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6-30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
Part 4
Six views on different aspects of being a woman emerge in conversation with Anne Brown 3: Winifred Ewing -
States of Independence
Lawyer, Euro-politician and flamboyant personality with clothes to match, Winnie Ewing is the Scottish National Party's most colourful figurehead.
'Madame Ecosse ' considers a Woman's place amid the jetting and the drudgery. Producer LIZ JENSEN BBC Birmingham (R)
Smell like a female, mate like a male - the amorous life of the American garter snake is revealed by Peter France together with the latest natural history events and discoveries.
BBC Bristol
2: Holker Hall, Cumbria
Connections by ELSPETH DAVIE Read by Tom Criddle
'I expect you want everything to make sense.... But one day you'll have to meet something that doesn't add up.... that has no connection at all with anything else.' producer BRUCE YOUNG BBC Scotland
Stereo
Tom Salmon sets out from Morwenstow on a journey of over 300 miles around the Cornish coast. He joins the surf lifesavers at Bude, investigates the legend of King Arthur in Tintagel, and arrives in Padstow on May Day when the Obbey Osses come out to welcome summer.
BBC Bristol
(Stereo)
The Arcadian Deer
Vincent Kane follows Hercules' adventures in Britain in 1985. producer EU WILLIAMS
Presented by John Howard
Stereo
Presented by Brian Widlake
Sally and the Magic Rattle
4: A Surprise for King Oldendays
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Are you a working mother, who looks after children in the school holidays or, in term time, after 3.30? JILL BURRIDGE looks at the low-cost, after-school play scheme 'Out of School'. Serial: Bilgewater byjANEGARDAM abridged in 11 episodes by ANNREESJONES
Read by LOIS BAXTER (11)
(Music: Rachmaninov's Six Pieces for Piano Duet)
The Vacky by ALAN ENGLAND
War-time Britain and Liverpool is being bombed: 13-year-old
Leslie becomes an evacuee and is moved to a small town in Cheshire. But his new family have just lost a son and find it difficult to accept the young teenager.
Directed by PETER KING. Stereo
Neil Landor answers your queries and quibbles.
Questions, on a postcard please, to: Enquire Within. BBC. Broadcasting House. London W1A 1AA Producer FRAN ACHESON Stereo
Brian Gear invites
Elizabeth Proud and Raleigh Trevelyan to pick some paperbacks.
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBCBristol
Slow Boats to China (9)
Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons continuedon VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With CLIVE ROSLIN including Financial Report
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
BBC Birmingham
file on life in Norwich 100 years ago, as it was reflected in the local newspapers. Readers
GEOFFREY BANKS and PAUL WEBSTER Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
(Details tomorrow at 10.0am)
A series of 13 montage documentaries
7: Tricks of Confidence
'I suppose I thought everyone else was having a fine time - walking up, introducing themselves to people and that nobody else was sweating it out.' 'I don't find it easy to make friends so I felt I needed something like this.' fear the scepticism of family and friends ... I wouldn't tell them that I really believe in it.'
From a positive hello to a polite goodbye, join a shy, but resolute, group who discover that the secret of making friends and influencing people lies in a one-day course and a repertoire of 'tricks' of confidence. Producer PETER GRIFFITHS BBC Manchester
First of five programmes
- The lingo de mid-Channel
A world first - a soap opera en Franglais!
Episode un: Achetez un brolly! starring Miles Kington
Alison Steadman , Enn Reitel and Jon Glover
Written par MILES KINGTON
Produit par JENNIE CAMPBELL. Stereo 0 WODDIS SUR.... page 71
A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families, with country-wide news and views.
Presented by John Mills Editor MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence and enquiries to: BBC. Broadcasting House. London WIA 4WW
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A series of unlikely stories by ALPHONSEALLAIS
English translation by MILES
KINGTON Alphonse Allais was the man who invented the frosted glass aquarium for shy fish. He was also a humorous writer whose bizarre pieces appeared in Parisian magazines and newspapers at the turn of the century. Allais is now little known or admired in his own country. Might his humour be too English for French tastes? 3: 'Finis Britanniae ' and 'The Language of Flowers '
Read by Christopher Godwin Producer NIGEL ACHESON
Paul Vaughan presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, news, reviews of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN
Dr Wortle's School (11)
Presented by Tim Llewelyn
11.0 Headlines
followed by an interlude
