Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
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
This week Jimmy Hill meets the team behind Canterbury, Britain's premier cathedral. Researcher KAREN DECO
Producer MIKE CHANEY. Stereo
Night Work by MADELAINE BLACKMORE Read by Jill Balcon
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
NEW, p 17; Thee will I love, my God and King (BBC HB 314);
Psalm 63; Matthew 20, vv 20-28; Be thou my Vision (BBC HB 316) Stereo
A Chip Shop Special
Today US athletes are created by God and perfected by computer. Scientists using the latest technology have been working to convert muscle into gold. PE coaches are out, sports scientists are in as some of America's top competitors have undergone minute digital analysis to push performance further than it has been pushed before. Barry Norman discovers how brawn meets computer brain to make gold at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Producer TREVOR TAYLOR
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What is it that makes some of us persist against all odds? Nigel Rees has been talking to six people who just won't give up. 2: Nic ap Glyn of the International Language (Ido) Society of Great Britain
Producer ROS BARTLETT
Presenter Pattie Coldwell
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dramatised in eight parts from his novel by ALLAN PRIOR with 4: The Biggest Thing Since Roots Things went sadly wrong on Danny Watson's show when his audience voted that the Tricross Missile must go. Another dramatic turn of events revealed that the march is planned for the 13th - an ominous date if you're superstitious!
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON
Stereo
Presenter Hugo Young
Dave and Toni Arthur with some games to play.
with Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Jonathan Porritt , a leading light in the Ecology Party soon to become Director of Friends of the Earth
The Greengage Summer (3)
New series
Going for Broke, a six-part comedy series by GEORGE BAKER with and 1:The Builder That BothersJohn Morse is a broker who works from home. He can cope with the builders who, for the past 16 months, have been tearing his home apart. He can cope with an ex-wife, a fiancee, an 18-year old daughter and a secretary. Not forgetting his bank manager, he can cope - but only just.
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN Stereo
Kevin Crossley Holland presents poems about the British abroad. This week a visit to the Low Countries.
Readers CAROL DRINKWATER and DAVID BRIERLEY
Producer ALEC REID. BBC Bristol
The Reverberator by HENRY JAMES abridged in eight parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by KERRY SHALE (8) Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
Presenters Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
with BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
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: Fri 12.27 pm) Stereo
(Repeated: Thursday 1.40 pm)
Released unexpectedly after 20 years in a Cuban prison, the poet Jorge Manuel Valls Arango talks to
Graham Fawcett about his experiences. his beliefs and his writing. Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester
Narrated by Rene Cutforth 2: Russell of 'The Times' by DANIEL FARSON with Many politicians thought
Rusell's outstanding despatches from the Crimean War caused a mischief amounting almost to high treason ... other parts played by CRAWFORD LOGAN , ANTHONY NEWLANDS and PETER TUDDENHAM
Directed by BRIAN MILLER
BBC Bristol Stereo
New series
The Railwayman
Six programmes of folk songs, poetry, doggerel and prose about various occupations.
Ray Handy, Dilys Price and Christine Pritchard read works by ROGER WODDIS , WILLIAM MCGONAGALL and others
The Chartists and Huw and Tony Williams provide the music.
The hosts are the Islwyn Folk Club, Ynysddu, Gwent. Compiled and produced by HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales. Stereo
The true story of two working women and their dreams before the First World War.
Presented by Laurie Macmillan adapted from unpublished diaries and letters by MICHELENE WANDOR withand
Ruth Slate leaves school at 14 to take a job washing bottles with a wholesale druggist in South London.
Then one day at Chapel, she meets a struggling shorthand typist, Eva Slawson. They become lifelong friends. For the next 20 years Ruth and Eva keep a continuous written record of their lives. Though they work in very stressful domestic and business conditions, they are optimistic supporters of Women's Suffrage, Christian Socialism and the Arts and Crafts Movement. In their dreams and activities they capture the aspirations of an age. Research TIERL THOMPSON and EILEEN YEO
Producer SUE DAVIES
New series
In the first of six programmes Phil Smith explores the remoter reaches of the North Yorkshire Pennines to look at life from the viewpoint of people who live and work there. 1: Millstone Grit
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
Sincere Insincerity
In conversation with Michael Billington , Jane Lapotaire recalls her work with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, and her part in the West End musical Dear Anyone. She also discusses her career in America and her latest project, setting up the Women's Playhouse Trust. Producer JOHN BOUNDY
(A Kaleidoscope repeat)
Among the Russians
8: The Mountain of Languages
Presenter Richard Kershaw
11.0 Headlines on VHF until 11.0
War and Peace in Our Time 4: China Invades Vietnam ANTHONY SHANG talks about the Chinese invasion of Vietnam (1979), to GEOFFREY STERN
