6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presented by John Timpson
With LIBBY PURVES
6.45* Prayer for the Day With THE REV BROOKE LANE
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
by AMBROSE BIERCE
Read by Robert Lang
Producer MAURICE LEITCH
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June Knox-Mawer examines the booming world of romantic fiction writers and finds out what drives JILLY COOPER , ROBERTA LEIGH and ANNE HAMPSON to write unliberated fiction in Mberated times, while sociologist PETER MANN examines the appeal of these books which have annual sales of over the 20 million mark.
Reader JOHN BULL
Producer FRANCES DONNELLY long wave only
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(Revised repeat of Sunday's broadcast at 2.0 pm) long wave only
NEM, p 30; Take up thy cross (BBC HB 369); Psalm 31; 1 Peter 4, vv 12-19 (NEB); We sing the praise
(BBC HB 95)
The Homecoming by LINDA SAMUELS
Read by Eva Haddon
Recently, Bookshelf organised a short story competition for new writers. Today's story was awarded the second prize, long wave only
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Story: The Happy Little King and the Jumble Sale by MOIRA HERITAGE
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presented by Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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Introduced by June Knox-Mawer
Guest of the Week: A. L. Rowse, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, historian and cat lover.
You are Summonsed to Appear: Norman Tozer compiles a guide to the Magistrates Court, 3: The Court Officials and their Work
Tonga, Fiji, Samoa and Tahiti: DAVID FANSHAWE is still collecting music.
Other People's Children: GLADYS YANG from Peking with aspects of being a child in China.
The Treasure by W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM abridged by DELIA PATON Read by Gerald Cross
(Music: Kabelac's Sextet)
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by Alex Gordon
with Peter Baldwin as Jimmy Jones, Amanda Murray as Betty Jones and Lockwood West as the Bank Manager
The Phoenician Bank (Founder, Hasdrubal, 176 BC) provides a somewhat unique personal banking service. It has contacts with every major organisation throughout the world and the benefits it offers new clients are quite overwhelming ... rather too overwhelming perhaps. The Phoenician Bank does not care to have its affairs investigated too closely!
from Norwich Cathedral
Versicles and Responses (Morley)
Psalms 9, 10, 11 (Elvey, Turle, Crotch)
Lessons: Isaiah 61, w 1-6: Mark 2, w 23-28
Office Hymn: Stalwart as pillars bearing high their burden (A and M Rev)
Canticles (Service for Five Voices: Weelkes)
Anthem: My beloved spake (Hadley)
Organist and Master of the Choristers MICHAEL NICHOLAS Organ scholar
GORDON BUSBRIDGE BBC Birmingham
The Europeans (8)
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5.55 Weather; programme news
A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden
In the Chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE
BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
A weekly investigation into accusations of unfairness, fraud and injustice.
Presented by Roger Cook (Rptd: Thurs 10,5 am)
A feature by BILL MORRISON and JOHN THEOCHARIS
Under the guidance of a hypnotist (Leonard Wilder. Dental Surgeon) and with a tape-recorder placed next to the couch, a subject (Bill Morrison ) registers the regressive movement of an adult's life to the earliest childhood memories, goes through the trauma of birth and describes some sensations inside the womb. Is what emerges a true memory of being born and of growing up or is it merely memories of childhood fantasies?
Even if these descriptions were conscious artefacts, they would be remarkable
(THE GUARDIAN)
One of the strangest and most impressive programmes I have ever heard
(THE OBSERVER)
A bsolutely rireting to listen to (FINANCIAL TIMES) Presented and produced by JOHN THEOCHARIS
(First broadcast on R3)
The burning of fossil fuels, deforestation programmes, and outgrassings from the earth contribute to increased carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, and may combine to cause a rise in the global temperature. Are recently observed decreases in polar ice cover signs of a hotter planet? The practical consequences could be catastrophic, for a predicted rise in ocean levels could mean London, New York and The Netherlands being five metres below the waves.
John Maddox examines the validity of climate modelling, and assesses whether or not we should act on the predictions.
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT
Big Apple Boogie
The New York disco scene is unique - people are chosen for entry to Studio 54, they dance in 1,600 miles of wiring at Xenon and up to their waists in fog at the Ice Palace. Paul Gambaccini explores the New York scene and talks to Steve Rubeli of Studio 54 and Regine, as well as current disco chart-busters, The Village People, and Chic.
Producer JOHN BOUNDY
Douglas Stuart reporting
(Revised version of Sunday's broadcast at 4.2)
The Best of Saki 3: Sredni Vashtor
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Presented by John Hosken
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
