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Presented by Brian Redhead With HUGH SYKES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV STUART GIBBONS
7.0 8.0 Today's News
Read by EUGENE FRASER
77.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Four programmes in which Tony Lewis looks at some spectacular acts which take place at the fair and showground, and talks to the men and women involved.
3: Stunts Blondini
The Amazing Blondini with his Exploding Coffin, Gale Gordon , female escapologist, and Joe Weston-Webb with his Motobirds and Human Cannon. Producer
DAVID RAYVERN ALLEN
Herbsleads Dr Malcolm Stuart leads Derek Jones along * radio nature trail in search of the wild plants that have long served man - such as agrimony, used as an antibiotic and a yellow dye: cleavers for purifying the blood and as a coffee substitute; feverfew for migraine and to repel moths. Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
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Twelve programmes about the people who are winning against the odds.
5: John and Heather Penn Four years ago they were both students - now they run a large factory in Nottingham manufacturing the sophisticated electronic equipment of the popular music industry.
They talk about the beginnings and prospects of their ambitious venture. Producer GEOFFREY HEWITT BBC Birmingham
NEM, p 17; Praise the Lord! ye heavens, adore him (BBC HB 16); Psalm ill; 1 Corinthians 15, vv 12-28; God of grace and God of glory (BBC HB 391)
Greenmantle. 2: The Adventures of Two Dutchmen
A doien cautionary tales from Phil Smith , based on his own (usually disasj trous) attempts to beat the economic crisis. 10: Road to Ruin BBC Manchester
News, views and advice for consumers including Jill Todd and the BBC Shopping Basket.
Presenter Bill Breckon
Douglas Adams Judi Dench
Russell Harty and Kenneth Robinson are quizzed on sayings funny and fatuous - taken from books, journals and walls, or simply over. heard.
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this man's being unable tositstillin aroom
(BLAISE PASCAL) Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher
Devised and presented by Nigel Rees
Producer ALAN NIXON
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Presenter Robin Day
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with Sue MacGregor
Talking Point; opinions and ideas ...
From Primary to Secondary: teacher MARY RUSSELL recalls the culture shock involved!
Reading Your Letters.
Pie in the Sky: or how your airline meal gets up there. JOHN HEDGES follows the plastic tray through cooking to eating.
The' House In Paris by ELIZABETH BOWEN abridged in 11 episodes by SALLY SKRIMSHIRE
Read by SIÂN THOMAS (11)
Story: Little Green Frog by EUGENIE SUMMERFIELD
Book: Listen with Mother Stories, £3.25 from bookshops
The Summer Madness by JOHN P. ROONEY
On 2 November 1920 at Dagshai prison in India, a British soldier was shot for mutiny. His name was James Daly and, like all the men of the Connaught Rangers, he was an Irish-man.
This play is the story of how a peaceful demonstration against the infamous activities of the Black and Tans in Ireland became a mutiny in India.
Directed by ROBERT COOPER BBC Northern Ireland
A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions? Introduced by David Jacobs roducer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Address for letters: Any Answers!, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Traumatic Events in Tennyson Street by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by Frank Windsor
' Some ot the residents of Tennyson Street had lived there for 40 or 50 years. Such a one was Miss Helllwell, a dear old lady who had a rather fierce cat which carried on a guerrilla war against various dogs In the neighbourhood.
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
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1.15 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
25 London and Rome Counties (Semi-final 1)
Written by MARY CIRCUIT (Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
A personal selection of poems presented by poet and novelist John Wain
Readers GEOFFREY COLLINS and CHRISTOPHER SCOTT Producer ALEC REID
direct from the Royal Albert Hall,
London
Ken Noda (piano) English Chamber Orchestra leader JOSÈ-LUIS GARCIA conducted by Daniel Barenbolm Part
Schubert Symphony No 3, in D major
Mozart Piano Concerto No 24, in c minor (k 4(1)
A talk from the BBC Sound Archives by Vernon Scannell
(First broadcast in 1963)
Part 2
Webern Concerto for nine instruments (Op 24) Mozart Symphony No 41, In c major (Jupiter) (K 551)
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presented by Chris Dunkley
Producer CARROLL MOORE
Anthony Howard reporting
Summer Lightning (9)
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Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
