A note from Religious Affairs Correspondent Gerald Priestland
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Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
with Norman Tozer
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with Tony Lewis Today featuring:
Davis Cup Tennis: MAX ROBERTSON reports from
Christchurch. where Great Britain have just finished their second dav's play against New Zealand. Cycling: an unusual look at the Tour de France, the world's most gruelling race.
A Radio Sport and OB production
8.5S Continental Travel Information
Introduced by Bernard Falk , with help from
NIGEL COOMBS and SUSAN marling , taking a critical look at the holiday, travel and leisure scene.
Producer jenny Marshall Editor GEOFF DOBSON
For information sheets send a large sae to: Breakaway, BBC[address removed]
Desmond Wilcox takes a look at the weekly magazines.
Producer JOY HATWOOD
with Elinor Goodman Producer ELLIE updale
New Every Morning, page 67: 0 Holy Ghost. thy people bless (BBC hb 156); Psalm 119 part 3; Ephesians 1. vv 3-14 CRSv); 0 God of earth and altar (BBC HB 394)
Margaret Howard presents her selection from BBC programmes.
Producer PETER flinx
Jeanine McMullen talks to those who run their own businesses and keep animals and poultry on a small scale, and meets country characters.
Written and compiled by JEANtNE MCMULLEN
Producer Sarah pitt BBC Bristol
The last seven days put in a questionable way by Simon Hoggart to Alan Coren
Richard Ingrams Joan Bakewell and Hunter Davies
Written and compiled by JOHN langdon. Producer DANNY GREENSTONE
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Lord Scanlon Janet Fookes , mp Derek Robinson
David Penhaligon. MP
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Presented by Derek Jones
Managerial Circles by GERRY MCKEE with Dennis has worked his way up from the bottom and now runs a small printing firm in London. Ray is one of his employees. On this particular morning.
Dennis has called Ray into his office with the sole purpose of firing him. Dennis is loud-mouthed, arrogant, critical. Ray, normally shy and inarticulate, decides to retaliate with a few criticisms of his own and it becomes a battle of wits between the pair of them. Directed by CHERRY COOKSON
Geoff Watts reports
We all have queries, quibbles and quandaries which we mean to resolve but which always lie unanswered at the back of our minds. Let Neil Landor sort out the answers.
Producer simon elmes
Questions- on a postcard to: Enquire Within, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW
The divers that used to be in this neck of the woods ten years ago came from all parts of the country ... Most of them. it's fair to say, were drop-outs from society: ex-guardsmen, ex-professional men, people that got fed-up with the rat-race ... It was almost like the California Gold Rush.
Blain Fairman spends a day with three of the men who stayed on. goes out with them gathering sea-urchins and collects some divers' tales of friendly dolphins and embarrassed sharks.
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A magazine of interest to disabled listeners.
Presenter Marilyn Alan Editor MARLENE PEASE
Citizens' Advice Bureau Phone-in Monday 2.0-4.0 pm [number removed]Ext 2531 long irare only
Sue MacGregor talks to the writer. Dame Freya Stark , at 88 still travelling the world.
Producer Gillian HUSH
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and his guests. for 40 minutes of conversational entertainment.
Music by jeremy NICHOLAS Producer michael EMBER
Richard Baker presents a blend of musical entertainment on record. Producer RAY ABBOTT
The Passing Day by GEORGE SHIEI. S adapted for radio by Allan McClelland who also plays John Fibbs with Marie Kean Patrick Magee Stephen Rea
Harold Goldblatt Denys Hawthorne Kevin Flood
' I'm sure the last day with him was the busiest. As a man lives so he dies: we can only hope he spent it well.'
But did he spend it as ' well ' as his wife might hope? John Fibbs - shopkeeper. Ulsterman, miser and small-time gambler in shares - has come to his last day in business. He sees his doctor and visits his lawyer. On that day,
John Fibbs discovers the value of his life - a value he hadn't accounted for.
Directed by MICHAEL HEFFERNAN
BBC Northern Ireland
(First broadcast in 1977)
The final programme in the series about famous books and their authors. Remembrance of Thing* Past
No sooner had the warm liquid, and the crumbs with it, touched my palate than a shudder ran through my whole body ... An exquisite pleasure had invaded my senses, but individual, detached, with no suggestion of its origin.' Philip Thody discusses the immensely long work by Marcel Proust which changed the whole concept of what a novel could be. Readers PAUL WEBSTER and BRIAN TRUEMAN Producer
STANLEY WILLIAMSON BBC Manchester
Thoughts for late evening with Ronald Farrow
Michael Oliver visits the Henry Moore Exhibition in Madrid and talks to artists about the reality and illusion of freedom in post-Franco Spain.
Producer CARROLL moori (First broadcast in Kaleidoscope)
Kenneth Matthews talks about the dozens of new hymn books that are appearing. He's found that if there's one subject that can compete with football and cookery for public interest, it's hymns-and he comments on the debate between lovers of the old and champions of the new in hymn-making.
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