6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
John Timpson with MARGARET BOWARD
6.45* Prayer for the Day with THE REV MICHAEL MEECH and SISTER PAULA
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Jill Cochrane introduces the fourth of six programmes in which she talks to teenage members of some of Britain's 'other religions'.
NEM, p 75; O greatly blessed (BBC HB 469);
Psalm 119, pt 2; Matthew is vv 34-43 (AV); Come, labour on! (BBC HB 388)
A Time of the Morning by GORDON BELL
Read by Jeffrey Segal
'José listened to the village. He listened as a deaf man. his heart dead to the natural heart. He was trapped here, by his father's fishing-boat and the faces of his mother and sister when he came back from the lake.'
Edward Greenfield explores Walton's Violin Concerto.
Story: Little Blue Butterfly by ANGELA GRIFFITHS
Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
(Stereo)
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presented by Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: Leonard Rossiter
Expatriates Old and New: in Ottawa JUDITH GILMORE has been talking to some of the ' Brits ' who have made Canada their home. Vauxhall Gardens Recreated: JILL BURRIDGI visits the National Trust's gardens at Stourhead in Wiltshire, where an 18thcentury Fete Champetre takes place this week. Bel Sia (6)
The President and the Angel by IVAN KLIMA translated and adapted by VERA BLACKWELL with Richard Pasco as the President and the Angel
Being the President of a Republic is a difficult enough job at the best of times, but when you also have an Angel in your wardrobe who insists on giving you good advice, then life becomes even more complicated.
Directed by MICHAEL BARTLETT
(First broadcast on R3)
from
St Alban's Abbey Responses (Lloyd)
Psalms 93, 94 (Crotch, Harris, Gray)
Office Hymn: Come down. 0 love divine (A and m Rev 235)
Canticles (Bairstow In d) Anthem: Behold, 0 God our defender (Howells)
Lessons: Ezekiel 39, VV 21-29; Luke 1. vv 39-56 Master of the Music STEPHEN DARLINGTON
Assistant Master of the Music ANDREW PARNELL
Augustus Carp Esq (3)
The news magazine Presented by Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
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
Presented by Patrick Fyffe and George Logan
With ROSALIE WILLIAMS , PETER WHEELER and ROY BARRACLOUGH
Written by MIKE CRAIG , LAWRIE KINSLEY and RON MCDONNELL
Producer JAMES CASEY BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
A recording of a hearing brought before the Manchester Small Claims Court.
The Small Claims Courts were established to enable people claiming damages or redress - up to a sum of £500 - to meet informally the people against whom they were making their claim, in the presence of an arbitrator by whose decision both parties have agreed to be bound.
This week: Why did one double-glazed window get condensation?
Producers SUE SNAILUM and PAT TAYLOR
(The recording was made with the permission of the Manchester Arbitration
Scheme for Small Claims)
(Repeated: Thurs 10.5 am)
2: Multiple Sclerosis
Experiments with diet and the use of pacemakers are among the researches into the treatment of multiple sclerosis that Tony Van den Bergh examines in discussion with patients, GPS and specialists.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
An account of this year's Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod held earlier this month when competitors representing 34 different countries from all parts of the world gathered for this remarkable annual folk festival set in one of the most picturesque vales of North Wales.
Producer DEWI T. SMITH BBC Wales
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presenter Jacky Gillott Producer DAVID PERRY
Douglas Stuart reporting
Contestants from eight countries challenge a resident team in England. Round 2
England v Poland
'End of Round 1 scores: England 12, Poland 10i) England:
Anthony Qulnton (Chairman) with Irene Thomas and John Julius Norwich Poland:
Gordon Clough (Chairman) with Karol Malcuzynki , journalist and politician and Dr Janusz Stefanowicz. Editor of the Catholic Weekly Universe
Question researcher BERNICE COUPE
Producer TREVOR HILL BBC Manchester
Mr Norris Changes Trains (8) long ware only
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
