News, weather, papers and sport
Presented from the South West by DAvm BUTLER
A regional view of farming in the week ahead Producer SARAH PITT BBC Bristol
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presented by Brian Redhead
With LIBBY PURVES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day With ROSEMARY WAKELIN
7.6, 8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
A look ahead with Moira Stuart
continues his search in the BBC Sound Archives, but once again comes to no serious conclusion.
The live talk programme which takes its own distinctive look at some of the topics and personalities of the forthcoming week.
Studio guests join Mavis Nicholson, Kenneth Robinson and Fritz Spiegl for an unpredictable 55 minutes of argument, humour and some music, all of which is intended to start your week off in fine style.
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New Every Morning, page 122; How bright these glorious spirits shine! (BBC HB 492); Canticle 10; Matthew 8, v 18 to 9. v 1 (AV): Let saints on earth in concert sing (BBC HB 249)
The Parcel
Written and read by Robert Rietty
'I sat on the bed for an eternity: afraid to move. Then I walked over to the Madonna .. but no flame warmed my face. The lamp had been blown out, like a candle in the wind.'
Producer MITCH RAPER
There are many stories of the persecution of Christians to Uganda undertheruleofIdi Amin. Ten years ago the Church in East Africa was the strongest and Easiest-growinginthe world, but what has happened since then? Now the oppression is over, Christians are free again to talk of their experience. In this programme, recorded over the last two weeks in Uganda. reporter Michael Page , talks to all kinds of Christians from Archbishops to children, to find out what it was like before Amin, under his rule, and their hopes for the future.
Producer CHRIS REES
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Story: The Earthworm by BARBARA RICHARDS long wave only
Listen with Mother Stories £3.25, from bookshops
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckan
Including MARGARET KORVING'S World of Work
Editor JOHN TURTLE
Chairman Robert Robinson 18: Second Round, Home Countles
LESLIE KILLIP , computer programmer (Surrey); GEOFFREY REYNOLDS , engineer (Surrey); JOHN WINDUS, tax inspector (Hertfordshire); JACK COVINGTON , retired school-master (Hertfordshire)
Including Beat the Brains
Devisedbyjohnp.wymn Questions set by IAN GILLIES and JOAN CLAKK Producer RICHARD EDIS
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30 pm)
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with Brian Willake Editor DEREK LEWIS
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with Sue MacGregor
You're Going to Like This Picture!: photographer David Bailey talks about his art to ROGER CLARK.
Talking Point: opinions and ideas ...
Gentle Words for the Gentle Sex: GILLIAN STRICKLAND with a monthly review of newly published magazines.
Coming Out in Your Teens: three teenagers talk about being homosexual.
Cashing In: from the moment a baby is born, money worries begin; JEREMY HANLEY advises, North and South (9) by MRS GASKELL abridged in 20 parts by JACK SINGLETON
Read by PRUNELLA SCALES Editor WYN KNOWLES long wave only
The Weather in the Streets by ROSAMOND LEHMANN
Stories of the Royal Navy by BARTIMEUS abridged in eight parts by BARRY CAMPBELL
Read by TREVOR MARTIN 4: Anathema
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
with Gordon Clough andJoanBakewell Editor DEREK LEWIS
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5.55 Weather; programme. news
including Financial Report
by P.G. Wodehouse
Starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves, and Richard Briers as Bertie Wooster
with Vivian Pickles as Aunt Dahlia, James Villiers as 'Stilton' Cheesewright, Liza Goddard as Lady Florence Craye, Jonathan Cecil as Percy Gorringe
(Repeated: Wed 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
A historical fantasy by DAVID PINNER
with Jeremy Kemp Richard Pasco Shirley Dixon and Vivien Heilbron
The Battle of Hastings in 1066 is the most familiar date in English history. Less familiar is William of Normandy's subsequent struggle to defeat the legendary Saxon rebel Hereward the Wake - the last Englishman to swear an oath of allegiance to the Conqueror.
Technical presentation by PETER BELHAM
Directed by MICHAEL ROLFE
The play was recorded entirely on location.
BBC Birmingham
(The full binaural pffect of this programme can be achieved by listening through stereo headphones)
Returns
In a series of eight programmes June Knok-Mawer asks travellers and travel writers about the place, the book and the music to which, given the chance, they return mest often.
Today's guest: author, playwright and traveller Michael Frayn
Producer PETER ESTALL
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting. music and exhibitions.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
' It's a tremendous emotional thing for me to go out on a concert platform and sing, and it isn't as easy as it looks ... but I hone I don't make it look terribly complicated!'
Sue MacGregor talks to the American singer Jessye Norman about her life and work.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
I Can't Stay
Long Laurie Lee reads from his collection of short essays. 1: Autobiography
' The spur for me is the fear of evaporation - erosion, amnesia, if you like - the fear that a whole decade may drift gently away and leave nothing but a salt-caked mud-flat.'
Abridged and produced by JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham long wave only
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
