Presented by John Timpson and Michael Stewart with Peter Hobday from the Republican Party Convention in Dallas
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

Part 3

Libby Purves returns with another series of conversational curiosities.
This week's Birthday Guest is former World Champion racing driver James Hunt.
Producer PIPPA BURSTON Stereo

Blooming Bargains
Bill Sowerbutts picks out his best buys in fresh flowers from the florist, and pot plants from the garden centre.
Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester

Tea in the Garden by MARGARET DANKS
Read by Patricia Hayes 'She was a big, rawboned woman. Bodger, her husband, who'd died some years ago, had often said of her "a bloody work 'orse that gal's bin ... just a work 'orse".'
Producer GWYN RICHARDS BBC Birmingham

NEM, p 58; Thy kingdom come, 0 God (BBC HB 27); Psalm 103, vv 13-22; Acts 4, vv 31-37; 0 for a heart to praise my God (BBC HB 334) Stereo

Stereo

What is it that makes some of us persist against all odds?
Nigel Rees has been talking to six people who won't give up.
6: John Yeowell of The Odinic Rite
Producer ROS BARTLETT

Presenter John Howard
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dramatised in eight parts from his novel by ALLAN PRIOR
8: Take Away the Weapons of Destruction
Danny Watson and his crew have practically taken their life in their hands to cover the final dramatic stages of the Big
March. But out there in the thick of the difficulties and dangers, Alison Bowers has thrown away her reporter's notebook to become a marcher herself.
Guitarist JOHN BULL
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON
(Harry Towb is in 'Little Shop of Horrors' at the Comedy Theatre, London) Stereo

Presenter Gordon Clough

Lola Young reads The Tortoise and the Baboon by KATHLEEN ARNOTT

with Sue MacGregor including Guest of the Week: the artist Anthony Green The Dancing Bear by PETER DICKINSON abridged in 11 parts by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Read by MARTIN JARVIS (11)
(Music: Glazunov's The King of the Jews)

Going for Broke
A six-part comedy series by GEORGE BAKER
5: The Sky's the Limit
For once things appear to be going reasonably well for John Morse. As well as they can with no roof to his house, no hot water and no bank balance. It is problems besetting his organised fiancée, Wendy, that John now has to 'cope' with. Directed by GLYN DEARMAN Stereo

Six All
Compiled and presented by H. Colin Davis
1: All Our Yesterdays
Readers GEOFFREY COLLINS and ROSALIND SHANKS
Producer ALEC reid. BBC Bristol
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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. 3: Longleat
This great Elizabethan treasure house was bought for L53 by the Thynne family in 1540. Added attractions, to bring in the visitors, are the Safari Park and the constantly changing fun exhibitions especially designed for family entertainment.
Producer MARJORIE LOFTHOUSE BBC Birmingham

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Presenters Robert Williams and Susannah Simons continued on VHF 5.50-5.55

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: Thursday 1.40 pm)

Five poets of the past seen through the eyes of poets of the present.
5' Making Love with the Light On
Craig Raine looks at John Donne as a poet of love. Reader MARTIN JARVIS Producer FRASER STEEL
BBC Manchester

A series of ten programmes on special war correspondents narrated by Rene Cutforth The Only Gentleman in Fleet Street by NORMAN LONGMATE
Accomplished in most branches of the profession of journalism, Philip Gibbs was most signally successful as a descriptive reporter. Observant, quick-witted, of humane temper, warm and generous in emotional sympathy, he had an unmoving eye for the human essentials of a situation and a telling gift for discovering point and significance in the seemingly commonplace.
Also taking part HUGH DICKSON , DAVID GOODERSON , MADI HEDD,
STEVE HODSON and ALEX JENNINGS Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS Stereo

Travelling People
Works by the 'supertramp',
W. H. Davies , plus other poems and anecdotes about life on the open road. Ray Handy and Dilys Price read the words; and The Hennessys, Lyn Gent and John Howes sing the songs.
Compiled and produced by HERBERT WILLIAMS
BBC Wales. Stereo

Catch salmonella food poisoning and antibiotics will help to ensure that the offending bacteria are eliminated; catch chickenpox or glandular fever and the virus will stay with you for the rest of your life. Geoff Watts reports on the efforts of the scientists to outwit them.
Producer ALISON RICHARDS

Phil Smith explores the remoter reaches of the North Yorkshire Pennines.
5: Among the Troglophiles Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

Presented by Natalie Wheen in London, and Paul Allen in Edinburgh who talks to
Michael Oliver about the world premiere of Scottish Opera's Orion and the mini-festival of Samuel Beckett. Producers DANIEL DODD and RICHARD BANNERMAN

The Haunted Major (6)

Presented by Alexander MacLeod in London and Richard Kershaw at the Republican Party Convention in Dallas
11.0 Headlines on VHF until 11.0

Enjoying Opera Six programmes presented by MONTY HALTRECHT
1: The Power of Opera Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN Series consultant ALAN BLYTH