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Presented by Brian Redhead with LIBBY ruRVES
6.45* Prayer for the Day With THE REV DAVID CAINE
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.38. 8.30 News headlines
7.45. Thought for the Day
Action Desk Edition
In which the Checkpoint team take on bureaucracy and business to solve listeners' problems.
Halfway between Orkney and Shetland lies Fair Isle - 2,000 exposed acres of cliff, croft and moor set in a stormy sea and teeming with bird life. Sam Berry takes you on a mid-summer Nature Trail on the most isolated inhabited island of the British Isles.
Presented by Derek Jones
(BBC Bristol)
(Broadcast Sun 4.30 pm)
Even in these days of economic gloom, enterprise can still pay off. and this12-week series concentrates on the success stories of people who come out on top.
1: The Jazz College
Jazz pianist Stan Barker has given up his job to teach young people about jazz improvisation. He tours local schools and colleges with top professional musicians and gives anyone who comes along with an instrument the chance to take part in a very special kind of jazz masterclass. Presented by Derek Robinson
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
NEM, p 38; King of glory, King of peace (BBC HB 325); Psalm 24; James 1. vv 2-18 (av); The Lord ascendeth up on high (BBC HB 133)
Dragonflight (9)
A Licence to Make Programmes
A dozen cautionary tales from Phil Smith based on his own (usually disastrous) attempts to beat the economic crisis. 6: Keeping Warm BBC Manchester
News. views and advice for consumers. Including JILL TODD and the BBC Shopping Basket.
Presented by Bill Breckon
Martin Jarvis
P. J. Kavanagh Arthur Marshall and Joan Turner are quizzed on sayings funny and fatuous - taken from books, journals and walls, or simply overheard.
When we risk no contradiction
It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction
(JOHN GAY)
Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher. Devised and presented by Nigel Rees Producer ALAN NIXON
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presented by Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGrcgor
'I Missed Chips and Chocolate ': Tibetan nurse YOUDON LHAMO returned to her people in India after a Western education at the Pestalozii Children's Village in Sussex.
Talking Point: opinions and ideas ...
Reading Your Letters.
Summer Sense: DR TREVOR WESTON gives advice about your holiday health.
Church versus State in Brazil: JONATHAN POWER reports on the occasion of the Pope's visit.
Smallbone Deceased (2)
Story: Fingy and the Magic Stone by DIANA WEBB
Geometry by RACHEL WYATT Alfred Burke as George Anna Cropper as Ellen Anthony Hyde as Giles
Two into three goes once and one over, as George and Ellen discover when they befriend Giles - a new young teacher at their comprehensive school.
Directed by PAT TRUEMAN
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 BBC Bristol
The Fast Finish. Written and read by Harry Towb Goldie and Mcllhaggar (brains and brawn in that order), team up again for their latest fiddle - this time it's dog racing.
' It's the quickest thing on four legs since Red Rum.'
'Red Rum was a horse.'
'Horse Borsht? What does it matter? They both got four legs.'
Producer ROBERT COOPER BBC Northern Ireland
(Harry Towb is a National Theatre player)
The Greyhound Derby: see feature: page 4
with Robert Williams and Gordon Clough
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
Written by MARY CUTLER (Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm)
BBC Birmingham
A personal selection of poems presented by poet and novelist John Wain Readers DIANA BISHOP and GEOFFREY COLLINS Producer ALEC REID
conductor
HERBERT VON KARAJAN
EDITH MATHIS (soprano)
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 1, in F (BWV 1046)
Wales, in the last of a series of three programmes. He last wrote about the Principality in 1964 ' when the Welsh Office was established'. Recently he crossed the Severn again to 'take another look at the land of my maternal grand-mother
Producer PETER ESTALL
Part 2 Mahler
Symphony No 4, in G
(Austrian Radio recording)
Including a review of the David Rodney exhibition at the Tate Gallery in London
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer CARROLL MOORE
Anthony Howard report*
at Bedtime
A Diary Without Dates <4)
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
12.15-12.23* am Shipping forecast; Inshore forecast