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Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
S.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.30, 8.31 News headlines
7.45' Thought for the Day
Tom Vernon confronts producers and management with your criticisms and comments about BBC radio and tv. Producer susAN SNAILUM Repeated: Sat 4.15 pm) long wave only
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BBC correspondents around the world cast their collective eye over a contemporary issue.
A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL long wave only
nem. p 84: Lord, as to thy dear cross iBBC 118 293); Psalm 142; I Corinthians 9vv 1-2,16.23 (av): Come, O thou Traveller (BBC ub 4) long wave only
The Storyteller by WILLIAM PALMER
Read by Sion Probert Producer Mitch Raper
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The FitzGeralds of Leinster
(Broadcast Sun 10.15 pm)
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Jim Flegg looks at the intelligent raven.
BBC Bristol long wave only
Presenter Bill Breckon
12.55 Weather: programme news
Presenter Brian Widlafce
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Introduced from Bristol by Jenni Murray The New what's it going to do to us - and for our children? Annie ' on Tour: BRIAN Gear meets CHARLES WEST and two little girls who play the famous orphan. Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol Stepping (8) long wave only,
by Colin Haydn Evans
with Colin Baker as John, Sarah Sutton as Clare, and Meg Davies as Kate
"This play about an English teacher's relationship with a 15-year-old girl pupil was perceptive, realistic and intensely poetic"
"The whole thing was beautifully written and acted and made me think about the theme in a way I never had before."
(from listeners' letters)
BBC Bristol
Three programmes on works by French writers of this century.
3: The New Novel
In the mid-1950s, some very different writers found common cause in their dissatisfaction with the traditional novel. The term ' new novel ' was adopted to describe their work. Valerie Minogue talks about the group's completely new approach and introduces readings from The Square by Marguerite Duras and Jealousy by Alain Robbe-Grillet .
Producer ALAN WILDING
An Old Captivity (5)
Presenters Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons on VHF' until 5.55
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5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Rfport
Clive Jacobs brings you stories from the world of travel and transport, and Tom Boswell tests the Volvo 244 DL.
Producer GEOFF BOBSON Editor rooer MACDONALD
(.Repealed: Mon 1.40 pm)
with Margaret Howard Producer BRiAN COOK
(Repealed: Sat 10.45 am)
This week, Profile travels at almost twice the speed of sound - in a Lightning interceptor jet.
Peter Spinks went on a North Sea sortie to follow a typical day in the life of an RAF front-line pilot. Producer JULIAN COLES
The Rt lion Denis llealey, Mp
Lord Marsh Arthur Scargill and Joan Hall tackle the issues raised by the audience at
Borebamwood, Herts.
Chairman David Jacobs Producer carols STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
President Truman and Dr Arthur Barsky
15 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
President Truman's morning walks around Washington, a recollection of the World's Fair in Brussels in 1958, and the death of pioneering plastic surgeon Doctor Arthur Barsky.
by Alistair Cooke
(Repeated., Sun 0.15 am)
* Frieda was a terrible woman, a total original. I guess that if she'd walked into your front room for a cup of tea, you'd be nervous and relieved when she left, but you'd never, never forget her.
She had a huge presence.' Janet Suzman talks to
Michael Billington about her latest film, Priest of Love, to be released this month, in which she plays Frieda Lawrence , volatile German wife of the novelist D. H. Lawrence. She also discusses other roles in the gallery of vivid heroines she has portrayed on stage and screen, including
Shakespeare's Cleopatra and Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. Producer JANE stenning
9.59 Weather
John Morgan reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
with Bill Wallis Sheila Steafel David Tate and Chris Emmett
Written by BOB SINFIELD TONY SARCHET ,
JAMES HENDRIE , JOHN LANGDON
RICHARD QUICK, PETER UlCKEY and others
Producer Geoffrey feriins (Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm)
Charmed Lives (5) long wave only
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
