With DEREK WILSON Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Producer ELAINE BEDELL. Stereo
Jeanine McMullen with up-to-date news and information essential to those who make their living in the countryside. What's 's On offers a guide to shows, exhibitions and courses around the country. Producer MARY PRICE BBC Bristol
Free information sheet available from 30 August. Sendsae (91 x 61) to:
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The Greystoke Girl by ANNE ALLAN
Read by Margaret Ward Producer SHEILA FOX
NEM, p 46; Christ is made the sure foundation (BBC HB 445); Psalm 100; I Peter 2, w 1-9; Christ is our corner-stone (BBC HB 258) Stereo
A series of seven programmes with Anna Massey as Queen Victoria, whose
Golden Jubilee was celebrated 100 years ago this summer.
A life of the woman who was Queen during one of the most momentous periods in Britain's history, with first-hand accounts from some of those who knew her. 6: Jubilee
Narrator Robert PoweU
With SANDRA CLARK. DONALD DOUGLAS GARARD GREEN. PAULINE LETTS SHAUNPRENDERGAST and BRIAN SOUTHWOOD
Compiled and written by RICHARD MULLEN and JAMES MUNSON Producers ALAN HAYDOCK and GILLIAN HUSH
Stereo .
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Book Victoria: Portrait of a Queen, £12. 95from booksellers
From the apparently obvious to the downright obscure,
DUly Barlow, together with specialist experts and help from the BBC Reference Library, attempts to answer your questions, easy picking for those with jackdaw minds. Producer CATHY DRYSDALE
Questions, on postcards only, please, to- Enquire Within, BBC, London WIA 4WW
Working Parents
You and Yours looks at the provision of childcare.
Presented by John Buckley
Alexander Walker recalls the screen careers of the cinema's brightest stars. 2: Greta Garbo
'I want to be alone' is a catchphrase that her imitators still thrive on. But why did the 'Divine Garbo' (also known as Camille, Ninotchka and Queen Christina) quit the movies in 1941, aged just 36, in the prime of life and at the top of her talents? Producer WENDY CLAY
Presented by Nick Worrall with news and topics in and behind the headlines
Today's story: Roly-Poly and the Safari Park Jeep Stereo
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Holiday Romances: do you wallow in whodunits on holiday or bask in biographies on the beach? Are steamy sagas suitable for the scorching sun? Would you read a disaster story on an aeroplane? Novelist Sue Limb and writer Jonathon Green discuss the joys of holiday reading and recommend their own favourites.
Serial: Just You Wait and See (3)
Gwyn by ELIZABETH WAINWRIGHT with Gwyn's sharp humour and indomitable spirit have always risen above the tragedies in her life. But the events about to occur will call on every ounce of her strength of purpose.
Directed by ROBERT COOPER BBC Manchester. Stereo (R)
Dannie Abse presents seven programmes of poetry about music.
1: The Nature of Music Readers JUNE BARRIE and KIM WALL
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBCBristoL Stereo
Whose Musical Now?
The recent one-way trade in British musicals across the Atlantic was countered last night with the London opening of Stephen Sondheim 's Follies. Alan Strachan examines the current game of transatlantic musical ping-pong.
Producer WILL CANTOPHER
Presented by Robert Williams and Bill Frost continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With PAULINE BUSHNELL Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
by JEAN-PIERRE DE ROHAN The stories of four birds which were brought to the brink of extinction
4: Swansong of the Trumpeter
Thousands of these snow-white birds were slaughtered during the 19th century to provide feathers for the hats of fashionable Victorian ladies, until only a few hundred were left.
Narrator Barry Paine Producer MILES BARTON BBC Bristol
Each week Antony Hopkins explores a different musical work or topic, explaining his thoughts at the piano and illustrating them with records. Producer PATRICK LAMBERT. Stereo
They patrol the icy waters of the Arctic to save the seal - the seal hunters say they're threatening their livelihood.
They harass the world's whaling fleets - the whalers say it's emotional blackmail.
They want a nuclear-free world - the nuclear industry says nuclear power is the solution to future energy problems.
They see themselves as the protectors of the planet - others see them as ecological zealots.... John Waite presents this report on the Rainbow Warriors of Greenpeace.
Producer HARALD FUCHS BBC Pebble Mill
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 11.0am)
Suddenly Unlike Bach by LEE GALLAGHER Stereo
A ten-part story of Lord Byron's tempestuous romances in the years 1812-16, as told in the poet's own letters of the time. With Robert Powell as Lord Byron
7: One Must Like Something Selected and introduced by Brian Gear
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol
Paul Allen presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer EDWINA WOLSTENCROFT
(Rev re-broadcast tomorrow at 4. 35pm)
Cannery Row (3)
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
National and international news, background, analysis and comment
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
followed by an interlude
