Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
with another selection of conversational curiosities. Producer VICTOR LEWIS SMITH Stereo
The Gun by JOHN O'HARA Read by David Ashford
nem, p 106; We love the place, O God (Bp 95); Psalm 119, vv 41-48; I Corinthians 12, w 1-11; Spread, 0 spread, thou mighty word (BBC HB 182) Stereo
Fritz Spiegl 's illustrated ramble through musicians' Jargon and shop-talk. 4: Schools and Styles Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
Presented by John Howard
by E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM 2: A Home coming
Stereo
Presented by Sir Robin Day
1.55 Listening Comer Today's songs: Boys and Girls Come Out to Play
2.5 Something to Think About The Wall by KAY MCMANUS
2.15 Quest: Do What You Can
2.35 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry): A Friend for the Wind by UBBY HOUSTON
2.45 Nature Wolves by BARRY CARMAN
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: Sue Lawley of BBC Television News
Appointment with Venus (5)
The Thirty-year Rule by MICHAEL KITTERMASTER with John Carson as Aubrey Wickham Hugh Quarshie as Gordon Mataka and Patience Tomlinson as Susan Wickham
After 30 years, Government papers become available to the public. What has Gordon Mataka found out about
Aubrey Wickham that proves so disconcerting?
Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING
The last of seven programmes in which Norman MacCaig presents his personal choice of poetry.
Children
Readers DIANA OLSSON and ANTHONY HYDE
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo
From Russia with Love 6: Black on Pink
Presenters Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
with CLIVE ROSLIN including Financial Report
Without hesitation, the least repetitious and most undeviating programme on radio. With Kenneth Williams , Clement Freud , Libby Purves and Toni Arthur
Chairman Nicholas Parsons Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer PETE ATKIN
Stereo
Presented by Roger Cook Producer JOHN EDWARDS
The tiny principality of Andorra, nestling high in the Pyrenees between France and Spain, a modern Shangri-La with cheap ski-ing, duty-free goods and no taxes, has suddenly found its traditional way of life under threat. The economy is not growing fast enough to keep up with inflation; Spanish entry to the Common Market is causing problems; and there have been two government crises in a year over threats to introduce indirect taxation.... Can Andorra survive the 20th century? Presenter Arthur Garratt Producer ADAM RAPHAEL .HEAR THIS! page 16
In the 1960's it was thought that malaria was conquered, yet 400 million people still contract the disease each year and the number is rising.
Hugh Sykes investigates what has gone wrong and discovers that eradication is still billions of bites away.
Producer GAYNOR SHUTTE
The Vanishing Mandarins The Civil Service is losing some of its best officials. As well as the cuts in the quantity of civil servants
- 100,000 down since 1979 - the quality is under threat. Morale is low, and, allegedly, officials are required to behave like political lap-dogs.
Hugo Young examines the evidence and asks whether the traditional Civil Service ethos is still relevant to the Britain of the 80s?
Producer DAVID LEVY
Six lighthearted talks in which David Moreau recollects his largely unsuccessful attempts to come to grips with life. 3: War of Attrition
Presented by Natalie Wheen Producer KEVIN JACKSON
The Doves of Venus (3)
Presented by Charles Wheeler
11.0 Headlines on VHF/FM until 11.0
Get By in Greek The first of a five-programme beginners' course for travellers on holiday or business. With CHRISTINA COUCOUNARA and YORGOS YANNOULOPOULOS Meeting People Written by DAVID HARDY Series producer CHRISTOPHER STONE Booklet,£2.25; setoftwocassettes, £7.48 from [address removed] or your local retailer
followed by an interlude VHF/FM joins at 12.10
Deutsch fur Die Oberstufe
12.30 15: Der Schimmelreiter by THEODOR STORM adapted by H. F. GARTEN and at 12.50
16: Schriftsteller in der DDR
