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Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.30. 7.30, 8.30
News Summary
6.45'Praycr for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.25* 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Your Letters
5: In which Piglet does a very grand thing and Owl moves home.
Malcolm Bradbury is Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia, but he is better known perhaps for his novels, The History Man and Eating People is Wrong, and for his academic books on literature. In conversation with Roy Plomley he talks about his career and chooses the eight records he would take to the mythical island.
Roy Plomley's castaway is academic and writer Malcolm Bradbury. Show more
BBC correspondents from around the world cast a collective eye over a contemporary issue.
A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL
Stanley Neville Finch - A Brief Biography by NICK YAPP
Read by Nell Phelps
NEM' p 38; Fillthoumy life, 0 Lord my God
(BBC HB 271); Psalm 90. vv 11-17; I Kings 5. vv 15-26 (RSV); Behold. the mountain of the Lord (BBC HB 485)
Crazy eyebrows, red eyes, way-out yellow wig and Goonllke calls make up the Jack Russell of the penguin colony - the crested rockhopper.
Bernard Stonehouse has been pecked and thumped by all six species of crested penguln, but this is the one bird he cannot forget. Producer MELINDA BARKER BBC Bristol
Paul Helney with the latest news and advice for consumers. Today, with a Bank Holiday approaching.
Norman Tozer looks for places to visitforfree.
For details of the items broadcast in this week's programmes, send an sae marked Fact Sheet 16, to: [address removed]
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
Presenter Gordon Clough with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
introduced from Manchester by Diana Stenson who meets David Kay , champion brewer and bantam breeder. Late summer 1939 saw mass evacuation. Including thousands of Manchester children, to coast and country, PAT THORNHILL has gathered memories of ' the greatest 20thcentury social experiment
BBC Manchester A Fortunate
Grandchild (2)
by ELIZABETH GASKELL (1)
ROBERT GIDDINGS reflects on a sport of kings ... bare-knuckle boxing. 4: Tom Cribb
Well t/ people want us to live in parts like Orkney and Shetland ... they must help us to live here, otherwise they must give us a golden handshake and evacuate us to the Home Counties.
(EDWIN EUNSON, convenor,
Orkney Island Council)
Peter Hobday looks at a remotepartofBritain where the Government for once accepts that it needs to spend money to keep an economy from collapse.
Producers JOHN SKRINE and ROS BEW
The Master by T. H. WHITE abridged by MARGARET ETALL
The last of ten parts read by John Graham Producer JOHN CARDY (John Graham is in Children of a Lesser God' at the Albery
Theatre, London. Starting on Monday: ' The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole , Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend)
with Susannah Simons and Robert Williams VHF only 5.50-5.55
with BRIAN PERKINS
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
Eric Tobltt , Alanah Martin and Tom Boswell.
Producer IRENE MALLIS Edi'or ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)
Anna Ford presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days. Producer ANNE HOWELLS
(Repeated: Sat. 10.45 am)
A personal portrait of a public figure or the story of a private Individual.
Two million wildebeeste, half a million thompson's gazelle and a quarter-million zebra track the changing seasons across more than 5000 square miles of savannah that is Tanzania's Serengetl National Park.
Zoologists Malcolm Coe and Robin Pellew, and wildlife film-makers Alan Root and Hugo van Lawick help celebrate its Diamond Jubilee with tales of bottom-biting leopards, hammer-chewing hyenas and a man-hunting rogue elephant.
Presented by Barry Paine
BBC Bristol (Repent)
from the Edinburgh
International Festival
Paul Allen and Michael Oliver report on Scottish
Opera's production of Death in Venice by Benjamin Britten ; Man and Music. an exhibition with performances by musicians and dancers from all over the world; and sample some of the highlights of the Fringe. Producer JOHN BOUNDY
John Morgan reporting
Join Uncle Clarence,
Auntie Joy, Vince. Lucy and Ron as they trip along the airwaves with their fellow BBCeenles
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
On the Eve (5) long wave only
Radio 4's International business report; market trends long wave only
Memories of what It was like to go out dancing In the 1930s set to music of the period.
Producer PETER HOARE long wave only
Late-night Jazz, blues and gospel music with Dilly Barlow long wave only
