6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Libby Purvcs
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV LESLIE STOKES
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Choosing a Degree Course Is it worth having a degree and, if so, what degree would be most likely to lead to the career you have in mind? How do you apply to a university, and when? Is a polytechnic degree as good as one from a university? What courses are available at colleges of further education? To answer your questions on these and related matters: Brian Heap , Careers Master at Hutton
Grammar School, Preston, and author of Degree
Course Offers, and Terry Smith , Career and Appointments Officer of the University of Hull. Jill Burridge is in the Chair. Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
NEM. p 50; Gracious Spirit, Holy Ghost (BBC HB 153); Psalm 89; Colossians 3, vv 1-11 (Rsv); Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round (BBC HB 321) long wave only
by Margaret Livingstone
Read by Eileen McCallum
BBC Scotland
A Change in the Advertised Programme by JOHN WILKIE
' Many of the ash and oak trees nearby are stunted and dying. Could this be because they are overgrown with ivy? '
Fred Slater , Peter Ferns and Bob Stebbings tackle questions on plants, birds and bats.
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
Presenter Bill Breckon
12.55 Weather: programme news
Presenter Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor
Small is Beautiful: SUE MARGOLIS visits Foslon Primary School in Yorkshire, whose few pupils keep winning iterary awards. Talking Point.
Keep Out Russian Fathers: BILL BAKER Visits a maternity hospital in the Soviet Union.
Closing Time:
RON ALLDRIDGE looks at what happens in the London underground when the tubes aren't running. Up the Crossing
7: My Uncle George
by MARY WEBB (1)
The last of six programmes: Predictions When will the world end? At 1.45 pm on 14 July
1961 believed the followers of an obscure
Indian sect. Astronomer* lay no claims to such precision. In fact, to make predictions is very dangerous, and many of the world's greatest scientists have ended with egg on their faces.
Yet decisions affecting the future have to be made constantly, so what is ihe best way to make them? David Jones investigates. Producer MARTIN GOLDMAN BBC Scotland
Four contestants compete in the second semi-final for the 1981 title, arranged by Garden News Chairman John Timpson Questions set by GEOFF AMOS
Producer TONY SHRYANE
BBC Birmingham
Poor Koko (2)
Presenters Joan Bakewell and Robert Williams
On VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast
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5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain
Chairman Robert Robinson 11: Home Counties Dr Hugh Weaver (hospital doctor) Richard Ellender < file clerk)
John MacMaster (civil servant)
Charles Shaw (teacher)
The programme includes Beat the Brains.
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN
Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS (Rptd: Thurs 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
An epic adventure in 12 parts in time and space including some helpful advice on how to see the Universe for less than 30 Altairian dollars a day. Fit the fourth: it has been revealed to Arthur that Earth has been built by the Magratheans and run by mice.
Meanwhile his companions have been suddenly confronted by something nasty (probably certain death). starring with and Special effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Written by DOUGLAS ADAMS Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
After the invasion of Norway in 1940 many
Norwegians escaped from their native shores to
Britain in small fishing boats. Landfall for them, as often as not, was somewhere in the Shetland Archipelago.
Soon, many were ferrying agents and equipment back to occupied Norway. Leif Larsen one of the legendary leaders from those days recalls, along with a few of the others involved, some of the memories of this hazardous operation that was called The Shetland Bus.
Research
ARCHIE P. LEE
Introduced and produced by Murdoch M. McPherson BBC
Scotland
Robin Ray traces, with records, the artistry and achievement of some of the world's greatest musicians.
This week: the Polish pianist Josef Hofmann Producer
CHRISTINE HARDWICK
In this edition Hannah Wright reports on the activities of the Partially Sighted Society.
Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Free quarterly bulletin, summarising information broadcast, available from Room 816, Broadcasting House, London WIA íAA
Includes a review of Ernest Hemingway's Selected Letters 1917-
1961: and the American radio version of Star Wars on Radio 1.
Presented by Paul Allen Producer CARROLL MOORE (Star Wars on R1 every day this week at 12 noon)
Peter Paterson reporting
The People of the Sea (7) long wave only
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Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
