News, weather, papers, sport
Presented from Scotland by ALLAN WRIGHT BBC Scotland
Introduced by Brian Redhead with MARGARET HOWARD including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With THE REV LESLIE STOKES
7.1, 8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.10, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
continues his investigations of the BBC Sound Archives, but once again comes to no serious conclusion.
Studio guests join Mavis Nicholson , Kenneth Robinson and Fritz Spiegl for an unpredictable 55 minutes of argument. humour and some music, all of which is intended to start your week off in fine style. Producer IAN R. GARDHOUSE
' Our hedgehogs are very good " pesticides so we put out bread and milk for them. When will they hibernate? And when should we stop feeding them? '
Some food for thought for the team when they answer your wildlife questions.
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
NEM, p 34; The Saviour died, but rose again (BBC HB 497); Psalm 57; Luke 24. vv 35-44 (NEB); Jesus lives! thy terrors now (BBC HB 106)
Elephant by PETER GILLOTT
Read by Allan McClelland
' When an elephant knows it's going to die. it wanders off on its own to a quiet place where no one can find it. A place where it feels happy.' Producer MITCH RAPER
Some illnesses are healed by orthodox medicine, some by more unusual methods, some. as it seems, by miracles. What role does religion play in helping the sick get well? Heather Formaini talks to doctors, clergy and others. Producer MONICA FURLONG
11.56 Announcements
Including today The World of Work with MARGARET KORVING Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
Editor DENNIS LOWER
A general knowledge contest between schools in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Bishop Vesey Grammar School, Sutton Coldfield v. Aldridge School, Walsall
Questionmasters Tim Gudgin and John Anthony
(Repeated: Thursday 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather: programme news
Presented by Brian Widlake Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Bully Beef and Trench Feet in 1978: LYN MACDONALD tells of the book that took over her life.
Reading Your Letters.
2.1-2.2 News
Emergency : you're not trained - and you're faced with an emergency. What should you do? 1: Fire!
Canal Holiday: MARIE CROSS-MAN'S family plus the dog, Fred holidayed on the water. 1: Setting Out.
Gentle Words for the Gentle Sex: ANN LESLIE with her monthly review of newly published magazines. Every Man a King by ANNE WORBOYS abridged in 11 parts and read by EVA HADDON (6)
Editor WYN KNOWLES
from 2.0
Story: The Big Breath by CLEO SYLYESTRE
God the Father by VALERIE WINDSOR
The Little Nugget (6)
Presented by Gordon Clough and Rachael Heyhoe-Flint
Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
5.55 Weather: programme news
Including Financial Report
New stories about the characters created by A. J. CRONIN Patterns by DONALD BULL broadcast by arrangement with GRAHAM STEWART
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(Repeated: Wed 12.27 pm)
(AndrewCruickshank is National Theatre player)
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
When I Became a Man by WILLIAM MARLOWE with Christian Rodska and Hector Ross
A pit closes, a mining town dies. and young Eli either leaves home or stagnates. His father, however. is bed-ridden, his eldest sister crippled and Harriet - married to money - remains aloof from family affairs. Eli has to learn to solve his own problems and it is a painful process.
Directed by KAY PATRICK BBC Manchester
(Repeuted: Sunday 2.30 pm)
by Anthony Smith
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer ANNE WINDER
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
by JOHN LE CARRE adapted for radio in five parla by RENE BASILICO starring
Part 5
A chance incident - the memory of a defecting agent's trade craft in the baiting of a trap. And always the unexpected - before Smiley finally meets up with an old friend from the past. Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
BBC World Service production
by Tatyana Tolstoy, translated and abridged for radio in ten parts by Derek Coltman
To his daughter, the great novelist was 'The merriest man I have ever known'. Her memories of her childhood in 19th-century Russia are of games played with her father, and of a house peopled with eccentrics.
Read by Jill Balcon
(medium wave only)
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
