News, weather, papers and sport
Farming, food and countryside news, market trends
Presenters Peter Hobday and Michael Stewart
6.30. 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0. 8.0 Today's News with LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
Part 3
and good company with 55 minutes of lively conversation. Libby Purves says' happy birthday to this week's special guest.
Producer PIPPA BURSTON
It's in the Post
Listeners' letters dealing with summer gardening problems answered by Geoffrey Smith
Dr Stefan Buczacki and Daphne Ledward
Questionmaster KEN FORD BBC Manchester
Landscape with Figures by JOHN MILLER
Read by John Westbrook (John Westbrook is in ' Another Country ' at the Queen's Theatre, London)
nem. p 1; Hall to the Lord's anointed (BBC 118 457); Psalm 36; Matthew 20, vv 1-16 (bsv): 0 Lord, thou art my God and King (BBC HB 470)
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 ALLBEURY
The seventh of ten parts adapted by the author from his latest novel with Barry Foster as Jimmy Boyd
Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNINC
(Barry Foster is a National Theatre player)
Presenter Gordon Clough
with Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: Martin Jarvis , the actor, who is reading the current serial.
New York Report: Helen Hanff.
The Plague Dogs (11)
(Martin Jarvis is a National Theatre player)
No Really I've Given Up
A comedy by SUE RODWELL Peter is determined to give up smoking, and his wife Viv is convinced he is doing the right thing. But once he leaves the sanctuary of his home. he finds himself assailed by a bevy of beguiling tormentors.
Directed by MARGARET WINDIIAM
In seven programmes the poet George MacBeth presents a selection of verse about the sea. 2: The Seaside
Readers CAROL drinkwateb ANTHONY HYDE
Producer ALEC beid
Afessapcs in Bottles
2: LYNN TEN KATE recounts some of the tragic and amusing messages which have b'een washed ashore.
Where and what is the ' real ' Sweden?
In the second of three programmes, Julian Hale visits the small papermaking factory town of Lilla Edet to see if he can find the answers there. What are the preoccupations and hopes of modern Swedes living in the most traditional of settings?
Producer JULIAN HALE
The Master (3)
Presenters
Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
with PETER DONALDSON
Halfanhour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world
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
Questions compiled by STEVE RACE
Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
(Details: Thurs 9.0 am)
by Ned Sherrin and Caryl Brahms
with Timothy West as Beecham
Sir Thomas Beecham was famed as much for his wit and his explosive personality as for his skill with the baton.
This play explores both the man and his music.
Narrator Terry Wale
with David Timson
(First broadcast on BBC World Service)
Each year a small number of girls under 16 years of age get pregnant and choose to keep their babies. How do they cope as mothers? How much do they rely on their own families for support? And does the young father literally leave the girl 'holding the baby'? Or does he face up to his responsibilities.
Anne Nightingale investigates.
Consultant Paul Lewis , of the National Council for One Parent Families
includes reviews of Marcel Proust - Selected Letters 1880-1903. which reveal the young author's relations with his family and his gravitation towards the literary salons of the day; also Agnes of God, a psychological drama by John Pielmeier , directed hy Frank Hauser and starring Susannah York and Honor Blackman , at the Greenwich Theatre.
Presenter Natalie Wheen Producer PHILIP JORDAN
John Morgan reporting with voices and opinions from around the world.
Love of Life by \JACK LONDON abridged in two parts by VIVIEN CREEGOR
Read by Alan Doble (1)
In a wilderness of Ice, an injured man moves slowly towards the safety of the coast. At his heels, carefully keeping its distance, is a wolf, also dying of hunger. Man and beast are held together in a deadly test of stamina. Producer MAURICE LEITCH lung wave only
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Presented by Marian Foster
The voices are those of people whose pastime is to sing in a choir, and the harmony is found in music new and old, sacred and secular, popular and serious.
The GREAT WESTERN CHORUS from Bristol, director
\mike charles. give their renderings in true barbershop style, and the JANE LILLEY SINGERS from Bath. director JANE GIBB , include Corelli, the Chattanooga choo choo and some close-harmony Christian songs.
Producer IAN CARSON BBC Bristol long wave only
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