Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson with Gerald Williams at the Olympics in Los Angeles
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
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.43 The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole Part 3
In the last of six programmes Jimmy Hill meets the people behind the highly successful
McLaren motor racing team. He meets them at McLaren's head-quarters in Surrey and on the racetrack at the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim. Researcher KAREN DECO
Producer MIKE CHANEY. Stereo
Round and Round the Garden Daphne Ledward visits
Norfolk and Suffolk and talks to nurserymen and plantsmen about old and new methods of plant propagation, marketing and how the end product might fit your garden.
Producer KEN FORD BBC Manchester
Winners and Losers Three stories about a Gloucestershire comprehensive school by MICHAEL A. PEARSON Read by Timothy Kightley 3: French Lessons
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
NEM, p 25; Sing to the Lord a joyful song (BBC HB 19); Psalm 96; Acts 2, vv 22-36: King of glory, King of peace (BBC HB 325): Stereo
New series
Stereo
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.
4: Marous Wenner of the Radian Movement
Producer ROS BARTLETT
Presenter John Howard
If you have any comments on today's programme, phone [number removed]after 11.0 am
dramatised in eight parts from his novel by ALLAN PRIOR
6: Have You Ever Thought of Marching on Moscow
Suddenly everything has gone wrong for Danny Watson and his TV coverage of the Tricross March. Alison Bowers has walked out of the show and out of his life. And the Fleet Street hack, Bunny Bullivant , has met with a fatal 'accident' just as he was about to spill the beans. But the day of the march dawns....
Guitarist JOHN BULL
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON
(Harry Towb is in 'Little Shop of Horrors' at the Comedy Theatre, London) Stereo
Presenter Michael Charlton
TONY AITKEN reads The Travelling Trimple Town Band by BERYL DESMOND
with Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Dame Anna Neagle who celebrates her 60th anniversary in showbusiness this year The Dancing Bear by PETER DICKINSON abridged in 11 parts by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Read by Martin Jarvis (1)
Going for Broke
A six-part comedy series by GEORGE BAKER with and 3: Plumbing the Depths
There are certain days
John Morse finds less easy to 'cope' with than others. Today is such a day. Apart from the lack of hot water due to the non-arrival of the new boiler, there are the minor distractions of his daughter rowing with his fiancée, his secretary resigning and, of course, his weekly meeting with his bank manager to discuss those irritating figures in red. Directed by GLYN DEARMAN
The sixth of the series in which Kevin Crossley-Holland presents poems about the British abroad.
A Visit to the West Atlantic Readers ANTHONY HYDE and DAVID BRIERLEY
Producer ALEC REID. BBC Bristol
With ever-increasing taxes and inflationary costs, the great houses of England are no longer just grand family homes. To survive, the owners have had to turn them into businesses.
This four-part series looks at how some have chosen to do so. 1: Warwick Castle
Situated in the centre of Warwick on an impressive site beside the River Avon, it is regarded as one of the finest medieval castles in England. It was bought by Madame Tussauds in 1978 for one-and-a-half million pounds and now attracts well over
500.000 visitors a year.
Producer MARJORIE LOFTHOUSE BBC Birmingham
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The Lantern Bearer (3)
Presenters Robert Williams
and Susannah Simons
continued on VHF 5.50-5.55
with PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report
A musical panel game 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)
3: A Poet's Blessing
Seamus Heaney looks at the Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh , and explores a special relationship.
Reader DENYS HAWTHORNE Producer FRASER STEEL
BBC Manchester
A series of programmes on special war correspondents narrated by Rene Cutforth
4: From London to Ladysmith: George Steevens of the 'Daily Mail'
In 1901 George Steevens died of fever at Ladysmith. He was only 31. But his despatches from America, the Sudan and South Africa had made him known to millions. with Sir Herbert Kitchener/H. W.
Stereo
The Seafarer
A roaring, brawling, tough-as-teak character whose adventurous life is captured in verse and song - with some nautical jokes for good measure. Ray Handy and Dilys Price are the readers, The Hennessys and Calennig provide the music.
The hosts are the Valley Folk Club, Pontardawe.
Compiled and produced by HERBERT WILLIAMS
BBC Wales. Stereo
Thousands of political prisoners have been bought out of East German prisons by the West German Government.
John Eidinow talks to ransomed prisoners and West German officials, and asks whether there should be a profit from political oppression.
Producer CATHY WEARING
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.
(BBC Manchester)
Good For Comedy - OK For Hamlet
Derek Jacobi discusses with Ronald Eyre his theatrical life and times in a year in which he has won four awards as Actor of the Year for his performances with the Royal
Shakespeare Company including Benedict in Much Ado About Nothing and the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac, both of which have been seen on an extended European tour, the Los Angeles Arts Festival and are shortly to open on Broadway. Producer JOHN POWELL Stereo
The Parasites (8)
Presenter Richard Kershaw
11.0 Headlines on VHF until 11.0
War and Peace in Our Time A series of seven programmes 6: The Falklands EDUARDO CRAWLEY , Managing Editor of Latin American Newsletters, outlines the 1982 Falklands conflict and discusses some of the implications with series presenter GEOFFREY STERN.
