News, weather, papers and sport
Presented from the South West by Robin Hicks A regional view of farming in the week ahead.
BBC Bristol
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day ROSEMARY WAKKLIN
7 t 8.9 Today's News
Read by pauline BUSHNELL
7.3t. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
2: Infatuation
8.59 Continental
Travel Information
Horse Sense
Thinking of learning to ride and wondering how to start; of buying and what to choose; of caring for and what to do; of trainingandhowto begin; of a riding holiday and how to prepare? Then call [number removed]when Michael Clayton , Editor of Horse and Hound, and Colin Vogel , equine vet. are in the saddle to answer your questions, with Sue MacGregor holding the reins.
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
BBC Correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people.
Editor PADDY O'KEEFFE
Book, same title, £6.50 from bookshops
NEM, p 5; My Father, for another night (BBC HE
407); Psalm 47; Wisdom of Solomon 7, vv 15-28 (RSV); At thy feet. 0
Christ we lay (BBC HB 402) long wave only
Royal Flush by DOUGLAS YOUNG
Read by Paul Young
In which Gerald decides to make a home fit for
Americans to live in He will enlist the help of Petrov. the lodger. Petrov is addicted to tea and deeply influenced by Dostoevski.
Producer PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland
Sleak and Microchips by GEOFFREY BEEVERS
The special edition with topics suggested by you - the listener. We read your letters, play your favourite sounds and puzzle you- with the mystery sound competition. Presented by Derek Jones Producer
ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 2.5 pm)
News. views and advice for consumers. presenter Bill Breckon Editor DAVID HARDING
A variety show specially recorded in Edinburgh, featuring the best of comedy and music and a few oddities from the Fringe of the 1980 Festival. Producers
GEOFFREY PERKINS and ALAN NIXON
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake
4 Broadcast on August
Bank Holiday Monday at
7.5 pm)
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor
Have Job, Will Travel:
SONIA BEESLEY meets some of the people who have decided to live and work abroad.
2: New Pastures for Old. You've Only to Ask:
OR DAVID MENDEL reflects on patient/doctor communication. Three stories by SEAN O'FAOLAIN read by T. P. mckenna 2: Angels and Minister* of Grace
by STENDHAL (5)
by Anthony Smith
Founded in 1960, the Ocean Youth Club runs a fleet of nine 72-foot ketches, in which members - aged between 15 and 21 - sail to many parts of the world from the Azores to Iceland.
Maureen Staffer joins the crews of the Sir Thomas Sopwilh and the Samuel
Whitbread - some of whom have never set foot on a ship before - for a taste of life on the high seas under sail.
Producer JOCK CALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
A London Girl of the 1880s (3)
Presenters Robert Williams and Gill Pyrah on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
From the original 64 contestants who set out on the road to the title Brain of Britain 1981 back in February, the four survivors are now just one step away from their goal.
Chairman - Robert Robinson
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN. Questions set by UN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS (Rptd: Thurs 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
What's new in medical science? How well are the doctors looking after us? Is our money being spent to best effect? Geoff Watts reports.
Producer LOUISE PURSLOW (Repeated: Sat 3.0 pm)
(Details: Wed 4.0 pm)
Each week ANTONY HOPKINS explores a different musical work or topic, explaining his thoughts at the piano and illustrating them with records.
How do you remember telephone numbers when you can't see print and don't know Braille?
Hannah Wright suggests ways for memorising numbers.
Presented by David Scott Blackhall Producer THENA HESHEL
includes a review of Dances of Love and Death, the world premiere of a new full-length work by the London Contemporary Dance Theatre at the Edinburgh International Festival; and Escape to Victory, a Second World War adventure story set against a back drop of soccer, starring Bobby Moore , Pele, Michael Caine and Sylvester Stallone , directed by John Huston. Presented by Chris Powling
Producer JOHN BOUNDY
with Alexander MacLeod
of Fads and Fashions After this programme you'll never buy another Jacuzzi ... starring David Jason Sheila Steafel and Jon Glover
Script by LAURIE ROWLEY
ANDY HAMILTON , GUY JENKIN COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH , RORY MCGRATH , CHARLIE ADAMS and BOB SINFIELD
Music by NICK BICAT
Lyrics by ALISTAIR BEATON Producer jimmy MULVILLE
Black Mischief (7) long wave only
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Love Scene: Queen Mab Scherzo (Romeo and Juliet). SOUTH WEST GERMAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by BRUNO MADERNA long wave only
Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
