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This week the Social Democratic Party has been holding its 6rst
Annual Conference. What impact has the new party made? With the Social Democrats,
Brian Bedhead ; with the rest of the news, John Timpson S.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES 7 0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.30,8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Bring on the Girls (5)
by Anthony Smith long wave only
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Racism in Sport
Few issues in politics inflame such passions as race and sport - passions that imperil international games and international relations alike.
A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL long wave only
NEM, p 13; Come. 0 thou traveller unknown (BBC HB 4); Psalm 103, vv 1-13; 1 Peter 4, vv 1-11 (Rsv); Immortal. love, for ever full (BP37): long wave only
by Jill Norris
Read by Shirley Dixon
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Malcolm Coe chooses the camel.
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol long wave only
Presenter Bill Brcckon
12.55 Weather: programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake
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Introduced from Bristol by Jenni Mills
Vanity thy Name is ..
Womanr: CHERYL ARMITAGE questions the myth that it is only women who care about their appearance.
Window on Wildlife: JENNI MILLS examines urban wildlife conservation in Avon.
Producer SARAH PITT BBC Bristol
A Childhood in Scotland (5) long wave only
The Moorcock by HENRY LIVINGS
A fictional re-creation of a famous murder mystery in the last century in Saddleworth, Lancashire. The pub The Moorcock. known locally as Bill o'
Jacks, was run by a father and son - one night they were ' together savagely murdered in an in-humanly horrid manner.' Who did it, and why?
Music composed, directed by DEREK BROADBENT
Played by STEPHEN LORD JOHN GILLAM
CHRISTOPHER WOOD
JOHN HINCLEY , DAVE CASS
Directed by CAROLINE SMITH BBC Manchester
An inquest by coroner and jury is a time-honoured institution to establish the cause of an unnatural death. But MPs, coroners, jurors and barristers are now considering whether this relic of the Middle Ages should continue to serve 20th-century justice.
Geoffrey Robertson asks whether there is still life in the body of the coroner's inquest.
Producer RICHARD ELLIS
The House in Dormer Forest by MARY WEBB
The last of nine parts abridged by MICHELENE WANDOR
Meeting and Parting
Read by MIRIAM MARGOLYES
Producer
VANESSA WHITBURN BBC Birmingham
(Starting next Monday: Charles II by Antonia Fraser )
Presenters,
Gordon Clough and Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
with Clive Jacobs and Going Places' own team Of RICHARD HUDSON-EVANS and TOM BOSWELL putting Britain's newest car through its paces in the Mobil Economy Run.
Producer STEPHEN PHELPS Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)
with Bill Brcckon
Producer JOHN KNIGHT
Audrey Lees , head of London Transport's Transportation and Planning.
Presenter Pamela Donald Producer JENNY AINGE
The Rt Hon
Denis Healey , mp
Sir Raymond Pennock Sarah Hogg
John Julius Norwich from Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire.
Chairman David Jacobs Producer ROY HAWARD
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
Death of Anwar Sadat (1918-1981)
15 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
President Sadat of Egypt is killed in a year in which assassination attempts have been made on political figures including Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II and Queen Elizabeth II.
by Alistair Cooke
includes reviews of a new novel by Piers Paul Read set in Nice; and recordings of Brahms and Tchaikovsky by the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Orchestra conducted by Carlo Guilini.
Presenter Mark Storey Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
John Morgan reporting
Bill Wallis , David Tate Sheila Steafel
Chris Emmett , with the music of David Firman Written by GUY JENKIN JOHN LANGDON , RICHARD QUICK, JEREMY BROWNE
BOB SINFIELD , TONY SARCHET and PETER HICKEY
Producer JIMMY MULVILLE
The Edible Woman (4) long wave only
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An imaginary sale of the BBC's Sound Archives attracts folklorist and broadcaster Toni Arthur to browse through the catalogue and choose the recordings she would most like to own.
Producer PAT PRYOR long wave only followed by an interlude
Weather, report; forecast followed by an interlude