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6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by Bryan Martin
7.25*, 8.250 Sport
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

John Gunter has been a set designer in the theatre for many years, but his astounding sets for two productions at the National Theatre - Guys and Dolls and The Rivals - have focused attention on him in recent months.
In conversation with Roy Plomley, he talks about his career as a designer and of its many problems and he chooses the eight records he would take to the mythical Island.

Roy Plomley's castaway is theatre set designer John Gunter. Show more

BBC correspondents from around the world cast a collective eye over a contemporary issue.
A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL

by Hill Slavid
Read by Cyril Shaps

NEM, p 17; New every morning is tthe love (BBC HB 408): Psalm 50;
Matthew 25, w 31-48; God of grace and God of glory (BBC m 391)

The Voyager spacecraft, after their close photographic encounters with Jupiter and Saturn, will swing off into interstellar space. It Is a remote possibility they tnay eventually be found by an alien Intelligence but CARL SAGAN and some friends decided to attach a message just in case. Among other things they thought music would be nice, a sort of ultimate Desert Island Discs.
In this programme some of that music is played while Carl Sagan and his wife, Ann Druyan , talk about the project and their difficulties in choosing from among the world's masterpieces. Producers MARTIN GOLDMAN and R. CAREY TAYLOR

The friendly cow all brown and white.... ' has come a long way from its Wild ancestor, the aurocks. Joe Henson takes an affectionate look at the unnatural selection of the cow.
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol

John Howard brings you the latest consumer news. Today In It's a Bargain NORMAN TOZER seeks advice from
Alan Tltchmarsh on ways of keeping your garden free from weeds.
For Fact Sheet 12 send an sae to [address removed]

Presenter Brian Wldlake

introduced from Manchester by Lesley Judd
A Purple Passage: this month DR STUART BLANCH retires as Archbishop of York. He recalls his career from RAF corporal to Primate of England. And Mother Came Too: five years ago BILL YOUNG and his family left
London to start a new venture - horse-drawn narrow boat cruises on the Caldon Canal.
Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester The Third
Miss Symons (5)

by MARY RENAULT adapted for radio in 11 parts by MICHAEL BAKEWELL 8: Maiden Crao with and Receiving news of earth tremors at Kolonus,
Theseus goes there and sees a blind man being stoned: it Is KlngOedipus. The old King of Thebes has a life to give. Then, adventuring with his friend Pirithoos, Theseus lands in the cnuntry of the Amazons where he has to fight with their leader, the beautiful Hippolyta.
Music composed by CHRISTOS PITTAS
Directed by DAVID SPENSER

Women's Lib and cricket do not really go together, so imagine the scene in the Long Room at Lord's as Rachael Heyhoe-Flint led her ladies' cricket team on to the field.

Ivan Benbrook has been asking various people around Bristol - and asbng himself- what should be the future for an obsolete but historically magnificent dockland? Should it rot? Should it be turned into a prettified marina? Or are there ways of making Bristol's docks work again?
Readers BRIAN GEAR and PHILLIP MANIKUM
Producer BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol

Tulku byPETERDICKINSON a by DONALD BANCROFT
The last of ten parts
Read by GARARD GREEN
Producer DAVID JOHNSTON (Starting on Monday:
. Pudd'nhead WiUon ' by Mark Twain )

Presenters Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons

with EUGENE FRASER
Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world including Financial Report

Chris Serle brings you the stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport, with help from Erie Tobltt. Alanab Martin and Tom Boswell
Producer IRENE MALUS Editor ROGER MACDONAID

Written by MARGARET PHELAN
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm) Cast for ithe week:
BBC Birmingham

Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days. Producer IAN WILLOX

A personal portrait of a public figure or the story of a private individual

Narrated by Andrew Sachs
' Through the dark shadows comes the melancholy cry of night. Long and clear. No merry notes these. The call of the tawny owl sobers men into fear under a winter sky.'

BBC Bristol
(Next Friday: The Domesday Oak)

Public opposition to an increased military presence in El Salvador and Nicaragua, the manoeuvres of American troops in Honduras, and the US desire for peace at any price.

by Alistair Cooke

Includes reviews of two new RSC productions at the Barbican: in the main theatre Edmond Rostand 's Cyrano de
Bergerac, translated and adapted by Anthony Burgess , stars
Derek Jacobi : and In The Pit Moliere's Tartuffe translated by Christopher Hampton , with Antony Sher in the title role. Also a bicentenary exhibition at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery of the work of David Cox. considered by critics of the day to be rivalled only by Constable in his depiction of landscape and nature's moods.
Presenter Sheridan Morley Producer PHILIP JOIWAN

John Morgan reporting

A new series of six programmes
Join Uncle Clarence.
Auntie Joy. Vince, Lucy and Ron as they trip along the adrwaves with thedr BBCeenies.
Written and performed by the National Revue
Company who are PHIL NICE, MAXINE OSTWALD , ARTHUR SMITH
BABS SUTTON and ADAM WIDE MD BARRIE BIGNOLD
Producer
ALAN NIXON
(Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm)

I'm the King of the Castle by susan HILL abridged by TREVOR ROYLE The last of ten parts
Read by LYNN FARLEIGH
Producer MARILYN IRELAND BBC Scotland long wave only
(Starting on Monday: ' The Pledge' by Friedrich Durrenmatt )

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