News, weather, papers and sport
Farming, food and countryside news, market trends and weather.
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.45* Prayer for the Day with Dr Fred Milson
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7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by Peter Donaldson
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday In Parliament
A series of weekly investigations into the problems of listeners, which can include being the victims of unfair dealings, sharp practice, injustice and even fraud. Presenter Roger Cook
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A magazine edition reflecting the changing world of plants and animals.
Presented by Peter France Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
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by David Graham-Cumming
Read by Frank Middlemass
BBC Birmingham
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nem, p 1; Come, let us join our cheerful songs (BBC 1113 122); Psalm 99; John 13, vv 12-21 (AV);
Rejoice! the Lord is King (BBC HB 128)
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The German Choice
West Germany goes to the polls on Sunday in an unprecedented mid-term election. The concern shown by both Super
Powers in the outcome reflects Germany's crucial importance in the balance of power between East and West. John Eidinow reports on the choices before the electorate and the issues which will determine the result. Producer ANNE WINDER
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with Nell Landor
Producer DILLY BARLOW long wave only
Presenter Bill Breckon Including the BBC Shopping Basket
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Gordon Clough
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with Sue MacGregor
Science Scanner: MOYRA BREMNER reports on some new Ideas.
How I See Life: MADGE siiarples, marathon runner, talks to JENNY CUFFE.
Dangerous Davies:
The Last Detective (2) long wave only
Errors and Omissions by LEE GALLAHER
A young girl seeks sanctuary from the squalor of the squats of northern Europe in her aunts' house in Ireland. But Monique brings more than an unborn child and a boyfriend who is not that child's father -she brings a philosophy that refuses to dwell upon life's omissions and errors.
TONY MCAULEY (harmonica) Directed by ROBERT COOPER BBC Northern Ireland
Continuing his lifelong attempt to get Proust down to matchbox proportions, the poet ROY FISHER explores an utterly pointless trick of memory.
The Honorary Consul (9)
Presenters Robert Williams and Gordon Clough on VHF until 5 55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
with BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
Written by HELEN LEADDEATER
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
with Jeremy Siepmann
leader FELIX KOK conductor Simon Rattle Lynn Harrell (cello) direct from the Town Hall, Birmingham Part 1
Debussy Prdlude a l'après-midi dune faune Sibelius Symphony No 3, in c major
Subjects raised in last week's Anu Questions? Introduced by John Timpson
Producer GEOFFREY JAMES BBC Bristol
Part 2 Dvorak
Cello Concerto In B minor (Given in association with the GKN Group)
BBC Birmingham
includes reviews of Crystal Clear, a play at the Wyndham's Theatre, London, devised and directed by Phil Young. about the stresses and strains put on human relationships by the disability of blindness; and The Missionary, a new film written by and starring Michael Palin , about an Edwardian missionary who returns to London after ten years in Africa.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer philip JORDAN
John Morgan reporting
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