Presented from the South West by Robin Hicks
Producer MARY PRICE
BBC Bristol
with Jean Holden
BBC Birmingham. Stereo
Presented by Sue MacGregor in London and Peter Hobday at the Trades Union Congress in Blackpool
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News
With BOB FINIGAN
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by CLIVE ROSLIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
with David Symonds
The story of Kathleen Behan as told to Brian Behan abridged by JOHN SCOTNEY in five episodes
Read by Marie Kean (1)
Producer MAURICE LEITCH
(Marie Kean is an Abbey Theatre player)
(Postponed from 29 July)
Fifty-five minutes of lively conversation between the personalities in this week's news.
Producer IAN STRACHAN . Stereo
The programme which tells you what to do when you find a bee in your ear. Jeanine McMullen reaps a rich harvest of rural folklores, reveals some of the secrets of animal husbandry which have been gleaned from experience and shares her store of tales from life on A Small Country Living.
Producer MARY PRICE
BBCBristol
Lord Nick Flies Again by LEN DEIGHTON
Read by Hugh Dickson
When schoolboy Peter Wright read The Exploits of Lord Nick, Aviator, he never dreamt that before he was old enough to vote, he too would be in control of a flying-machine.... Producer MITCH RAPER
New Every Morning, page 38; Ye boundless realms of joy
(BBC HB 483); Psalm 20; I Samuel 16, vv 4-12; Hail to the Lord's Anointed (BBC HB 457) Stereo
visits Wareham in Dorset. Brian Johnston revisits
Bovington to see the tanks he used in the last war at the Tank Museum. He discovers the ancient powers of the Leet
Court, the work of the Harbour Mistress, learns about the Wareham Bears and why the Blue Pool is so blue. Producer ROBIN HICKS
BBCBristol
Presented by Dannie Abse
Readers ELIZABETH BELL and HUGH DICKSON
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY
BBCBristol. Stereo
Requests to: Poetry Please!
BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Presented by Paul Clark
Editor KEN VASS
The last in 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 MacGrath ,
Brooks Atkinson. Kitty Carlisle and Moss Hart and including extracts from A Night at the Opera and The Man Who Came to Dinner and songs from Face the Music
Bob Sessions as the voice of George S. Kaufman
3: Kaufman and Hart
Producer JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE (Re-broadcast tomorrow at 6.30pm)
Presented by Susannah Simons
Editor DEREK LEWIS
Nina at the Carnival by ERROL LLOYD Read by Lola Young Producer DAVID LYTTLE
Introduced by Dilly Barlow Hi- Tech Hi- Tension: word processors and video display units have changed the work pattern in offices. Niamh Ferguson reports on the continuing debate about their effect on health and the stress they can create.
Serial: In a Beautiful Pea-Green Boat by J. M. SCOTT abridged in ten episodes by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Read by NIGEL HAWTHORNE (5) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
by Peter Lovesey
(Stereo)
Can you imagine Gene Kelly bounding ashore singing
'Gravesend, Gravesend, it's a wonderful town'? Or
Judy Garland pleading 'Take me to Manchester, Chester'? No? Fred Basnett , writer and traveller, can't imagine it either. But why are English place names so neglected by the song-writers?
Earth to Earth
Written and read by JOHN CORNWELL (5)
Presented by Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton
continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
Quotations identified and provided by Robin Bailey , Ian Hislop Godfrey Smith and Katharine Whitehorn not forgetting Nigel Rees
Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Devised by NIGEL REES
Producer HARRY THOMPSON
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
A series of four programmes about back-ache 1: Background
Why do so many people suffer from back pain - could it stem from a design fault millions of years ago?
Dr Alan Maryon-Davis provides practical advice on how to prevent back pain.
Producer SARAH ROWLANDS (R)
'They do love motorbikes; if you have a motorbike they love to chase it.'
The cheetah is the fastest animal on land there ever was, with a cry like a bird and a purr like an engine. But its existence in the wild is precarious.
Colin Tudge visits de Wildt, the Cheetah Research Centre in the Transvaal, to find out what can be done to ensure that only bikes, not events, overtake them.
Producer ALISON RICHARDS
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
Life Skills: An Adult Education by JEREMY SEABROOK and MICHAEL O'NEILL with Joanie lives in a south London tenement block with her awful son, Craigie, her naive Irish neighbour Teresa and away from her fierce but spineless husband Jock. She plans to beat the world with the help of Fran, a fearsome feminist, but hilarious events overtake her.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY
(Re-broadcast next Sunday) Stereo
Presented by Edward Blakeman Today, William Kincaid in recordings of music by Mozart, Telemann, Caplet and Hindemith Producer
ANDREW LYLE
(First broadcast on BBC World Service)
Presented by Paul Vaughan
Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
Editor THOMAS SUTCUFFE
Love and Mr Lewisham by H. G. WELLS abridged and read byPAUL DANEMAN in 12 episodes
6: Lewisham 's Solution
Producer MAURICE LEITCH
Presented by Richard Kershaw including a report from the Trades Union Congress in Blackpool
11.0 Headlines
Editor BLAIR THOMSON
followed by an interlude
