with Canon Eddie Neale.
with Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor.
Details as yesterday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rev Dr John Newton
Michael Carson 's tale describes a surreal trip to the Tate Gallery North.
Read by David Horovitch. Producer Duncan Minshull
Producer Poppy Hughes
●lines open from 8.00am
An Anthology of Spiritual Verse
A selection of poetry on the theme of doubt.
Readers Angela Pleasence , David Rintoul and Paul Shelley.
Producer Jocelyn Boxall
with Jenni Murray.
Serial: The Ex-Wives by Deborah Moggach. Read in 14 parts by Ronald Pickup.
Buffy is an actor with several ex-wives. His current wife. Penny, is a journalist who always seems to be away writing travel pieces. Or so she says!
Abridged by Pat McLougnlin
Music: McLaughlin's Duos for Guitar andPiano
Professor Anthony Clare presents the weekly magazine devoted to matters of the mind. Producer Nick Utechin
with John Howard.
Joining chairman
Nigel Rees are travel writers and explorers
Christina Dodwell , Nigel Barley,
Annette Kobak and Robert Hanbury-Tenison .
Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher. Recorded at the Royal Geographic Society. producer Jon Naismith
with James Naughhe.
Half an Hour Behind the Times
A comedy by Dave Sheasby. A family look into the future. They're historic figures on a clock, and their guide is the maintenance man.
Director Tony Cliff
with Donald Swann. whose musical life has encompassed eveything from Greek folk music to a pacifist Requiem.
Producer Michael Emery
Paul Vaughan meets the novelist James Hamilton
Paterson, whose latest hxx)k is the tale of an obsessive gardener, and reports on the new novel by Paul Bailey , Sugar Cane. Producer Beaty Rubens
(Revised repeat at 9.15pm)
One Brief Day by Ken Whitmore.
Early in the new century the space monitoring centre started receiving signals from a distant planet ...
Read by David Fleeshman. Producer Gillian Hush
with Wendy Austin and Chris Lowe.
by the Conservative Party
A six-part political drama by Christopher Lee.
3: "You know as well as I do, Charles, that as Party Chairman you're bound to hit bad weather. And when you do, they'll try to dump you, unless you toss another body to the vultures."
Producer Neil Cargill
David's bending the rules.
A series of threeoccasional programmes which, for 12 months, follows the lives of four mining families in South Yorkshire, as they face a future without coal.
1: Waiting for the White Paper
Philip, Mark, Mel and Russell are miners who joined the coal industry in the late 1970s. They thought they had a job for life. Since October 13 last year no coal has been cut at their pit, Houghton Main Colliery. No one expects it to re-open, but until they hear the formal announcement, no one can believe they have a life without coal.
Reporter Allan Beswick. Producer Julia Shaw
(Next programme on August 1
A second series in which old and new hands compare notes. 1: AA Men
Gone are the gaiters, sidecar and salute. Modern technology means training courses and timesheets.
Recently retired
Wilf Saunders talks to
Harry Beaumont. Is it now more difficult to be a very nice man?
Producer Lucy Lunt
with Peter White. Producer Thena Heshel
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(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
with Roger White.
with Alexander MacLeod.
Love on a Branch Line Part 7.
A personal guide to national character, conducted by Phil Smith. In the last of four programmes, he considers English attitudes to change in a changing world.
Producer Gillian Hush
