News, weather, papers and sport
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Presenters John Timpson and Hugh Sykes
6.45*Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.30,8.30Newsheadlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.59 Continental Travel Information
A series in which
June Knox-Mawer invites a traveller to talk about the one place, the one book, the one piece of music, to which he or she would choose to return in fact or fantasy. 1: Lyall Watson anthropologist, zoologist and best-selling author. Producer
BARBARA CROWTHER
The Great European Peace March
David Smeeton Joins the marchers on their way from Copenhagen to
Paris to protest against nuclear weapons in Europe.production
A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL
NEM, p 71: The Lord will come, and not be slow
,BBC HB 479); Psalm 97; Acts 18. vv 18-28 (AV); Thv kinKdom come, 0 God (BBC HB 27) long wave only
Crossroads byCOLINBEADON
Read by Garard Green
'You,' the old man said to the cashier,
'open the vault Fill one of the sacks. Fill it with £20 notes.'
A collection of stories about seals from all over the world. This week.
Sheila Anderson chooses the common seal.
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
Presenter Jenni Mills
12.55 Weather: programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake
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Introduced from Manchester by Marjorie Lofthouse What Would You Do
Without Met: sometimes Mum has to go away for a few days but who can take her place? JILL HOPKINS looks at the ' Rent-a-Mother ' service designed to meet the need. The Grand Old Sound of York: HELEN PICKI. ES meets six modern minstrels who have fulfilled their dream to revive a medieval musical tradition - YORK WAITES, the original
15th-century city band.
Lancashire Cookery Club: MARGARET TRAVIS and EVELYN ROSE devise some speedy summer dishes from the fridge and store cupboard.
BBC Manchester
More Work for the Undertaker (8)
Breezy Goes a Bomb A black comedy by KARL BARRY
' I'm an ordinary, decent Belfast businessman who only wants his factory blown up ... can no one anywhere help me?'
As it happens, there are plenty of organisations willing to help Breezy Muldoon with his problem. In fact, there are too many.
Directed by ROBERT COOPER
BBC Northern Ireland
Six glimpses of the Victorians and their society, presented by Antony Miall, through poems and songs of the period.
At first sight Victorian humour seems a contradiction in terms; but there were plenty of things that made them laugh.
Illyrlan Spring by ANN BRIDGE abridged in 13 parts by BARRY CAMPBELL. Read by ROSEMARY LEACH (13)
Producer DAVID JOHNSTON
Presenters Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather: programme news
Half-an-hour of reports from BBC newsmen around the world including
Financial Report
with Clive Jacobs bringing you stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport, including Continental Travel Information Producer
STEPHEN PHELPS
Editor GEOFF DOBSON
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from the BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days. Producer
JEREMY BinCHAI. L
(Repeated. Sat 10.45 am)
A personal portrait
(Repeated: Sat 4.10 pm)
Lord Scanlon, Janet Fookes, MP, Derek Robinson, David Penhaligon, MP tackle the issues raised by an audience from Helston, Cornwall
Chairman David Jacobs
BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? on Thursday at 6.30 to: Any Answers?, [address removed]
includes Hollywood in the Mirror, a season of rare films at the National Film Theatre which gives a privileged glimpse of life behind the camera; and a review of Heart-Beguiling Araby by KATHRYN TIDRICK. an examination of the English obsession with the Arabian desert. Presenter
Sheridan Morley
Producer BRIAN BARFIELD Shendan's films: page 13
John Morgan reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news. with Bill Wallis David Tate
Sheila Steafel Chris Emmett with the music of DAVID FIRMAN
Written by GUY JENKIN JOHN LANGDON, RICHARD QUICK. JEREMY BROWNE ,
BOB SINFIELD , BRIAN BETHELL , TONY SARCHET and PETERHICKEY Producer
PAl'l. MAYHEW-ARCHER
(Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm)
by Edmund Crispin abridged in ten episodes by Neville Teller
Read by Hugh Burden
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