Presented from the South East by Joe Hull
A regional view of farming in the week ahead
A meditation for the beginning of the new day
Presented by Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by DAVID SYMONDS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
A look ahead with Brian Perkins
by Sue Townsend, abridged in ten parts by Elizabeth Proud
with Nicholas Barnes as Mole
The sequel to The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾, which takes him from his 15th birthday.
(R)
A lively matching of wit and wisdom between some of the personalities in the news this week
Producer IAN STRACHAN. Stereo
Jeanine McMullen continues her journey through the green by-ways of the countryside. Producer MARY PRICE BBC Bristol
An information sheet for the series will be available free from October. Send an AS sae to:
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by Elizabeth Evans
Read by Mary Wimbush
Frank has lost his job and the prospects of a new one seem remote. But then he meets the woman in a purple blouse and a whole new world opens before him.
New Every Morning, page 38; Ye choirs of new Jerusalem
(BBC HB 116); Psalm 150; John 2, w 1-11; Lord Jesus Christ (100 Hymns for Today) Stereo
visits the brewing capital of Britain. In Burton upon Trent. Brian Johnston joins a daily beer tasting and learns the history of brewing. He also discovers that the rules for water polo were written in one of its town pubs and learns about the first floodlit soccer game. And at Europe's largest greeting-card manufacturers he's told which is the favourite Christmas card.
Producer ROBIN HICKS BBC Bristol
Presented by P. J. Kavanagh Readers PATRICK ROMER and DIANA BISHOP
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBCBristoL Stereo
Requests to: Poetry Pkase! BBC. Bristol BS82LR
Presented by Paul Clark Editor KEN VASS
A series of three features on the work of George S. Kaufman , the American director who also wrote 45 plays and musicals, 20 of them hits.
Written and presented by Dick Vosburgh with reminiscences from Anne Kaufman Schneider
Leueen McGrath , Jack GUford Stubby Kaye , Abe Burrows and including extracts from
Ustinov's Romanoff and Juliet, The Front Page, The Cocoanuts with The Marx Brothers and songs from Guys and Dolls. Bob Sessions as the voice of George S. Kaufman 1: The Director
Producer JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE (Re-broadcast tomorrow at 6.30 pm) 0 HEAR THIS! page 13
Presented by Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
Sally and the Magic Rattle by JOYCE DUNBAR Read by SHIREEN SHAH and KENNETH SHANLEY 1: The Shore-People Producer VALERIE MCCARTHY (R)
Introduced by Dilly Barlow 'Pest problems?' asks the advertisement - 'beat them with bats!'. MARGARET HORSFIELD Was SO intrigued when she read this that she went out on the trail of bats - and little did she know where it would lead...! Serial: Bilgewater (8) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
A Box of Tricks byj c WILSHER
Stereo
A further informal anthology from Wales
Producer MEGAN EMERY BBC Wales
Slow Boats to China by GAVIN YOUNG
Read by JOHN BOTT (6)
Presented by Gordon Clough and Carole West continued on VHF/FM 5. 50-5. 55
With DAVID HITCHINSON including Financial Report
More outpourings of alphabet soup cooked up by Nigel Rees and served out to
Bernard Bresslaw , Jean Rook Michael Wood and Sir Anthony Quayle Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Devised by NIGEL REES
Producer HARRY THOMPSON
Stereo
(Re broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
Five poets of the past seen through the eyes of poets of the present
4: Spectator ab extra
John Wain looks at the poetry of Arthur Hugh Clough
Readers DEBORAH MACLAREN and PATRICK ROMER
Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester
In the 1960s European molecular biologists decided they should pool their resources to try to stop the USA taking the lead in their subject, and as a result the European Molecular Biology
Laboratory was opened in 1974. Colin Tudge visits the lab in the forest above Heidelberg in West Germany and examines the biologists' achievements in understanding the workings of living cells.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
by Stephen Dunstone
A writer finds, in separate places, two postcards sent 50 years previously by a girl called Ethel. This coincidence leads him to investigate a story that is both strange and haunting. Somebody dies - but who?
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
(Stereo)
Presented by Paul Vaughan Producer CARROLL MOORE Editor THOMAS SUTCUFFE
Dr Wortle's School by ANTHONY TROLLOPE Read by JOHN rowe (8)
PresenterAlexander MacLeod
11.0 Headlines
Editor BLAIR THOMSON
followed by an interlude
