News, weather, papers, sport
Introduced by John Timpsom with LIBBY PURVES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day With ROBERT RIETTY
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.30. 8.38 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
by ROBERT GRAVES 4)
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NEM, p 89; 0 greatly blessed the people are (BBC HB 469); Psalm 130; Luke 19, v 41 to 20 v 8 (NEB): Sing praise to God who reigns above BBC HB 18)
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The Oklahoma Kid by JOHN MONTAGUE
Read by Mark Mulholland
' It was my cowboy period. On the fringe of the newly-ploughed field behind our house I practised my draw, with two sticks peeled and whittled to revolver shape. A double explosion - Bang. Bang! -and a thistle fell dead: the Oklahoma Kid was in charge.' Producer JUDITH ELLIOTT BBC Northern Ireland
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Do little girls experience religion in a different way from little boys? Three women - Jewish, Catholic and Hindu - remember their childhood.
This week Nlthiakalyani Moodley remembers a Hindu girlhood in South Africa.
Producer MONICA FURLONG
Today: BBC Shopping Basket Presenters George Luce and Margaret Korving
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
Presented by Brian Widlake
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor A View from the Continent: a regular reflection of events and reactions in the rest of Europe.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading Your Letters.
Another Month Older: MAUREEN STEVENS finds that in America there's a ' constellation-problem-syndrome '.
Starting from Scratch: FRANCES PERRY_pays her monthly visit to the Hellens' new garden. Ruined City by NEVIL SHUTE abridged in 12 parts by MADGE HART
Read by David Buck (1)
Henry Warren thought he knew about places like Sharpies. After all it was the 1930s and Britain was full of dead and dying industrial towns and as a merchant banker, Warren had often rejected unrealistic financial schemes to help them. But then his life changed direction ...' (Music: Alwyns First Symphony)
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Story: My Naughty Little Sister Does Knitting by DOROTHY EDWARDS
No Ice on the Wall A play for radio by DAVID H. (;ODFREY
John is just a general porter at the hospital, but he is a man universally loved and the recovery of patients owes more to him than he would ever realise.
Directed by GERRY JONES
Jack de Manio meets them aH. Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
Jane and Prudence (9)
Presented by Brian Widlake
What's on at the Empire' Presented by Peter Pratt
While Gilbert and Sullivan reigned at the Savoy, what other entertainment delighted the late Victorian and Edwardian public?
Producer RONALD cook
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
Including Financial Report
Written by BRUNO MILNA
Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
A weekly investigation into accusations of unfairness, fraud and injustice.
Presented by Roger Cook
(Repeated: Friday 10.5 am medium only)
The biggest oil terminal in Europe is being built on the shores of a remote Shetland inlet, and the oil is beginning to flow from Brent and Ninian. Four thousand technicians work there in a self-contained community. The project is overwhelming both in its size and its detail.
An impression in the words of those who work there, produced and presented by John Gray
BBC Scotland
On the eve of the Jewish New Year Festival, the Chief Rabbi. Dr Immanuel Jakobovits , discusses with another member of his community the question of individual and corporate responsibility before God.
Soviet Power in the 1980s
Presented by John Eidinow
Chillier relations with the United States, almost open hostility from the Chinese, and increasing activity in Africa are the outward manifestations of Russian foreign policy at the end of the 70s. At home, an ageing leadership faces an uncertain economic future.
What do the 80s hold in store? Can we expect some form of detente or heightened tension? What is the Soviet Union's military potential, and what are her intentions?
Producer GREVILLE HAVENHAND < Repeated: Friday 11.5 am)
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presenter Jim Hiley
Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world.
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questions! Introduced by David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Rogue Male (4)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
