Producers MARTIN SMALL and LESLIE COTTINGTON
with Daniel Counihan
6.55 Weather; travel; programme news
7.10 Today's Papers
Producer KEN FORD BBC Manchester
Norman Tozer looks at some basic buys for people setting up home. 1: Cookers
7.55 Weather: travel: programme news
8.10 Today's Papers
with Tony Lewis featuring the NatWest Bank Trophy Final at
Lord's between SURREY, in their fourth final in four jears, and WARWICKSHIRE, aiming for their second trophy since Bob Willis became captain.
Plus the latest news of the US Open Tennis and a look forward to the European Athletics Championships.
Producer DAVE GORDON
Introduced bv
Bernard Falk , with help from IAN LYON and SUSAN MARLING ,
Including weather; travel; continental travel; and at 9.0 News Producer
JENNY MALLINSON BUFF
Editor ROGER MACDONALD
with Frances Donnelly
Producer MAGGIE REDFERN
A matter of resignation: did they go or were they pushed?
Presenter John Harrison Producer OLIVIA SELIGMAN
New Every Morning, oaee 114: City of God (BBC HB 173); Psalm 82; Joshua 1, vv 1-9 (GNB); Stand up, stand up for Jesus (BBC HB 368)
Jeanine McMullen talks to all kinds of people who live and work In the countryside. She finds out how to make a living rearing livestock, keeping bees, growing herbs or running any form of small rural business and discovers the extra dimension it adds to their lives.
Written and compiled by JEANINE MCMULLEN Producer SARAH PITT BBC Bristol
(Repeated. Mon 10.2 am)
A storm-tossed voyage around the English language in which Kenneth Williams
Peter Jones , Derek Nimmo and Gyles Brandreth get on each other's nerves and Nicholas Parsons awards points of interest-Itinerary devised by IAN MESSITER
Travel agent PETE ATKIN (Repeated: Mon 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
Last of six programmes
Motion: Astrology has no factual or scientific basis
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Old Times. Good Times by DAVID WILLIAMS
When Christine has a turn-out in the attic she finds a lot of junk which starts her husband Mike remembering. The bout of nostalgia that follows has surprising results ...
Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Tues 11.3 am)
by J. R. R. TOLKIEN prepared for radio in 13 episodes by BRIAN SIBLEY
Starring and
So King Theoden rode from Helm's Gate and clove his path to the great Dike. There the company halted. The land had changed. Where before the green dale had lain, its grassy slopes lapping the ever-mounting hills, there now a forest loomed.
With SEAN ARNOLD, JOHN CHURCH, JOHN LIVESEY, GORDON REID and JOHN WEBB
Music composed and conducted by STEPHEN OLIVER
Episode adapted by MICHAEL BAKEWELL Directed by PENNY LEICESTER
(Gerard Murphy is a member of the RSC) Poster £1.25 (inc p and p), three badges £1.00 (inc p and p), cheques made payable to BBC Radio, available from Tolkien Offer, [address removed]
A magazine of interest to disabled listeners
Presenter Marilyn Alan Editor MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence address: BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
Tel: [number removed] Ext [number removed]
For thousands of 0- and A-level students, this is the first week of the final year at school. Apart from the pressure to work for your exams, you have to start applying for your place at college or university. The availability of places Is far outstripped by demand - it's often a case of first come, first served. In four programmes, John Dunn takes a look at the strategies students may use to improve their chances of getting a place. 1: Getting to University Series producer SIMON MAJOR
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5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; travel: programme news
With PETER DONALDSON including Sports Round-up and continental travel
Dr Anthony Clare of the Institute of Psychiatry invites Judge Christmas Humphreys , founder of the Buddhist Society, to reflect on the major influences in his private and professional life.
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
with Richard Baker Producer RAY ABBOTT
(Repeated: Wed 11.3 am)
by Robert McCrum, dramatised by Denys Hawthorne
The enormous amount of information accumulated by Civil Service computer banks has placed more and more responsibility upon the men who manage them. The potential abuse of the system is obvious, the possibilities of corruption infinite.
On the day the Head of the Computer Directorate retires, one of his staff apparently commits suicide it is soon clear that the two events are intricately related within a society where secrecy has become an end in itself.
BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Afon 3.2 pm)
by JOHN KEAY
The second of seven programmes with and Timothy Bateson
Narrator JOHN ROWE
Thomas Manning was the first Englishman ever to reach the Tibetan capital Lhasa. ' Some people go to Yorkshire for four years and never come to London all the while,' wrote Manning en route for Canton,'I go to China. What's the difference to our London friends? '
During the months he spent in Lhasa, Manning was constantly In fear for his life, but he did meet the Dalai Lama, a boy of . about 7 years old.
I could have wept,' he wrote, ' through the strangeness of sensation.' Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
(Ian Ogilvy is in ' Design for Living ' at the Globe Theatre, London)
Book (same title), £9.50, from booksellers
A meditation on the theme of hope led by Michael A. Simpson
A seven-part series
Isobel and Harry Cooper have become travelling people. After a lifetime of conventional living, with a job, a mortgage and two children, they have sold up and taken to the road.
Presented by Anne Brown
BBC Birmingham
with John Ebdon
Producer BRIAN COOK
Weather report: forecast followed by an interlude
