with Laurie Marmillan
Headlines and weather, news for sports fans including the latest news from Argentina on preparations for the World Cup. Prayer for the Day (Mon THE REV DAVID CAINK , Tues-Thurs THE REV DAVID MIDDLETON , Fri THE REV RICHARD HARRIES )
John Sergeant in London
Brian Redhead in Manchester
Weather, sport and Thought for the Day
by EVELYN WAUGH (5)
Studio guests join the regular team. Producer IAN R. GARDHOUSE
A question session
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
nem, p 17: 0 Jesu so meek (BBC HB 529); Canticle 3: Acts 5 vv 27-42 (NEB); Jesus, good above all other (BBC HB 72)
Revel in the company of MICHAEL BENTINE , THE GOONS, ROY HUDD , LAUREL AND HARDY, RON MOODY, MORECAMBE AND WISE, THE TWO RONNIES, DENIS QUILLEY and many others.
Written and compiled by DAVID RIDER . Producer BOBBY jaye
A celebration by Walt Unsworth
Twenty-five years ago today man first reached the summit of the world's highest mountain. Told by David Brierley with the voices of David Ashford, Christopher Bidmead, Michael Goldie, Geoffrey Matthews, Katherine Parr and members of the Everest Expeditions.
(Full details: Thursday 6.30)
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
Presented by Robert Williams
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
One Small Step - but a Long Way Doun: DEBBIE FLEMING gives a bruise-by-bruise account of her parachute training.
2.0-2.2 News
Life in the Open Air - 2: CHRISTINE FAGG and BARRY WILLIAMS discuss camping and caravanning with CAROL ALLEN.
Mike Sheils in America: at ' Circus World ' in Florida.
Another Month Older: MAUREEN STEVENS considers the pleasures and pains of gardening.
Roman Tales. 6: Jeucllery
Story: "David and the Little Aeroplane" by John Farrington
by Graham England
[Starring] John Carson and Jane Wenham
Yvette Marson set out for Japan by way of the Trans-Siberian railway. But she never arrived....
(First broadcast in 1976)
by Anthony Powell, abridged in ten parts and produced by Pamela Howe
Read by Stephen Murray (1)
This first volume of "A Dance to the Music of Time" takes Nicholas Jenkins from public school to university: a period of life which teaches him that 'human relationships flourish and decay, quickly and silently...' BBC Bristol
Presented by Robert Williams
Geoffrey Smith talks to Kenneth Ford about the garden.
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
(Full details: Wednesday 12.27)
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
Cursed Be Canaan by BRUCE STEWART with as and as I have allowed myself to come into conflict with ecclesiastical authority. Father . : I was required to believe that the native peoples I had been sent to evangelise - the blacks
-were in fact Saracens: enemies of Christ and the Church. who could consequently be enslaved. I was unable to accept that.... I have spoken to the blacks of the area and learned their true origin and history. But my superiors insist that I was taken in over this.'
Special music composed by RICHARD YEOMAN CLARK of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Directed by DAVID SPENSER
(Repeated: Sunday 2.30 pm, medium only)
(James Laurenson is a member of the RSC)
Anthony Smith takes a sideways look at the Tower of Babel.
A House of Kings
' One loves the Abbey for her memory, her ancientry. her beauty and her present wisdom.'
Westminster Abbey stands on an island in the middle of London. Built over several centuries it has become full of tombs and monuments and is the church of coronation.
Richard Cork and Pamela Tudor Craig explore the medieval nature of the Abbey and discover why it is 'A House of Secrets '. Producer CHRIS SWANN
Douglas Stuart reporting
from the Players Theatre
Victorian Music-Hall underneath the arches. Ian Wallace introduces BERNARD CRIBBINS JOSEPHINE GORDON , JAN HUNT DENIS MARTIN. STELLA MORAY
JAMIE PHILLIPS and JENNY WREN At the pianoforte GEOFFREY BRAWN
Special material DENIS MARTIN Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK
A Fearful Joy (6)
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
