News. weather, papers and sport
Presented from the North by Ken Ford
A regional view of farming in the week ahead
BBC Manchester
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Tinipson and Libby Purves
6.45' Prayer for the Day with the RT REV MICHAEL HARE-DUKE
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by CHRISTOPHER SLADE
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45' Thought for the Day
A look ahead with Harriet Cass
dusts off some further treasures from the BBC Sound Archives.
(Repeated: Fri 11.45 pm)
'Witty', informative', 'better than a good breakfast', are just a selection of the inventive phrases you may use after listening to 55 minutes of non-stop entertainment with the personalities of the week.
Scrabble champion Kenneth Robinson Corrections by Fred Housego
Producer PETER ESTALL
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NEM. p 71; The Lord doth reign (BBC HB 476): Psalm 97; Matthew 11. vv 16-30 (Av); Thv kingdom come, O God (BBC HB 27) long wave only
The (iirl in the Wood by GRAHAM EDWARDS
Bead by Sion Probert Producer MITCH RAPER long only
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With the help of records, Derek Parker introduces some glaring examples of plagiarism in the world of popular music.
Producer RONALD COOK long wave only
poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners. Presented by Patricia Beer
Readers HUGH BURDEN: GARY WATSON and PENELOPE LEE
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
Requests: Poetry Please.', BBC. Bristol BSS 2LR longwave only
News, views and advice for consumers.
Presenter Bill Breekon Editor DAVID HARDING
Martin Jarvis
P.J. Kavanagh
Arthur Marshall and Joan Turner are quizzed on sayings funny and fatuous.
Common sense is not so common. (VOLTAIRE) Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Devised and presented by NIGEL REES
Producer ALAN NIXON (Rpl)
12.55 Weather: programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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Introduced by Chris Mohr Will it Kill the Radio Stars!: BOB PRIZEMAN looks at the increasing number of ways that video is affecting our lives.
I See a Need.....?
LINDSAY MACKIE meets people who've led a campaign. (2) - ANITA BALLA, who started the first hostel for Asian women.
Forthcoming Attractions: GORDON GOW previews films on BBCtv during the next fortnight.
In the Garden Shed: JANE reports on soil fertilisers.
An Open Book by MONICA DICKENS abridged by ANN REESJONES Read by JENNIE GOOSENS (4) Editor WYN KNOWLES long wave only
The Last Viking by DONALD CAMPBELL
An occasional series about people who are happy at their work. This week: Sister Black, midwife.
BBC Birmingham
The Towers of Trebizond 9: The Hills of Zion
The news magazine Presenters Gordon Clough and Robert Williams 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
Deceit
Frank Muir and Alfred Marks investigate this despicable practice, producing evidence from great minds. lesser minds, newspapers and the recorded voices of BOB NEWHART. PETER COOK and DUDLEY MOORE. MICHAEL BENTINE , JOHN CLEESE.
JO KENDALL. MICHAEL FLANDERS and DONALD SWANN
There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. It he says ' Yes ', you know he's a crook.
(GROUCHO MARX)
Written by FRANK MUIR and simon BRETT
Producer SIMON BRETT
(Repeated: Wed 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
The Man Who Lived Among Eskimos by FREDERICK BRADNUM : with Julian Glover John Rowe and Elizabeth Proud
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter, urban guerrilla, member of the Resistance. Once upon a time it seemed as simple as that to two men. when on opposing sides Then the tide turned, one was hunted and went missing; the other married a girl he met when he was the hunted, and settled to a fairly conventional life. Only the past arrived on his doorstep to take him hostage, in the manner eskimos once had when near to death. with JOHN BOTT.
ALAN DUDLEY. STEPHEN GARLICK , JANE KNOWLES.
JOHN LIVESEY , DAVID MCALISTER. IRENE PRADOR and MICHAEL SPICE
Music arranged by TERENCE ALLBRIGHT
Directed by IAN COTTERELL (Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)
by Robert Fox who looks at some of the great pilgrim abbeys of Italy.
Producer PADDY O'KEEFFF.
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presenter Richard Cork Producer TOM SUTCLIFFE Editor ROSEMARY HART
John Morgan reporting with voices and opinions from around the world Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Presented by Peter Kvans What is happening in science?
A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories.
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
The Harpole Report (6) long wave only
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MONEY MATTERS: p 73
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Weather report: forecast followed by an interlude
