6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by John Timpson
With LIBBY PURVES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day with THE REV PAUL WIGFIELB 7.*. 8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.30. 8.3t News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
plus Angela Rippon with a birthday interview of the week, and other familiar names playing unfamiliar roles in the new live miscellany of reassuring entertainment, disturbing oddities, and serious arguments.
From Glasgow, Fran Mor. rison, from Cardiff, Gerry Monté, and from Dublin, Frank Delaney , tell true stories of popular interest.
Live musical interlude* and punctuations by ANDY DESMOND Producer
HUMPHREY WALWYN long wave only
long wave only
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NEM, p 50; Our blest Redeemer (BBC HB 160); Psalm 89; Acts 27, vv 18-32 (Rsv); Lord. pour thy Spirit from on high (BBC HB 224)
The Planets of the Years by SEAN O'FAOLAIN
Read by Margaret D'Arcy '! confess that I did not enjoy that winter in Cambridge. Mass. My husband had too much to do and I had nothing to do: a common complaint with visiting professors' wives. Late one snowy afternoon in November, I was alone in the house when the door-bell rang tentatively.' BBC Northern Ireland long wave only
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Story: Kate and the Caterpillar by ARMOREL KAY WALLING long wave only
Including today:
The BBC Shopping Basket Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
11.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presented by Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
A Deafening Noise in the Cold North Sea: DOREEN TAYLOR with some of the 400 men on an oil platform.
Talking Point: opinions and ideas.
East meets West - 2: JOAN CLIFFORD pays her son's new family a return visit.
Animal Relations: an occasional look at the world of animals with MOLLY PRfCE-OWEN .
The Hiding Place (9) long wave only
The weekend's listening on Radio 4UK
Live from the House of Commons
Night of the Long Aprons by JOHN WILKIE
What filthy luck! All those centuries - millennia! - our forebears had it made: he hunted, she cooked. Dead simple, everybody knew where they were at. Now for the first time in evolution. her hormones start playing her up - she wants to do both, so he's got to do both. And we get born just in time to be clobbered! Neil and Ben, cooking-pot ment (Grimly) It's a cosmic conspiracy, mate, and this is the crunch - the Night of the Long Aprons.....
DAVID G. BLEAZARD (piano) Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol
Risk (9)
Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
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 worlds
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm)
A series of seven programmes on The Englishman Abroad compiled and presented by Anthony Thwaile with the poems read by GARY WATSON 2: Greece
Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Sat 11.20 am)
leader MARTIN MILNER conducted by Moshe Atzmon
Peter Frankl (piano) direct from the Free Trade Hall, Manchester Part I Mozart
Piano Concerto No 25, in c major (K 503)
2: A Ceaseless Round
John Julius Norwich narrates the second of six programmes tracing the travellinghabitsofthe English abroad, from Tudor times to the 19th century.
Readers Leonard Fentoa and Philip Sully Written by MARY ANNE EVANS
Producer BRIAN COOK
Part 2 Bruekner
Symphony No 5, in B flat major
BBC Manchester
The American writer John Updike 's latest novel, The Coup, is published this week. Paul Vaughan talks to him about his work.
Producer BRIAN, BARFIELD
Douglas Stuart reporting
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by David Jacobs
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Wind, Sand and Stars (4) long wave only
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
