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Presenters Libby Purves and Hugh Sykes
6.45 Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.08 Today's News Read by JOHN MARSH
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45 Thought for the Day
Alec McCowen. the actor, reads the last extract from his autobiographical account of his early life. 3: By Uneasy Stages
(Starting next Monday:
The Wheels of Chance by H. G. Wells )
3.59 Continental Travel Information
Your comments about BBC programmes and policy taken up with producers and management. producer JENNY DE YONG
(Repeated: Sun 5.0 pm)
Write to: Feedback, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW, or phone (01) [number removed], Fri to Sun
7.0-9.0 pm
At a time of world recession and widespread economic difficulties, arts festivals are booming; established events con. tinue and new ones are added,
BBC arts reporter, Gerry Forsey , examines the wide range of festivals staged around the world.
A Radio News production by JOHN ALLEN
NEM, p 21; Jesu, the very
Thought of thee (BBC m 322); Psalm 15; Mark 8. v 34 to 9, v 1 (Rsv); Stand up, stand up for Jesus (BBC HB 368)
I am David
3: I Come from a Circus
Phil Drabble 's choice today is the Badger.
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
Presenter Jenni Millf
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Presenter Brian Widlake
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Introduced by Kay Alexander from Birmingham
Grapes and Sympathy: visiting people in hospital can be an awkward and distressing experience.
Whatshouldvisitors bear in mind? Are there any golden rules? DAVID LLOYD reports.
I'm Not Asking Five
Pounds, Not Even Four Pounds ...': with their wit and patter, the market pitchers pull the crowds and bring colour to the market-place. But there are fears that the art is disappearing. MARGARET HORSFIELD reports.
Tales from the Day Before Yesterday: HARRY SOAN recalls one of the village characters he knew as a child. BBC Birmingham
The Day of the Triffidl (7)
Story: Mr Arthur Stock ing in Space by MARY CALVERT
Presenters NOLA YORK and DAVID BRIERLEY
Written by JANET BOULDING Producer DAVID BELL
by James Follett
He's home at 5.20 on the dot. A kiss from the wife as he goes indoors. A meal is waiting. Then a spot of weeding in an immaculate garden, then television. A nice cosy, ripple-free routine.
'Tomorrow, someone will declare war on that routine. Her combat-dress will be an indecently split-skirt, a tight sweater, and no bra.'
Five programmes presented by John Tidmarsh
3: Japanese Cuisine
Percy's Big Deal by MAURICE TAGGART
Read by Patrick Brannigan Producer JUDITH ELLIOTT BBC Northern Ireland
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5.55 Weather: programme news
including Financial Report
Richard Hudson-Evans including Continental Travel Information.
Producer DEBORAH CHRISTI. Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts Producer SIMON ELMES
(Rptd: tomorrow 10.45 am)
A personal portrait
John Buchan was very well-known for his public life - best-selling author, Member of Parliament, successful Governor General of Canada - but he was an intensely private man, devoting only a few pages of his autobiography to his family. All his life, however, he harked back to his childhood holidays spent in the Scottish Border country, and always regarded himself as a Borderer, although he never owned a house there.
In this programme Hugh Douglas demonstrates the importance which that part of the country had for John Buchan, and shows that he was not the only talented member of that generation of his family - or, indeed, its only best-selling author.
(Stereo/Binaural)
(The full binaural effect of this programme can be achieved by using stereo headphones)
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer ANNE WINDER
Stephen Milligan reporting
The last show before the inevitable second series of this intermittently amusing programme.
Written and performed by Robert Bathurst. Martin Bergman. Rory McGrath Jimmy Mulville and Emma Thompson
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
The Goshawk by T. H. WHITE abridged in ten episodes by JOY OSBORNE. Read by NORMAN RODWAY (10) Producer ANTON GILL
(Norman Rodway an associate member of the bsc) (Mon: the first of five stories by Anita Desai , read by Cheryl Campbell ) long wave only
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making oneself understood Four programmes
4: The Arty and the Crafty Producer SIMON ELMES (Revised repeat)
Dilly Barlow , up tempo
Weather report: forecast followed by an interlude
