News, weather, papers, sport
Presented from Scotland by ALLAN WRIOHT
A regional view of farming in the week ahead. BBC Scotland
What Britain is getting up to. Two hours of news and views from home and around the world.
Introduced by Brian Redhead With HILARY OSBORN including at
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.36, 8.31 News headlines
by CHARLES DICKENS
Told by Martin JarvU and Denise Bryer (1)
The soene of Dickens' novel is Coketown in Lancashire in the 1840s. The book is a pageant of life in the early days of the Industrial Revolution that changed and marred the face of England.
Adapted in 16 episodes and produced by IAN COTTERELL
A BBC Transcription Services recording
(First broadcastin1»74)
The programme that takes its own particular look at some of the issues and personalities of the forthcoming week.
Studio guests join the regular team for 55 minutes of live interviews, argument, music and mild irreverence.
Producer FRANCES DONNELLY
The magazine edition with topics suggested by you - the listener.Readingyourletters, playing your favourite sounds and puzzling you with the mystery sound competition. Introduced by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
Questions to: Wildlife, BBC, Bristol BS8 2I.R
NEM, p 25; 0 help us, Lord; each hour of need (BBC HB 336); Psalm 119, part 8: Luke 9, vv 27-36 (NEB); Stand up, stand up for Jesus (BBC HB 368)
Old Jack
Written and read by David Willmott
'He was the caretaker on an estate of tower-blocks, and between him and the occupants there existed a constant state of war. But Old Jack had a secret, unknown to his worst tormentors - the children.' Producer MITCH RAPER
Thus piteously Love closed what he begat:
The union of this ever-diverse pair
A reflection of Meredith's marriage as mirrored in his poems and novels.
Compiled by JOHN CARR-GREGG Narrator Noel Johnson Producer
GRAHAM GAULD
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
A nationwide general knowledge contest.
Chairman Robert Robinson Second Round
24: Wales and Northern Ireland PETER WILDE (Dyfed), wood-man; GARETH GRIFFITHS (Mid-Glamorgan), teacher; PHILIP BEAGON (Co Down), school-teacher; JAMES NESBITT (Co Antrim), civil servant
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
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk Till Two.
2.1-2.2 News
Reading Your Letters.
Entertainment Round-Up: GORDON GOW reporting.
Married 'to a Country Doctor: BLANCHE SULLIVAN , at 96, looks back.
The Hall in the Field by MARGARET EVANS , abridged in eight parts by MONICA GREY Read by GWEN WATFORD (8)
(Music: Sibelius's First Tempest Suite)
Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Mrs McMuddle 's Wash ing Day by MOIRA HERITAGE
The Dartmoor Court' Martial by PETER KING with and The play starts in Dartmoor Prison in 1815 where the sudden shootings of American prisoners lead to a court martial involving the governments of both America and Britain.
Directed by GERRY JONES
We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea (1)
Presented by Robert Williams
Coming Home
Vernon Bartlett , the distinguished writer and broadcaster, gives his impressions of returning to live in England in his 80s after many years abroad.
Producer BRIAN cook
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
Including Financial Report
with Michael Robbing as Jack and Hugh Paddick as Leslie Driven to distraction by Leslie's constant nagging around the home, Jack hatches a scheme to inherit his share of the £50,000 immediately, and at the same time get his brother Leslie off his back. Hs will fake his own death .. with Elizabeth Morgan and Denis Bond
3: Missing Persons with a guest appearance by Deryck Guyler as the solicitor Written by HAROLD SNOAD and MICHAEL KNOWLES Producer JOHN DYAS
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
Producer PADDY O'KEEFE
Playmates by GILLY FRASER with Carole Hayman , Angus Lennie and David Calder
Lena. a Liverpool girl living in Manchester, begins to suspect that there is more to life than being a sex object. However, having exploited it and having been exploited by others all her life - in a world where such exploitation thrives - she finds great difficulty in her struggle for independence. Directed by KAY PATRICK
John Ebdon on aspects of Greece both Ancient and Modern.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer ANNE WINDER
Douglas Stuart reporting
A magazine of news, comment and opinion from the archaeological world. Presented by Malcolm Billings. Producer ROY HAYWARD. BBC Bristol
A House for Mr Biswas (11)
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
