with Brian Redhead and Michael Stewart
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
Part 8
This week Jimmy meets the staff and patients at a busy kidney transplant hospital. Researcher KAREN DECO
Producer MIKE CHANEY. Stereo
An increasing number of gardeners are spending weekends and holidays on specialist courses. Stefan Buczacki goes back to the classroom in Somerset to eavesdrop on the course given by Lucy Huntington.
Producer MICHAEL GREEN BBC Manchester
The Evil That Men Do by ELIZABETH BOWEN
Read by Angela Barlow
The man's letter arrived while her husband was away from home. Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
NEM, p 38; When all thy mercies, 0 my God (BBC HB 22); Canticle 8; Acts 3, w 19-26; My Lord, my life, my love (BBC HB 330). 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. 5: David Jones inventor Producer ROS BARTLETT
Presenter John Howard
dramatised in eight parts from his novel by ALLAN PRIOR with 7: Tricross is Here in This English Field
The Big March has started and even before it gets clear of London, there's been violence and bloodshed in plenty. And somewhere in its dangerous midst, is Alison Bowers getting her story.
Guitarist JOHN BULL
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON
Stereo (Harry Towb is in 'Little Shop of Horrors' at the Comedy Theatre, London)
Presenter Gordon Clough
Doomuch and Doolittle (3) by JOYCE DUNBAR Read by PETER TUDDENHAM
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Brian Patten , Liverpool Poet The Dancing Bear (6)
Going for Broke
A six-part comedy series by GEORGE BAKER with and 4: Good Neighbour
No sooner has John Morse
'coped' with one problem than another hoves into view. This time in the shape of his neighbour, Mrs Williams, whose late husband's advice to her was 'if in trouble, don't hesitate, litigate'.
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN Stereo
The last of the series in which Kevin Crossley-Holland presents poems about the British abroad.
This week, the programme gives way to wanderlust.
Readers CAROL DRINKWATER and ANTHONY HYDE
Producer ALEC REID. BBC Bristol
A series of four programmes. The great houses of England are no longer just grand family homes. To survive, the owners have had to turn them into businesses.
2: Sheldon Manor
A Plantagenet manor house in Wiltshire, which has been lived in for 700 years as a family home. Its owners, Major and Mrs Martin Gibbs , took control in 1952 and proudly show visitors round their home with its 13th-century porch, 18th-century chapel and a connoisseur's collection of trees and old-fashioned roses. Sheldon cuisine specialises in dishes from their Victorian cookbook. Producer MARJORIE LOFTHOUSE BBC Birmingham
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The Lantern Bearers (8)
Presenters Susannah Simons and Robert Williams continued on VHF 5.50-5.55
with PETER DONALDSON 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)
Five poets of the past seen through the eyes of poets of the present.
4: A Man Who Used to Notice Patricia Beer looks at the poetry of Thomas Hardy Reader GARARD GREEN Producer FRASER STEEL
BBC Manchester
A series of six programmes narrated by Rene Cutforth 5: A Red Indian in PatentLeather Boots:
Edmond O'Donovan by ED THOMASON Over the years, O'Donovan's life gradually took on all the characteristics of his reporting; high drama, suspense and colour characterisation became his trademarks. His final and mysterious disappearance was a fitting end for this adventurer-journalist. With
Norman Rodway as Edmond O'Donovan Other parts played by SPENCER BANKS, STEVE HODSON ,
ALEX JENNINGS and CRAWFORD LOGAN Directed by MARGARET WINDHAM Stereo
A six-part series
4:The Iron Worker
'Men rush frantically to and fro bearing flaring iron bars. They drink quarts of ice-cold water ...' Ironworkers and ironmasters - including the legendary Cosher Bailey - celebrated in poetry, prose and song. Ray Handy, Dilys Price and Christine Pritchard are the readers, The
Hennessys and The Chartists provide the music.
Compiled and produced by HERBERT WILLIAMS
BBC Wales. Stereo
Presented by Susan Marling
Thousands of British are living in self-imposed exile on the Costa del Sol. The famous, the nouveau-riche, the rogues, the retired and the plain restless.
While some enjoy the haven of a tax refuge oblivious to anything but the joys of the 19th hole, others eke out a more meagre existence making themselves a little Britain of social and domestic life.
Brits Abroad looks at the lives of these ex-patriates and asks why the Spanish colony continues to boom.
Producer JENNY MALLINSON DUFF Editor ROGER MACDONALD
Phil Smith explores the remoter reaches of the North Yorkshire Pennines.
4: Elegy in a Country Signalbox Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
Presented by Natalie Wheen Producer JOHN BOUNDY
The Haunted Major by ROBERT MARSHALL abridged in eight parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by Nigel Anthony (1)
When Major 'Jacky' Gore takes on the mighty Jim Lindsay , the reigning Open Champion, at St Magnus, everything seems destined to go against him. Producer MAURICE LEITCH
Presented by Janet Cohen
11.0 Headlines on VHF until 11.0
War and Peace in Our Time The last of seven programmes Is Peace Possible? GEOFFREY STERN discusses this and related issues with FRANK BARNABY , Professor of Peace Studies at the Free University of Amsterdam, ROSALYN HIGGINS , Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics, and PHILIP WINDSOR , Reader in International Studies, also at the LSE. Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN
