News, weather, papers and sport
Leslie Cottington and Martin Small report from the Royal Show at the National Agricultural Centre, Stoneleigh
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Presenters Brian Redhead and Wendy Jones
6.45* Prayer for the Day with DOM ROBERT GIBBONS
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7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by Brian Perkins
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7.45' Thought for the Day
8.57 Weather; travel
Today sees the launch of a new-look Midweek with new presenter Clare Francis. Veteran interviewer Libby Purves invites the birthday guest to reveal all and Clare introduces you to some unfamiliar and fascinating personalities.
visits Port Erin in the Isle of Man as part of the Mananan
International Festival, where members of the Peel Flower Club put their questions to Bill Sowerbutts Chris Brickell and Clay Jones
Questionmaster Ken Ford
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Alice Buchan Abroad by FRED URQUHART
Read by Fraser Kerr Producer MITCH RAPER
followed by travel
Presenter Jennl Mills
News, views and advice for consumers.
by JOHN HOWLETT (6)
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Presenter Sir Robin Day
by the Conservative Party
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with Sue MacGregor including
Guest of the Week:
The industrialist Sir Monty Finniston
Liberation Monthly: to celebrate its 16th birthday DANNY DANZIGER reports on the magazine Spare Rib.
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page (3)
Invisible Writing by DONALD CHAPMAN with and
Helen Fraser 's life la told through a series of letters. At 7 she Is staying by the sea, unhappy that her parents have separated. At 27 she is again by the sea, but this time she is happy, although alone, with only the gulls for company.
Directed by PETER XING
Six programmes presented by the poet Kit Wright
4: A Pipe for the Dog Readers HUGH DICKSON PETER HOLMES and PATIENCE TOMLINSON Producer alec reid
with John Cherrington , a Hampshire farmer. Producer SARAH PITT
Reporter Eric Robson
BBC Manchester
Voices in the Garden by DIRK BOGARDE abridged in 13 parts by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by John Rye (1)
The star of many films, Dirk Bogarde has recently launched Into writing: first two dazzlingly successful books of autobiography then novels of which
Voices in the Garden is his second. Set in a handsome villa in the South of France, it's a story of two young lovers caught up in the superficially glamorous world of film making with a ruthless director who threatens to corrupt and separate them.
Producer JOHN CARDY
Presenters Robert Williams and Susannah Simons on VHF until 5.55
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including Financial Report Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world
A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
IanWallaceand Denis Norden
In the Chair Steve Race Questions complied by STEVE RACE
Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
A four-part series 3: The Carpets of Kidderminster
Roger McGough clambers off his narrowboat in the heart of carpet country and explores Brintons carpet factory. He talks to the men who remember the days when the coal was brought by canal, and to one of the newest apprentices. He discovers a happy blend of old. fashioned charm and the newest technology.
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
In the 25th year of the BBC's Natural History Unit, the second half of a series in 26 parts Narrator
David Attenborough 17: Aerial Warfare
Bats have been trying to catch moths and moths have been trying to avoid bats for millions of years. Brock Fenton of Carleton University, Ottawa, and James Fullard of Toronto University describe how a moth might jam' a bat's radar to escape capture.
Written and produced by MICHAEL BRIGHT
BBC Bristol
Talking About Music
Each week ANTONY HOPKINS explores a different musical work or topic.
Producer PATRICK LAMBERT
Most of us live lives free of pain, except for the odd moments of acute discomfort when we injure ourselves.
However, many people suffer years of intractable pain and for them it becomes a way of life.
Jocelyn Ryder-Smith visits two clinics that deal exclusively with the problems of chronic pain and she talks to doctors and patients about the different types of pain, how it is experienced and the latest developments n pain relief. >.
Research CLARA HEWITT
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
includes a review of It Ain't Hall Hot Mum, a new stage production of the BBCtv smash-hit series at the Palace
Theatre, Manchester; and previews Dragon, a new play by Don Howarth , starring Robert Stephens as Saint George on Radio 3 tomorrow at 7.0 pm.
Presenter Natalie Wheen Producer JOHN BOUNDY
John Morgan reporting
by A. G. MACDONELL adapted in six episodes by BARRY TOOK
1:From Passehendacte to Fordendenwith and Other parts played by CAROLINE JAY and members of the cast Producer BOBBY JAYE
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Mother and Son (3) long wave only
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