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 Brian Redhead
With LIBBY PURVES Including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day With RABBI JOHN RAYNER
7.0, S.O Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Read by Eileen Atkins
Producer MAURICE LEITCH
Do Elephants Ever Forget? Do elephants really have good memories? How do cats find their way back to former homes? Why are dogs faithful? What evidence is there that chimps and gorillas think? Could whales and dolphins be more intelligent than man? Do animals get bored or feel pain? Can they read minds?
Veterinary surgeon and Chief Wildlife Officer of the RSPCA Bill Jordan and psychologist Tony Buzan answer your questions. Sue MacGregor is in the Chair
Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Lines are open from 8.0 am long wave only from 9.45
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A chance for network listeners to hear some of the material from local and regional broadcasting, selected and presented by Francis Matthews Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham long wave only
NEM, p 89; All praise to thee (BBC HB 401); Psalm 67; Romans 6, vv 1-14 (Rsv); Soldiers of the Cross (BBC HB 367).
Radio 4UK goes out and about in London to bring you the pageantry ... the colour ... the traditional ceremony ... and the Queen's speech from the Throne as Sovereign, Lords and Commons come together to inaugurate the new Parliament. Introduced by Desmond Lynam with Alun Williams outside Buckingham Palace-, Judith Chalmers at Horse-guards Parade, Peter Jones on the roof of the Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey, and Robert Hudson from the Gallery of the House of Lords.
The Speech from the Throne by HM The Queen outlining the new Government's programme for its first session is assessed by the BBC's Political Correspondent, Brian Curtois
An Outside Broadcast Department production long wave only
News. views and advice for consumers
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Brcckon
Presented by Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Portrait of a Family: a series about the ways families live in 1979. 1: RON ALLDRIDGE Visits working mother PAT GOULD , her husband LEN and family.
Reading Your Letters.
Safe Toys: JILL COCHRANE visits a testing centre. Beware of Pity (5) long wave only
In tracing some of the political and social trends in Britain since the last war George Scott talks to the people who were central to the most significant changes and invites them to view. with the benefit of hindsight, their personal part in events.
Sir Robert Mark , former Metropolitan Police Commissioner. talks about crime and violence, and about changing police methods.
Producer jock GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
(Postponed from 16 April)
by CHARLES KINGSLEY 5: Ayacanora
Narrator WILLIAM SQUIRE
Other parts played by REX HOLDSWORTH , DAVID HYDE and SARA PUGSLEY
Music composed and con. ducted by NICHOLAS MARSHALL
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
4.3t Announcements
Vile Bodies
7: Colonel Blount Gets Into Films
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
Chairman Nicholas Parsons
Kenneth Williams, Peter Jones, Derek Nimmo and Ray Alan endeavour to prevent each other from talking for just a minute.
(Postponed from 10th April)
(Repeated: Thurs at 12.27)
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
Presented by Peter Oppenheimer
Current events, attitudes and opinions, at home and abroad - with reports by STEVE BRADSHAW and DAVID HENSIIAW
Editor COLIN ADAMS BBC Manchester
The smell of freshly ground coffee or the taste of an orange are things that most of us enjoy and take for granted. But for some people the world is a tasteless, smell-less place, and for others it is a nightmare of grossly distorted tastes and odours.
Geoff Watts talks to Dr Robert Henkin and some of his patients at the Center for Molecular Nutrition and Sensory Disorders in Washington. about the nature of these problems and their possible treatment.
Producer ALISON RICHARDS
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presenter
Michael Oliver
Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
9.59 Weather
Anthony Howard reporting
(B'cast on Sat at 12.27 ptn)
Eating People is Wrong (2) long wave unly
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
