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Walsall Observer from Walsall, West Midlands, England • 19

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Walsall Observeri
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Walsall, West Midlands, England
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Walsall Observer Friday July 16 1982 1 9 New quiz for kids UICCKCnD VIEUJIfKa SUNDAY SATURDAY 650 905 930 will have to answer or a bulletin read by ITN Newscaster Leonard Parkin in which he will have made some deliberate mistakes and topical questions on the news The programme is written and presented by Tommy Boyd who says: questions will be strictly about the news but we hope to hear the views of the contestants themselves We hope the programme will be light hearted and lots of fun but not at the expense of the Tommy was named this Independent Radio Personality of the Year by the Royal Variety Club HAPPENING is a new Central television quiz for young people based on the news Each week for ten weeks commencing on Tuesday at 445 pm two teams of youngsters whose ages range from 11 to 14 will be answering questions designed to test their knowledge of news and current affairs The teams will consist of four contestants and each team will represent one of the independent local radio stations throughout the country There will be four regular rounds of questions concerning the lead story of the week an item to which they 1037 1040 1245 The unlikely duet of singer Dana and soccer superstar Kevin Keegan should make interesting listening in the special and Large to be screened on Saturday July 17 (BBC-1) Besides the engaging humour of Syd and Eddie there will also be a chance to meet Wall Street Crash 510 525 530 Open University Weekend Wardrobe: Making your own clothes (5) Get Set: The Summertime Saturday Show including: 935 Laurel and Hardy 940 The Top Ten 955 Tom and Jerry 1005 Undersea Kingdom (3)- Weather Cricket and Golf: International Cricket England Pakistan Golf: The Open from Royal Troon Grandstand including 1 250 Summary golf cricket racing racing News: Weatherman Sport Regional News The Saturday Film: Captain Nemo and the Underwater City starring Robert Ryan David Showcase The Little and Large Show with special guest Kevin Keegan Dynasty News Sport Weatherman International Athletics: England Kenya Spain Japan Kelly Monteith with his comic view of life Saturday Live with Gloria Hunniford Harry starring David Janssen Weather Closedown 625 Open University 900 Fingerbobs 915 Sunday Worship 1 000 Asian Magazine 1030 Closedown 1255 Farming 1 25 Beside the Sea 1 50 News Headlines 155 Film Matinee: Penny Serenade starring Cary Grant Irene Dunne 350 Bugs Bunny 405 The High Chaparral 455 The Commanding Sea: Six voyages with Clare Francis (2) 555 News Weatherman 610 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (3) 635 Jonathan Miller: Appeals on behalf of English National Opera Development Fund 640 Your Songs of Praise Choice with Thora Hird 715 The Sunday Film: Hot Millions starring Peter Ustinov Maggie Smith Karl Malden 900 News Weather 915 The Chinese Detective 1005 Rock Bottom: Everyman reports from within the confessional meetings of Gamblers Anonymous 1040 Nureyev Dances Nijinsky: With the Joffrey Ballet 1 1 20 Golf: The Open 1200 The Sky at Night 1220 Weatherman 1225 Closedown 715 755 830 920 935 1040 1110 1200 1250 1255 Tragedy off a guilty marriage is the BBC-1 of the on Monday Eyewolf played here by Timothy Stark is a small crippled boy the child of Alfred and Rita Allmers They are directly responsible for his condition and indirectly for his death by drowning at the end of the first act The play develops into a searing dissection of a marriage racked by guilt and charged with repressed passion How to spot a Have you ever been on a Do you even know what a is? If not then switch on to and hear Male Stent explain what a is and how to spot a couple on one (Central Saturday July 17) There will be more mind boggling magic from the amazing Sonny Hayes and Co perhaps this show will see Sally joining in with more gusto while Nina Fin-burgh delivers another one of her witty monologues with musical accompaniment by Timothy Barratt BBC 2 625 Open University 310 Saturday Cinema: Gold for the Ceasars starring Jeffrey Hunter Mylene Demongeot Ron Randell 430 Cricket and Golfv 730 News Sport Weather 750 Ireland: A television History (5) 840 The Levin Interviews: Robert Burchfield 910 Pablo Picasso: The Legacy of a Genius 1 0 40 News and Weather 1045 International Cricket: England Pakistan 1110 Golf: The Open 1 1 50 Midnight Movie: The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell starring Gary Cooper 135 Closedown 625 155 650 715 805 810 900 935 1005 1225 Open University Sunday Grandstand: With Open Golf British Grand Prix News Review The World About Us News and Weather Money Programme Special Stuart Burrows Sings with guest Anne Howells Grand Prix: The British Grand Prix Starring Rod Steiger: A Fistful of Dynamite Also with James Coburn Closedown SATURDAY The Pied Piper (Central): In 1349 a strolling minstrel rids Hamlin of a plague of rats Donovan Donald Pleasance Michael Hordern Jack Wild and Diana Dors head the cast Diamond Head (Central): A domineering Hawaiian landowner almost ruins the lives of his family Charlton Heston stars Gold for the Caesars (BBC-2): This Italian French co production made in 1963 stars Jeffrey Hunter as slave architect lacer in a small Roman colony in Northern Spain The governor of the colony Maximus promises Lacer his freedom if he will mine the gold resources which will make Maximus more powerful and possibly the next Emperor of Rome Stars include Ron Randell and Mylene Demongeot Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (BBC-1): Robert Ryan stars as Captain Nemo creator of the futuristic submarine Nautilus who rescues six shipwrecked people and takes them to the Temple-mar the underwater city When they are told they can never leave they make a drastic attempt to escape Chuck Connors and Nanette Newman co-star The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell (BBC-2) Set in the Gary Cooper stars as an American general court -martialled for accusing the war department of criminal negligence Rod Steiger stars as his prosecutor in this 1955 film based on a true story SUNDAY The Greengage Summer (Central): A young girl staying at a hotel falls in love with a jewel thief but is ac-cidenally responsible for his capture Starring Kenneth More Susannah York and Jane Asher Penny Serenade BBC 1 This 1941 stars Cary Grant and Irene Dunne as a couple whose marriage becomes strained following the death of an adopted daughter Hot Millions (BBC-1): A 1968 comedy with a star performance from Peter Ustinov as a confidence trickster who makes a fortune out of fictitious companies aided by an unwitting tea lady Karl Malden Maggie Smith Bob Newhart and Robert Morley co star A Fistful of Dynaminte (BBC-2): Sergio Leone master of the spaghettic western directed Rod Steiger and James Coburn in Fistful of Set in Mexico in 1913 the film finds Steiger in the role of Juan Miranda a peasant turned bandit and Coburn as the Irish revolutionary with a dynamite fixation The result is explosive and often humorous star time CCnTRAl CEnTRAI CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19) Mixing business with plea-I sure may turn out to be the ideal formula for you this week probably find it I a little difficult at first to relate to colleagues on a social basis but find it comes easier after a few goes ARIES (Mar 21- Apr 19) not every week that you receive the sort of compliments which going to be getting during this period A lot of attention is going to be focused on you and you may wonder whether really earned it Put your doubts aside CANCER (June 22-July 22 If to get to grips with something which has been been worrying you going to need to spend time alone At the moment to many people are feeding you too much conflicting advice In reality only you can solve this problem and only a question of time before you manage to 930 Chalkface 1 000 Morning Worship 1100 Getting On: Presented by Gillian Reynolds and Tony Van Den Bergh 1 1 30 Gardening Time 1200 Tree of Liberty: Free Speech Chaired by Gus MacDonald 1 00 University Challenge 1 30 Benson: Clayton Go Home with Robert Guillaume 200 Summer Sport: Motor Cycle Racing from Donnington Park introduced by Bob Hall 300 The Weekend Matinee: The Greengage Summer starring Kenneth More Susannah York and Jane Asher 420 Matinee Extra: Strange Bird a bird who lay an egg watches other birds raise their young 500 Vice Versa: Episode 1 The Transformation starring Peter Bowies 530 Sale of the Century: hosted by Nicholas Parsons 600 The Other Side of Me presented by Dickie Davies (New series) 630 News 640S Sing To The Lord introuced by Clifford Evans 71 5 Holding The Fort: Feeling The Pinch 745 A National Salute 900 News 925 A National Salute 1 1 00 Escape to the West 1200 Closedown 925 Come Close 940 Clapperboard: presented by Chris Kelly 1010 Gather Your Dreams: (Episode 2) 1040 Feature Film: The Pied Piper starring Donovan Donald Pleasance Michael Hordern Jack Wilde and Diana Dors 1215 World of Sport including Cycling Aerobatics McEnroe The ITV Seven from Newmarket and Ayr Water Ski -ing Wrestling and Results 505 News 515 Worzel Gummidge: The Return of Dolly Clothespeg 545 Chips: Hitch Hiking Hitch starring Larry Wilcox 645 Funnybone starring Cheese and Onion Male Stent Sonny Hayes and Co and Nina Finburgh 715 Russ Saturday Madhouse (New series) 745 Saturday Cinema: Diamond Head with Charlton Heston and Yvette Mimieux 945 News and Sport 1000 ITV Playhouse: The'Breadwinner 1100 Thriller: Spell of Evil starring Diane Cilento A business tycoon suddenly becomes a widower and subsequently through a computer dating service meets and marries an evil woman 1215 Closedown AQUARIUS (Jan 20 Feb 19) in an extravagant I mood and liable to spend far more than you can realistically afford It seems likely too that going to use your generosity as a means of impressing someone Be warned that probably I going to take much more to really impress them LIBRA (Sep 23 -Oct 22) You and your partner will! reach a deeper understand-l ing of each other this week! as the result of sharing a I minor crisis For those who! are unattached a brief fling! looks likely to turn into! something much morel serious and this will come as something of a surprise SCORPIO (Oct 23 -Nov 22) A fear of failure could I hold you back from trying something radically different regret it later! if you have a bash and I as much chance as I anyone else of succeeding I listen to rumours at work they will only be groundless gossip SAGITTARIUS (Nov 23 -Dec 21) If you bottle up your re-1 sentment for much longer liable to lash out at someone who least deserves your rancour Speak directly to the person who has made you angry be pleasantly surprised at the reception you get and even more surprised by the fact that they are willing to make amends TAURUS (Apr 20 -Mar 20) Your designated role this week is going to be one which involves calming down everyone around you You may not feel particularly placid yourself but likely that going to be in more control than anyone else The weekend is going to be busy with lots of fun things to do LEO (July 22 Aug 22) not going to be in a very forgiving mood which is unfortunate as someone very much wants to make their peace with you You must consider carefully whether you really want to go on bearing a grudge VIRGO (Aug 23 -Sep 22) This looks like being a week with the opportunity to really achieve a great deal It will undoubtedly be tiring and there will be times when you lose patience especially with family members but all in all going to feel a strong sense of satisfaction PISCES (Feb 20 -Mar 20) GEMINI (May 21 June 21) You probably gave up hope long ago that an expected windfall was ever going to arrive You could be in for a surprise this week though! It might not be as much as originally hoped but it will be a welcome bonus all the same A close warning to you could come true this week and going to regret not taking their advice On a more positive note going to be full of energy and enthusiasm for a new project and going to help inspire those around you as well 1053kHz285m 1089kHz275m RADIO 1: 800 Tony Sunday Show 1000 The Lenny Sunday Hoot! 1 230 Jimmy Club 230 Studio B15 400 Paul Gambaccini with an appreciation of Stevie Wonder 500 Top 40 with Tommy Vance 700 Alexis Korner 800 Sounds of Jazz 1000 Closedown VHF RADIOS 1 and 2: 500 am With Radio 2 200 pm Benny Green 300 Alan Dell with Sounds Easy 400 Sing Something Simple with The Adam Singers 430 String Sound 500 With Radio 1 1000 pm 500 am With Radio 2 1215kHz247m 90-92 5vhl stereo RADIO 3: 7S5 Weather 800 News 805 Bach: Trinity Cantatas for 1723 900 News 905 Your Concert Choice (Butterworth Lo-catelli Ravel Brahms orch Schoenberg) 1030 Prom Talk 1100 Boston Symphony Orchestra (Part 1 Elgar Hugh Wood 1 1 35 Words: Talk by Colin MacCabe (2) 1140 Concert (Part 2) Dvorak 1225 (Harpsichord recital) 1250 Sunday Lunch: A short story by Eva Tucker 100 Jessye Norman (Song recital) Brahms Mahler Strauss 200 Bath Festival 1981 (part 1) 255 Growing: A sequence of poetry 310 Bath Festival 1981 (part 2) 350 BBC Singers (Holst Gerard Schormann) 425 Mikhail Pletnyev (Piano recital) Brahms 505 Conrad and Russia Talk by Lucjan Lewitter 520 Mikhail Plet-nyev (Part 2) Tchaikovsky 610 Seeing Mr Waddilow: Play by Lesley Bruce 700 Proms 82: The Trojans (acts 1 2 3) by Bertioz 745 The Lyttelton Hart Davis Letters (Volume 2) 805 The Troffins (acts 1 2 3 by Berlioz first of nine talks by Bernard Levin 920 The Trojans (Act 5) 1025 Poetry Now 1045 Organ Works of JS Bach 1115 News 1118 Closedown RADIO WM (206m MW 956 VHF): 745 Angling Norman Worth 805 Groat! Saturday Tim Manning and Ruth Davies 1 1 03 Town and Country Ken Dudeney 103 They were Champions athlete Harold Langley 1 30 Michael Blood's Goad Company 500 Radio 2 (News at 8 9 10 11 12 and 1 pm) BRMB (261m 948 VHF): 200 Small Hours Bab Belsey 500 Early Riser Kris Kennedy 800 Razamataz Brendan Kearney 1000 Solid Gold Saturday Phil Riley 100 Sport Tony Butler 630 Decision Makers 700 Profile 800 Eye Paul Kelly 1 1 OO Romantica Nick Hen-negan (News on the hour) MERCIA SOUND (220m MW 1359 kHz 959 VHF): News every half hour 500 1 300 every hour 1 300 2400 503 Good Morning Mercia Tony Harrison 930 How Do They Get Away With It Andy Lloyd 1 05 Sportacular Stuart Linnell 603 Saturday Night Out Tony Harrison 903 Saturday Night In Jim Hawkins 1 00 Closedown Bells 750 The Shape of God 755 Weather Travel Programme News 800 News 810 Sunday Papers 815 Sunday 850 Good Cause 855 Weather Travel Programme News Continental Travel 900 News 910 Sunday Papers 915 Letter from America by Alistair Cooke 930 Morning Service 1015 The Archers 1115 Weekend featuring Denis and Edna Healey 1 200 Smash of the Day: The Goan Show 1230 Home-ing In 1255 Weather Programme News 100 The World This Weekend 155 Shipping Forecast 200 News 202 Gardeners' Question Time 230 Afternoon Theatre: Am Mary Dunne' by Brian Moore 400 News 402 Round Britain Quiz 1982 430 The Living World 500 News Travel Programme News 505 Down Your Way 550 Shipping Forecast 555 Weather Programme News 600 News Continental Travel 615 Hot Air! An aerial exploration of the English countryside 645 Russian Roundabout: Joseph Hone tours the Soviet Union (1) 700 Travel Programme News 702 A Small Town in Germany by John Le Carre (2) 730 A Good Read 800 Music to Remember (Mozart Tchaikovsky) 900 News 902 A Dance to the Music of Time (new series) 958 Weather 1000 News 1015 Utopia 1100 Hermits (5): Charles de Foucauld 1115 Inside Parliament 1200 News Weather 1215 Shipping and Inshore Waters Forecast 1223 Closedown RADIO WM (206m 956 VHF): 903 A Word in Advance Michael Blood 930 Chris Phipps opens The Phipps File 1003 Summer Sports Desk 1010 George Ferguson on Sunday Morning 1230 An Eosy Frame with snooker's Steve Davis 105 Top Brass 200 Radio 2 302 Sound System with the Caretaker 400 Radio 2 (News at 9 1 0 11 1 2 and 1 pm) BRMB (261m 948 VHF): 300 Dawn Flight (Part 1 Mike Hollis 400 The Innovators 430 Dawn Flight (Part 2) Mike Hollis 700 Weekender (Part 1) Bob Belsey 800 New Day 830 Weekender (Part 2) Bob Belsey 1000 Round the World Les Ross 1 200 Request Stephen Rhodes 200 Whaddaya Want (Part 1 Robin Valk 500 Whaddaya Want (Part 2) Bob Belsey (Top 50) 700 Re-ggaetivity Kris Kennedy 900 Music of the Masters Lyndon Jenkins 1100 Open Line John Austen (News on the hour) MERCIA SOUND (220m 1359 kHz 959 VHF) News every half hour 0700 1300 every hour 1300 2400 703 That Certain Sound Roger Hall 805 Touch of Class Andy Lloyd 1205 Mercia Memories Jim Lee 205 Mercia Musicomputer Jeff Harris 503 Concert Hall Lyndon Jenkins 703 Bandstand Alan Perry Ian Rufus 803 Aakaash Deep Sarjit Myrrpurey 903 The Hound of the Baskervilles (part 3) 930 Night Express Dick Fisher 100 Closedown BEACON (303m 972 VHF): 100 Late Night Beacon Peter Clements 600 Sunday Breakfast Peter Noyes Thomas 800 Kids -stuff Peter Noyes Thomas 1 000 Super Gold Sunday Dave Yarn all 200 Wine and Roses Dick Fisher 400 Beocon Country Austin Powell 600 In the West Midlands Harold Fuchs 700 Jhankar Nimmi and Suresh Joshi 800 Beacon Classic Mark Steyn 1000 Sunday Evening John Hammers ley 1215kHz247m 90-925vhf stereo RADIO 3: 755 Weather 800 News 805 Aubade (Scheldt Boccherini Schubert Dukas Arnold) 900 News 905 Stereo Release (Philip Raddiffe Tchaikovsky) 1030 Schubert (Chamber music) 1115 Russian Music Concert (Part 1) Rimsky Korsakov Prokofiev 1 200 Interval Reading 1 205 Concert (part 2) Shostakovich 100 News 105 Affetti Amorosi (Italian love songs by Landini Ciconia Ge-sualdo) 200 Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam (Beethoven Willem Pijper Schubert Bruckner) 400 Stravinsky 500 Jazz Record Requests 545 Forum 635 The Classical Guitar 710 Lessons: A short story by Morrif Lurie 730 Proms 82 (Part 1) Dukas Ravel Saint Saens 815 The Lyttelton Hart Davis Letters 835 Proms 82 (Part 2) Franck 930 Later: A monologue by David Pownall 955 Modern Song Cycles (Brian Dennis David Haines Corey Field) 1035 Jorg Oemus (recital) Beethoven 1115 News 1118 Closedown 693kHz433m 909kHz330m 88-91 vhf stereo 650 Yours Faithfully 655 Weather Travel Programme News 700 News 710 Papers 715 On Your Farm 745 Yours Faithfully 750 It's A Bargain 755 Weather Travel Programme News 800 News 810 Papers 815 Sport On 4 848 Yesterday in Parliament 857 Weather Travel Continental Travel 900 News 905 Breakaway 950 News Stand 1005 The Week in Westminster 1030 Daily Service 1045 Pick of the Week 1135 From Our Own Correspondent 1 200 News 1 202 A Small Country Living 1227 The News Quiz 1 255 Weather Programme News 100 News 110 Any Questions? 1 55 Shipping Forecast 200 News 205 Thirty -Minute Theatre: 'Wednesday is Yoga Day by Jacki Holborough 235 Silent Avenues of the Past (4) 305 Wildlife 330 The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien (1) 430 Does He Take Sugar? 500 Modern Spanish Writers 525 Week Ending 550 Shipping Forecast 555 Weather Travel Programme News 600 News including Sports Roundup Continental Travel 615 Desert Island Discs: Pamela Stephenson 655 Stop the Week with Robert Robinson 735 Baker's Dozen 830 Saturday Night Theatre: Offshore by Michael Davies 958 Weather 1000 News 1015 A Place in the Sun (last in series) 1100 Lighten Our Darkness 1115 Stop the Week with Robert Robinson 1200 News Weather 1215 Shipping and Inshore Waters Forecast 1 223 Closedown 1053kHz285m Bl1089kHz275m RADIO 1: 500 As Radio 2 700 Wake Up to the Weekend with Adrian John 800 Tony Saturday Show 1000 Paul Burnett 1 00 Adrian Juste 200 A King in New York with Jonathan King 205 Paul Gambaccini 400 Peel's Pleasures 500 Rock On with Richard Skinner 630 In Concert featuring Morrissey Mullen UK Players 730 Closedown VHF RADIOS 1 AND 2: 500 am With Radio 2 1 00 pm With Radio 1 730 pm 500 am With Radio 2 693kHz433m 909kHz330m 88-91 vhf stereo RADIO 2: 500 Peter Marshall with The Saturday Early Show 802 Racing Results 805 David Jacobs 1 000 Joan Collins presents Star Choice 1102 Cricket Desk 1103 Midsummer Madness with Kenny Everett 100 The Impressionists 130 Sport On 2 including Open golf cricket motor racing results 700 Three in a Row 733 Big Band Special 800 Saturday Night is Music Night 1000 Hil-versum Greets Radio 2 11 02 Sports Desk 1110 Pete Late Show 200 500 am You and the Night and the Music with Richard Clegg RADIO 2: 500 Peter Marshall with The Sunday Early Show 730 Nick Page 900 David Jacobs with Melodies for You 1 1 00 Best 1 200 Desmond Carrington with Radio All Time Greats 1 30 The Grumbleweeds 200 Sport on 2 Special with Open golf motor racing cricket 600 Comedy Classics: in starring Richard Briers and Richard Waring (3) Breach of Contract 630 The Folk Entertainers: Ralph McTell 700 Sunday Sport 730 Glamorous Nights 830 Sunday Half Hour 900 Your Hundred Best Tunes 1 000 Europe 82 1 1 02 Sports Desk 1105 Pete Late Show 200 500 am You and the Night and the Music presented by Liz Allen 200kHz1500m 92-95vhf 200kHz1500m 92-95vhf BEACON (303m 972 VHF): 100 Austin Powell 600 Andy Wint 1000 Mick Wright 200 Sportsline Pat Foley 600 News 615 Mick Baker 800 Big Bond Jazz with Tony Richards 1000 Beautiful Music Marc Steyn RADIO 4: 625 Shipping Forecast 630 Morning Has Broken 655 Weather Travel Programme News 700 News 710 Sunday Papers 715 Apna Hi Ghar Samajhiye 745 RADIO 4: 625 Shipping Forecast 630 News 632 Farming Today.

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