Producers ROBIN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
6.50
Outlook: reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern. VHF Regional news and weather
6.55 Today's listening; weather
A weekly review of the agricultural scene
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Outlook
with Paul Barnes
At 8.0 News and more of Today with at 8.25* VHF Regional news and weather
9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
9.30 The Week in Westminster
Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with PETER JENKINS
10.0 News
10.2 Between the Lines
NIGEL REES invites journalists to confront their readers and the people they have written about in the press this week. Narrator SUSAN DENNY
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
DAVID WALTER and ANNE SLOMAN
New Every Morning, page 54: OurblestRedeemer(BBC Hymn Book 160): Psalm 48; leremiah 2. vv 4-13 (Jerusalem Bible); 0 dear and heavenly city (BBC HB 251)
Presented by MARGARET HOWARD Producer PETER DE ROSA
Inherited Risk
Presented by Geoff Watts
Now that infectious disease has been all but conquered, what is to stop us from having everlasting good health? Assuming medical science will find cures for cancer, will human sickness disappear? No - according to geneticists who are now discovering a host of diseases that are ' built ' into our genes. Are we helpless in the face of the genetic risk?
Producer THELMA RUMSEY
as Radio 3
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
A spontaneous discussion by Lord Mancroft Dennis Potter
The Dean of St Paul's Sue MacGregor
Chairman David Jacobs from Hereford
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
with Molly Price-Owen and Andy Price and an hour's miscellany of chat, fact and fiction from Dublin.
And JOHN HOLLIS reads Stories of the Night Watchman by w. w. JACOBS, abridged by MONICA GREY . 8: Keeping Up Appearances
Produced by the Wojnan's Hour Unit
Blind Man Running for his Life by SIMON COUGH
There may be two ways of running for your life: by running away, or by running towards something. ' I don't want you to stand still and simply cave in to your blindness, giving it away to anyone who wants to use it. I don't want you to accept it. Ever. Because if you accept it, you stop dead.'
Produced and directed by MARGARET ETALL
as Radio 3
All the day's current affairs, news and comment: presented by Gordon Clough with PM's reporting team
5.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Unpredictable table-talk bounced off the week's crop of sense and/or nonsense, with observers of. and contributors to, the current social, artistic and political scene.
Musical intervals by THE TEMPERANCE SEVEN Producer HUGH PURCELL
The writer and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg chooses the records he would take to a desert island, and discusses them with Roy Plomley, who devised the programme.
(Repeated: Monday 12.27 pm)
(Melvyn Bragg takes part in Any Questions?: Friday 8.30 pm)
Richard Baker with records
(Shortened edn: Thurs 9.5 am)
It's a Battlefield by GRAHAM GREENE dramatised for radio by GEOFFREY M. MATTHEWS
The setting is London in the 1930s
Jim Drover , a Communist bus-driver, has been sentenced to death for killing a policeman in a political riot, because he thought the policeman was going to strike his wife.
The title refers to the manv battles fought to save the convicted man.
Produced and directed by SHAUN MACLOUGIILIN
(Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm)
The story of Queen Victoria, her life and the great events of her time in a series of 13 episodes, with Peggy Ashcroft as the Queen 6: The Queen's Displeasure by JASPER RIDLEY
1 If only we had a really good large army, properly supported by Parliament, we could carry everything before us.'
Ballads arranged by CHARLES CHILTON. sung by CHARLES YOUNG , accompanied by TERRY LYNCH Additional material by WILLIAM CRAWLEY
Produced and directed by JOHN TilEOCHARIS
Evening prayers led by REV COLIN SEMPER
preceded by Weather
