Listings
: Farming Today
Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather: Prayer for the Day
A meditation for the beginning of a new dayWith JOYCE HUGGETT. Stereo
Contributors
Unknown:
Joyce
Huggett.
: Today
Presented by Jenni Murray and Brian Redhead6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Contributors
Presented By:
Jenni
Murray
Presented By:
Brian
Redhead
Read By:
Harriet
Cass
Unknown:
Garry
Richardson
: News
: Midweek With Libby Purves
Inflammatory! Outrageous! sensational! Startling! It may be none of these....Producer IAN STRACHAN. Stereo
Contributors
Producer:
Ian
Strachan.
: Gardeners' Question Time
celebrates its 40th birthday at The Old Palace of Hatfield, Hertfordshire.Daphne Ledward, Geoffrey Smith , Fred Downham and Dr Stefan Buczacki answer the horticultural queries of the famous who are better known in other roles than that of Keen gardener.
Chairman Clay Jones
Producer DIANA STENSON °BC Manchester
0 FEATURE: page 10
Contributors
Unknown:
Geoffrey
Smith
Unknown:
Fred
Downham
Unknown:
Dr Stefan
Buczacki
Producer:
Diana
Stenson
: Morning Story
Trespasses by KATE CRUISE O'BRIENRead by Marcella Riordan Producer SHEILA FOX
Contributors
Read By:
Marcella
Riordan
Producer:
Sheila
Fox
: Daily Service
NEM, p 25; Dear Lord and Father of mankind (BBC HB 351);Psalm 3; Isaiah 50, w 4-10; Praise to the Holiest (BBC HB 88) Stereo
: For Schools
The China Project11.0 A Day at School with NICK Ross in China
11.20 Chinese Poetry Compiled by FRANK FLYNN 11 40 The First Emperor of China by TERRY JAMES China in the third century BC Stereo (e)
Contributors
Unknown:
Nick
Ross
Unknown:
Frank
Flynn
Unknown:
Terry
James
: Secret Life at Southdowns
People think we've got bars on the windows and locks on the doors - that we've done something terrible to be there. At the edge of a Hampshire village, you can catch a glimpse, through an avenue of trees, of a large Victorian house - 'Southdowns'. The front door is always open but not many people know what lies behind it. If they did, they'd discover a remarkable community, a children's home.Nigel Farrell looks behind the stern facade of life in care, to spend a week with the children and the staff, to learn of the problems and the joys, the routine and the unexpected - to share the 'secret life at Southdowns'.
(R)
Contributors
Reporter:
Nigel
Farrell
Producer:
Sharon
Banoff
: Enquire Within
From the apparently obvious to the downright obscure,Dilly Barlow , together with specialist experts and help from the BBC Reference Library, attempts to answer your questions, easy pickings for those with jackdaw minds. Producer ANDREW PARFITT
Questions, on postcards only, please, to- Enquire Within,
BBC, London WIA 4WW
Contributors
Unknown:
Dilly
Barlow
Producer:
Andrew
Parfitt
: Party Political Broadcast
by the Labour Party: For Schools
1 55 Listening Corner Abigail Tidies Up Stereo2.0 French B Branchez-vous! (3). Stereo (e)
2.30 Modem Plays Confusions by ALAN AYCKBOURN
3: Gosforth's Fete. Stereo (e)
Contributors
Unknown:
Alan
Ayckbourn
: Woman's Hour
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:Sally Soames, photographer Serial:
The Accidental Tourist (11)
: The Afternoon Play
The Prickly Bush by NEIL MCKAY with 'Mother have you brought me gold or silver to pay my fee.Or have you come to watch me hanging, from the gallows tree?' Julie's family love her but can they persuade her to save herself from 'The Prickly Bush'?
Directed by SUSAN HOGG BBC Manchester. Stereo
Contributors
Unknown:
Neil
McKay
Directed By:
Susan
Hogg
Julie:
Elizabeth
Rider
Dad:
Geoffrey
Matthews
Mother:
Rosalie
Williams
Nicholas:
Malcolm
Hebden
Amanda:
Elizabeth
Mansfield
Alan:
Jon
Strickland
: Time for Verse
A series of seven programmes in which the poet George MacBeth presents poems about animals. 5: BirdsReaders JILL BALCON and RONALD PICKUP
Producer ALEC REID. BBC Bristol (R)
Contributors
Unknown:
George
MacBeth
Readers:
Jill
Balcon
Unknown:
Ronald
Pickup
Producer:
Alec
Reid.
