News, weather, papers, sport
Presented from Wales by JOHN GLYN-JONES . BBC Wales
Introduced by Brian Redhead With LIBBY PURVES including at
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
Moira Stuart looks ahead to the highlights of the next seven days.
reflects on life in and out of the BBC Sound Archives.
(Repeated: Thursday 8.30 pm)
Dr Rob Buckman , Mavis Nicholson and Kenneth Robinson , together with their guests in the studio, provide the incentive to face Monday morning once again as they discuss some of the forthcoming week's topical issues, interview some of the personalities who will be making the news, and try to keep their tongues firmly in their cheeks at least half the time. Producer IAN R. GARDHOUSE
' Is there any scientific evidence to suggest that female wild animals occasionally act in as capricious a manner as do their human female sisters? ' A mixed team offers some unprejudiced thoughts on your wildlife letters.
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
Questions to: Wildlife, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
(Repeated: Thursday 3.35 pm medium only)
nem, p 67: From all that dwell below the skies (BBC HB 5); Psalm 93; Luke 6, vv 17-26 (NEB): A safe stronghold our God is still (BBC HB 297)
A Quiet Naked Sunday by VIRGINIA NEWLIN Read by Sally Mates Producer MITCH RAPER
- sometimes called Faith Healers. they are a controversial group. This programme focuses on the Healer, Bruce Macmanaway , and people around him: doctors, scientists, and patients. Your judgments of what they say may help you decide if you'd go to a Healer.
Compiled and presented by Jocelyn Ryder-Smith
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Thursday 7.45 pm)
News and information that affect the way you live.
Including today - The World of Work with MARGARET KORVING Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
Editor DENNIS LOWER
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain
Chairman Robert Robinson Second Round 21: Midlands
DR MICHAEL JONES (Nottingham). lecturer; ALAN MOLE (Solihull), civil servant; PETER TURTON (Birmingham), sales representative; DR G. H. FREEMAN (Wellesbourne), statistician
The programme includes Beat the Brains, in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN , Who, With IAN GILLIES , set the questions Producer GRIFF RHYS JONES
(Repeated: Thursday 6.30 pm)
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
Presented by Robert Williams Editor DEREK LEWIS
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Talk Till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Cool Drinks for Warm Days: 2 - More thirst-quenching suggestions from Pamela Vandyke Price.
What Goes Up Must Come Down - unless it's a skyscraper! A report by Sharon Banoff.
Standby Careers: 2 - Margaret Korving suggests second, third and even fourth choices for school leavers who are good with words.
Now Barabbas Was A Roll by Brian Masters abridged in 14 parts by Angela Jesson
Read by John Westbrook (14)
(Music: Joplin's Bethena Waltz)
Story: Anntie Bel's Ice-cream Shop by JILL ROWE
The While Lady by R. E. T. LAMB and The year is 1919. A ghost would appear to haunt the local manor house in a Gloucester-shire village. But the ' tricks which the young villagers indulge in get badly out of hand.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY (First broadcast in 1976)
The Story of Ragged Robya by OLIVER ONIONS (6)
Presented by Robert Williams Editor DEREK LEWIS
Today Anatol Goldberg presents his choice of recordings from the Archive Auction. Producer SIMON ELMES
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
Including Financial Report with half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world
starring Bryan Pringle
A comedy serial in eight episodes by ANDREW LYNCH 8: The Big Fritters Daywith Brian Wilde
The scene is the Albert Hall , and the stage is set for Wilf's moment of triumph.
Producer 808 OLIVER ROGERS BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
The Idiot by FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY translated by CONSTANCE GAR -NETT and adapted for radio in two parts by WILLIAM ASH with David Timson , Sarah Badel and Stephen Murray Part 2
Prince Myshkin is torn between a desire to help the tragic Nastasva and distress at his inability to save her from self-destruction. Rogozhin, whose passion for Nastasya has none of the Prince's intellectual idealism, is driven by jealousy to attempt to murder him. An attempt that fails because Myshkin suffers an epileptic fit as Rogozhin is about to strike.
Technical presentation by GORDON BOWEN assisted by CAROL MCSHANS Directed by KAY PATRICK
(Repeated: Sunday 2.30 pm)
Once again John Ebdon reveals some not immediately obvious aspects of Greece both Ancient and Modern.
(Repeated: Thursday 11.45 am)
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer DAVID PERRY
John Tusa reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
A magazine of news, comment and opinion from the archaeological world.
Presented by Malcolm Billings Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol
(Rev repeat: Tuesday 11.35 am)
The Secret Agent (11)
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude