Producers MARTIN SMALL and ALLAN WRIGHT
with John Timpson and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by CUVE ROSUN
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
The Soviet Union
Beyond the latest statement on arms control from the Kremlin or the revelations of dissidents or defectors, what is life really like for the Soviet people? In the studio with first-hand experience of the USSR are
Dr Tony Briggs , a specialist in Russian language and literature from Bristol University, and Dr Mary McAuley , who concentrates on Soviet history and politics at the University of Essex. Sue MacGregor is in the Chair.
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
In the first of three programmes Larry Harris investigates the work of foreign correspondents. Producer ROGER CLARK
A Reasonable Woman by LESLEY GRANTADAMSON
Read by Christine Pritchard Producer HERBERT Williams BBC Wales
The Bezzle by JAMES PETTIFER
'Laying awake listening to the dawn chorus made me think that birds in summer only have a few hours to sleep. Do they take cat-naps in the day?'
The team answers your wildlife questions.
Presenter Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Saturday 5.0 pm)
15: WALES
Chairman Robert Robinson James Lacey (schoolmaster) Christopher Wright
(British Steel dispatch clerk) Kenneth Smith Ian MacDonald
(public transport official) including Beat the Brains Devised by JOHN P. WYNN
Questions set by LAN GILLIES Producer RICHARD EDIS
(Repeated: Thursday 6.30 pm)
Presenter Sir Robin Day
Further adventures of Big and Little (2) by SUE LIMB
Man of Letters by PETER MYERS with Nigel Stock as John Phelps
John Phelps is the proprietor of an old-fashioned book publishing business having to get to grips with somewhat harder modern times. The problem is: can he and his firm make the adjustment successfully?
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol. Stereo
Now 75-years-old, Britain's greatest men's tennis champion this year celebrates the 50th anniversary of the first of his three consecutive Wimbledon singles victories.
In conversation with Gerald Williams , Fred reflects on his life in tennis, recalls the days spent in Hollywood - he once played doubles with the late Sir Charlie Chaplin - and talks of his 'strange love affair' with Wimbledon, marked this year by the unveiling of a statue of him in the grounds of the All England Club.
Producer DAVE GORDON Stereo
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The Year of the Lion (4)
with Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton
with PAULINE BUSHNELL including Financial Report
(Repeated: Wednesday 1.40 pm)
Reporter Michael Robinson Producer MAX EASTERMAN BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Wednesday 4.0 pm)
Geoff Watts reports
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap.
Presenter Ian MacRae Producer THENA HESHEL
Listeners can phone with enquiries and comments on [number removed]8.30-10.0 pm
Written and presented by Vincent Kane
A motley crew of Britons are stranded in Rome Airport. To pass the time, each traveller tells a story about himself and gradually a vivid picture emerges of life in contemporary Britain.
2: The Footballer's Tale Producer eli WILLIAMS BBC Wales
Ruskin at Brantwood
Brantwood, a rambling house on the shore of Coniston Water, was for 28 years the home of one of Victorian England's most eminent writers, John Ruskin (1819-1900), art critic, social thinker, moralist. As its trustees consider a new proposal to transform the house into an international centre for Ruskin studies, Michael Oliver visits Brantwood and enquires into the significance of Ruskin's work today.
Producer KEVIN JACKSON
Riceyman Steps (2)
with Alexander MacLeod
11.0 Headlines on VHF until 11.0
Nursing Extra A series of seven programmes 3:Rehabilitation CarePETER WHITE looks at the special care needed for long-term patients.
12.30 Making Work 2: Getting Started with JOHN WALTERS
12.50 YTS Briefing
2: Occupational Opportunities with MARGARET KORVING
