Presenters John Timpson and Peter Hobday with Brian Redhead from the Commonwealth Prime Ministers'
Conference in New Delhi, India
6.30, 7.30, 8.30
News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters
Colin Semper confronts producers and management with your criticisms and comments about BBC radio and television.
Please send questions, criticisms or praise about radio or television to: Feedback, BBC,
Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW
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BBC correspondents from around the world cast a collective eye over a contemporary issue.
A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL
(Repeated: Sat 4.0 pm)
Mr Jefford 's Garden by LISA TAYLOR
Read by David March
NEM p 118; Shepherd divine, our wants relieve
(BBC HB 348); Psalm 82;
Matthew 7, vv 1-12, Oft in danger, oft in woe (BBC be 363) long wave only
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A Hunt in a Horse-Pond ' Pray, what is there to be found in a horse-pond except mud, dead dogs and cats and duckweed?'
1 Toe-biters and ' porwiggles' records Francis Trevelyan
Buckland. 19th-century naturalist and enthusiast for scrabbling about waist-deep in water with a jam-jar and a fishing net.
Barry Paine reads a selection of highlights from Buckland's
Curiosities of Natural History. producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol long wave only
Introduced by Paul Heiney including a look at a particular aspect of this year's
Children in Need appeal, and Norman Tozer on the trail of more bargain buys.
Fact Sheet 29 has details of all this week's items. Send an sae to: [address removed]
Presenter Brian Widlake
Introduced from Birmingham by Marjorie Lofthouse
Join us for news and views from the Midlands which have a national appeal.
Producer ANNE BROWN BBC Birmingham
A Tiger for Malgudi (7) long wave only
by BENJAMIN DISRAELI (2)
Take a Spare Truss
4: Survival Techniques It not infrequently happens that the feet of those not thoroughly accustomed to hard tramping will become blistered. When the eggs of either poultry or wild birds are to be obtained, break one or two into eachshoe before starting.' Simon Brett on the final part of his journey discovers some not altogether conventional tips for the 19th-century traveller.
Written and presented by Ivan Rendall
The story of some of the people who have made aviation history, told in six programmes to mark the 80th anniversary of powered flight. 2: Pilots at War
James McCudden, Cecil Lewis, Baron Manfred von Richthofen and Major ' Mick ' Mannock. Producer ANNE HOWELLS
How Green Was My Valley (10)
with Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons
With BRIAN PERKINS
Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world including Financial Report
with Chris Serle bringing you the stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and ttansport, with help from ERIC TOBITT , ALANAH MARTIN and TOM BOSWELL
Producer GEOFF DOBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD
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Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days. Producer JULIAN bale
(Repeated: Sat 10.45 am)
A personal portrait of a public figure or the story of a private individual.
Sir Campbell Fraser
The Rt Hon Len Murray Harold Evans and Detta O'Cathaln from Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex
Chairman David Jacobs Producer Mary PRICE BBC Bristol
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
The Day After
15 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
The Day After, a television movie depicting the effect of a nuclear attack on Kansas City, and the anticipation of and reaction to the first screening of it in November 1983.
by Allstair Cooke
(Repeated: Sun 9.15 pm)
Sheridan Morley presents tonight's edition which samples some of the main attractions in the 27th London Film Festival, including five 'lost' Hitchcocks (Rear Window, Vertigo, The Trouble with Harry, Rope and The Man who Knew Too Much), and the new restored complete version of George Cukor's A Star is Born with Judy Garland.
Ken Wlaschin includes in his last year as festival director new films from Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa, as well as the latest crop from the resurgent British cinema. Stars and directors from around the world and lectures and seminars on the art of film seem set to make this the most ambitious festival yet mounted at the National Film Theatre.
John Morgan reporting
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with Bill Wallls ,
David Tate , Jon Glover and Sally Grace Written by IAN BROWN , RICHARD QUICK JOHN LANGDON , ROY APPS
JOHN COLLEE , ROGER PLANER PAUL DAVIES , MARTIN BOOTH DAVE DIXON. BARRYFAI'LKNER PETER mcKEY and others
Producer JENNIE CAMPBELL
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