayer for the Day with FR JOHN MCCULLAGH
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day Thoughts, Prayers, Reflec-tions: a collection of short talks, £1.35, from bookshops
A look ahead with Eugene Fraser
continues his investigations of the BBC Sound Archives, but once again comes to no serious conclusion.
(Repeated: Fri 11.45 pm)
The live talk programme which takes its own look at some of the topics of the forthcomings week, in the company of some of the personalities who will be making the news. Producer PETER ESTALL
BBC Correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people.
Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
NEM, p 25; Thou art the way; by thee alone (BBC HB 338); Psalm 27, part 1; Acts 11, vv 19-30 (Av); Holy Father, in thy mercy (BBC HB 386)
Dragonflight by ANNE MCCAFFREY abridged in 15 parts by MONICA GREY Read by ANNA CALDER -MARSHALL (6) On the planet Pern, Lessa has become guardian to Ramoth, the newly hatched golden dragon-queen.
Producer
JENYTH WORSLEY
A portrait of General Morris Abraham Cohen
Compiled and presented by Polly Binder
The story of a man born to Jewish immigrant parents in Whitechapel in 1899, who became the bodyguard of the father of the Chinese Revolution, Dr Sun-Yat-sen, and a General in the Chinese Army With the voices of: BERNARD BUCKMAN , REBECCA CASKET, QUEENIE COHEN VICTOR AND JEREMY COOPER CHARLES AND ENID DRAGE REUBEN ELVY. BILL FISHMAN JOHN STOWELL , KENYON MORRIS AND SARAH RICH and WILLIAM AND HILDA SEWELL Readings by Bernard Bresslaw as Cohen and Reuben Elvy as the reporter
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT (Repeated: Sat 10.15 pm)
The Facts and Fallacies of Dieting
I used to wake up every morning of my life for 27 years and think ' what did I have for dinner last night? ' and if it was cottage cheese and a salad I felt absolutely sensational. If the night before I'd had macaroni cheese and banana split - disaster - un-happiness - depres-sion!
(NANCY ROBERTS)
Presented by Caroline Parsons Producer
CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
News. views and advice for consumers.
Including World of work. with his on careers and training. Presented by Bill Brackon
Editor DAVID HARDING
Chairman
Robert Robinson
21: Midlands and East
Anglia (Round 2)
Anthony Richmond
(Schulmaster)
David Milnes
(Solicitor)
Peter Evans (Teacher)
Charles Ludlow (Photographic Interpreter)
The programme includes Beat the Brains
Listeners put their ques-tions to the contestants. Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN
Questions set by IAN GILLIES Producer
RICHARD EDIS
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news; long wave only
with voices and topics in and behind the headlines Presented by Brian Widlake
1,55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Sounds Mouthwatering (5): MARY BERRY demon-strates the art of making ice-cream.
Stories of a Plant Hunter: ROY LANCASTER on his lifelong interest. 1: Child-hood Influences
An Insight into the Job: SUSAN MARLING reports on Project Fullemploy, which trains youngsters and helps them hold down a job.
Return of the Great Cham: PHILIP HOWARD talking about Dr Johnson's Dic-tionary.
With Scarlet Majors (3) Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Patti Evans Sings a Lullaby by C. E. ELLIS
Over the Moon/Sick as a Parrot by NEVILLE SMITH
The Harz Mountains, on the borders of East and West Germany, were once renowned for their silver mines whose wealth made the region, for a brief time, the centre of the Holy Roman Empire. To-day it's rather a back-water
Erik de Mauny describes this wild and isolated re-gion. and some of its unusual local customs.
Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
Spring In the Air by DOROTHY RUSSELL
Read by Irene Sutcliffe
'When Miss Elizabeth Turner took up yoga she did so with enthusiasm and thoroughness. In a way, she was too thorough.'
Producer SALLY THOMPSON
with Joan Bakewell and Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
by PETER TINNISWOOD. A six-part comedy serial
5:Doctor Thumper and the Incredibly Inky Ruler
Producer GRIFF RHYS JONES
(Doreen Mantle and Robin Bailey are National Theatre players)
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
Presented by David Simmons
A weekly review of dis-coveries and develop-ments from the world's leading laboratories.
Producer DAVID PATERSON
by BERNARD SHAW with Bernard Shaw's famous ' history ' takes a typic-ally Shavian view of these two famous characters at the same time being an attempt ' to pay an instal-ment of the debt that all dramatists owe to the art of heroic acting.with Music composed and conducted by TERENCE ALLBRIGHT
Musicians SKAILA KANGA (harp), ALAN TOMLINSON (trombone), MICHAEL LAIRD and PETER REEVE (trum-pets), JOHN ROYSTON MIT-CHELL (percussion) Directed by IAN COTTERELL
(Revised repeat)
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer WAYNE DREW Editor ROSEMARY HART
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
A Diary Without Dates by ENID BAGNOLD abridged in four parts by NEVILLE TELLER Read by Wendy Hiller (1)
In 1914 the author was 25 years old. At the outbreak of war she went to work as a VAD nurse at the Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich. In 1918 she published this diary of er years there - a portrait of the whole minia-ture world of the hospital, self-absorbed, unreal, yet through the eyes of this watching, pitying girl. more real at this distance than the reality.
Producer GRAHAM GAULD
Weather report, forecast followed by an interlude
12.15-12.23* am
Shipping forecast and Inshore forecast
