Presenters Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30. 7.30. 8.30
News Summary
6.458 Prayer for the Day
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.258,8.25" Sport
7.45* Thought for the DOli
by ROBIN CHAMBERS
Read by Roger Rees
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
Cabbages and Coronets
Standing firm against the Channel breezes, atop a cliff of chalk not far from Dover, Denis Owen and Derek Jones find small blue butterflies and yellow-banded snails, oak-eggar, and varied coronet moths - all there because of brassicas, a vast population of wild and ancient cabbages, ancestors of cauliflowers, kales and broccolis.
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
In this first programme of a new series.
Russell Harty and his guest Lord Howard, who completed his term as Chairman of the BBC only a few days ago. choose pieces of music for each other as stepping stones in a conversation that Is
Inevitably free-ranging and sometlmessurprising. Producer IAN cardhousi
Olwyn's Young Man by TATRICK J. CORCORAN
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NEM, p 67: Teach me, O Lord, the Perfect way (BBC HB 473); Psalm 51; 11 Corinthians 5 v 11-6, v 2; Lighten the darkness of our life's long night (BBC HB 520)
(Stereo)
Hammond Innes
(Broadcast Sun 10.15 pfcj
In the last programme of the series Bob Symes transforms plain bangers and mash into an exotic lunch party dish for some unexpected guests. Producer KATE FENTON
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John Howard with the daily consumer news magazine. Family finance, education, the law housing, your employment rights are all on the daily menu.
Today Leslie Coltlngton reveals the latest trends In food prices with the aid of The BBC Shopping Basket survey. What Is new in food shops? What are the best buys?
Joy In the Morning by P. G. WODEHOUSE Seven programmes starring
Michael Hordern as Jeeves and Richard Briers as Bertie Wooster with Peter Woodthorpe as Percy,
Lord Worplesdon Jonathan Cecil as Boko Fittleworth and Denise Brycr as Edwin, the Boy Scout 4: Sundry Happening! In a Garden
Florence Craye
BRONWEN WILLIAMS
Adaptedbychhismiller
Producer simon bbett
Presenter Nick Ross
with Sue MacGregor Further Travels in Papua New Guinea (21: CHRISTINA OODWELL 19 held captive as a spy. Better than Fish and Chips' ANDREA ADAMS tries Vting a Cornish oyster e Plague Dogs (2)
The Catch
By Nick Darke
A Cornish fisherman is tempted by hard times and lure of easy money to fish in more troubled waters; the smuggling of a highly illegal contraband.
Swiddles Donald Mcbride
Leadwell Nick Brimble
Thelma ..Rowena ROBERTS
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
The Cottage G»rden Year: Summer il)
Pudd'nhead Wilson (4)
with Robert Williams and Susannah Simons VHF 55
with BRYAN MARTIN
Including Financial Report
A nationwide general knowledge contest
Chairman Robert Robinson 21: Midlands and East Analia
Second Round Belly Wharton
(retired headmistress) Charles Stephens (private tutor) Allan Chapman fsenlor lecturer) Andrew Cobley
(computer programmer) Including Beat the Brains Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN
Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS
Written by MARY CUTLER (Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
JiBC Birmingham
A farce by Arthur Wing Pinero
with Nigel Stock, Jill Bennett, Charles Gray, Maria Aitken, Anthony Daniels, Jonathan Cecil
The magistrate, circumspect and scrupulously just, has married a widow with a young son. But his wife has deceived him and the son leads him astray.
visits the set of Ronald Harwood 's The Dresser. which is now being filmed by PETER yates. With TOM COURTENAY repeating his award-winning stage performance as the dresser and confidant of an ageing theatrical knight played in the film version by ALBERT finney ; and reviews the Chichester Festival
Theatre's new production of Terence Rattigan 's
' occasional fairy tale The Sleeping Prince, starring Omar Sharif.
Presenter Jeffrey Richards Producer RICHARD DUNN
John Morgan reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
The Pledge (4) long wave only
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Nightfall on a mountain in Kenya, talking stones in an Oxfordshire dawn, and the mysteries of the hours in between. Barry Paine introduces the first of a series of ten nocturnal miscellanies on the intricacies and intimacies of night.
Producer MELINDA barker BBC Bristol long wave only
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