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At the Liberal Party
Assembly in Llandudno, Brian Redhead. In
London, Libby Purves
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Bead by BRYAN MARTIN
7.30 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
7: A Shocking Accident abridged by MYRA BEATON
The short story for the novelist is often a form of escape from having to live with a character for fears on end ... I can look at them quickly as I would look at an album of snapshots taken on Many different holidays.'
(GRAHAM GREENE)
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham (Starting on Monday: Talking to Animals' written and read by Barbara Woodhouse )
Anthony Smith in the first of 12 programmes
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Against the background of the Leeds International Piano Competition, the BBC's Art Correspondent Jerry Forsey examines the world's top music competitions in Russia, Austria, Italy and America. Who are the rising stars? And what has become of former winners?
A Radio News production See page 3 long wave only
NEM. p 67; Rise, my soul, adore my maker (bp 74); Psalm 146; Ephesians 3, vv 13-21 (rsv); Sing praise to God (BBC HB 18) long wave only
Trouble Down at Tudsleigh by P. G. WODEHOUSE
Read by Jonathan Cecil
' Confidence seemed to fill Freddie as he sat there wolfing buttered toast. He had finished the Lady of Shalott that morning and was stuffed to the tonsils with good material. It was only a question of time, he felt, before some chance remark would uncork him and give him the cue to do his stuff.'
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A selection of personal experiences with wild creatures...
Malcolm Coe chooses the hornbill.
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol long wave only
Presenter Jenni Mills
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake
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Introduced from Birmingham by Maureen Staffer Badgers in the Countryside: PHIL DRABBLE takes a look at the perils to badgers caused by suspicions about their effect on the health of farm animals.
Self Help for the Unemployed: ANN BROWN finds out about the Job Change Project which offers counselling, advice and support to help people cope with the problems of unemployment - and perhaps find or create a job for themselves. Producer
JOCELYN RYDER-SMITH BBC Birmingham
Blood and Judgment (2) long wave only
A Study in Sin by MICHAEL ROBSON with Karen Ford as Gemma Yates and John Pullen as Hobart Gemma and Desmond Yates appear to have settled into an idyllic country life, but with the arrival of a stranger named Hobart, Gemma's, world explodes into a nightmare of menace, intrigue and death.
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN. BBC Bristol
Four programmes examining the moral mood and standards of people in Britain. 2: Stealing
What would you do if you found cash lying in the street? Or if the bus conductor didn't ask for your fare? Are there any circumstances in which it can be right to steal?
Presenter Derek Robinson Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN
The Luck of the Bodkins (5)
Presenters Susannah Simons and Gordon Clough on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather: programme new*
including Financial Report
Clive Jacobs brings you stories of the world of travel and transport. TOM BOSWELL tests the Suzuki ' 550 ' motorcycle. Producer STEPHEN PHELPS Editor GEOFF DOBSON
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from the BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days. Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON (Repeated: Sat 10.45 am)
A personal portrait
(Repeated: Sat 4.10 pm)
Neil Kinnock , mp Detta O'Cathain Cyril Smith , MP Graham Dowson tackle the issues raised by the audience at
Conwy, Gwynedd, North Wales.
Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)
includes reviews of two new science fiction series: "The Day of the Triffids", a six-part adaptation of the novel by John Wyndham on BBC1 (Thursdays); and "Kinvig", by the author of Quatermass, Nigel Kneale, on ITV (Fridays); and "Dad", the second novel by William Wharton, author of "Birdy".
Presenter Sheridan Morley.
John Morgan reporting
An Irreverently critical look back at the week's news, with Bill Wallis David Tate
Sheila Steafel Chris Emmett and the music of David Firman
Written by GUY JENKIN JOHN LANGDON , RICHARD QUICK , JEREMY BROWNE ,
BOB SINFIELD , TONY SARCHET and PETER HICKEY
Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm)
Confessions of Felix Krull , Confidence Man (5) long wave only
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Sketches from an Italian Notebook
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
