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Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
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7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
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Keith Allan travels to the Outer Hebrides to find
Jude Whitehouse , housekeeper in a sporting lodge on the Isle of Lewis.
'The people that come here are happy to fish and it really doesn't matter to them what the lodge is like, so really I suppose it's me that I'm satisfying.' Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

BBC Correspondents report from around the world Producer ADAM RAPHAEL

Waiting for the Rummager by BRENDAN O'BYRNE
Read by John Westbrook
Chief Steward Johns is a happy man. His ship is safely in port and his wardrobe is full of contraband. There is just one problem....
Producer MITCH RAPER

NEM, p 102; For all thy saints
0 Lord (BBC HB 228); Psalm 27, part 1; Mark 10, vv 35-45; Eternal light! eternal light! (BP 15). Stereo

Dan Cherrington 's farming childhood taught him that not all sheep blindly follow the flock - some Welsh ewes were very independent individuals. BBCBristol

An expert panel answers your questions on Social Security Benefits
Chaired by John Howard before a live audience in Liverpool A You and Yours production

A non-stop comedy cabaret with Fundation:
JOE GRIFFITHS (piano)
GARETH HALE. NORMAN PACE
TERRY MORRISON and MARYANNE MORGAN Written by FUNDATION with contributions from
CHARLIE ADAMS. GEOFFREY ATKINSON and others
Producer ALAN NIXON. Stereo

Presented by Gordon Clough

Today's story: Mr Antonio and the Fire

in Liverpool
In the middle of the Festival of Comedy, live from BBC Radio Merseyside, Gillian Reynolds laughs, questions and disputes with a galaxy of guests from stage, screen and street in this talented but troubled city, once described as (translated from Scouse) 'the Florence of the north'.
Producers LIZ MARDALL and GILLIAN HUSH Serial:
The Custom of the Country (5)

by RUDYARD KIPLING dramatised in three parts by FREDERICK BRADNUM with and 1: Lies and rumours are running over the face of the hopeless land from Suakin to the Sixth Cataract of the Nile. There are
British troops in the deserts and on the river. Further south is General Gordon, fighting for dear life, in a town called Khartoum.
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD Stereo

... remembers a lifetime in show business
9: My Stag Movie (Part 1)
Sometimes talent can be found in the unlikeliest places, and sometimes it can't be found at all.

McCue and his Music
This year the bass, Bill McCue , celebrates 25 years as a professional singer. In that time he has pursued two parallel careers - as an opera singer
(chiefly with Scottish Opera), and as an entertainer and performer of popular Scottish songs. At last year's Edinburgh Festival, he made his debut as an actor. In conversation with Neville Garden , he talks about his wide-ranging professional life, illustrated with a variety of his recordings.
Producer david JACKSON YOUNG

Presented by Robert Williams and Michael Stewart
continued on VHF/FM5.50-5.55pm

With DAVID SYMONDS
Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report

Come and test the water with Cliff Michelmore who discovers some unusual and not so unusual events and sporting activities taking place in, on or under the water.
Also Dilly Barlow will be keeping up to date with all the latest news of the water world. Producer CAROLINE ELLIOT

(Re-broadcast next Monday)

Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days.
Producer JULIAN HALE. Stereo

Makers of law, legal practitioners and those who serve the administration of justice all contribute to this topical weekly magazine about issues thrown up by the Courts and by Parliament.
Presented by Joshua Rozenberg Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF

Tom Salmon sets out on the first of six journeys through the beautiful county of Devon.
Starting in the north, he follows the River Torridge to Bideford at its estuary and then goes over the sea to the island of Lundy.
BBC Bristol. (Stereo)

Mrs Reagan's 'Say no to drugs' campaign isn't enough to tackle the growing social problem of addiction. Show more

by Alistair Cooke

Poets' Places
Five poets - lain
Crichton Smith , Douglas Dunn , Kathleen Jamie , Laurna Robertson and Alan Spence talk to Robin Bell about a place which is important to each of them and read one or two of their poems which have been inspired by it. Producer JOHN ARNOTT

The Third Policeman by FLANN O'BRIEN abridged in ten parts by ERIC EWENS
Read by Patrick Magee (10) Producer MAURICE LEITCH (R)

Presented by David Sells

Satire should, like a polished razor keen,
Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen
(LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU ,
1689-1762)
For this, and other up-to-the-minute hints on keeping down your legal costs, why not tune in to Bill Wallis , David Tate ,
Kerry Shale and Susie Blake for satirical sketches on the week's news
Written by MARTIN BOOTH .
PAUL B. DAVIES , RICHARD QUICK . STUART SILVER . PETE SINCLAIR. DAVID COHEN. PETER HICKEY. STEVE PUNT . MIKE COLEMAN.
ALISON RENSHAW. JOHN MORRISH and others
Producer DAVID TYLER. Stereo

followed by an interlude