with SARAH JONES. Stereo
Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day,
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
by DILYS ROSE
Read by Eileen McCallum
"The girl changed her mind, Dolores. And now I've gotta go find me another deck-hand for tomorrow.'
Producer JOHN ARNOTT BBCScotiand
Introduced from Broadcasting House, London. Stereo
In the first of six talks Phil Smith offers an idiosyncratic insight into the pains and precious few pleasures involved in setting up your own business. 1: Pie in the Sky BBC Manchester
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Presented by John Howard For Fact Sheet No 2, write to:
You and Yours. BBC, Room 726 Broadcasting House London W1A 1AA
Presented by Sir Robin Day
1.55 Listening Corner CHRISTOPHER LILLICRAP reads Walter Crumpton and the Strange Noise by KATE WILKINSON
2.5 The Song Tree
2: Robot Rabbit Reggae Written by BARRY GIBSON. Stereo
2.20 Living Language The Endless Steppe (1) by ESTHER HAUTZIG adapted by JACKIE GRAYDON. Stereo
2.40 Newscast A current affairs series for schools and colleges Presented by UBBY FAWBERT
Introduced by Sue MacGregor In Canterbury Cathedral last
November, Britain's first dance graduates celebrated their degrees with a special performance. JENNY LACEY looks at the course that stretches both mind and body and asks why dance has only just received this academic status.
Serial: The Reason Why by CECIL WOODHAM-SMTH abridged in 15 episodes byPATMCLOUGHUN
Read by Robert Powell (1)
Since its publication in 1953, The Reason Why has retained its reputation as the classic and definitive analysis of the clash of personalities and lifestyles of the Earls of Cardigan and Lucan, which was to lead to the disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War.
(Music: Johnson's A History of War and Peace)
Three plays by Andrew Rissik
with Ronald Pickup as Philip Tremayne
Brenda Blethyn as Jennifer
and Patrick Troughton as Philip's father
It was not just the sunshine and cheap wine that brought Philip to Greece in the early 1960s. He needed somewhere to write and he wanted to distance himself from past events. Jennifer brings back those memories. Her arrival marks an end to Philip's isolation and, in a way, to his happiness.
(Stereo)
(Next week: 'Harriet')
Hunter Davies talks to the radical New York. based short story writer Grace Paley , and with the help of Fay Weldon and Andrew Sanders , revives the art of writing in instalments. Producer JULIAN HALE
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
(Revised broadcast of yesterday 's programme at 9.45 pm)
Presented by Robert Williams and Jon Silverman
continued on VHFjFM 5.50-5.55
With BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 40 pm)
A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions?
Introduced by John Timpson
Producer CAROLE STONE. BBC Bristol Send your letters to: Any Answers? BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR
Thousands of teenagers will be choosing their subjects soon for courses leading to a new exam in 1988. Margaret Percy chairs a wide-ranging discussion of the implications of the biggest change in the exam system for 20 years. The Rt Hon Sir Keith Joseph , mp, Secretary of State for Education, outlines the aims behind it. Schools up and down the country offer a chance to hear what's going on in their classrooms and in the studio to answer your questions are
Sir Wilfred Cockroft , Chairman of the Secondary Examinations Council, and Professor Ted Wragg , Director of the School of Education, Exeter University. Researcher RACHEL YORKE
Studio directors SIMON MAJOR and SARAH MCNEILL
Producer JOAN GRIFFITHS (Lines open from 7.0pm)
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A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners
Presented by John Mills Producer MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence and enquiries to: BBC. Broadcasting House London WIA 4WW
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Paul Vaughan presents tonight's edition which includes interviews, news and reviews of books, film, plays, music, broadcasting and exhibitions. Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)
The Fly Paper
The second of three stories by ELIZABETH TAYLOR
When you are a plain, plump girl of 11 years on your way to a piano lesson, you do not expect a stranger on the bus to talk to you.
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
followed by an interlude
Radio Geography - Our Changing World Belfast Lough (RV) Written and presented by DIANE HARRON and at 12.50 Lough Eme Written and presented by PAUL CLARK