with special reports from the Royal Ulster Show In Belfast
Producers MARTIN SMALL and ALLAN WRIGHT
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Presenters Peter Hobday and Chris Lowe
6.45* Prayer for the Day with CHERIDA CAMPION
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25.. 8.25, Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35. Yesterday In Parliament
8.57 Weather; travel
A fairly ordinary programmeofinordinate length starring ordinary people. Libby Purves says happy birthday ' to this week s special guest. Producer PETER ESTALL
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The Luncheon by W. SOMERSET MAUCHAM Read by Robert Rietty long wave only
nem, p 17; Come down. 0 Love divine (BBC HB 149); Canticle 3; Judges 6. vv 33-40 (rsv); Jesus. these eyes have never seen (Bp 44)
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Richard Baker presents a blend of musical entertainment on record. Producer RAY ABBOTT long wave only
Call to Account - British Rail
In the first of a regular new series you are given the chance to put your complaints, queries and comments direct to the people who run our major industries.
Today Geoffrey Myers , Deputy Chief Executive of British Rail, deals with your calls and letters.
Shabby stations, longer journey times, dirty trains, poor catering are all points you've raised. Paul Heiney and Pattle Coldwell put your questions. Ring [number removed]to take part.
A serial in nine parts by Stephen Barlay
Starring Ian Hendry as Maxon and Toby Robins as Jacqueline
with George Coulouris as Ellsberg, Carl Duering as Kowalski and Alan Tilvern as Locke
(Broadcast Sun, 7.2pm)
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
PresenterSir Robin Day
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with Sue MacGregor Including
Guest of the Week:
Sir Ranuiph Fiennes - leader of the 1979-82 Transglobe Expedition. Neu) York Report: from HELENE HANFF
The King's General (10) long wave only
The Marijuana Kid by JOHN MCKENZIE
I started to feel lit up. I was actually going to box somebody. Me, Harry Burns , long-haired and unemployed. The
Marijuana Kid. But by the time I got in the shower, I was having second thoughts.
Getting into a ring with a complete stranger who was, after all, going to try and beat me up.
Directed by PATRICK RAYNER
(First broadcast on Radio Scotland)
Compiled and presented by Michael Flinch 3: George Herbert Reader
JOHN FRANKLYN-ROBBINS Lord, how can man preach thy eternal word?
He is a brittle crazy glass Producer
SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol
Painting by Radio An illustrated talk by GRAHAM DEAN 2: The Model
Stories from the R2) A Mother in India (3)
Presenters Susannah Simons and Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather; programme news
with LAURIE MACMILLAN including Financial Report
A musical quiz devised by
EDWARD J. MASON
and
TONY SHRYANE
John Amis
and
Frank Muir
challenge
Ian Wallace
and
Denis Norden
In the Chair Steve Race Question
ps compiled by STEVE RACE
Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Frj 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40pm)
A series of weekly investigations into the problems of listeners.
Presenter Roger Cook
(Repeated: Thurs 9.5 am)
The first of three portraits of great 19th-century prima donnas in words and music by PEGGY BRANFORD
(1808-36)
Narrator Ian Holm
Maria Malibran came from a gifted musical family. Her father was the original Count
Almaviva in Rossini's The Barber of Sevilte, her brother became renowned singing teacher, and her younger sister, as Pauline Viardot , had a success almost as splendid as her own. But Malibran was undoubtedly the most gifted of all 19th-century singers. acclaimed by the great composers of the day. with JILL BALCON , BRIAN CARROLL , YSANNE CHURCHMAN
GODFREY KENTON , DAVID TIMSON and LOCKWOOD WEST.
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK (Revised repeat)
A second hearing of Dr Anthony Clare 's interview with the comic genius Spike Milligan.
Producer MICHAEL EMBER followed by an interlude
includes reviews of Welsh National Opera's new production of Carmen starring Jennifer Jones in the title role; and The Renaissance at Sutton Place, a major exhibition celebrating the 450th anniversary of the visit of Henry VIII to the house which was one of the first Renaissance buildings in Britain.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer JOHN POWELL
with Alexander MacLeod
Anthony Holden with the show that brings you the people and the stories behind the news.
Producers JULIAN HALE and ROSEMARY ATKINS
The Hooligan Nights byCLARENCE ROOK abridged in eight parts by JOHN SCOTNEY
Read by Nigel Anthony (1) Young Alf was a self-styled hooligan, and the author made him the subiect of this portrait of the law and language of teenage gangland in London in the 1890s.
Although racy in style, this book Is also a serious attempt sympathetically to present and explain the mysteries and values of an under-privileged class. Producer GRAHAM GAULD long wave only
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