News, weather, papers and sport.
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
What Britain is getting up to. Two hours of news and views from home and around the world. Presented by John Timpsen with PETER RUFF Including at
8.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD MARRIES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.34. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Laurie Lee reads from his collection of short essays.
5: Voices of Ireland
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
Popular classics on records presented by Richard Baker
BBC Correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the polities and the people.
Producer PADDY O'KEEFFR
NEM, p 54; 0 King enthroned on high (BBC m 158); Psalm 48; I Thessalonians 2, vv 1-8 (Rsv); Come down, 0 love divine (BBC HB 149)
Remembering My Father by WILLIAM BAIN
Read by Arthur Boland
' 1 felt I understood my father but in river matters he had me baffled ...beautiful fly-hooks and an extendable gaff - the gentleman and the bandit.'
Producer PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland
Brian Johnston recently visited Peterlee in County Durham.
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
(Rev rpt on Sun at 5.15)
11.40 Announcements
Story: Big Fat Rosie Saves the Day by MARY CALVERT
Presenters GLADYS WHITRED and CART TAYLOR
Written by RACHAEL BIRLEY Producer DIANA REED
News and information that affects the way you live.
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE
12.55 Weather; programme news; long wave only
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines Presented by Brian WMlake Sequence editor DEREKLEWIS
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced from Birmingham by Maureen Staffer
Death of a Dialect: Shropshire headmaster ALFRED JENKINS is making a study ef the Clee Hill dialect which is in danger of disappearing for ever.
Talking Point: how effective or desirable is the teaching of ' creative ' writing? Playwright IAN RODGER believes the personal act of literary expression cannot be taught. All in the Family: LIZ DANIELS visits a family centre and looks at the advantages of this new development in social care.
BBC Birmingham
The Last Plate Left (4)
Asya by ivan TURGENEY dramatised by JOAN O'CONNOR with At 24 Vlado was an innocent - he'd dabbled in love affairs but nothing had ever really touched his heart. Then some quirk of fate took him to a small town on the Rhine, where he met two fellow Russians - an attractive young man and his even more attractive sister.
Music played by HUGO D'ALTON
Directed by JANE MORGAN
The first of six programmes about wine.
Peter Noble on choosing, storing and serving wine; George Robertson on port - what to drink and when to drink it; and Wynford Vaughan-Thomas enthuses about wine in general.
Introduced by Denis Morris Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
A Crime of Passion (5)
The news magazine Presented by Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons Sequence editor BEREK LEWIS
5.50 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
with Barry Norman bringing you the stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport.
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)
June Knox-Mawer presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes ever the past seven days.
Producer ALASTAIR WILSON
A personal portrait
A spontaneous discussion by Baroness Phillips Johnny Morris Melvyn Bragg
The Rt Hon Edward du lann. up
Chairman David Jacobs from Poole. Dorset
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions, Presenter
Michael Billington
Producer CARROLL MOORS
9.59 Weather
Anthony Howard reporting
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with David Jason, Bill Wallis, David Tate, Sheila Steafel and the DAVID FIRMAN TRIO
Written by GUY JENKIN, JOHN LANGDON, RICHARD QUICK, ROGER WODDIS , JEREMY BROWNE and BARRY BOWES
Producer GRIFF RHYS JONES (Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm)
Woddis on ... : page 11
(Stereo)
Fritz Spiegl keeps a keen eye and ear on what's written and said. BBC Manchester
The Slave by ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER translated from Yiddish by the author and CECIL HEMLEY and abridged for radio in ten parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by GABRIEL WOOLF (19) Producer
BERNARD KRICHEFSKI
long wave only
reflects on life in and out of the Sound Archives
A series of plays for late-night listening
The Rubbish Tip by PETER RUSSELL
GILES: Have you found it yet, the name of this street?
MIRIAM: Oh, Giles, what on earth does it matter?
GILES: Because when we turned into it, I could have sworn it said 'Death Road'.
Directed by LIANE AUKIN
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
