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Presenters Brian Redhead and John Timpson
«.45' Prayer for the pay THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
6. 55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE macmilun
7.25V 8.25* Sport
7 39 8.30 News headlines
7.45. Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presenters:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Richard Harries
Read By:
Laurie MacMilun

Stephen Bcadshaw examines the controversy Surrounding issues like nuclear power. pollution and the competing demands on the countryside, both at home and abroad.
We'd also like to know what people are doing locally about conserving, recycling and looking after their own environment.
Producers SINON major
CAYNOR SHUTTE, MICK WEBB (Repeated: Monday
11.0 pm VHF)

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Bcadshaw
Unknown:
Mick Webb

The...Well.Loved LeeK by CYRIL BRACEGIRDLE Read by Ray Handy
' I'm sure plants have got feelings. I've often thought you should play some music to them. A verse or two of Cwm
Rhondda might improve them.'
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales

Contributors

Read By:
Ray Handy
Producer:
Herbert Williams

Some people say it about prawns, others find it with strawberries, but just supposing the food we eat every day was causing depression, migraine, rheumatoid arthritis or one of many other common conditions. Some doctors think that by recognising the signs and changing our diet, we could feel better, be healthier ... and halve the cost of the NHS. Anne Brown talks to Dr John Mansfield , one of the clinical ecologists who has put everything from wheat to water under scrutiny to try to solve the problem we swallow with relish ... food allergies.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Talks:
Anne Brown
Unknown:
Dr John Mansfield

from Manchester with Ruth Prince who meets DUNE harpwood, Happy
Housewife author of the serial.
So You've Had a Heart Attack ... SHEILA COMER visits the Cardiac
Rehabilitation Course In Preston devised to help sufferers resume a normal life.
Producer diana STENSON BBC Manchester
Tea and Tranquillisers - the Diary of a Happy Housewife by DIANE HARPWOOD abridgedinnineparts by DELIA PATON
Read by CAROLINE JOHN (9) (Music: Moross' Concerto for Flute with String Quartet)

Contributors

Unknown:
Ruth Prince
Unknown:
Diane Harpwood
Unknown:
Delia Paton
Read By:
Caroline John

The Summer Madness by J01J.N P. ROONEY
On 2 November 1920 at Dagshai prison In India. a British soldier was shot for mutiny. His name was James Daly and. like all the men of the ConnauRht Rangers, he was an Irishman. This is the story of how a peaceful demonstration against the infamous activities of the Black and Tans in Ireland became a ' mutiny ' in India.
Poem read by ALAN devlin Directed by ROBERT COOPER
* BBC Northern Ireland
(Postponed from 13 May)

Contributors

Unknown:
James Daly
Read By:
Alan Devlin
Directed By:
Robert Cooper
Colonel Deacon:
Ronald Baddiley
Lt Leader,:
Steve Iiodson
Fr Baker:
Bas Moss
James Daly:
Jim Norton
Joe Hawes:
Sean Barrett
Sergeant:
Michael Suffy
Pat Gogarty:
Barry McGovern
Singer:
Tony McAuley

A series of six programmes in which John Baxter examines the changes in cinema of the past 25 years.
3: To Boldly go Where no Man has Gone Before The cinema has had a long and ambivalent relationship with science fiction. In turns, it has found the future nightmarish and dreanvlike. JOHN BAXTER considers the shifting relationships between the cinema and our visions of the future with the help of Gary Kurtz ,
Richard Lester. Michael Crlchton , Norman Jewlson. Peter Hyams. John Boorman.
BertrandTavernler, Ridley Scott and John Carpenter Interviews In Los Angeles by CARROLL MOORE and BAROHA PASKIN
CARROLL moore

Contributors

Unknown:
John Baxter
Unknown:
John Baxter
Unknown:
Gary Kurtz
Unknown:
Richard Lester.
Unknown:
Michael Crlchton
Unknown:
Norman Jewlson.
Unknown:
Peter Hyams.
Unknown:
John Boorman.
Unknown:
Ridley Scott
Unknown:
Carroll Moore
Unknown:
Baroha Paskin
Unknown:
Carroll Moore

At the peak of Britain's holiday season,
Clive Jacobs takes a look 'at the way our motorways and their service areas cope. Tom Boswell tests the Renault Romance Motor Caravan.
Including- continental travel information
Producer IRENE mallis Editor ROGER MACDONALD

Contributors

Unknown:
Clive Jacobs
Unknown:
Tom Boswell
Producer:
Irene Mallis
Editor:
Roger MacDonald

Written by MARGARET PHELAN
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birminoham

Contributors

Written By:
Margaret Phelan
Peggy:
June Spencer
Jennifer:
Angela Piper
Brian:
Charles Collingwood
Tony:
Colin Skipp
Phil:
Norman Painting
ShUla:
Judy Bennett
Elizabeth:
Nicolette Gorton
Laura:
Betty McDowall
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Walter:
Chris Gittins
Nelson v:
Jxnc May
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Joe Grundy:
Haydn Jones
Eddie:
Trevor Harrison
Clarrie:
Heather Bell
Mary:
Ysanne Churchman
Caroline Bone:
Sara Coward
Mark:
Richard Derrington
Jackie:
Lou Wakefield
Julie:
Kathryn Hurlbutt

in which the current and controversial issues are put on trial before Chairman
Geoffrey Robertson and an audience of jurors in Broadcasting House. London. Today's motion:
Localnuclear-freezones are a step towards nuclear disarmament
Proposer Joan Ruddock
Opposer Julian Critchley , up
The advocates will each call supporting witnesses to be questioned and cross-examined; the jury will vote at the beginning and end of the trial so that any swing of opinion may be measured and a verdict reached.
Producer MAGGIE REDFERN

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Robertson
Unknown:
Joan Ruddock
Unknown:
Opposer Julian Critchley
Producer:
Maggie Redfern

reports from Aix en
Provence in Southern France where one of Europe's most-noted music festivals is held.
This year, conductor John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists. the-artists in residence, give concerts in the Cathedral of St Sauveur, a performance of Handel's Hercules in the cloisters of St Louis, and the first staged production of Rameau's last opera Les Boreades in the open-air courtyard of the Archbishop's Palace.
Presenter Sheridan Morley Producer BRIAN BARFIELD

Contributors

Conductor:
John Eliot Gardiner
Presenter:
Sheridan Morley
Producer:
Brian Barfield

A new six-part series
Three token women and a token man take an irreverently critical sideways glance at Val Doonican's wardrobe.
Comedy for adults of all ages!
with Denise Coffey, Alison Steadman, Susan Denaker and David Jackson Young

Contributors

[Actress]:
Denise Coffey
[Actress]:
Alison Steadman
[Actress]:
Susan Denaker
[Actor]:
David Jackson Young
Music by:
Steven Edis
Writer:
Janey Preger
Writer:
E.A. Canfor-Dumas
Writer:
David Jackson Young
Writer:
James Hendrie
Writer:
Andrea Solomons
Writer:
Bob Sifield
Writer:
John Revell
Writer:
and others
Producer:
Jan Ravens

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