News, weather, papers, sport
Introduced by Brian Redhead with LIBBY PURVES
7.0 and 8.0 Today's News
7.30 and 8.3* News headlines
News reaches us with depressing frequency of more and more species of mammals, birds, sea-creatures, trees and plants in danger of extinction due to pressure from ever-increasing human populations and their resulting impact on the natural environment. This affects not just rare specimens but tigers, elephants, gorillas, whales and penguins. But if 'wildlife' disappears, can mankind itself survive? Just how much can organisations like the World Wildlife Fund stem the tide or is it just a tiny hiccup in the process of the survival of the fittest? How much are people prepared to curb their trading and leisure activities to help wildlife to survive? Are we in Britain prepared to sacrifice for the wildlife in our own backyard?
Put your opinions, fears and questions to David Attenborough, broadcaster and trustee of the World Wildlife Fund, and George Medley, Director of the World Wildlife Fund.
In the Chair: Sue MacGregor
Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
The lines are open from 8.6 am
Lone. Derek Jones introduces the BBC WEST OF ENGLAND SINGERS conductor PHILIP MOORE BBC Bristol
NEM, p 71: Thy kingdom come, 0 God (BBC HB 27); Psalm 145, vv 1-13; Luke 6, vv 26-38 (NEB); Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round (BBC HB 321)
The Prisoner by MATT GLENN Read by Tony Bilbow
The Great Gorilla Scandal by STEWART LOVE withand
' So you want to know about the great gorilla scandal? ' ' And about what happened to Marco the strongest man in the world.' ' You won't believe it '.
Directed by JOHN scotney (First broadcast in 1974)
(Shortened version of Mow day's broadcast at 10.30)
Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
Presented by Brian Widlak *
Introduced by Sue MacGregor And Still it Goes On: PETER JEFFCOCK fostered 12 children, and now has one of their children in his care,
2.0-2.2 News
Reading Your Letters.
I'm in the Mood (for rummaging among my old sheet music): a new composition for radio by BASIL BANKS .
The Women of Jakarta - talk to ANNE CATCHPOLE about their lives in the capital city of Indonesia.
I Was A Stranger by GENERALSIR JOHN HACKETT abridged in seven parts by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Read by Cyril Luckham (1)
Following the battle of Arnhem in September 1944, General Sir John Hackett spent several months being hidden from the Germans by a sympathetic and courageous Dutch family. (Music: Dukas La péri)
Story: The Rabbit tn the Moon by NANCY RIGBY and A Short Tail by KEN PARKIN
medium only from 3.5
medium only. Live from the House of Commons.
medium only. (Shortened repeat of Sun's broadcast at 10.30 am)
visits Cambridgeshire where members of the Buckden Gar deners' Association put their questions to FRED LOADS BILL sowERBuTTs and PROFESSOR ALAN GEMMELL Questionmaster KEN FORD BBC Manchester
The Story of Ragged Robyn (7)
Presented by Brian Widlake
Begged. Borrowed or Stolen?
Tom Vernon investigates some cases of petty pilfering in popular music.
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
'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)
Christopher Ricks selects poems 15: The Fall from Power including poems by Marvell, Jonson and Wotton Reader Hugh Dickson Producer Alec Reid
as Radio 3 followed by an interlude
John Tusa reporting
The Secret Agent (12)
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
