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Presenters Libby Purvel and Mike Wooldridge including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

8.59 Continental Travel Information

Bernard Braden takes up Hour comments about BBC programmes and policy with producers and management.
Producer JENNY Dt YONG (Repeated: Sun 5.0 pm)
Please send questions, criticisms, or praise about radio or television, to: Feedback, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW
Every letter cannot be answered, but each one will be read.

BBC Correspondents around the world cast their collective eye on a contemporary issue.
A Radio News production by JOHN ALLEM

NEM, p 46; The Son of God his glory hides (BBC HB 68); Psalm 32; Mark 2, vv 1-12 (Rsv); The Church's one foundation (BBC HB 184)

Greenmantle by JOHN BUCHAW abridged by BARRY CAMP BELL in 11 instalments
Read by iain CUTHBERTSON 8: The Battered Caravan-serai
Producer TOM KINNINMONT BBC Scotland

Vincent Kane presents a programme looking at The Lighter Side of Life. Parody, poetry and satire applied to normally weighty matters like politics. economics, sex, culture and so on. Also a chance to meet again some of the characters created in previous series. Written and produced by VINCENT KANE
Programme assistant MARIA SOBEY BBC Wales

News, views and advice for consumers
Presenter Bill Breckon

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Presenter Peter Hobday

1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only

Introduced by Jenni Murray from Bristol
Guest: Frank Judd , Director of Voluntary Service Overseas.
Watershed: an arts project in Bristol reliant on business sponsorship, prompts a discussion on the relationship between industry and the arts.
BRENDA WOOTTON , first lady of Cornish folk song, on the musical traditions of Cornwall.
If Wet, in the Church Hall: JOHN WALMSLEY looks behind the scenes at a village fete. BBC Bristol A Portrait of Jane Austen (5)

Granny Week
Story: Grandad's Cup o' Tea by D. STEINER
Presenters PAT GALLIMORE and TONY AITKEN
Written by MOIRA MILLER Producer DAVID BELL

A Fair Hearing by j. C. WILSHER
When Ronnie refuses to be party to a rather shady deal, he loses his job as a shop manager. Knowing that he was in the right, he takes the case to an industrial tribunal, but discovers that this creates more problems than it solves.
Directed by MICHAEL BARTLETT

Seven programmes about the science of growing things.
6: Special Care and Protection
A greenhouse can give great advantages, even unheated. Dr Glyn Jones finds out about the best ways of growing plants that need protection.

Something I Never Had by PETER HAWKINS Read by Valerie Georgeson
It did cross my mind that I could have pushed her down the cellar steps and nobody the wiser, but I wasn't taking any more and that was the end of it. So I walked her along the passage, opened the door and pushed her outside.' Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

5.51 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news

Half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world including Financial Report

Richard Hudson-Evans brings you stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport including Continental Travel Information
Producer DEBORAH CHRISTIE Editor ROGER MACDONALD

(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)

Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days.

A personal portrait

A series of five programmes on people who have played an important, sometimes decisive, part in the life and work of a famous man or woman.
2: The Love of Two Equals The friendship and marriage of John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor by PATRICIA PAVLEDIS with John Rye as Mill Lolly Cockerell as Harriet Taylor and John Bott
Rowena Roberts and Michael McStay Narrator Judy Parfitt
From 1830 to 1851 a ' passionate ' friendship and collaboration existed between Mill and Harriet Taylor , a married woman with three children. DurIng these years Mill wrote The System of Logic and Political Economy, of which he would have liked to name Harriet as joint author. The relationship was accepted by her husband, John Tay lor, ' an innocent, dull, good man'. When he died, Mill and Harriet married in 1851, but not until Mill, a convinced feminist, had formally renounced the conventional husband's rights over his wife. She died in 1858. Directed by Richard KEEN

Cooke looks back at his own coverage of previous Democratic nomination campaigns including Truman and Dewey in 1948; and the current battle between Jimmy Carter and Edward Kennedy.

by Alistair Cooke
(Repeated: Sun 9.15 am) Alistair Cooke 's America. hardback £7.50, paperback £5.25, from bookshops

Presented hy
Sheridan Morley
Producer CARROLL MOORE Sheridan's Films: p 23

with Alexander MacLeod

A comedy series featuring tonight the rudest word in the universe
Written and performed by Robert Bathurst Martin Bergman Rory McGrath
Jimmy Mulville and Emma Thompson
Featuring a short dramatisation of St Mark 's account of the miracle of the working telephone box.
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS

Summer Lightning (15) i Starting Monday: In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin ) long wave only

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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude