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 CANON FRANK WRIGHT
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
The Sick Child
Nobody likes to see an ill child and lots of parents feel fairly helpless when a small child is poorly. Many childish ailments are now easily treated but most children still have their share of coughs, colds, measles and mumps. In the Tuesday Call studio to answer your calls are GP, Dr Robert Andrew and Sister Susan Wall , a hospital children's nurse.
Jill Burridge is in the chair.
Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Lines are open from 8.0 om 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 Bob Langley.
Producer JANE MARSHALL long wave only
NEM, p 97; Blessed Jesus, at thy word (BBC HB 257); Psalm 119, pt 6; Matthew 6, vv 19-34 (AV): Father of mercies, in thy word (BBC HB 189)
Failure to Communicate by JEAN URE
Read by Mary Wimbush
'It was all very well for Dougal: he enjoyed parties. He was good at them. Marianne dreaded them for weeks ahead, twisting herself into paroxysms of nervous agitation as the date loomed ever nearer.' long wave only
Big Deal
A radio comedy by MAURICE PATTERSON with Harry has progressed from market stall to ' exclusive ladies' wear ', but somehow the shop is not attracting the right sort of clients. Disaster threatens, when suddenly - enter The customer ... !
Directed by MARGARET ETALL long wave only
by Anthony Smith long wave only
Story: The Road that Ran by LILIAN RICE
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
News, views and advice for consumers
Presented by Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
In Training: ANN HEYNO joins an air hostess during the first few days of her new job.
Reading Your Letters.
Betty Bouncer 's Love: (2) Radio Announcers have long since shed the evening dress of Reithian days. TONY BARNFIELD finds out what it's like to be a voice on the BBC today. A Plain Woman's Guide to the Ombudsman: as explained by ADAM RAPHAEL , Political Correspondent of The Observer.
North and South (5) long wave only
A look at forthcoming drama
Live from the House of Commons
by GEORGE MEREDITH adapted for radio in seven parts by d. G. BRIDSON with James Aubrey Anthony Newlands Brenda Bruce Joanna David
3: Thunder Breaks the Ice Having come of age Harry has begun the Grand Tour of Europe. On his father's insistence his travels start at Ostend, and who should be there, recuperating after a fall from her horse, but his childhood friend the Princess Ottilia of Eppenwelzen. Such a coincidence.
Prince Otto PHILIP SULLY Directed by JOHN CARDY
(Gwen Watford is in ' Bodies ' at the Ambassadors Theatre, London)
Stories of the Royal Navy by BARTIMEUS abridged in eight parts by BARRY CAMPBELL
Read by Trevor Martin 1: Crab-pots
Producer PAMELA HOWE
BBC Bristol
Presented by Gavin Scott and Susannah Simons
5.58 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
including Financial Report
The quotations game in which
Peter Cook
Jacky Gillott Benny Green and Ian McKellen are quizzed on sayings funny, and fatuous-taken from books, journals and walls, or simply overheard.
' Quotes, unquotes and quotes. That's three quotes ... And another quote will make it a gallon.' (MARX BROTHERS) Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Devised and presented by NIGEL REES
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS (Rptd. Thurs at 12.27 pm)
(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 HENSHAW.
Editor COLIN ADAMS BBC Manchester
(BroadcastMunat 11.0 am)
Over 50 years ago, Sir Arthur Eddington predicted an early understanding of so simple a thing as the Sun. Eddington, it seems, was wrong. According to the world's leading astrophysicists the Sun is an oscillating, rippling, fluctuating puzzle.
Dr John Parkinson examines some of the current ideas and asks ' what do we really know about the Sun? '
Producer ALAN STENNETT
A nightly review of books, films. plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Richard Stilgoe Producer CARROLL MOORE
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world.
A sequential entertainment for radio starring
Ronnie Barker also featuring Terence Brady and Pauline Yates with Gordon Langford at the piano
The lines are contributed by TERENCE BRADY , DONALD CHURCHILL , DAVID CLIMIE , JOHN GRAHAM , CHARLES MACKAY , SPIKE MILLIGAN , PETER SPENCE , ROGER TILL, GERALD WILEY and GORDON LANGFORD. Producer
JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
(First broadcast in 1971)
The Third Policeman (7) long wave only
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
