News, weather. papers and sport
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Presenters Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Tom Vernon takes up your complaints and comments about BBC programmes and policy with producers and management.
Producer JOHN SKRINE
(Repeated: Sun 5.0 pm) Please send questions, criticisms or praise about radio or television to: Feedback, BBC,
Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW
Twenty years ago this weekend, Yuri Gagarin became the first man to orbit the earth in a spacecraft.
James Wilkinson, the BBC's Science Correspondent, reviews the progress made since then and the future of man in space.
A Radio News production by John Allen
(Repeated: Sat 3.25 pm)
NEM, P 9; O worship the King, all glorious above (BBC HB 471); Psalm 65; Matthew 26, vv 57-68 (AV); The spacious firmament on high (BBC HB 21): (long wave only)
Book, New Every Morning, £1.75 hardback and £1.25 paperback, from bookshops
The Zuecarelli Copy by MARK BOURNE
Read by Robert Rietty
There are many luxuries that a man can enjoy in life but the greatest luxury of all is a sense of grievance. And a sense of grievance is what
Emilo Chespi has against Luigi D Amato.
Barbershop quartet and chorus singing has grown since the mid-70s from three or four clubs in Britain into the British Association of Barbershoppers with 45 clubs and over 1,200 singing members.
On the eve of the 1981 BABS Convention Kevin Morrison looks at this rapidly growing activity, ,talks to some of the exponents of the art and listens to their music. Producer DAVID WELSBY BBC Birmingham
The red eye and superb chequer-board back of the great northern diver is nothing when compared with its voice - surely one of the most beautiful sounds of the wild.
Introduced by Jim Flegg Producer JOHN IIARRISON BBC Bristol
Presenter Bill Breekon
12.55 Weather: programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake
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Introduced from Cardiff by Noreen Bray
Sing for Your Supper: until last month JEFFREY LAWTON was managing director of a company employing 2.500. Faced with redundancy when his firm was closed down, he has now joined the chorus of the Welsh
National Opera Company. Wales Out of Work: can this weekend's conference of the Welsh Labour
History Society provide any answers?
Principal and Student: Head of St David's University College.
PROFESSOR BRIAN MORRIS iS also a first year student in his own college. BBC Wales
The River (2)
Separate Table - No 7 The second in a season of plays by TERENCE RATTIGAN with Nigel Stock
Margaret Courtenay and Joanna David
The residents of the Beauregard Private Hotel, near Bournemouth, are deeply shocked when they discover that one of their fellow guests is not all that he has appeared to be.
Separate Tables was first produced at the St
James's Theatre, London, in September 1954.
Directed by PAT TRUEMAN
The lirst of 13 programmes
Geoffrey Smith talks to
Ken Ford about the week in his and your garden. Producer KEN FORD BBC Manchester
6: The Art of the Storyteller
Certain people have the knack of telling a good tale. But what is it that makes it so endearing? Is it something in the tale itself, or is it in the telling?
In the final programme, Toni Arthur examines the art of creative story telling.
Scriptwriter DAVF. ARTHUR Researched by rosy voss Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN
Greenwitch
4: In the Caravan
Presenters Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
including Financial Report
with Clive Jacobs
The. world of travel and transport.
Producer DEBORAH CHRISTIE Editor GEOFF DOBSON
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)
with June Knox-Mawer
Producer JEREMY BIRCHALL (Repeated: Sat 10.45 am)
A personal portrait
(Repeated: Sat 4.40 pm)
Peter Jay
Ian Mikardo. MP
Geoffrey Johnson Smith , MP and Ann Leslie tackle the issues raised by the audience at Fair Oak. Hampshire.
Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)
Sheridan Morley presents reviews of Cavalcade by Noël Coward at the Redgrave Theatre,
Farnham; and the novel The Tokyo-Montana Express by Richard Brautigan. Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
9.59 Weather
with Alexander MacLeod
An irreverently critical look back at the weeks news with David Jason , Bill Wallis
Sheila Steafel , Jon Glover and music by DAVID FIRMAN
'Written by GUY
JENKIN JOHN LANGDON , RICHARD
QUICK, ANDY WILSON , JEREMY BROWNE , BOB SINFIELD. BRIAN BETHELL ,
TONY SARCHET. PETER HICKEY Producer
PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
(Repeated: Sat 5.25 pin)
Five stories by GRAHAM GREENE 5: Brother
The proprietor was daunted by the four men at the door, by the knowledge that they were Reds who had no respect for private property.' long wave only
(Starting on Mon: ' Billy Budd ' by Herman Melville)
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