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Presenters John Timpson and Wendy Jones
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
6 55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE bushnell
7.25', 8.15* Sport
7 30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45' Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presenters:
John Timpson
Presenters:
Wendy Jones
Unknown:
Richard Harries
Read By:
Pauline Bushnell

A weekly look at our environment.
Stephen Bradshaw examines the controversy surrounding issues like nuclear power and pollution
Producers SIMON MAJOR
GAYNOR SHUTTE, MICK WEBB (Repealed: Monday 11.0 pm VHF)

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Bradshaw
Producers:
Simon Major
Unknown:
Mick Webb

In the beautiful setting of Hardrow Scar in Yorkshire, the annual Hardrow Band Contest was first held just over a century ago and revived in 1976. Last year the winners were
Rivington and Adlington
Brass Band from Lancashire, this documentary follows their fortunes in trris years contest. Additional interviews bv john ECCLES Producer alan haycock (Repeal)

from Northern Ireland with Helen Madden
Guest: Roy Bradford , who talks about his work for Army Intelligence during the Second World War. his spell in broadcasting and finally his career in politics and writing.
Unemployment and Marriage: a report on the stress on young married couples caused by the worst unemployment rate in the UK.
Pain Clinics: BOB CROOKES examines how pain-relief clinics operate.
Producer martin DILLON BBC Northern Ireland
An Episode of Sparrows (9)

Contributors

Unknown:
Helen Madden
Unknown:
Roy Bradford

by Sheila Bradley

It is June 1939 - Edmund has a German penfriend, Otto. Edmund is also a boy scout, and when Otto writes of the new order, unity in the Fatherland, and Brotherhood, Edmund misinterprets these pronouncements and naively uses Wolf patrol to further the Nazi cause.

With the help of the First Congleton Pennine Scout Troup

BBC Manchester

Contributors

Writer:
Sheila Bradley
Director:
Pat Trueman
Edmund:
Spencer Banks
Backwoodsman:
Jill Lidstone
Pathfinder:
James Foyser
Mother:
Delia Corrie
Father:
Michael Poole
Jim:
Michael Garner
Skip:
Stuart Richman
Amy:
Kate Lee

The last of six
Jrogrammes in which
John Baxter examines the changes in cinema over the past 25 years.
6: I'm Still Big. It's the Pictures that Got Small
Gloria Swanson 's famous quote from Sunset
Boulevard in 1950 must have struck fear into the hearts of moviemakers everywhere. As audiences preferred increasingly to stay at home, the movies tried to attract them with displays of dramatic and technical spectacle, from epics like Cleopatra to wide-screen extravaganzas likeIt'saMad,Mad.
Mad, Mad World. JOHN BAXTER considers their success and prospects for the future. Speakers include EDITH HEAD,
RICHARD FLEISCHER , JOHN FRANKENHEIMER , TONY RICHARDSON.
RICHARD LESTER , RIDLEY SCOTT and JOHN BOORMAN. Interviews in Los Angeles by CARROLL MOORE and BARBARA PASKIN Producer CARROLL MOORE

Contributors

Unknown:
John Baxter
Unknown:
Gloria Swanson
Unknown:
John Baxter
Unknown:
Richard Fleischer
Unknown:
John Frankenheimer
Unknown:
Tony Richardson.
Unknown:
Richard Lester
Unknown:
Ridley Scott
Unknown:
John Boorman.
Unknown:
Carroll Moore
Unknown:
Barbara Paskin
Producer:
Carroll Moore

In which current and controversial issues are put on trial before Chairman Geoffrey Robertson and an audience of jurors in Broadcasting House, London.
Two advocates will each call supporting witnesses to be questioned and cross-questioned; the jury will vote at the beginning and end of the trial.

(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)

Contributors

Chairman:
Geoffrey Robertson
Producer:
Maggie Redfern
Producer:
Colin Lewis

previews Sheridan's satire on playwrights and the theatre profession, The Critic, which can be seen on BBC1 on Monday, starring Norman Rodway ,
Rosemary Leach and Alan Badel : and interviews the controversial film critic of The New Yorker,
Pauline Kael. Presenter Michael Billington
Producer CARROLL MOORE

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman Rodway
Unknown:
Rosemary Leach
Unknown:
Alan Badel
Unknown:
Pauline Kael.
Presenter:
Michael Billington
Producer:
Carroll Moore

Yes, that's right! Its another offbeat billing to liven up these staid columns and give you no information whatsoever about the programme performed by Denise CofTey ,
Alison Steadman. Susan Denaker and David Jackson Young Written by E. a. canfor-DUMAS , DAVID JACKSON YOUNG, JANEY PRECER
JAMES HENDRIE , ANDREA SOLOMONS. BOB SINFIELD
NICK SYMONS , JOHN REVELL with music by STEVE BROWN and KEITH MCCULLOCH Accompaniment by PHILIP POPE
Producer jan ravens
(Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Denise Coftey
Unknown:
Alison Steadman.
Unknown:
Susan Denaker
Unknown:
David Jackson
Written By:
E. A. Canfor-Dumas
Written By:
David Jackson
Unknown:
Janey Precer
Unknown:
James Hendrie
Unknown:
Bob Sinfield
Unknown:
Nick Symons
Unknown:
John Revell
Music By:
Steve Brown
Music By:
Keith McCulloch
Unknown:
Philip Pope
Producer:
Jan Ravens

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