Presented from the South East by Bryan Platt 6,25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Libby Purges and Hugh Sykes
6.45* Prayer for the Day CANON BARNEY MILLIGAN
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read bv CHRISTOPHER SLADE
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
with Harriet Cass
dusts off some further treasures from the BBC Sound Archives.
(Repeated: Fri 11.45 pm)
A lively matching of the personalities in the news this week.
Man without match Kenneth Robinson
Producer PETER ESTALL
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NEM. p 67; J& Father for another night (BBC^J
407): Psalm 46; Romkns
14, vv 1-13 (Rsv); Sing praise to God (BBC HB 18) long wave only
My Brother and Me by BRIAN GLANVILLE Read by Jeff
Producer mitcii RAPER
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'I always said God was against art and I believe it. Anything obscene or trivial is blessed in this world and has a reward. I ask for no reard only to live and to hear my work.'
A portrait of Sir Edward Elgar played by Nigel Stock and compiled by Michael Kennedy from the composer's words and music.
(Broadcast Sat 10.15pm)
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presenter Jenni Mills Editor DAVID HARDING.
The convoluted chronicle of an optimisticauthor starring Ian Carmichael as Gerald C. Potter and Charlotte Mitchell as his wife with Preston Lockwood Judy Franklin and John McAndrew
Book Four; Chapter Six: The VIPs
Written by BASIL BOOTHROYD Producer BOBBY JAYE
(Repeated: Tues 10.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
One news
Presented Brian Widlake
(Broadcast-Friday 7.5 pm)
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor
Talking Point way, I win ': said NOREEN RIOLS' husband after major heart surgery. Reading Your Letters
A Woman's Place is in the House: but what are the obstacles that have to be overcome for a woman to set into Parliament?
SONIA BEESLEY finds out.
A Death Out of Season (4) Editor WYN KNOWLES long wave only
A Full of Moondust by ARTHUR C. CLARKE
Novelist Dorothy Dunnelt follows a favourite walk along the old Border drove road from Skirling to Broughton. . Producer PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland
Bahama Crisis (8)
Presenters Joan Bakewell and Gordon Clough on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather programme news
Half-an-hour of reports., from the BBC Newsmen around the world including Financial Report
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
(Recised repeat oj 9.5 am)
Poor Pikeman bv EDWIN PEARCE
Six hundred years ago this month the brutal enforcement of a Poll Tax, imposed by the advisers of the boy king Richard II, proved the final straw in the burden carried by the bonded peasantry. They rose up in their thousands and marched on London. They were led by Wat Tyler , a retired soldier and known thief. But was he, as history has often supposed, the driving force behind the revolt, or merely the man at the front of the crowd?
Directed by ROGER PINE. BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)
includes the Glyndebourne Festival Opera's new production of The Barber oj Seville; and Niqhthawks, a new thriller starring SYLVESTER STALLONE.
Presenter Richard Cork Producer JOHN BOUNDY Editor ROSEMARY HART
with David Lay
Presented by Geoff Watts
What is happening In
V science? A weekly review owof discoveries and '.developments from the World's leading laboratories.
(Producer DEBORAH COHEN
The Sea Wolf by JACK LONDON abridged in 12 parts by KEITH DARVILL
Read by HARRY DENNEN f6) Producer MAURICE LEITCH long wave only
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Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
