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Presenters Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.45* Prayer for the Day with MARJORIE NEWMAN
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45- Thought for the Day
Including The Week so Far by Russell Davies
Producer IAN GARDHOUSE
visits Durham, where members of the Trimdon Village Women's Institute put their questions to CLAY JONES
BILL SOWERBUTTS and PROFESSOR ALAN GEMMELL Questionmaster KEN FORD BBC Manchester
NEM p 110 Beloved, let us love (BBC HB 373); Psalm 138; 1 Corinthians 12 vv 21-31a (AV); My soul, there is a country (BBC HB 526)
The Moon in the Cloud (8)
says Cardew Robinson to Tom Mennard, Bernie Clifton and Tony Peers
KEN FRITH (piano)
Producer MIKE CRAIG BBC Manchester
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presented by Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: Barry Took , writer and broadcaster
New York Report: with HELENE HANFF
Any Other Business: JANET COHEN reviews some of the more domestic issues recently raised at Westminster.
All About.... (2): The Onion Family, from KATE HASTROP
The House in Paris (5)
Barry Took 's Preview: p 17
Beatrix Potter Week
Story: The Tale of Tom Kitten , abridged by. MOIRA MILLER
The Brontes of Haworth
The true story of a unique family dramatised in five parts by CHRISTOPHER FRY with Estelle Kohler , Jane Knowles and Vicki Ireland as Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte
Brian Hewlett as their brother, Branwell and Denys Hawthorne as their father. The Reverend Patrick Brontë
2: Home and Abroad in which Charlotte travels to Belgium and becomes a governess, and Branwell gets a job on the railways. with Sheila Allen as Mrs Gaskell , who'tells the story
Directed by DICKON REED
A BBC World Service Drama production
from Southwark Cathedral, London
Introit: Surely thou hast tasted that the Lord is good (Rose)
Responses (Rose)
Psalms: 114, 115 (Tonus Peregrinus, South)
First Lesson: Genesis 1, vv 26-31 and 3, vv 22-24 Canticles (Sumsion in A)
Second Lesson: Revelation 21, vv 1-7
Anthem: Welcome, sweet and sacred feast (Finzi) Director of Music HARRY BRAMMA
The Anniversary by ARTHUR APPLETON
Read by Peter Tuddenham
with Robert Williams and Janet Cohen
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
(Details : Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40pm)
On 30 June 35 excited 11-year-olds from St Mark's Primary School left Upper Holloway in London to spend a week at Nethercott in Devon.
For many of the children it was their first taste of the countryside and working on a real farm turned out to be rather different from the idealised world they'd seen portrayed in books and on television. Hugh Sykes went with them.
by Anthony Smith
Michael and the 456 Dragons
Up go the rate demands and out come the swords as town halls prepare to do battle with Michael Heseltine and the rest of the Cabinet over the continuing high level of local authority spending. But the battle is developing into the wider issue of Whitehall v local control. Mary Goldring reports. Producer TOM READ
(Repeated: Thurs 11.5 am)
Colin Ford talks to Vincente Minelli who, having developed a great reputation as a Broadway designer, went on to Hollywood and, with MGM, directed many films.
Producer RICHARD DUNN
Douglas Stuart reporting
The first in a series of 13 plays by John Mortimer in which Horace Rumpole, barrister-at-law, is concerned with a disquieting incident at Lord's Cricket Ground. He investigates the truth of a true confession and learns the drawbacks of being an Old Bailey Hack.
Directed by Ian Cotterell
Summer Lightning (3)
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Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
