6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and Hugh Sykes
6.45* Prayer for the Day With ROSEMARY WAKELEN
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.36, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Direct from Plymouth, conversation and music from guests ordinary and extraordinary.
Producer BILL ROGERS
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visits Avon, where members of the Failand Horticulural Society put their questions to
Bill Sowerbutts
Professor Alan Gemmell and Clay Jones
Questionmaster Ken Ford BBC Manchester
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NEM, o 62 Now thank we all our God (BBC HB 277); Psalm 25 vv 1-10;
Matthew 9. vv 9-17 (RSV); In Christ there is no east or west (BP 38) long ware only
An Exercise in Calligraphy by SYLVIA HAYMON
Read by Anna Sharkey Producer MITCH RAPER
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Presenter Bill Breckon
in the third of ten programmes.
Johnny Morris recalls some of the people, places and happenings in a quarter-of-a-century of jaunting. producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
12.55 Weather; programme news
with voices and topics in and behind the headlines Presenter Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor Including
Guest of the Week: the actress
Phoebe Nicholls
A Ten Rod Plot:
JANE FINNIS rakes through the joys and the problems of having an allotment. Catriona (5) long wave only
The Game of His Life by DAVID HOPKINS with Christopher Godwin and Russell Dixon
Arthur believes that life is like a game of squash - the better man comes out the winner. When, therefore, his wife takes in a lodger - Mike - a man who is instantly popular with everyone, there is no alternative for Arthur; he has to challenge him to a game of squash!
Directed by KAY PATRICK BBC Manchester
What's Going on in the Toe of Englund
Presenter Ian Phillips
The great Swedish soprano reflects on the darker side of life, and its expression in music. Producer
STANLEY WILLIAMSON
BBC Manchester
The Simple Life by H. E. BATES abridged in two parts and produced by JOHN CARDY Read by Rosemary Leach (1)
Presenters
Susannah Simons and Robert Williams on VH\F until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
A panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Antonia Fraser and Denis Norden In the chair
John Julius Norwich
Questions compiled by PETER MOORE
Executive producer BOBBY JAYE
Written by TERRY JAMES
Cast for the week:
A weekly investigation into the problems of listeners, which can include being the victims of unfair dealings, sharp practice, injustice and even fraud.
Presenter Roger Cook Producer JOHN EDWARDS
An Origins special
Malcolm Billings goes in search of the evidence for the legendary story of Tristan and Isolde being based in Cornwall with Professor Charles Thomas and Oliver Padel of the Institute of Cornish Studies.
Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol
With songs and a passion for her native Cornwall.
Brenda Wootton entertains at the Trevelyan Arms.
West of the Tamar, people are different ... and the nearer to Land's End. the more special. Fellow guests out to prove the point include bard Rodney Lyon , weaver of stories Lilla Miller. Andy and Mervyn Davy , who collect and play traditional Cornish musical instruments, former clerk of the Tinners'
Parliament, Frank Trull - and reporter Ted Gundry. Producer JULIAN HALE
The SDP/Liberal alliance has alreadv shown signs of strain. David Steele has called the Social Democratic Party arrogant and authoritarian and has himself been accused of lack of leadership in return. Yet opinion polls have shown the Alliance most likely to form the next government. What kind of party is the SDP becoming and can the Liberals continue to work with it? Reporter Michael Robinson
Producer GERRY NORTHAM BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Thurs 11.5 am)
A nightly review of films. books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Jeffrey Richards Producer
CATHERINE WEARING
with Alexander MacLeod
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (3) long wave only
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
