Introduced by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
Including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day with THE REV BARNEY MILLIGAN
7.0 and 8.0 Today's News Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.3t,8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Building an extension isn't always for the amateur DIY enthusiast. But if you want to convert your loft or add a 'granny flat' who do you go to? Do you need planning permission, and if so, how do you apply for it? Government grants are sometimes available, but who will guide you through the red tape to get one?
Bill Eykin, Executive Director of the National Home Enlargement Bureau, and Peter Melvin, Chairman of the Clients' Advisory Service of the Royal Institute of British Architects, are in the studio to answer your questions and help you to beware of the building cowboys. In the Chair Judith Chalmers
Lines open jrom 8.0 am med wave only from 9.40
Selected and presented by Bob Langley.
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
NEM, p 71; Awake my soul (BBC HB 403); Psalm 145, vv 1-13; Genesis 24: vv 63-67 and 25, vv 20-26 (Rsv); The spacious firmament on high (BBC HB 21)
Alice by KATE INGELLS
Read by Irene Sutcliffe
by Bill Lyons
With Ian Holm as D, and Nigel Anthony as Bill.
When Bill Lyons' father - Lord Lyons, Public Relations Adviser to Harold Wilson - died early this year, the obituaries duly appeared...
"You can't convey what someone is like in those formal words and leave out all the jokes and all the mad moments as well as the pain of his death." Perhaps a play is the only way to say it.
The impending wavelength changes provide an excuse for Bernard Cribbins , AlexGlasgow,
Henry Livings and Elizabeth Bell to tell tales and sing songs about radio past and present.
Producer ALFRED BRADLEY BBC Manchester medium wave onlw
Presenters Sue Cook and Andy Price
Presented by Brian Widlake
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
A Marriage in the Making (2): as the English National Opera prepare for Jonathan Miller 's new production of Figaro, TONY BARNFIELD explores from box office to backstage,
2.0-2.2 News
Reading Your Letters.
Sharing a Secret: JUDY GRAHAM talks to women in a sex therapy croup. Nepative Virtues ALISON BRUCE ,
MAEVE BINCHY and MICHAEL GREEN confess. The Tiger in the Smoke (2)
jrom 2.0
Story: My Naughty Little Sister Does Cutting Out by DOROTHY EDWARDS
Live from the House of Commons
by William Makepeace Thackeray
8: Another Great Battle with eran officer from Waterloo, Captain McMurdo
Louis Allen describes one of the pleasures of life.
BBC Manchester
The Master of Ballantrae (2)
Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
5.55 Weather: programme news:
starring Peter Hudson aided and abetted by lois LANE with the MAX HARRIS ORCHESTRA
Producer RICHARD WILLCOX (Repeated; Thurt 12.27)
(Repeated; Wed 1,30 pm)
Zambia - Crisis in the Front Line
Presented by Peter Oppenhelmer
With national elections imminent, President Kaunda is beset with problems from without and within. Economically near the point of collapse, militarily vulnerable to raids from neighbouring Rhodesia, diplomatically at odds with other Front
Line African states, Zambia still has a key role in the future of Southern Africa. A special report by STEVE BRADSHAW.
Producer STUART SIMON Editor COLIN ADAMS BBC Manchester
A regular thump of the heart, a phantom wind whistling in the veins, the roar of air entering the lungs, and the rumbling of contracting muscles are sounds that make up a symphony of a healthy body. An irregularity in the rhythm or a change of pitch may indicate, to the trained medical ear, thatsomethingiswrong. Anthony Smith takes a journey in sound around the human body and shows how changes in sound patterns may be used to detect and locate serious diseases.
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT
Science on Radio 4: see letters page
Kaleidoscope considers the dramatic art of Peter Brook
' Theatre is unique in its difficulties because the artist has to use the treacherous material of himself as his medium - theatre is always a self-destructive art and it is always written on the wind.'
PETER BROOK divides his time between the Royal Shakespeare Company for whom he directed A Midsummer Night's Dream and recently Antonu and Cleopatra, and Paris where he has his own international company of actors.HetalkstoMichael Billington about the theatre, and his philosophy and technique of direction.
Producer DAVID PERRY
Anthony Howard reporting
The Price of Love (7)
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
