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7.15 Apna Hi Ghar Samajhiye
BBC Birmingham long wave only
7.45 Bells: long wave only
7.54 The Shape of God with FR CHRISTOPHER COLVEN (Matthew 13, vv 1-23) long wave only
7.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
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A weekly look at religious news at home and abroad. Presenter Clive Jacobs producer JOHN NEWBURY long wave only
TERRY WOGAN appeals on behalf of The League of Friends of Chatley Heritage (reg no 22051). where 150 severely physically-handicapped children between the ages of three and 16 years from all parts of the country are being cared for and educated.
Donations, preferably by crossed PO or cheque to: Terry Wogan , Chatley
Heritage, [address removed]
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8.55 Weather;
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8.59 Continental Travel Information
(Brondcast at 7.10 am)
from the International
Congregational Fellowship Congress at Pendref, Welsh Congregational
Church. Bangor, Gwynedd. Service conducted by the Minister.
THE REV JOHN CWILYM JONES Guest preacher
THE REV DR ERWIN BRITTON Theme: The Paradox of Freedom
Whom oceans part, O!
Lord, unite (Whitburn); Jesu, lover of my soul (Aberystwyth); O!
Uefara, addfwyn lesu
(Hyfrydol); Guide me, 0 thou great Jehovah!
(Cwm Rhondda). Reading: Galatians 5, vv 13-26 organist ALWYN SAMUEL
Conductor MARGARET OWEN BBC Wales
Omnibus edition. Producer WILLIAM SMETHURST
Agricultural story editor ANTHONY PARKIN
BBC Birmingham
Introduced by June Knox-Mawer who meets husband and wife. Richard Pasco and Barbara Leigh-Hunt of the rsc; and presents some highlights from Woman's Hour.
by J. R. R. TOLKIEN prepared for radio in 26 episodes by BRIAN SIBLEY starring and 19: Shelob's Lair
So it was that amid a gathering gloom Theoden, the King of the Mark, made ready to lead all his Riders on the eastward road. Hearts were heavy and many quailed in the shadow. (But they were a stern people, loyal to their lord, and little weeping or murmuring was heard, even in the camp in the Hold where the exiles from Edoras were housed, women and children and old men.) Doom hung over them. but they faced it silently, and Music composed and conducted by STEPHEN OLIVER. Episode adapted by MICHAEL BAKEWELL
Directed by JANE MORGAN (Repeated: Wed 10.30 pm) (Gerard Murphy is a member of the Royal
Shakespeare Company)
Teresa McGonagle invites Anne Jones and Steve Race to pick some paperbacks. Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Thurs 10.2 am)
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
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visits Surrey where members of the Sunningdale and District Gardening Association put their questions to Peter Seabrook
Bill Sowerbutts and Professor Alan Gemmell Questionmaster Ken Ford BBC Manchester
Joking Apart by ALAN AYCKBOURN
Anthea and Richard are two people who just happen to be naturally charming and successful. They almost can't help themselves taking over other people's lives. Directed by CAROLINE SMITH
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Round 2
France v England
(End of Round 1 scores: France 8J, England 12)
France: AnthonyQuinton (Chairman) with Professor Henry Appia and Professor
Paul-Gabriel Bout* of the University of Paris England: Gordon Clough (Chairman) with Irene Thomas and John Julius Norwich Question researcher CHRISTOPHER WEBB
Producer TREVOR HILL BBC Manchester long wave only
Bernwood
A walk in a butterflv forest. Denis Owen takes us on a radio nature trail in search of day-flying moths and butterflies - in particular the magnificent purple emperor.
Presented by Derek Jones Producers JOHN BURTON and MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Thurs 9.30 am) long wave only
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Brian Johnston visits Aberdeen, Scotland's third largest city, enjoying today a new-found prosperity as a mainland base for the North Sea oil industry. Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Mon 11.5 am) long wave only
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5.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only
followed by Continental Travel Information
Ray Gosling invites you to share his enjoyment in recalling the words, music and people that have tickled his sense of humour.
Producer ALASTAIR WILSON
A series of six talks
5-Puland: Race MemoriesJoseph Hone goes north to Gdansk on the Baltic coast. As Poland suffers economic and social traumas, past nightmares surface at the former concentration camp - at nearby Stutthof.
Producer joy HATWOOD
A six-part series
5Brussels: A Mandarin'sParadise.'
Our membership of the European Community has had more impact on the daily life of Whitehall than on any other area of national life.
Hugo Young goes to Brussels to investigate the power the Common Market gives our civil servants. He talks, among others, to Sir Michael Butler , the UK Ambassador to the EEC; Peter Pooley , seconded from the Ministry of Agriculture to negotiate on Britain's behalf;
Sir Donald Maitland , Permanent Secretary at the Department of Energy; and politicians, The
Rt Hon Tony Benn , mp, The Rt lion
Roy Hattersley , mp and The Rt Hon Peter Walker , mp. Producer ANNE SLOMAN
Henry Livings and Alex Glasgow perform a selection of their favourite songs, stories and poems before an invited audience at New Broadcasting House.
Manchester. Directed by ALFRED BRADLEY BBC
Manchester
(Pen to Paper, Wed 4.0 pm)
MAURICE HASSON (Violilfl BBC NORTIIERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA leader DENNIS SIMONS conducted by LEONARD SLATKIN
Tchaikovsky Violin
Concerto in D. Op 35 Walton Partita for Orchestra
BBC Manchester
A dramatisation in six parts by FREDERICK BRADNUM of The Valley of Bones. The Soldier's Art and The Military Philosophers, from ANTHONY POWELL 'S sequence of 12 novels and As the news came through of the German invasion of Russia, Captain Biggs, Divisional Staff Officer Physical Training, was found hanged.
Charles Stringham decided to stay with the Mobile Laundry, and Nicholas Jenkins was ordered to report to Room 112 at the War Office, soonest.
5: The Military Philosophers (1)
Title music composed by ANTONY MIALL
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD
The story of an English family, written by ALISON PLOWDEN
On 29 July at St Paul's, London. Lady Diana
Spencer will become the wife of His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales.
Among some of her distinguished ancestors is another Lady Diana. of whom HORACE WALPOLE wrote:
' Old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough. was persuaded to offer her favourite granddaughter, Lady Diana Spencer , to the Prince of Wales with a fortune of £100,000.' Introduced by John Julius Norwich with Valerie Skardon as Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough James Tomlinson as George John , the second Earl Spencer Peter Bell as John Charles Spencer , Viscount Althorp
Other excerpts from letters and journals read by COLIN BEAN ,
DELIA CORRIE , KEITH CLIFFORD , CHARLES FOSTER , VALERIE GEORGESON , JOHN JARDINE , ANN RYE , WILL TACEY and GARETH BUSHILL
Theme composed by NIGEL HESS
Producer TREVOR HILL BBC Manchester
Devised and narrated by H. Colin Davis on 12 good people of his choice.
11: C. E. Montague
Presented by Noel Lewis
Producer PETER ROBINS
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
