News, weather, papers and sport.
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Two hours of news and views from home and around the world. Presented by John Tlmpson with LIBBY PUKVES
6.45* Prayer for the uay withif
THE REV TONY BRETHERTOH
7.0. 8 0 Today's News
Read by PETER Donaldson
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
and other regulars taking part in a live talk show that each week features a celebrity birthday interview as well as intriguing personal stories and musical interludes. Producer MICHAEL EMBER
This week: The Lollipop Man and the Motorcyclist
NEM p 5; Fill thou my life (BBC BB 271); Psalm 96; Matthew 16, vv 13-23
(AV); Ye watchers and ye holy ones (BBC HB288)
The Crab Tree by BRYAN MACMAHON
Read by Michael Duffy
'The story of how one crab tree managed to act as match-maker to four people.'
Producer JUDITH ELLIOTT BBC Northern Ireland
1: The Story of William Moorcroft
This new series, adapted by JOHN KEAY from his book When Men and Mountains Meet, recounts the extraordinary adventures of six explorers. (Full details Fri 8.30 pm)
Story: Hawkins and the Ducks by RUTH TURRELL
Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
Information, views and advice for the home and family Today JILL 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
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines. Presented by Robin Day
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Skin Deep: our skin is more than just protective covering. susAN GOODMAN finds out about the sense of touch.
Talking Point: opinions and ideas .. ,
In the Steps of Jane Austen : ANNE-MARIE EDWARDS has been showing DEREK JONES the places that inspired the novels.
Three Wise Men: DR ROBERT ANCREW remembers some old friends and their beliefs.
Dr Nina and the Panther (7)
The weekend's listening on Radio 4UK
Live from the House of Commons
Walk on the Lawn by JANE BEESON with and ' You don't come across many happy marriages r .. not now. Nearly always one or the other champs at the bit. One doesn't often find both partners contented.'
When Anthony spends a weekendwithhisold friends Thomas and Carol, he finds himself painfully observing a marriage that has indeed gone sour.
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON (Peter Jeffrey and Ann Bell are National Theatre players)
A Rogue's Life (4)
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5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report and half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world.
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain.
Chairman Robert Robinson 23: Second Round Scotland
MICHAEL KERR, actuary (Edinburgh); MONICA CLOUGH, writer (Perthshire); ROBERT CAIRNS , teacher (Edinburgh); ROSE ARNOLD, teacher (Lanarkshire) including Beat the Brains, in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
Devised by JOHN p. WYNN Questions set by IAN GILLIES and JOAN CLARK Producer RICHARD EDIS
Written by TIM ROSE PRICE (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
3: Dreamers of Dreams Readers Jane Fergus and Tammy Ustinov
Producer GRAHAM GAULD
(Repeated; Sat 11.20 am)
Direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Alfred Brendel (piano) London Symphony Orchestra, led by Irvine Arditti, conducted by Claudio Abbado
Webern Passacaglia, Op 1
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3, in C minor
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
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5, in e minor
The Human Factor
Otto Preminger is filming Graham Greene 's latest novel The Human Factor, on locations in London, Berkhamsted and Nairobi. The screenplay is by Tom Stoppard ; the cast includes Nicol Williamson and Sir John Gielgud.
Russell Davies presents a portrait of a film in the making.
Producer DAVID PERRY
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world.
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questions?
Introduced by David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
The Secret Sharer (4) long wave only
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
