News, weather, papers, sport
What Britain is getting up to. Two hours of news and views from home and around the world.
Introduced by Brian Redhead with LIBBY PURVES including at
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.30,8.30Newsheadlines
Looking Good
Does wanting to look good mean looking fashionable? What do you do when you loathe the latest fashion gimmick? Is it true that Paris still dictates what we buy in the local store? And how can we be fashionable though poor?
Prudence Glynn. fashion editor of The Times and Bernice Griffiths , a senior fashion consultant with a chain of stores. invite your questions and comments on attitudes towards fashion.
In the Chair: Barbara Myers Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
The lines are open from 8.0 am
Soldiers
Derek Jones introduces the BBC WEST OF ENGLAND SINGERS conductor PHILIP MOORE BBC Bristol
nem, p 50; Come, gracious Spirit, heavenly Dove (BBC HB 150); Psalm 139; Luke 5, vv 1-11 (NEB); Our Lord, his Passion ended (BBC HB 161)
The Decision
Written and read by Shirley Cooklin
' " It won't always be like this," he promised, " There'll be other places ... really nice restaurants.... parks, the river, too, when the summer comes, when it's not so cold, when ......
Just a Social Visit by DAVE SIMPSON with Alan Rowe as the man and Heather Bell as the girl
It's been a long day in the office. He is just packing up to go home when she bursts in and confronts him - ' You can come barging into my home telling me what to do, ticking me off; but when I come here to see you, that's different isn't it, that's different altogether.' Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING
(Shortened version of Monday's broadcast at 10.30)
News and information that affects the way you live Presenters Bill Breckon and Nancy Wise
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines
Presented by Brian Widlake
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Slim and Trim: DR ZENA MAX WELL, JUDITH CHALMERS and a Woman's Hour listener discuss how not to be a middle-aged ' tatty '.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading Your Letters.
Law and Folk-Iorè: ANNE MCNAMARA reports on a conference on the care and the rights of the elderly.
Women in the Workhouse: CHRISTABEL KING investigates the continuing plight of low-paid homeworkers.
Now BarabbasWas a Rotter (10)
Story: The Dragon Who Liked Dressing Up by ANNE ENGLISH
medium only from 3.5
mediumonly
Live from the House of Commons.
medium only
(Shortened
The Story of Ragged Robyn (2)
Presented by Brian Widlake
Signing On
David Rider considers the mystique of the signature tune. the musical key which so often opens the door on radio and television, as well as in the cinema and the theatre.
Producer RAY ABBOTT
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
Including Financial Report and half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world
'twixt Eleanor Summerfield Gillian Reynolds and David Nixon Tim Rice
Tune Twisters from Steve Race
In the Chair Roy Plomley Devised and written by IAN MESSITER
Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Thursday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Wednesday 1.30 pm)
A series in which Christopher Ricks selects poems from the New Oxford Book of English Verse.
14: Invitations
Poems by Ben Jonson and Thomas Randolph
Reader HUGH DICKSON Producer ALEC REID
by Paul Ferris
with Peter Tuddenham and Gwen Watford
"Good God, man! What do you think the real world is? Persons with machine guns spouting about Marx? The real world is people like Mrs Smith on the one hand living decent lives and other people like Clara on the other hand giving way to temptation."
Another opportunity to hear Henry Livings and Alex Glas gow perform a selection of their favourite songs, stories and poems from The Northern Drift before an audience at the Hill Place Centre, Edinburgh.
Directed by ALFRED BRADLEY BBC Manchester
(First broadcast on R3, 1977)
Gerald Priestland reports
Presenter Sheridan Morley
Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Secret Agent (7)
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
