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6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
Part 3
An hour of entertaining conversation, with a birthday surprise unwrapped by Libby Purves
Producer PIPPA BURSTON
The Cavallini Collection by MARK BOURNE
Read by Robert Rietty
new p 110; Jesus calls us! O'er the tumult (BBC HB 354); Psalm 34, vv 11-22: Matthew 17, vv 14-27 (rsv); I'm not ashamed to own my Lord (BBC HB 494)
Richard Baker presents a blend of musical entertainment on record. Producer RAY ABBOTT
John Howard with the latest news, advice and information for consumers. If you have queries, comments or suggestions about any of the items in the programme, ring [number removed]after 11.0 am.
by TED ALLUEURY
The sixth of ten parts adapted by the author from his latest novel and Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING
( Barry Foster is a National Theatre player)
Presenter Gordon Clough
with Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: John Drummond , Festival Director. Edinburgh
International Festival.
Money and Love: spending time together is one thing, but how do couples spend money together? FRANCES RATCHFORD looks into a few financial affairs-and marriages. The Plague Dogs (6)
The Nipponese Experiment by ROY KENDALL , With and When Barnes, the director of a small manufacturing company, decides to speed up production and Inject a ittle spirit of company love into his work force by ' going Japanese ', the unions are determined to thwart his intentions. But then It seems that there are one or two further Japanese' Ideas that Barnes may have temporarily forgotten ...
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY
Insevenprogrammes the poet George MacBeth presents a selection of verse about the sea. 1: The Magic of the Sea
Readers CAROL DRINKWATER ANTHONY HYDE , JAMES BRYCE Producer ALEC REID
Claire Frankel looks at the eating habits and manners of Americans. 2: Eating Southern Style
In the first of three programmes Julian Hale travels to Stockholm and reports on a crisis in confidence at the heart of one of the world's most comprehensive welfare states. Are too many children being taken into custody? Many parents believe the answer is yes; the state, however wellintentioned, Is playing a role of Big Brother. Producer JULIAN HALE
Pudd'nhead Wilson (8)
with Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
With PETER DONALDSON
Including Financial Report
(Details: Friday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40pm)
(Details: Thurs 9.0 am)
No age ever celebrated its sensations with more verve and Impish irreverence than the Victorians.
In the second of two programmes Roy lludd takes a look at more curiosities, cults, crises and eccentrics, tragedies and theatrical sensations that outraged and entertained our grandfathers and great-grandfathers and inspired the popular songwriters of the day; and, together with Charles West, sings some of the songs that, in turn. became brief sensations in themselves. with ELIZABETH PROUD
WILLIAM ROBERTS and the CHARLES YOUNG MUSICIANS Written by GERALD FROW Producer JOHN DYAS
The Infirm Giant and the Endangered Dream In the last of six weekly talks Michael Elkins, who has lived in Israel since 1948 and was BBC correspondent there for 17 years, ends his journey through the history of the modern Jewish state.
For its future, crushed between the equally implacable attitudes of Menachem Begin and extreme Palestinians, he offers no hopeful forecast, only a personal testament. Series producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
Some of the folklore of the garage in the heroic age of its beginnings, in the words and voices of some of those Involved. Compiled and presented by Theo Barker ,
Professor of Economic
History at the University of London.
Readers RONALD BADDILEY TIMOTHY BATESON CAROLE BOYD
GARARD GREEN
Special music by JONATHAN GIBBS , BBC
Radiophonic worKsnop Producer
MICIIAEL MASON
includes reviews of Adrian Noble 's new production of The Comedy of Errors, starring Paul Greenwood and Peter McEnery , at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford; and the exhibition
Manet at Work at the National Gallery, which explores the diversity and originality of Manet's working methods.
Presenter Jeffrey Rtchards Producer PHILIP JORDAN
John Morgan reporting
In the Cage (3) long wave only
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Presenter Marian Foster THE RILSTONE SINGERS, conductor
GEOFFREY HUCHES , and the MARAZION APOLLO MALE VOICE CHOIR, conductor
NICHOLAS MATTHEWS , sing songs of land and sea. and folk music from Hungary and the USA.
Producer IAN CARSON BBC Bristol long wave only
long wave only
