with John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN 7 20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.26* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
The second of three programmes providing the listener with the opportunity to question the politicians on their policies and points of view prior to the European election.
Peter Hobday is in the Chair
Producer ALASTAIR OSBORNE Lines open from 8.0 am
Featuring the finalists in a 110,000 competition. 10: Stage
Electrics Marjorie Lofthouse meets Maurice Marshall and David Whitehead , partners in an Exeter company that hires and sells stage lighting and sound equipment.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
It's an III Wind by GRAHAM EDWARDS
Read by Eiry Palfrey
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
NEM, p 5; All hail the power of Jesus' name
(BBC HB 118); Psalm 47; Exodus 7, vv 8-24;
Alleluia! Sing to Jesus (BBC HB 197) long wave only
In Acacia Gardens by ROBERT SHAFTOE
long wave only
'Small is Beautiful'? or 'Big is Best'?
Derek Jones chairs a beastly battle between
Malcolm Coe for the elephants and Mike Stoddart for the mice.
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
(Revised rpt: Sat 3.5 pm) long wave only
with Paul Heiney
ChairmanRobertRobinson 12: NORTH ENGLAND Stephen McElroy
(head of science in a school)
Clare Chapman (housewife)
Albert Holmes
(retired export manager) Leslie Duncalf (building society executive) including
Beat the Brains
Devised by JOHN p. WYNN Questions by IAN GILLIES Producer RICHARD EDIS
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30 pm)
Presenter Sir Robin Day
by the Conservative Party
with Sue MacGregor ... With a View to
Friendship or Marriage:
FRANCES DONNELLY talks to some of the people behind the small ads in the personal columns. Squeak abridged in six parts by JANET HICKSON written and read by John Bowen (1)
'Squeak' was the result of an attempt by the Bowen household to introduce exotic 'Chinese Owl' pigeons to South Kensington! long wave only
Summer Changes by ROBERT FORREST with At the height of a Glasgow summer, three light-headed strangers meet in an abandoned wire factory. There is a sense of promise in the air, a feeling that anything might happen. Indeed it .might.... Directed by PATRICK RAYNER. BBC Scotland
Shoplifting is on the increase and for the honest shopper it means two per cent on the price of their goods. But who are the shoplifters and how should they be punished? Is it an impulsive crime or a calculated risk? Is the thief not really a criminal, but merely confused? Are shops fair game? Do people shoplift for kicks?
Libby Purves investigates Producer ANN TENNANT BBC Birmingham
9HELPLINES: page 79
Laughing Gas (2)
with Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams
with PETER DONALDSON including
Financial Report
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
This year Brazil's export balance will be nine billion dollars -but it is not enough to pay the interest on her
100 billion-dollar debt. Why should we have to starve, Brazilians say, in order to keep our bankers happy?
Michael Robertson reports from the USA and Latin America in The Debtors Fight Back.
Producer MAX EASTERMAN BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Wed 4.0 pm)
Geoff Watts reports
Producer ALISON RICHARDS (Repeated: Sat 2.35 pm)
For people with a visual handicap
Presenter Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
by Anthony Smith
The Forger's
Art Tom Keating was lionised and asked to present a television series because of his skill at forgery.
John Jacob examines the larger aesthetic, ethical and - not least - the financial problems which emerge when a work of art is found to be a work of deception.
Producer CARROLL MOORE
Falls the Shadow (12)
with Alexander MacLeod
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