: News
: Kaleidoscope Extra
The Oldest LanguageI found I could play music very easily, so I decided, oh, I'll do this.
For Ornette Coleman music is the oldest language and his performances have been an important part of the jazz world for over a quarter of a century. His appearance at this year's Camden Festival is a highlight in a programme which also features shows from Carla Bley, Charlie Haden and the Monk Project, a tribute to the late Thelonius.
Paul Vaughan reports. Producer WILL CANTOPHER
Contributors
Unknown:
Ornette
Coleman
Unknown:
Carla
Bley
Unknown:
Charlie
Haden
Unknown:
Paul
Vaughan
: PM
Presented by Robert Williams and Carole West continued on VHFjFM 5.50-5.55Contributors
Presented By:
Robert
Williams
Presented By:
Carole
West
: The Six O'Clock News
With BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report: Blandings
Summer Lightning by P. G. WODEHOUSE5: Painful Scene in a Bedroom
Contributors
Unknown:
P. G.
Wodehouse
: News
: The Archers
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm): Legacy of Empire
Nick Clarke reports on trade with the Commonwealth.Contributors
Unknown:
Nick
Clarke
: Rebels
4: LiWe LangtryI resent Mrs Langtry , she has no right to be intelligent, daring and independent as well as lovely. It is a frightening combination of attributes. (BERNARD SHAW) Adored by Oscar Wilde , painted by Millais and the mistress of the Prince of Wales, she was one of the most famous women of her generation. In her attitudes to social conventions, clothes and sex she was a creator and setter of fashions. As her granddaughter Mary Malcolm says, 'She was a woman in advance of her time. Although she was no suffragette, in a male dominated society she stood for the right of women to lead an independent, unshackled life'. Presented by Hugh Sykes Researcher MIKE WOOLF Producer GAYNOR SHUTTE
Contributors
Unknown:
Mrs
Langtry
Unknown:
Oscar
Wilde
Unknown:
Mary
Malcolm
Presented By:
Hugh
Sykes
Presented By:
Researcher Mike
Woolf
Producer:
Gaynor
Shutte
: The Thatcher Effect
4: The Public ServantsCaring parents don't, according to the Analysis opinion poll, advise teenagers to try for jobs in the Civil Service - or local government - any more.
The policy of cutting public spending, cutting Civil Service numbers and cutting controls has also cut the power and prestige that went with being a public servant.
Do we live in a better-run country as a result? Has public spending really been cut?
Has the role of Government been reduced or is power being pulled back into Whitehall as friction and frustration build up between central and local government? Is privatising more than the sale of family silver?
In the last of four special programmes Mary Goldring looks at the change wrought by the Thatcher Effect upon the men who run the country. Producer DAVID MORTON
Contributors
Unknown:
Mary
Goldring
Producer:
David
Morton
: At Least it's Live
Susan MarUng meets some of the people who have found neither fame nor fortune in show business but still carry on. 3: Norman Barret - circus ringmaster and budgerigar trainer.Producer SALLY THOMPSON
Contributors
Unknown:
Susan
Marung
Unknown:
Norman
Barret
Producer:
Sally
Thompson
: Kaleidoscope
Paul Allen presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.Producer MIKE GREENWOOD
Contributors
Unknown:
Paul
Allen
Producer:
Mike
Greenwood
: A Book at Bedtime
Victory (13): The World Tonight
Presenter Alexander MacLeod National and international news, background, analysis and commentContributors
Presenter:
Alexander
MacLeod
: Open University
11.30 Modern Art: Cezanne11.50 Arts Review: Dixon of Dock Green - Myth or Reality?
12.10 am Music
: * am L W News
followed by an interlude: Schools Night-time Broadcasting
Quest12.30 5: Celebrating Guru Nanak 's Birthday and at 12.50
6: Celebrating Baisakhi. Stereo (e)
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