Producers MARTIN SMALL and ALLAN WRIGHT
with Rosemary Hartill C.55 Weather; travel; programme news
7.10 Today's Papers
A weekly review of the agricultural scene.
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
Presenter Norman Tozer
7.55 Weather: travel; programme news
8.10 Today's Papers
Presented by Tony Lewis It's Cup Final day in England and Scotland. Brighton, who have never been to a final, play
Manchester United at Wembley; and at
Hampden Park the holders, Aberdeen, play Rangers In a repeat of last year's final.
Meet the personalities and characters involved plus a report from
Rotorua, New Zealand where CHRIS REA has seen the third match of the Lions' tour - against Bay of Plenty.
Producer EMILY MCMAHON
Introduced by Bernard Falk with help from
SUSAN MARLING and ROBIN DEWHURST. Producer JENNY MALLINSON DUFF
Editor ROGER MACDONALD including at
8.57 Weather; travel
9.0 News
Desmond Wilcox presents a personal review of the weekly magazines and assesses their coverage of recent events.
Producer PIPPA BURSTON
Peter Paterson discusses the election issues of the past week. Producer CAROLINE MILLINGTON
New Every Morning, page 67; Ten thousand times ten thousand (BBC HB
253); Psalm 93; Acts 2, w 1-13 (RSV); Angel voices. ever singing (BBC HB 256)
with Margaret Howard
BBC correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work In - the politics and the people.
Editor PADDY O'KEEFFE
Louise Boiling keeps you in touch with the financial problems of everyday life.
A Financial World Tonight production
The last seven days put tn a questionable way by Simon Hoggart to Alan Coren
Michael Bywater Sue Cook and David Taylor
Written and compiled by JOHN LANGDON and the producer DANNY GREENSTONE
(Repeated: Mon 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather: programme news
comes from Twickenham. An audience puts questions to a panel of four distinguished people. Chairman David Jacobs
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The Rocking Chair by GREGORY DAY
Gary Is a seasoned, young native of bed-sitter land, a writer and something of a recluse. But his privacy is suddenly shattered by the intrusion of a new neighbour, and it soon becomes apparent that this vaguely disquieting stranger has no Intention of remaining in the suburbs of Gary's life.
Directed by DAVID JOIlNSTON
Beverley Nichols is 85 In September. His life as a professional writer began at the age of 8, when he had a poem published in a Torquay newspaper.
More than 70 years later he is still writing. In the second in a series of three conversations he talks about himself, his family and his friends, and the famous men and women of a far-off time - the 20s. 30s and 40s.
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
Presenter Derek Jones
Presenter Wendy Jones Today's programme investigates whether walkers should have more access to privately owned land and discovers how to give a facelift to a heap of old slag. producers GAYNOR SHUTTE and MICK WEBB
BBC correspondents look at a contemporary issue.
A magazine of special interest to the disabled. presenter John Mills Editor MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence address: BBC Broadcasting House. London WIA 4WW
Tel [number removed]. Exl 7048
Six programmes for the would-be author, written and presented by Derek Parker
4: Getttng Down to It
I get up at 5.30 in the morning, because that Is my best time: and I sit down and go on writing steadily until one or two o'clock.'
DEREK PARKER talks to established and up-and-coming writers about their methods of working.
A sort of revue written and performed by Robert Bathurst , Jimmy Mulvllle. Rory McGrath Emma Thompson and Griff Rhys Jones Producer
GEOFFREY PERKINS
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5.55 Weather; travel; programme news
With DAVID HITCHINSON including Sports Round-up
Amiably competitive conversation inspired by current public and private preoccupations.
MU9tC by INSTANT SUNSHINE Producer MICUAEL EMBER
with a Saturday-evening selection of music on record.
Producer BAY ABBOTT
by R.E.T. Lamb
with Kate Spiro as Janey
When Billy is killed in a motorcycle accident, his fiancee, Janey, is too distraught to attend the funeral but not too upset, it seems, to start a romance with Billy's younger brother.
BBC Bristol
('My Brother's Keeper' is also in the Orchard Touring Theatre's New Writing Festival at the Barnfield Theatre, Breter)
NELLIE TITTERINGTON WM Thomas Hardy's housemaid until his death in 1928. Hilary Townsend recounts some of her stories of the Hardy household. Producer Brian PATTEN BBC Bristol
In the last of three programmes
Doreen Taylor looks mostly at
South America in tracing the perils and pleasures of some of the collectors whose work has enriched the gardens of Britain and the study of botany.
Readers MICIUEL ELDER and MARTIN HELLER
Producer JOHN ARNOTT BBC Scotland
An evening meditation led by David Winter
Tempted into the BBC
Sound Archives to choose items from an imaginary sale. June Knox-Mawer found the experience rather unnerving.
Producer SALLY LUNN
Extracts from the day's major speeches recorded at campaign meetings. Presenter John Hosken
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude