Presented by Michael Pickstock Producer ALLAN WRIGHT BBC Pebble Mill
Hope Sealy in conversation with a special guest about a prayer which has inspired their life and faith.
Presented by Jenni Murray and John Humphrys
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25* Sport with CHARLES COLVILE
7.30,8.30 News Summary
7.40*, 8.47* Today's Papers
7.45 In Perspective
With ROSEMARY HARTTLL
8.25 The Weeklies with FRANCIS WHEEN
8.35 Yesterday in Parliament Editor JENNY ABRAMSKY
Presented by Cliff Morgan
There's a choice of Rugby Cup finals in London today: the League men of St Helen's and Halifax meet at Wembley, while in Union, Bath take on Wasps at Twickenham. And if you fancy a flutter, the 2,000 Guineas is being run at Newmarket. Producer PETER GRIFFITHS
with Bernard Falk Susan Marling and Nigel Coombs make up the team that makes sense of the world of travel.
Producer IRENE malus
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unravelled, dangled or tied up by Ned Sherrin and the likes of Craig Charles Carol Thatcher , Emma Freud and Jonathan Ross plus Victor Lewis Smith 's Look at Life
Additional material by ALISTAIR BEATON
Producers IAN GARDHOUSE and CATHIE MAHONEY
James Naughtie , Chief Political Correspondent of The Guardian, presents a personal review of a week in the life of MPs and peers.
Producer SHEILA COOK
(Re-broadcast on May Day Holiday at 10.0 am)
Clement Freud , Peter Jones Derek Nimmo and Kenneth Williams try to stop each other talking for just a minute on subjects flung at them by Nicholas Parsons.
Devised by LAN MESSITER
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR. Stereo
Nicholas Ridley , mp, Shirley Williams , Brenda Dean and Gilbert Gray , qc
The American Musical - The Great Age
Producer ALAN OWEN (R)
Slag Madonna by WILLIAM INGRAM with There's been a vision in the valley but it's appeared to the wrong person -
Councillor Thomas 's alcoholic brother Dai. In the unholy scramble that follows, not only Maldwyn's faith will be lost.
Directed by ADRIAN MOURBY BBC Wales. Stereo
Learning to drive can be challenging, satisfying or nerve-racking, depending on your natural aptitudes. But what is it like for the people who actually do the teaching? What attracts driving instructors to the job?
Do they sometimes feel nervous and perhaps even despair of their clients? Or are they confident that virtually anyone can learn to drive?
Driving instructors talk about their varied experiences on the road.
Producer RITA PAYNE
Presented by Georgina Ferry
Jeremy Cherfas examines elephant family life, where older sisters babysit for their younger siblings.
with Bill Wallis , David Tate Sally Grace and Jon Glover
with BRIAN PERKINS including Sports Round-up
Music by JEREMY NICHOLAS
Producer MICHAEL EMBER. Stereo
Six Characters in Search of an Author by LUIGI PIRANDELLO translated from the Italian by JOHN UNSTRUM adapted by BARRY CAMPBELL
Six mysterious people interrupt the rehearsal of a stage play to announce that they are six characters created by an author who has abandoned them. Will the theatre company listen to their story of anguish?
Directed by WALTER ACOSTA
A BBC World Service production Stereo (R)
Presented by Richard Baker Producer JUDITH ROLES . Stereo
The Possessors by JOHN CHRISTOPHER abridged in 12 parts by BRIAN GEAR
Read by Hywel Bennett 5: Fear in the Night
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
A reading, a hymn and a reflection led by Kenneth Slack Stereo
The Dame's Mantle
When the Dame of Sark died in 1974 her Channel Islandfief passed to her grandson, an Aerospace engineer in Bristol. Michael Beaumont left the world of guided missiles to be Seigneur of a feudal outpost where descendants of the original Elizabethan settlers are still required to keep a musket for Britain's defence.
A decade on, Derek Jones finds more democracy on the island, but no divorce; and compact discs where cars and planes continue to be banned. Producer JILL MARSHALL BBCBristoL Stereo
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Elfrieda Fallowfield talks about the day she was presented at Court in 1958 with the last of the debutantes.
Episode Five Stereo
starring
Jeremy Hardy , Kit Hollerbach Paul B. Davies , Caroline Leddy 5: Chips with Everything!
When Caroline makes a special announcement at Kit and Jeremy's wedding anniversary, it's another success story for computer dating. There's just one tiny problem....
Written by JEREMY HARDY KIT HOLLERBACH and PAUL B DAVIES
With PETE SINCLAIR. CAROLINE LEDDY and STEVE PUNT
Producer DAVID TYLER. Stereo
