Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6-30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
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
with this week's collection of conversational curiosities. Producer VICTOR LEWIS SMITH Stereo
This week the team answers questions sent in by post.
Song of the Burren by JOHN G MILLER
Read by John Westbrook
A lonely farm in Ireland - and an absent husband. For the traveller, who arrives by chance, it's the scene of a brief idyll, fated to end as abruptly as it began.
Presented by John Howard
by E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM 5: The Truth Revealed
Stereo
Presented by Hugo Young
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Paint it Green by DES cox
2.5 Something to Think About Rainbows in the Puddles
2.15 Quest: Finding Out about the Sikh Religion
2.35 Pictures in Your Mind: (Poetry): Talking Secrets by GARETH OWEN
2.45 Nature: Newts by MICHAEL SCOTT
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: Little Richard
Shadows on Our Skin (2)
by Joseph Conrad adapted by R.S. Byram
A series of short stories dramatised for radio
Two men, fresh from Europe as the hired employees of the Company, are trading in ivory far up the jungle river. But they are unaware of the real trade being carried on under their noses by their major-domo, Makola...
BBC Bristol
(Stereo)
Six programmes of poetry in English translation
Presented by Charles Tomlinson 3: Metamorphoses
Readers NORMAN RODWAY and ELLEN MCINTOSH
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo
Miss Mole (3)
Presenters Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With PAULINE BUSHNELL including Financial Report
Without hesitation, the least repetitious and most undeviating programme on radio. With Kenneth Williams , Peter Jones , Derek Nimmo and Martin Jarvis
Chairman Nicholas Parsons Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer PETE ATKIN
Stereo
There's nothing particularly new about students working their way through college, but the recent controversy over the whole grants system does suggest that it could become more of a necessity than ever before. At the same time, however, lengthening dole queues are making it more difficult for students to find part-time jobs. In Oxford, the more enterprising undergraduates have found the answer: by setting up their own businesses.
Marjorie Lofthouse looks at some of these ventures, including two girls who run a homecooking service and the Governor of the Bank of England's son, who operates a furniture-removal company. Producer JULIET MORRIS BBC Birmingham
by JOHN FLETCHER
The history and natural history of the Somerset levels with Ben Cross , Maureen O'Brien and Barry Paine 'A velvet mantle of green covers it, wild irises shoot, marigolds glow, moorhens cut and fluster, mayflies wobble and cluster, and supreme, rising god-like from imponderable depths, comes the arrogant steel-glinted dragonfly.'
Readers ADRIAN CAIRNS. ELWYN JOHNSON and DOUGLAS LEACH Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol. Stereo
Vive Le Blast-Offl
Europe is stepping up its space efforts-not for the glamour, but for the financial rewards of the technological spin-off. Will self-interest lead the Europeans to harmonious co-operation? Or will the lure of partnership with the Americans put an end to French dreams of true
European independence?
Presented by John Eidinow Producer DAVID BROOKE
The last of six lighthearted talks in which David Moreau recollects his largely unsuccessful attempts to come to grips with life.
Drawing in Our Horns
Presented by Paul Allen
Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN
The Green Man (3)
11.0 Headlines on VHF/FM until 11.0
Get By in Greek A five-programme beginners' course for travellers on holiday or business. With CHRISTINA COUCOUNARA and YORGOS YANNOULOPOULOS
4: Finding Your Way Around Asking the way Enquiring about public transport Finding out times Study booklet, £2.25; set of two cassettes, £7.48 from retailers or[address removed]
followed by an interlude
Radio History
12.30 (11-14) America in the 19th Century: The Millionaire and at 12.50 (14-16) Russia in 1900 by JOHN COUTTS
