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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 confronts producers and management with your criticisms and comments on the BBC.
Producer JOHN SKRINE Please send questions, criticism or praise about radio or television to; Feedback. BBC,
Broadcasting House. London WIA 4WW i Repeated: Sun 5.0 pm) long wave only
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Gold is still seen as a key factor in the world's monetary system. But there's less of it about than one would imagine and the worlds major suppliers are political enemies, South Africa and the USSR. Is there any chance of their monopoly being challenged? BBC
Economics Correspondent James Long reports.
A Radio News production by KEVIN RUANE
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NEM, p 1; Teach me, O Lord (BBC HB 473): Psalm 3; Romans 7. vv 1-13 (RSV); Bright the vision (BBC HB 269)
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Birthday by PETER ROBINS Read by Hugh Dicksun
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Terns, or sea follow the summer daylight down to the Antarctic, returning to Britain in our summer.
Introduced by Jim Flegg Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
Presenter Jenni Mills
12.55 Weather: programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake
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Introduced from Manchester by Marjorie Loflhouse
Battling Sue Brillam: a ringside report from
GEORGE BAYLEY on one of our champion women wrestlers.
Lord Rhodes of Saddleworth; talks about his life from 12-year-old mill boy to Knight of the Garter.
A Language Barrier: one in 10,000 children suffers from aphasia - the inability to talk. BRENDA KIDMAN follows the problems and progress of Caroline, now 16, in her efforts to develop natural speech. BBC Manchester Close to Home 19) long wave only
Over the Points by KEN BLAKESON and DAVE SIMPSON with John Webb and Karen Archer Brian, a railway enthusiast, and Julie, an avid admirer of the Brontes, hit upon the idea of spending their honeymoon in the Yorkshire village of Haworth. However, they quickly discover that pursuing their own individual interests can lead to problems.
Directed by MARTIN JENKINS
Geoffrey Smith talks to
Ken Ford about the week in his and your garden. Producer KEN FORD BBC Manchester
John Russell Brown presents the fifth of eight programmes. Well-Made Theatre
The traditional, well-made play has lost favour as playwrights seek new ways of representing present-day realities on the stage. Some dramatists though have chosen to adapt the traditional formula to their purposes.
John Russell Brown considers five such writers: Alan Ayckbourn, Michael Frayn, Simon Gray, Joe Orton and John Whiting.
Strange Meeting (5)
with Susannah Simons and Gordon Clough on VHF until 5.55
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including Financial Report
with Clive Jacobs
Stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport.
Producer STEPHEN PHELPS Editor GEOFF DOBSON
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Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC programmes over the past seven days. Producer PAT PRYOR
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Pauline is a black woman who lives in white South Africa. She works as a domestic servant, one of the few occupations she is allowed to follow since her life is so narrowly circumscribed by the laws of apartheid. Sue MacGregor shared that life for a day, in the house of the white family for whom she works in Cape Town, and on a visit to her sister's place in a nearby black township, thousands of miles from her real home in the Transkei.
Producer DEBORAH VOGEL (Repeated: Sat 4.10 pm)
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Antony Hopkins Baroness Phillips and Sir Horace Cutler from Walsworth Festival, Hitchin, Hertfordshire Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pin)
Includes an interview with Sir Hugh Casson, President of the Royal Academy, about his new book Diary, and a review of the 213th Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy. Presented by Sheridan Morley
Sheridan's Films: page 14
9.59 Weather
with Stephen Milligan
with David Jason
Hill Wallis , David Tale Sheila Steafel and the music of David Firman Written by GUY JENKIN , JOHN LANGDON, RICHARD QUICK. JEREMY BROWNE, BOB SINFIELD, BRIAN
BETHELL, TONY SARCHET and PETER HICKEY. Producer PAUL MAYHEW-ARCUER
(Repealed: Sat 5.25 pm)
The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (10): long wave only
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
