6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presented by John Timpson With PETER RUFF including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With MARTIN MUNCASTER
7.0, 8.0 Today's New* Read by SUSAN DENNY
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Laurie Lee reads from his collection of short essays. 4: The Sugar Islands
plus Angela Rippon with a birthday interview of the week, and other familiar names playing unfamiliar roles in this live miscellany of entertainment. From Glasgow, Fran Morrison ; from Cardiff. Gerry Monté:and from Dublin, Frank Delaney , tell true stories of popular interest.
Live musical interludes and punctuations by THE BOWLES BROTHERS
A Stop and Start the Week team production
NEM, p 34; The eternal gates lift up their heads BBC HB131); Canticle 8; I Thessalonians 1. vv 1-10 (RSV); At the name of Jesus (BBC HB120)
Rosie's Pride by JUNE SUTTON
Read by Valerie Georgeson 'It was the worst thing that had ever happened to me. My parents said I could go as far as Rosie's garden gate but no further. It was years before I discovered why.' Producer GILLIAN BUSH BBC Manchester
Last year Radio Wales cave four localities in North and South Wales the opportunity to run their own community radio station. During four days the people of Rhondda, Merthyr, Pontypool and Wrexham, were able to talk to themselves. In this programme Gerry Monté reviews the four-week experiment and presents highlights from some of the programmes... Producer TELERI BEVAN BBC Wales
Story: Young Hedgehog Finds a Fallen Tree by VERA RUSBBROOKE
Including today:
The BBC Shopping Basket Presenters Naney Wise and Bill Breckon
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presented by Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
'We announce with pleasure ... ': JEAN RICHARD -SON looks a little closer at the personal columns in the press.
Winter Landscape: artist ANTHONY ROSSITER talks to JUNE ROSE about how W. H. Auden and Robert Frost have inspired him. Reading Your Letters.
Ottawa Pow-Wow: JUDITH GILMORE smoking the pipe of peace with the Indians of Canada.
The Last Place Left (3)
Four programmes on how Parliament works.
4: Members, Friends and Gentlemen
Despite the power of the party whips, the 635 mps who sit in the Commons can still exercise considerable individual Influence. With the help of recordings from the 1978 proceedings of the House of Commons, Anthony Howard looks at the achievements, style and debating skills of some leading parliamentarians. Producer GRAHAM TAYAR
Men of Violence by JAN NEEDLE with Leslie Sands Eric Allan and Kenneth Cranham
Albert Winterbottom Is a cantankerous, violent old fisherman. But when his boat runs aground, regional television journ- , alists turn him into a local hero. The resultant publicity causes an outbreak of violence, but who is really responsible?
Directed by MICHAEL BARTLETT
A Crime of Passion (4)
The news magazine Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
5.56 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including
Financial Report and half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world,
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm)
BBC Birmingham
Light Verse
The llth of 13 programmes introduced by Kingsley Amis in which he selects poems from The New Oxford Book of Light Verae.
Reader HUGH DJCKSON Producer ALEC REID
A part science-fiction, part love-story by BRUCE STEWART starring
Other parts played by ADRIANEGANand JENNIFER PIERCEY
Technical realisation by LLOYD SILVERTHORNE
Directed by Glyn Dearman (Third transmission)
In 19th-century boys' fiction, one of the most remarkable figures was Jack Harkawav. In this programme. Mitch Raper follows in his footsteps to the prairies of the American West.
Other parts played by BARRY WARREN , SALLY MATES, JEFFREY SEGAL , SON GLOVER and JOHN KIDD Producer HUGH PURCELL
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer john BOUNDY
9.59 Weather
Anthony Howard 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
The Slave (9) long wave only
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends long wave only
A selection of music for late-night listening.
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
