With THE REV MYRA BLYTH. Stereo
Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6-30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With SIMON ROSE
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With JOHN INVERDALE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
An opportunity for listeners to express their views and question the experts on a |ubject of current interest. produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8,0 am
Reflections on life and Politics abroad.
by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by Rex Holdsworth
It is my last request that my ashes be scattered in the kitchen garden of Five Elms Cottage, where I lived from 1933 onwards.' Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
from St Malachy's College, Belfast
A Caring People
Help us to help each other, Lord (BBC HB 378); 0 taste and see (Vaughan Williams); When I needed a neighbour (Carter)
Wild Dogs of Italy
Packs of stray domestic dogs, adapted to the wild, hunt like wolves in the Italian countryside. Their prey includes cattle, horses and sheep, and their numbers have doubled in the last ten years to more than 80,000 animals.
Luigi Boitani of the University of Rome, David MacDonald and Jeff Carr of Oxford University, are attempting to discover why man's best friend turns into a dangerous renegade.
Presented by Jenny Devitt Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
Pattie Coldwell with the latest news and advice for consumers.
A panel game devised by Tony Shryane and Edward J. Mason
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Joan Bakewell and Denis Norden
In the Chair Michael O'Donnell
(Stereo)
Presented by Sir Robin Day
1.55 Listening Corner
Today: Bopper Goes Swimming by JANET SORENSEN (R)
2.5 History: Not So Long Ago: The Jarrow March
by ALEX GLASGOW (R)
2.25 Contact Nobody Cares
by JOHN SNELLING
Presented by PAUL MCDOWELL
2.40 Pictures in Your Mind (Stories): Bellerophon and Pegasus
by JUNE HODGE (R)
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Pick up a sax or even the drums and join JEZEBEL SPIRIT , a rock band that arose out of an evening class. JANE BERTHOUD went to Ilfracombe to meet the women who strike up a tune. Serial:The Reason Why(14)
by HENRY COMOR with and He is 88, she is 80, and life is not easy. They are losing their faculties and wonder why God does not put them out of their misery.
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD Stereo
Say Cheese - and see what you get. Derek Cooper pares the rind from the cheese trade in Holland and Italy, in a quest for real Dutch Farmhouse and real Parmesan.
Presented by Paul Vaughan
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams with news and topics in and behind the headlines.
With DAVID SYMONDS
Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report
A History of Pantomime in seven parts
2: Send in the Cloums Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 40pm) Written by SIMON FRITH Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
The Legacy of Jasmine Beckford A report by Hugh Prysor-Jones on the reaction of social workers to the Blom Cooper Report on why the threat to a little girl was not discovered in time to save her life.
Are social workers just amateurs? Do they only conceal the real problems caused by appalling living conditions? Are the pressures on social workers now too great for many of them to carry on in the job? Producer JOHN FORSYTH Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.5pm)
Who investigates the outbreak of food poisoning at the local restaurant? Where could you obtain a sample of freeze-dried anthrax off the shelf? Who are the microbiological detectives who identify and recommend treatment for a whole range of infectious diseases?
Geoff Watts visits the Public Health Laboratory Service where, even now, scientists are looking into the recently discovered links between a milk-based baby food and salmonella Ealing.
Producer MILES BARTON
Fireworks of the Senses
Trinidad's Annual Carnival is a national celebration and a national obsession. After months of preparation, over half the country's population takes to the streets for two full days of music, dance and masquerade.
Is it just 'a big party, a bacchanal', or more than that? Last year, Sarah Dunant joined in. Producer JANET THOMAS
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News, views and information for people with a visual handicap. Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Listeners can phone with enquiries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed]. Lines open from 8.30 to 10.0 pm. Free quarterly bulletin from:
Room 816, Broadcasting House,
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Gillian Reynolds talks about three of her favourite humorous characters from fiction. Readers GARARD GREEN and SHEILA MITCHELL
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol Stereo
Robert Hewison presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of books, film, plays, broadcasting, music, and exhibitions.
Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN
ButForBunter(2)
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
National and international news, background, analysis, and comment.
Radio 4's international business report; market trends.
followed by an interlude
Radio History: 14-16 The Famine Years Presented by BOB GELDOF and at 12.50 The Dynamite War
