News, weather, papers and sport
Farming, food and countryside news, market trends and weather
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Brian Redhead with the TUC in Brighton
Hugh Sykes in London
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
Aged 131
Written in seven parts by SUE TOWNSEND
With NICHOLAS BARNES (7) Producer JOHN TYDEMAN
8.57 Weather: travel: continental travel
John Mills confronts producers and management with your criticisms and comments about BBC radio and television
Producer SUSAN SNAILUM Please send questions, criticisms and praise to Feedback, BBC.
Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
A weekly look at our environment. Ways to save It, improve It, enjoy It Stephen Bradshaw 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.
Any suggestions to: Groundswell,
BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
Producers SIMON MAJOR
GAYNOR SHUTTE, MICK WEBB
NEM, p9; Praise we the Lord (Bp 72); Psalm 8; Luke 4. vv 14-30 (NEB); Lord Jesus, when you dwelt (bp 55) long wave only
The Nantgarw Vase by DORA V. RICE
Read by Olwen Rees
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
followed by travel
A history of the ancient trade between Bordeaux and Edinburgh in fine wine. described once as ' the bloodstream of the Auld Alliance.'
From the mld-15th century when England lost Gascony to a Franco-Scottish army, the Scots merchants held special privileges which helped create a taste for claret in Scotland, a taste which lasts today in the capital city, particularly among the legal profession.
Leith-bottled claret may now be a thing of the past. but the convivial tradition remains in poetry. anecdote and song.
Presenter Neville Garden Reader TOM WATSON Music NEIL ADAM , ROD PATERSON
Research CAILEAN MACLEAN Producer BILLY KAY BBC Scotland
Another Six of the Best! For the next six weeks you can enjoy a further selection of repeats of personal experiences with wild creatures.
This week Malcolm Coe talks about the gecko.
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
News, views and advice for consumers
Presenter John Howard Editor JOHN GETGOOD
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Brian VYIdlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
from Birmingham with Jocelyn Ryder-Smith Tayberries for Tea!
JOANNA TOYE tastes this new fruit.
' Tell me about the Olden Days, Nan 1: KATHLEEN DAYUS was prompted to write about her childhood in a Birmingham slum. She talks to MARGARET P.ORSFIELD.
Producer ANN TENNANT BBC Birmingham
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page (9)
Sand by HOWARD WAKELING
When Derek and his Wife Jenny return to his old family home for a holiday, Derek becomes curious to unravel the mystery surrounding his mother's death years ago. Suddenly events take a sinister turn when Jenny finds herself strangely affected by the house.
Directed by GERRY JONES
with LYS DE BRAY 4: Leaves
Six programmes on special war correspondents Narrated by Reni Cutforth 3: Blowitz - Ambassador of' The Times' with A portrait of Henri Opper de Blowitz (1825-1903), a friend of princes and popes, and the man who published the Treaty of Berlin while its contents were still meant to be secret.
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT
The Boy on Platform One (4)
Presenters Gordon Clough and John Sargeant on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather: programme news
With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
with Clive Jacobs
Tom Boswell tests the Opel Senator.
Producer IRENE MALLIS Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)
with Margaret Howard Producer KATE FENTON
(Repeated: Sat 10.45 am)
BBC correspondents around the world cast their collective eye over a contemporary issue.
A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL
The Rt Hon Denis Healey , mp, The Rt Hon
Enoch Powell , mp, Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith , mp, and Ann Mallalleu tackle the issues raised by the audience at Wells. Somerset
Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)
includes a review of The Rules of the Game starring Leonard Rossiter and directed by Anthony Quayle at the Theatre
Royal, Haymarket; and previews an unusual double-bill first brought together by Strauss and his librettist
Hofmannsthal in 1912, Le Bourgeois
Gentithomme and Ariadne auf Naxos, produced by Ian Cotterell and Elaine Padmore on Sunday on Radio 3.
Presenter Sheridan Morley Producer JANE STENNING
An irreverently critical look back at the week's events with David Jason , Tracey Ullman and others Written by JAMES IIENDRIE , JOHN LANGDON ,
JOHN REVELL , ANDREA SOLOMONS, RICHARD QUICK,
PETER KICKEY , DAVE DIXON and others
Producer JAN RAVENS
(Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm)
Madame Bovary by GUSTAVE FLAUBERT abridged in 15 episodes by KEITH DARVILL
Read by IAN HOLM (15)
Producer MAURICE LEITCH long wave only
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A second chance to hear some of the well-known authors who have talked to Frank Delaney in the Bookshelf series. 6: John Fowles long wave only
with Dilly Barlow long wave only
Weather report: forecast followed by an interlude
