Presented from the North by Charlie Guest of Radio Cumbria
With NOSHABA HUSSEIN BBC Birmingham. Stereo
Presented by Sue MacGregor in London and Peter Hobday at the SDP Conference in Torquay
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by CUVE ROSLIN
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
A look ahead with Susan Rae
Lady Addle takes up her pen once more to give us the full and frank biography of her remarkable sister, Lady Millicent Coot ('a bedside word in five continents'). Written by MARY DUNN abridged in eight parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by Margot Boyd (1) Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
The 'live' talk programme that takes its own distinctive look at some of the week's topics and personalities.
Producer IAN STRACHAN. Stereo
Goats and geese, dogs and drays, hens, sheep, pigs, aching feet and fantasy all make up life in the depths of rural Britain.
Jeanine McMullen is in full cry on her hunt for the unusual, the useful, the strange and the exotic which are all part of the riches which go into life in the country.
Producer MARY PRICE BBCBristol
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Eleven o'clock by v. PRITCHETT
Read by Garard Green
'She was a big creature, lazy and soft in the arms and shoulders. Her mouth softened in an easy, placid smile as the milkman put his foot on the doorstep, took off his hat and wiped his bald head with pleasure.' - Producer MITCH RAPER
New Every Morning, page 9; 0 praise ye the Lord (BBC HB 279); Psalm 121; Genesis 6, w 11-22; Eternal Father, strong to save (BBC HB 384) Stereo
Brian Johnston visits Barrow-in-Fumess in Cumbria.
An industrial town, it has built most of the Navy's submarines. Toilet rolls are produced by the million but the countryside and coast are nearby, particularly Walney Island with its nature reserves and remote lighthouse. Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBCBristol
Presented by Dannie Abse Readers HUGH DICKSON and ELIZABETH BELL
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC. Bristol BS82LR
Presented by Paul Clark Editor KEN VASS
The nationwide general knowledge contest for schools First round: Scotland - Falkirk High School v
Wellington School, Ayr
Questionmasters Tim Gudgin and Paddy Feeny Questions set by NIGEL RICHARDSON and DAVID SELF Producer GRAHAM FROST
Presented by Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
KENNETH SHANLEY thinks about food Written by LEE PRESSMAN Producer PETER HOARE (R)
Introduced by Dilly Barlow And so to Bedtime....
What are the advantages in encouraging children to keep to pre-arranged bedtimes?
Karen Deco reports on the bedtime habits, or rather random sleeping patterns of young children and teenagers. Serial:
In a Beautiful Pea-Green Boat by J. M. SCOTT abridged in ten episodes by PATMCLOUGHUN
Read by NIGEL HAWTHORNE (10) (Music: Saint-Saens's Morceau de Concert)
Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
Dithering Heights by KEN WHITMORE
Stereo
A further informal anthology from Wales
Producer MEGAN EMERY BBC Wales
Written and read by Eleanor Bron, abridged in five parts by Madge Hart
There has never been a travel book like this one. Biking on a croissant, tilting at windmills, Eleanor Bron takes her ageing Moulton on two expeditions to Normandy and Holland. BBC Bristol
(Eleanor Bron is a National Theatre player)
Presented by Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report
The sayings of the famous and the obscure celebrated by Angela Douglas. Lord Fitt Julian Mitchell
Susan Wooldridge and Nigel Rees respectively Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Devised by NIGEL REES
Producer HARRY THOMPSON
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
A series of four programmes presented by Dr Alan Maryon-Davis about back-ache
2: Slipped Back
Producer SARAH ROWLANDS (R)
Public opinion is demanding an end to farmers' practice of burning surplus straw and stubble at the end of every harvest. Anthony Parkin reports on how one farmer's conscience led him to put away his box of matches, and on the race to find new ways of disposing of the straw. Producer GWYN RICHARDS BBC Birmingham
A modern morality play by J. B. Priestley first performed in 1939.
Stereo
Hear This! page 17
Presented by Lisa Appignanesi Producer richard BANNERMAN Editor THOMAS SUTCLIFFE
Love and Mr Lewisham by H. G. WELLS
11: Thorns and Rose Petals
Presented by Richard Kershaw including a report from the SDP Conference in Torquay
11.0 Headlines
Editor BLAIR THOMSON
followed by an interlude
