6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
John Timpson
With MARGARET HOWARD including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With THE REV MICHAEL MEECH and SISTER PAULA
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by JOHN MARSH
7.3i, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
plus regulars Dr Anthony Clare , Russell Davies , Fran Morrison in Edinburgh, and Gerry Monte in Cardiff, taking part in a live talk show that each week features a celebrity birthday interview as well as intriguing personal stories and musical interludes from
JAMES cox and JOHN GILL Producer
HUMPHREY WALWYN
NEM, p 79; Thy mercy, Lord, is in the heavens (BBC HB 482); Psalm 104, vv 25-36; Matthew 13, vv 44-58 (AV); Praise, 0 praise our God and King (BBC HB 441)
Light as a Feather by DONALD BANCROFT Read by Brian Gear
' One topic on which James and Holly Mont ague clashed from time to time was the existence of UFOS and visitors from other worlds.'
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
Part 1
In the late 1960s, the Brazilian government decided that it preferred cows to trees. So new legislation was used to encourage the farmers to cut down vast tracts of the Amazon rain forests - at the rate of about two-and-a-half million acres a year. As well as killing off many rare species of plant, are the Brazilians attacking what were once called the 'world's lungs' -one of the major sources of oxygen for the southern hemisphere?
In the first of two programmes, Anthony Smith reports from the cattle farms of Brazil, and asks: What Has Happened to the Forests'
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
(Part 2 next Thursday)
Story: The Tick-tick Clock by SUSAN JENKINS
Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
Information, views and advice for the home and family. Today JII.L TODD helps you save money with the latest food news and prices in the BBC Shopping Basket.
12.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only
Presented by Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Many a Sniff: SUSAN GOOD-MAN talks tO ELLIS DOUEK about the senses of smell and taste.
Talking Point: opinions and ideas ...
Reading Your Lettert.
33 Acacia Gdns ... : BERNARD JACKSON finds Out how our streets get their names.
Bel Ria (7)
The weekend'* listening on Radio 4UK
Live from the House of Commons
When Did You Last See Your Father? by SARAH MAXWELL
New York in a heatwave. The temperature is 98 degrees and the electricity workers are on strike. If you have a dead body on your hands it is best to bury it as quickly as possible. But it is important to know the identity of the deceased and if Angle's father isn't Angie's father - then who is he?
. Directed by GLYN DEARMAN
(Don Fellows is in ' Chic-ago' at the Cambridge Theatre, London)
Augustus Carp Esq (4)
Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
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.
Written by TESSA DIAMOND (Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
Thirteen programmes on the theme of childhood to mark the International
Year of the Child.
Compiled and introduced by David Davis
1: Behold the Child
Reader Gabriel Woolf
Producer GRAHAM GAULD BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Sat 11.20 am)
1876-1973
A concert on records featuring the great musician in the roles of cellist, conductor and composer. Part 1
Schumann Cello Concerto in A minor with the PRADES FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Mozart Symphony No 40. in G minor \x 550) with the MARLBORO FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
A short series in which Robert Dougall presents an anthology in verse and prose of the facts and folklore surrounding some familiar species of British birds.
Part 2
Casals Les Rois Mages ENSEMBLE OF 100 CELLOS
Dvorak Cello Concerto In B minor with the CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGE SZELL gramophone records
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by David Jacobs
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Mr Norris Changes Trains (9) long wave only
long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
