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6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
A short story by ANITA DESAI
Read by Cheryl Campbell Producer DAVID HITCHINSON
8.59 Continental Travel Information
A series of six readings by Professor Galbraith adapted from his new book A Life in Our Times which has just been published in Britain. 3: First Glimpses of Grandeur
Introduced to politics before the age of ten by his father (who mounted a manure pile at a farm auction and apologised for speaking from the Torv platform) in 1934, J. K. GALBRAITH. passing time on his way to a teaching appointment at Harvard University, takes a temporary government job in Washington.
A Step into the Past
On special assignment to Nepal, Mark Tully reports on the isolated mountain kingdom - its monarchy, its religion and its economy.
Producer ADAM RAPHAEL
NEM, P 89: 0 God. give ear unto my cry (BBC liB 466); Psalm 130; Acts 28, vv 23-31 (AV); 0 for a faith that will not shrink (BBC HB 310) long wave only
What Happened in the Holidays by BARBARA MITCHELL
Chris Kelly presents an account of the extraordinary relationship between the theatre and the aristocracy in the 18th and 19th centuries when, for example,
Lavinia Fenton became the Duchess of Bolton; Elizabeth Farren married the Earl of Derby; and Harriet Mellon gained a fortune from her first husband - Thomas Coutts, the banker - and a title from her second, the Duke of St Albans. with the voices of Shirley Dixon, William Eedle, Patricia Gallimore and Terry Molloy
Written by PETER RADY
Producer STEPHEN REILLY
BBC Birmingham
John Croxall chooses the Antarctic fur seal.
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
Presenter Jenni Mills
12.55 Weather: programme news
Presenter Peter Hobday
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced from Birmingham by Maurecn Staffer
Iceberg Sana: MARGARET HORSFIELD goes on an Arctic camping trip with an Inuit hunter and his Liverpudlian wife. and learns how to survive on the ice.
Cooking with Cider: JOCELYN RYDER-SMITH collects a refreshing selection of ideas.
Cycling in the Cotswolds: MOLLIE HARRIS talks about her carefree holiday on two wheels.
Kidnapped (7)
The Last of the Sun by KAY MCMANUS with Pauline Letts
It's the morning after the wedding - the last of the fledglings has flown the nest and it would seem a chance for Beth to strike out in new directions. But she is strangely unwilling to make any decisions or to respond to the various demands that her family make upon her.
Directed by JANE MORGAN
Tongue-twisters are one tiny part of Iona and Peter Opie 's lives work. Tireless researchers into the literature and traditions of childhood, they talk to Paul Vaughan about their recent discoveries in the world of early picture books fairy tales. playground songs and crazes, and invite him into their temple which houses. among bagatelles yoyos and a zoetrope, the first Christmas card. Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN (First broadcast in Kaleidoscope)
Annerton Pit (5)
Presenters Gordon Clough and Gill Pyrah un VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
including Financial Report
with Clive Jacobs including Continental Travel Information
Producer STEPHEN PHELPS Editor GEOFF DOBSON
(Repeated. Mon 1.40 pm)
Margaret Howard presents extracts from BBC programmes.
Producer BRIAN COOK
(Repeated: Sat 10.45 am)
David Williams. South Wales steelworker
Presenter Janet Cohen Producer DAVID POWELL (Repeated: Sat 4.10 pm)
David Bellamv with his choice of poetry and prose. with binsdale Landen and Michele Dolrice
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)
Michael Oliver reports from the Edinburgh International Festival and reviews productions by the San Francisco Ballet, the Birmingham
Repertory Theatre, the Brighton Theatre and Amphi-Theatre from Greece.
Producers JOHN BOUNDY and CARROLL MOORE
(For further details of Festival coverage : p 34)
9.59 Weather
John Morgan reporting
Agna Prashah and Kostas Thrakis invite you to hear their favourite comedy.
Written and performed by Robert Bathurst , Jimmy Mulville , Rory McGrath Emma Thompson and Griff Rhys Jones
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS (Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm)
Bevis: The Story of a Boy by RICHARD JEFFERIES abridged in 15 episodes by DONALD BANCROFT. Read by MICHAEL WILLIAMS (15) Producer MAURICE LEITCH long wave only
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June Knox-Mawer describes her adventures in a colonial society in its declining years.
2: Dancing in the Desert Producer SIMON ELMEsiRpt) long wave only
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
