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Presenters Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.57 Weather: travel
Tom Vernon confronts producers and management with your criticisms and comments about BBC radio and tv. Producer SUSAN SNAlLUM (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 RICHARD ANTHONY BAKER long wave only
NEM, p l; How lovely are thy dwellings fair (BBC HB 458); Psalm 99; John 16, vvl-11 (rsv); Fill thoumy life, 0 Lord (BBC HB 271) long leave only
by Somerset Maugham
Read by David Ashford
It was when he and Evie were home and in bed that night that he read the book again. No doubt about it - there was a story of sorts in it - and "sexy" as everyone said. It was the story of a passionate love affair between an older woman, married, and a young man.
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Jim Flegg turns to the attractive voice of the curlew whose calls are evocative of wild, wide open spaces.
BBC Bristol , long wave only
News, views and advice for consumers
Including A New Retirement Homer 5: Change of Heart
Thousands of retired people regret their move to a new home. How can you put matters right if you become unhappy in your new home?
Andy Price reports.
Presenter Bill Breckon
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Brian Wldlake with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
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Introduced from Glasgow by Mary Marquis Including
, The very gate of Heaven ' is how
Columbus described Jamaica. Since 1800,
Scots missionaries have been helping the islanders through good and bad times to realise that vision. IAN GALL traces the close affinity between Scotland and Jamaica. ' We're more than a beach - we're a country.'
Alive Alive O! CHRISTINE KINNEAR samples an unlikely delicacy-smoked eels.
The Glencoe Massacre: MAGNUS LlNKLATER reconstructs the events surrounding the slaughter of the Macdonalds by the Campbells in 1692, the repercussions of which are felt to this day.
Producer ROSALIND BEW BBC Scotland
The Upas Tree (2) long wave only
followed by travel
A Roman comedy by Titus Maccius Plautus, translated and adapted in a modern version by Martyn Wade
with Nigel Stock as Euclio, Christopher Good as Lyconides, Margot Boyd as Eunomia, Philip Voss as Megadorus and Peter Baldwin as Strobilus
Euclio, a miser, pretends to the outside world that he's a pauper. But hidden away in his house is his precious pot of gold and he spends most of his time keeping a very careful eye on it. Not careful enough though, for on his daughter's wedding day Mars is in conjunction with Venus which can only spell disaster, and what with all the dreadful people coming and going something is bound to go wrong...
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Presented by Charles Causley
Readers PETER JEFFREY and ROSALIND SHANKS
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
Schoolgirls prefer fiction, boys like comics; women read romance, men stick to reality. Is it true? Frances Donnelly investigates the popular literature read by men and women today.
Producer SIMON MAJOR
The Last Resort (3)
Presenters Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
Clive Jacobs brings you stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport, and Tom Boswell tests the Volvo 244DL.
Producer STEPHEN PHELPS Editor ROGER MACDONALD
Written by HELEN LEADBEATER
(Repeated; Mon 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes. Producer PETER HOARE
(Repeated: Sat 10.45 am)
A personal portrait in conversation, recollection and anecdote: an assessment of a public figure or the story of a private individual.
Paul Foot
Roger Graef
Jean Rook and Dr Richard Clutterbuck tackle the issues raised by the audience at
Coleford, Gloucestershire Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated; Sat 1.10 pm)
includes a tribute to Sir William Walton who celebrates his 80th birthday next week; and reviews
Sir Nikolaus Pevsner 's classic work Victorian and After, studies in art, architecture and design now published in paperback.
Presenter Sheridan Morley Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
John Morgan reporting
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news, with Bill Wallis David Tate
Sheila Steafel and Jon Glover
Written by BOB SINFIELD TONY SARCHET ,
JAMES HENDRIE , JOHN LANGDON RICHARD QUICK, ALrSTAIR BEATON , PETER HICKEY
JOHN REVELL , DAVE DIXON and others Producer
PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
(Repeated: Sot 5.25 pm)
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
