With LINDA HURCOMBE Stereo
Presented by John Timpson and Peter Hobday with Brian Redhead in Brighton at the Trades Union Congress
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FIMGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
2: Somerset and North Devon - the cold and painful bit
Listeners question the experts Produced by the Woman's Hour unit Lines open from 8.0am
The Evil That Men Do by ELIZABETH BOWEN Read by June Barrie
'The man's letter arrived while her husband was away from home.'
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
Hebrews 7, w 26-28,8, w 6-12; God is love (BHB 52); Mawr oedd Crist (Canied 336); Be thou my Vision (BHB 462) Stereo
Basil Developments v Richards by STEPHEN LAVELL
A development company takes over a large block of flats but one sitting tenant decides to sit. Let battle commence.
Directed by PETER KING. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 9. Opm)
In Search of a Storm
Which sea-bird is the size of a sparrow, breeds in South
Georgia, is the most common bird in the world, but has only been seen 11 times in British waters in the last 100 years?
Julian Hector takes to the high seas in search of Wilson's storm petrel.
Producer MILES BARTON BBCBristol
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
Chris Burns with the latest news and advice for consumers
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain. The Final
Chairman Robert Robinson
Stephen Gore (internal auditor) Arthur Naylor
(retired schoolmaster) Robert Close
(architectural historian)
David Dewar (schoolmaster)
Programme devised by JOHN p. WYNN Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS. Stereo
(Re broadcast on Thursday at 6.30pm)
Presented by Brian Widlake with news and topics in and behind the headlines
Written and presented by CHRISTOPHER LILLICRAP
direct from the Isle of Skye, a place that excites 'Skye fever', once called the Witch and sometimes known as the Misty Isle. It retains an aura of romance in spite of a history of savage clearances of the islanders themselves. This programme reports on the island now and the people who maintain its economy and express its character. Serial:
On the Other Side (2)
Sacrifice by BERLIE DOHERTY with Ruth and Paul form the popular folk group Straw Fox. Their professional, as well as their personal, relationship appears to be under some kind of stress as Paul prepares for his yearly visit to Tom, a Svengali figure from his past.
This visit, however, proves to be fatally different.
Music for piano and violin composed and directed by NUCK WILSON Musicians MICK WILSON
JULIAN KELLY. GERRY DOHERTY Directed by KAY PATRICK BBC Manchester Stereo
A six-part series in which
Professor Keith Ward argues that a positive reassessment of the Christian intellectual tradition is now taking place. 3: Faith and Philosophy
After years in which it was assumed that 'God is dead', the possibility of His existence is once again taken very seriously by leading philosophers.
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Susannah Simons
With PETER DONALDSON
Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
Written and presented by Hugh Sykes
3: Henry Miller
'I had a thousand faces, all of them genuine.'
A portrait of the controversial writer who left America and family for a Bohemian life in Paris, which he describes in novels such as Tropic of Cancer. First published in 1934, it was regarded as so scandalous that it did not appear in Britain until 1963.
Researcher MIKE WOOLF
Producer GAYNOR SHUTTE (R)
Steve Race looks at the bizarre side of life.
3: Not-so-dumb Friends BBCBristol
The first of six education magazine programmes presented by Margaret Percy.
The Rt Hon Kenneth Baker , mp, Secretary of State for Education and Science, visits Kingsthorpe Upper School in Northampton. Pupils, staff and head teacher tackle the minister on issues of the moment - from the new GCSE to school funding and academic standards. Producer SIMON MAJOR
(Re-broadcast next Saturday in 'Options')
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Lost Cities of the Classical World
In classical times Turkey's
Mediterranean coast was dotted with magnificent cities. Now they either have been incorporated into modem cities or remain only as ruins. Why were they abandoned? Had their usefulness simply come to an end or were there other reasons? Malcolm Billings recently visited some of these lost cities with historian
Jonathan Riley-Smith , and he sets out to tell their story.
Producer CHRISTOPHER STONE. Stereo
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap. Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Listeners can phone with enquiries on [number removed]Monday-Friday. Lines open from 8.30 to 10.0pm Free quarterly bulletin from:
In Touch, BBC, London WlA 4WW. (Send four 81 x 12 saes for a year's supply)
Paul Vaughan presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN
Academic Year (7)
Presented by Richard Kershaw including a report from the Trades Union Congress in Brighton
followed by an interlude
