News, weather, papers, sport
Introduced by Brian Redhead with LIBBY PURVES including at
4.45* Prayer for the Day
With THE REV RICHARD BARRIES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN CORAN
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
by IVAN TURGENEV
Read by Lewis Fiander 5: Two Landowners (translated by RICHARD FREEBORN )
Producer MAURICE LEITCH
Selected and presented by Bob Langley
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
or Down with Virtue
First of four lucky dips in which Jeremy Siepmann pulls out a miscellany of music written, or made up on the spot, for the important purpose of having fun.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON gramophone records
Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
NEM. page 38; 0 God, whose will is life and good (BBC HB 381); Psalm 85, vv 1-7; Luke 24, vv 25-35 (NEB); 0 God of earth and altar (BBC HB 3M)
Every Home Should Have One by JANE BALENGARTH
Read by Ysanne Churchman
' It was a heart-rending plea from the University - " Take a student into your home." Really the writer was most persuasive. By the time I'd finished reading I was convinced we needed one badly,' Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
The last in a series of four programmes in which Peter obday looks at the players in the Washington game. Producer ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presented by Brian Widlake Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
Introduced from Belfast by Margaret Percy
Galboly): the 'hidden village' at present a deserted ruin - but with hopes for the future.
2.0-2.2 News
Role-Switching: writer MARTIN WADDELL and his wife ROSALEEN have planned their life-style to suit their professions.
Sackbuls, Rebecs and Crumhorns: DAVID CROOKES makes and plays medieval and Renaissance musical instruments. Mary Clark, Ulster's top consumer expert, discusses two of her new Jobs - in London and Brussels.
BBC Northern Ireland Every Man a King (5) medium wave onlu from 2.0
Story Mrs Gigglcpot 's Geraniums by IVY o. EASTWICK
Presenters JEAN ROGERS and GARY TAYLOR
Written by JEAN ROGERS
Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
Gimlet by JAMES SAUNDERS
James Saunders ' early comedy first appeared on stage as Double, Double and shortly afterwards he wrote a radio version, with the new title.
The play is set in the canteen of a bus depot where the pursuit of happiness is a topic which must take its place with route changes and the state of the steak and kidney pie.
Directed by JOHN GIBSON (First broadcast in 1963)
Behind the wheel of a juggernaut, the long distance lorry driver is one of the new explorers of Europe ...daily crossing frontiers, breaking down language barriers and unravelling the bureaucratic mysteries of carnets and customs clearance.
Tony Van den Bergh joins driver Kenny Johnson in the cab of a giant chemical tanker on an eventful journey from the north of England, through Holland and Germany, to Denmark.
Producer JOCK GALLACAMER
BBC Birmingham
The Little Nugget (5)
The news magazine
Presented by Gordon Clough and Rachari Hryhoe-Flint
Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
5.55 Weather: programme news
Including Financial Report
Barry Norman with the stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport. Producer GEOFF DOBSON
(Repeated: Monday 1,30 pm)
Margaret Howard 's selection Producer DAVID EPPS
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)
A personal portrait
Dr Hylita Armstrong
Peregrine Worstherne Lord Seper
Anthony Howard
Chairman David Jacobs from Northern Ireland Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Saturday 1.18 pm)
Ten months ago Dame Rebecca West's novel, The Birds Fall Down, set in turn-of-the-century Paris, was proposed and accepted as a five-part serial which starts on BBC2 this Sunday.
Kaleidoscope have been following the complicated process through all its stages from the conception by producer Jonathan Powell, to the cool frenzy of the electrician's studio, and talks to the director, John Glenister, set and costume designers, the cameramen and the actors, George Colouris, Elizabeth Shepherd, and Felicity Dean, who in her first major role as the young heroine Laura, is the central figure of the production.
Presenter Sheridan Morley.
Douglas Stuart reporting
with David Jason, Bill Wallls, David Tate, Sheila Steafel
and the DAVID FIRMAN TRIO
Written by JOHN LANGDON, GUY JENKIN, BARRY BOWES, RICHARD QUICK, JEREMY BROWNE, ROGER WODDIS
Producer Griff Rhys Jones
(Stereo)
(Repeated: Saturday 5.30 pm)
Fritz Splegl keeps a keen eye and ear on what's written and said. BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Saturday 11.55 am)
The House with the Green - Shutters by GEORGE DOUGLAS BROWN abridged for radio in 15 parti by STEPHEN MULRINE
Read by JOHN SHEDDEN (15) Producer TOM KINNINMONT BBC Scotland
medium wave onlu
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
