Presented from the South West by Robin Hicks. BBC Bristol
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Peter Hobday
6.45- Prayer for the Day with FR ERIC DOYLE
6.55,7.55 Weather forecast 70 8 Today's News
Read bv PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.25*. 8.25' Sport
730 8 30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
with David Hitchinson
investigates the BBC Sound Archives.
Producer KATE FENTON
(Repeated: Fri 11.45 pm)
8.57 Weather: travel
and lively conversation. Producer JENNY DANKS
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Miss Bracegirdle Does
Her Duty by STACY AUMONlER Read by Margot Boyd Producer MITCH RAPER long wave only
NEM p13; Father of Heaven (BBC HB 290); Psalm 116; John 13. v 31.14, v 3 (AV); The King of Love (BBC HB 475)
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Brian Johnston visits Tavlstock in Devon, a busy and prosperous market town.
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
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Presenter Robert Gittlngs Readers ELEANOR BRON and JOHN FRANKLYN-ROBBINS Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
(John Franklun-Robbins is a member of the RSC) long wave only
Presenter Jenni Mills
The best of Leacock exists somewhere between the amiable nonsense of characteristic English humour (eg
Wodehouse) and the hard-hitting and almost vindictive satire of much American humour.
(J. B. PRIESTLEY )
A dramatisation of some of his best pieces featuring Freddie Jones with Geoffrey Matthew
Sheila Steafel. Bill Wallis Jingles by PHILIP POPE
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
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12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake
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with Sue MacGregor God is Female Too:
GAIL COTTON reports on a recent conference of Christian feminists.
Woman's Hour/
Radio Times Painting
Competition announced by JOHN FITZMAURICE MILLS Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective by LESLIE THOMAS abridged in 11 parts by PAT MCLOUGHLIN Read by BRUCE LIDINGTON (4) long wave only
Travelling Hopefully by KEN WHITMORE
Camels
What do vou do when a film company requires . 100 midnight-black
Camels '- and such an animal does not exist? David Taylor , the international zoo vet. solved the problem with ladies hair-dye and a team of pa/tient hairdressers!
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
Goldfinger by IAN FLEMING , abridged for radio in ten parts by GEORGE IIEARTON
Read by David Rintoul Part 1: Happenstance
Episode 1: Living it Up ' Mr Bond. they have a saying in Chicago:
" Once Is happenstance, twice is coincidence.
The third time it's enemy action." '
Producer MARILYN IRELAND BBC Scotland
with Valerie Singleton and Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
with BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
A. J. Sylvester tells how he became Principal Private Secretary to David Lloyd George.
Introduced by JOHN DARRAN Producer JAN TAYLOR (Revised repeat)
Ghosts by HENRIK IBSEN translated by MICHAEL MEYER
Ibsen wrote of the ghosts of times and ideas and people long dead, Ghosts that walk in the, young again. ' I think, he said, ' that we are sailing with a corpse in the cargo.'
Directed by GERRY JONES (Sian Phillips is a National Theatre player, Roger Rees is in The Real Thing at The
Strand Theatre, London; Glyn Houston is in ' Key lor Two ' at the Vaudeville Theatre, London)
includes reviews of Local Hero. a new film produced by David Puttnam , directed by Bill Forsyth. starring Burt Lancaster as an oil tycoon who tries to turn a peaceful Scottish fishing village into an oil terminal; and My Cousin Rachel, the four-part
BBC2 dramatisation of Daphne du Maurier's novel, starring Geraldine Chaplin and Christopher
Guard .
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer JOHN BOUNDY Editor ROSEMARY HART
9.59 Weather
with Simon Winchester and voices and opinions from around the world Editor KEN GOUDIE
Presenter Peter Evans What is happening in science? A weeklv review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories.
Producer JULIAN BROWN
Christ Stopped at Eboli by CARLO LEVI, translated byFRANCES FREIUYE abridged in ten parts by SUE ANSTRUTHER
Read by Michael Williams (1)
Banished in 1935 to a remote and barren corner of Southern Italy for his opposition to the Fascist regime, Carlo Levi draws a stark and haunting picture of the lives of the peasants and small village gentry whose alienation from the outside world is even more complete than his.
Producer RICHARD WORTLEY
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