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Presenters Libby Purves and Hugh Sykes
6.45* Prayer for the Day With THE REV BROOKE LANS
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON 7 30, 8.30 News headlines
7.450 Thought for the Day
NEM. p 93; 0 Lord. how happy should we be (BBC HB 311); Psalm 90. vv 1-6,
12-17; Acts 19, v 34 to 20, v 5 (AV); Rejoice, 0 people (BBC HB 181) long wave only
Madge written and read by Keith Williams
Producer PAMELA BOWl BBC Bristol
The Hi-Tech Heist
American high technology, worth billions of dollars to the Soviet war machine, is being openly bought or illegally spirited away behind the Iron Curtain, according to intelligence sources. In Silicon Valley, San Francisco, hundreds of private companies making classified microelectronics, are facing a rising tide of espionage.
If this place was in Russia,' says one harassed official: there d be a barbed wire fence around it.'
Can the flow be staunched? What will
President Reagan do, In what's been called
' America's new era of self-preservation '?
David Henshaw follows the trail of the vanishing microchips.
Produced and edited by STUART SIMON
BBC Manchester
including
jill TODD and the BBC Shopping Basket, and ADRIAN HOLLOWAY Who advises on how to get the most out of your camera. Presenter Jenni Mills
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Robin Day
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This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
The Men that Were Boys by ALAN ENGLAND , with Two 13-year-old boys are given a public flogging for vandalism. Thirty years later Bomber and Fizz still haven't forgotten. They decide to go back and look at their old school. Perhaps they'll see the headmaster. And chat to him about the beating ...
Directed by PETER KING
London's Burning
John Julius Norwich narrates the third of six programmes looking at Britain and its inhabitants through the writings of foreigners who have visited us through the centuries.
Readers CRAWFORD LOGAN and JOHN WEBB. Written by MARY ANNE EVANS
Producer BRIAN COOK
(Postponed from 9 July)
A four-part series which builds up a picture of the deep-rooted effect that the places we live in have, on our state of mind and pattern of life. 2: Suburban Summer
' Summer brings the best out of these open-plan places.' (RETIRED MANAGER) ' Moor Hall is a very desirable residential estate of much-sought-after Wimpey houses, not far from Sutton Coldfield town centre.'
(ESTATE AGENT)
I I wouldn't say I actually know the neighbours, but I do say " hello when I see them.'
(YOUNG HOUSEWIFE)
I think they all see themselves as " The
Joneses " so they don't appear to be trying to keep up with each other.'
(LOCAL TRADESMAN)
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER
BBC Birmingham
King Solomon's Mines (4)
Presenters
Susannah Simons and Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions? Introduced by David Jacobs
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Norman Tozer with how to get the best value for your hard-earned cash. This week: developing and printing colour film
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm)
The sea has always been a source of inspiration to writers. Desmond Hawkins explores, in six programmes, the ways in which some British poets have responded to its moods, its legends and its challenges.
2: The Invading Sea Reader PAULINE WYNN Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Joseph Silverstein (violin) Other soloists are principals in the orchestra Parti
Mozart Divertimento, in B flat (K 287)
Tonight Professor Alan Gemmell visits York Gate in a suburb of Leeds.
This is the garden which surrounds the house of Mrs Sybil Spencer and her son Robin. It is a garden which Mrs Spencer and her late husband started to develop 30 years ago and which now she and her son continue to create today. Indeed, there are many who claim that it is the finest small garden in England.
Part 2
Vivaldi Concerto in p
(rv 539): two horns and strings
Vivaldi Concerto in D
(rv 392): viola d'amore Vivaldi Concerto 10 in B minor (rv 580)
(WCRB recording from Boston Symphony
Transcription Trust)
Bill Ellis was a successful salesman until. one night in 1968, a virus attack left him speechless and paralysed. Jill Cochrane tells of his struggle to build a new life out of frustration and despair.
Producer ANNE HOWELLS
includes the rsc's new production of A
Midsummer Night's
Dream in Stratford: and a preview of the 1981 Henry Wood Promenade Concert season which begins tomorrow.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
John Morgan reporting
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