News, weather, papers, sport
Introduced by John Timpson with LIBBY PURVES Including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45' Thought for the Day
A chance for network listeners to hear some of the material from local and regional broadcasting. selected and presented by Bob Langley. Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham medium leave only
or, Down with Virtue
Another lucky dip 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
BBC Correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people. Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
NEM, page 102; 0 splendour of God's glorv bright (BBC HB 409): Psalm 100; Genesis 11, vv 1-9 (RSV); The race that long in darkness pined (BBC HB 496)
The Tin Box by DESIREE MEYLER
Read by John Darran
' Mum's tin box was reserved for cash to provide boots for the family. But on one occasion Dad broke the rule with unforeseen consequences.' Producer HARRI GWYNN BBC Wales medium wave only
The second of two reminiscent talks by Clement Freud who volunteered for the Air Force at the age of 17-and-a-quarter - not long after the outbreak of the Second World War.
Presenters Sue Cook and Andy Price
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presented by Brian Widlake Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
Introduced from Bristol by Jenni Murray
Some folk are wise and some are otherwise ... but most have a wish to better themselves in some way. THE BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS, LORD KING-SALE, and author PAY WELDON. discuss whether we should even try.
2.0-2.2 News
Peppers and Paprika: RENE WYNDHAM takes a look at the exotic foods available in high street shops today.
Once upon a time.... what books should children read in our multi-cultural society? Writers PAT TRIGGS and JAMILA GAVIN discuss the possibilities. A visit to one of Britain's biggest centres for kidney research based at Southmead Hospital in Bristol. BBC Bristol
Hedingham Harvest (4)
from 2.0
Story:Julia Loses Billy Beatby MARGARET AITKEN
Presenters GLADYS WHITRED and DAVID BR1ERLEY
Written by GLADYS WHITRED Producer JENYTH WORSLRY
Rosemary Leach as Rosie Gillian Martdl as Martha Peter Jeffrey as Harry Peter Whitman as Tom in Live Appearance by LIANE AUKIN
Rosie leaves her husband and goes to stay with her old school friend, homely Martha. Her visit has a revitalising and somewhat unexpected effect. Producer SUSANNA CAPON (First broadcast in 197S)
Some Spanish Echoes and Shadows. Gwyn Thomas spent the summer of 1933 wandering through Spain to research modern Spanish history. There, he says. ' the premonitory gasps and grunts of the great struggle soon to erupt, could be heard on every wind'. After 1945 he spent three further periods in Spain, and in the programme, he explains the changing light in which he has seen the country since he first set foot in it.
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
Omar (5)
Presented by Gordon Clough and Raihael Heyhoe-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 Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days. Producer NICK HUGHES
A personal portrait
Marghanita Laski
Professor John Ericksoa lain Sproat, mp Jimmy Reid
Chairman David Jacobs from Ayr; Scotland
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Gerald Priestland reports on today's proceedings
Presenter Michael Biilington Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
Douglas Stuart reporting
David Jason. Bill Wallis
David Tate. Sheila Sleafel and the DAVIDFIRMAN TRIO Written by JOHN LANGDON GUY JENKIN , BARRY BOWES
RICHARD QUICK. JEREMY BROWKI and ROGER WOODIS
Producer GRIFF RHYS JONES
Fritz Spiegl keeps a keen eye and ear on what's written and said. BBC Manchester
Tolstoy Remembered by TATYANA TOLSTOY translated and abridged for radio in ten parts by DEREK COLTMAN
Read by JILL BALCON (10) Producer JANE MORGAN
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
