Producers TIM FINNEY and REBECCA pow
with THE REV DAVID COHEN. Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
6 30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary 6 45* Business News
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by CHARLOTTE GREEN 7 20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
2: There 's Music in the Names I Used to Know
Your chance to make your points to Nick and his guests. Producer NICK UTECHIN Lines open from 8.0am
The Arm- Wrestling Champion by KATE GRIFFIN
Read by Jane Hazelgrove Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
New Every Morning, page 5;
Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us (BBC HB 307); Psalm 114;
Exodus 15, w 21-27; God moves in a mysterious way (BBC HB 8) Stereo
Johnny Mangano and His Astonishing Dogs by MICHEL TREMBLAY
Johnny and Carlotta are stuck in a tacky night club act with performing dogs. Carlotta doesn't want to grow old in her sequined costume. But Johnny knows he can't do anything else and Kiki, the lead dog, will only obey Carlotta.
Directed by PETER king . Stereo
Tales from the Nest Chamber
They can bite. sting, spray acid and explode to defend themselves. In Africa they march in their millions, in South America their biting jaws are used to suture wounds, while in Britain, on one evening in the year, countless males and females take to the wing for a national mating flight.
Peter France discovers a few things you won't know about ants and the highly sophisticated societies that are the key to their success.
Producer TIM HAINES. BBC Bristol
Presented by Susan Rae
Chairman Robert Robinson Fourth Semi-Final:
Highest-scoring Runners-Up George Manchester (teacher) Philip McDonald (teacher)
Christine Dacey (unemployed) Alan Lear (freelance writer) Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN Producer RICHARD EDlS. Stereo
Presented by Nick Worrall
MICHAEL ROSEN reads Mums and Dads. Stereo
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Gaye Armitage - better known as G Armitage , the leading woman National Hunt jockey
Serial: Travels with Charley (7)
The British Abroad
The last in the present series In a Dry Place
A comedy by JOHN ANTROBUS
Paul has secured a travel grant to visit Brazil. His intention is to write a new hit play about the drought-struck peasants. But at the irrigation scheme he gets drawn into a strange world of seduction, murder and plot!
Directed by JEREMY MORTIMER Stereo (R)
Memories of the 1920s and 30s. 2: Dancing with My Shadow Producer PETER HOARE. Stereo
Presented by Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton continuedon VHFIFM 5.50-5.55
With SIMON VANCE including Financial Report
Iain Johnstone hosts the film quiz that puts 'stars in your ears'. In the auditorium this week are Peter Noble, Marianne Stone, Dick Vosburgh and Sylvia Syms
(Stereo)
(Re-broadcast tomorrowat 1.40pm)
The Lives of L. Ron Hubbard brilliant Whether seen innovator or manipulative charlatan, Hubbard achieved extraordinary things.
Best-selling science-fiction writer, experimental scientist, inventor of the psychotherapy Dianetics and founder of a world-wide business empire based on his Church of Scientology, he was successively celebrity, fugitive and eventually a recluse.
Who was this man? Was he a true believer in his own ideas, or did he invent worlds from his imagination to make his followers pay for new revelations? And what was his relationship with his country's intelligence service?
Margaret Percy has talked to his friends and enemies, SF writers, psychiatrists, and some who knew him as a young man. Producer GRAHAM TAYAR
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Five programmes eavesdropping on the wards of London's Middlesex Hospital. 4: Not Like Mills and Boon 'If you're going along the medical hierachy, nurses are somewhere lower than the low.' 'As a physiotherapist, if I go to a party, all the men instantly have groin strain or back pain.' Nurses and physiotherapists care intimately for patients on a one-to-one basis, yet both feel their contribution does not always get the respect it deserves.
Producer ALISON RICHARDS. Stereo
Charles Laughton in the Theatre An investigation by Simon Callow
With FABIA DRAKE. ALBERT FINNEY
S .R ALEC GUINNESS. LAN HOLM and others
News. views and information for people with a visual handicap Presented by Peter White Producer SUSAN DENNY
Listeners can phone with enquiries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed]Lines open from 8.30 to 10. 15pm Free quarterly bulletin from:
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Presented by Paul Vaughan Producer MIKE GREENWOOD
A Classical Education 7: February 1936
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
followed by an interlude
