News, weather, papers and sport
A regional view of farmIng in the week ahead
Presented from the South West by DAVID BUTLER BBC Bristol
6.25 Shipping forecast, long wave only
Presenters Libby Purves and Mike Wooldridge
6.45* Prayer jot the Day THE REV LESLIE STOKES
7.0; 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN , 7-30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Thoughts. Prayers, Reflec- . tions, a collection of short talks, £1.35, available from Bookshops
A look ahead with Christopher Slade
An autobiography by WYNDHAM LEWIS adapted for radio in ten parts by c. j. Fox
Read by TIMOTHY WEST 6: The 0 ' Pip Producer
TOM KINNINMONT BBC Scotland
from the Edinburgh Festival
The live talk programme which takes its own unpredictable look at the festival in the cempany of the personalities who'll be in the news. Producer PETER ESTALL
BBC Correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and. the people.
NEM, p 71; Praise ye the Lord ye servants of the Lord (BBC HB 280); Psalm 145, vv 13-21; Mark 4. vv 21-29 (RSV); Thy kingdom come, 0 God (BBC HB 27)
Missee Lee by ARTHUR RANSOMS abridged in 13 parts and read by GABRIEL WOOLF (.3) Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
"This motorway is a powerful weapon to add, to our transport system, but like all powerful instruments it can be a power for good or for evil." The words of Ernest Marples, opening the M1 in 1959. Twenty-one years later, Ian Morton talks to motorway users and assesses how the development of the network has affected lives and driving habits...
The Facts and Fallacies of Dieting people who don't like food, don't like anything -you don't like sex,' you don't lite anything it you don't like food. Boring? Thin people are boring
(TERRY WOGAN)
Presented by Caroline Parsons
ProducerCAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
News, views and-advice for consumers. Including, World of Work with ideas on careers and training. Presenter Jenni Mils Editor DAVID HARDING
(Details: Thurs 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presenter Brian Widtake. ,
1.55 Shipping forecast
,long wave only
With Sue MacGregor
What Shall We Tell the Children: (2) About Drink David HAWKSWORTH talks to a. family about the dangers of alcoholism. Reading Your Letters.
'The Poet, as Observer:
PAUL BURAvictim of polio, talks 10 JILL COCHRANE A Hebridean Voice .(4):
FINLAY J. MACDONALD. arguesthat one sight is better than two.
' A'Portralt of Jane Austen by DAVID CECIL ,'abridged by MONICA GREY jn 11 parts. Read'by LOOKWOOD WEST (11) , Music:Mozart's Clarinet Quintet in a)
Story : Little Blue Butterfly by ARGELA GRIFFITHS
by Alan Plater
An 'unfortunate physical incident' takes place in The Reverend Carter's parish.The Vicar's unorthodox reaction to this sets his parishioners against him; This results in the Vicar resigning.
BBC Manchester
by WILLIAM SAROYAN
Read by Barry Warren
Amusing it was, astoundingly funny. A trapeze to God, or to nothing, a flying trapeze to some sort of eternity; he prayed objectively for strength to make the flight with grace.
Producer Frances bonnelk
The newsmagazine
Presenters Gordon Clough , and Joan Bakewell
Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather:programme news
Half an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world including Financial Report
and the Man of God
The fifth of a series of 13 plays by JOHN MORTIMER (Details: Wed 10.30 pm)
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
Presented by David Simmons
What is happening In science?
A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world'* leading laboratories.
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
by BERNARD SHAW
A weekend party In Surrey at the house of John Tarletpn , a wealthy manufacturer of underwear, brings together guests both expected and unexpected, in a comedy concerning parents a,nd children. with John Robinson ' as John Tarleton
Gwen Ffrangcon-Davles as Mrs Tarleton
Anna Massey as Hypatia, their daughter
Peter Egan as Johnny, their son
Michael Aldridge as Lord Summerhays; a family friend
Christopher tood as Bentley, his son '
Anthony Smee as Joseph Percival , his Oxford friend
Jane Wenham as Una Szczepanowska, ab unexpected guest and Christopher Bidmead as The Man
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN (First broadcast in 1975)
with Michael Billington Producer JOHN POWELL Editor ROSEMARY HART
Presenter Douglas Stuart Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
The last seven d,ays put in a questionable way by Sheridan Morley to Alan Coren
Clement Freud , Mr Bel Mooney
Compiled by JOHN .LANGDON and the producer DANNY GREENSTONE
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Shendan's films: page 18
In Patagonia (6)
by Mozart. Haydn, Holst. and Bach: long wave only
Weather report: forecast long wave only followed by ah interlude
