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A note from Religious Affairs Correspondent Gerald Priestland
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Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
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with Tony Lewis Featuring
Rugby Union: THE
AUSTRALIANS play their seventh tour match when they meet London division at Twickenham. Prospects today and an assessment of form so far.
Plus the rest of the news at home and abroad. including the off-beat and the humorous.
A Radio Sport and OB production
Bernard Falk , with help from IAN LYON and SUSAN MARLING , takes a critical look at the holiday, travel and leisure scene.
Producer JENNY MARSHALL Editor ROGER MACDONALD For information sheets send a large sae to: Breakaway, [address removed]
Desmond Wilcox takes a look at the weekly magazines, their views on the news and the special interests they reflect.
Producer SHARON BANOFF
Robert Carvel views the past week through the eyes of backbench mps and peers.
Producer ELLIE UPDALE
New Every Morning, page 114; Let all the nations of the earth (bp 47); Psalm 82; Jeremiah 10, vv 7-12 (rsv); All people that on earth do dwell (BBC HB 450)
BBC correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people. Editor PADDY OKEKFFE
Presented hy
Louise Butting
The programme that keeps you in touch with what's happening in the field of personal savings, tax. mortgages, insurance, social security and the financial problems of everyday life. A Financial World Tonight production
The last seven days put in a questionable way by Barry Took to a panel including Alan Coren Gay Search and Hunter Davies
Written and compiled by JOHN LANGDON and the producer DANNY GREENSTONE
(Repeated: Mon 6.30 pm)
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Marghanita Laski
Sir Campbell Adamson John Butterworth and David Aaronovitch from Birmingham
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The special edition with topics suggested by you, the listener.
Not Cricket by PETER WHALLEY
A' Yorkshire village cricket field on a golden July afternoon; the beer tent is open. the pollen count low. Only ungentlemanly conduct threatens to cast a cloud over the proceedings.
Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester
The political cartoonist is half-journalist and half-artist. Both his editorial and his graphic lines must be sharp and acute. The American cartoonist Ranan Lurie , who joined The Times last year, talks to Alan Protheroe about his profession.
Producer ANDREW JOYNES
Let Neil Landor , together with his specialist experts, sort out your queries. Producer SIMON ELMES
(Rptd: Thurs 11.50 am)
Troilus and Cressida The BBC Television production of Troilus and Cressida can be seen this evening on BBC2 at
8.40 pm. Norman Rodway , a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, gives a personal view of this very ' modern ' play which hovers between comedy and tragedy.
Producer ALAN WILDING
(Sir David Hunt gives his view of the play in ' Shakespeare in Perspective ' on BBC2 tonight at 6.10 pm)
A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families, with countrywide news and views on all matters of concern to them.
Presenter Marilyn Alan Editor MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence address: BBC. Broadcastinq House, London W1A 4WW
Tel: [number removed]Ext: 7048
A series of six programmes
3:Aberystwyth
It has a castle once besieged by ' the flower of English chivalry ', a college with ' Early
Marzipan ' architecture and a tendency to knock down bits of its past.
Herbert Williams looks at a seaside resort which provokes affection, nostalgia - and sometimes despair.
BBC Wales
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Amiably competitive conversation inspired by current public and private preoccupations.
Music by PETER SKELLERN Producer JENNY DE YONG
Richard Baker presents a blend of musical entertainment on record, mixing the well-loved with the less familiar and occasionally including the spoken word.
Producer RAY ABBOTT
(Repeated: Wed 11.5 am)
A comedy by Alick Rowe
with Timothy West as Agamemnon
What really happened at the fall of Troy? Was the episode of the wooden horse as heroic as Homer would have it? Or was his Iliad a cover-up, a PR job, for what was in fact a military fiasco?
BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Mon 3.2 pm)
A new six-part series
The great Swedish soprano recalls, with the aid of gramophone records, some of the unusual places where she has sung.
' I once sang in the Toronto Maple Leaf Garden, a cosy little place than can seat 15,000 people. Mostly it's used for ice hockey and bicycle races. We performed Faust there ... ' Producer
STANLEY WILLIAMSON BBC Manchester
An evening meditation led by David Winter
A brand new late-night repeat. Revision Lesson 1: Remember the Burkiss Way starring Jo Kendall
Nigel Rees. Chris Emmett and Fred Harris
Written by ANDREW MARSHALL , DAVID RENWICK : Producer DAVID HATCH
Harry Soan looks back at six villages which have been his home and some of the folk who gave them their character.
1: Childhood in Berkshire Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
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