6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Brian Redhead in Blackpool for the Trades Union Congress and John Timpson in London
6.45* Prayer for the Day With PEGGY MAKINS
7.1, 8.0Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Read by NIALL TOIBIN (3)
visits Birmingham where members of the Harborne and Quinton Garden Association put questions to FRED LOADS BILL SOWERBUTTS and PROFESSOR
ALAN GEMMELL
Qucstionmaster KEN FORD. BBC Manchester
Mutual Aid
Intrigued by the recent opening of a do-it-yourself car maintenance project. at Milton Keynes , Richard Carrington has been investigating other ways of connecting professionals and amateurs to promote communal self-help.
Talking Point
Discussing listeners' queries and comments about wildlife and the countryside.
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer BRIAN LEITH BBC Bristot
Questions to: Talking Point, The Living World, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
NEM. p 5: 0 come, let us sing to the Lord (BBC HB 465); Psalm 47; Matthew 25. v 31 to 26, v 2 (av); Rejoice today with one accord (BBC HB 281)
Knight of the Papal Order of the Golden Spur by MAGGIE ROSS
Read by Gerald Cross
' It was no use questioning him directly about his past. " I've always been a gambler," he would say. " And now I'm a tired old man ..." But not too tired for a glass of Madeira and a few oysters taken beside a cheerful fire.'
Story: One Little, Two Little by Diana Ross
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presented by Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MaeGregor
Guest of the Week:
Dr Robert Burchfield , CBE, Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.
On the Wing: TONY DURHAM explores the mysteries of night.
Reading Your Letters.
Classroom in the Home: JILL COCHRANE talks to parents who are educating their children themselves. Sabrina (7)
Another Gaff, Another
Night by GLENN CHANDLER with and Here today, gone tomorrow, lights, music, easy money, easy girls: to Jimmy, the life of a fairground ' gaff lad ' looks exciting. But it's a harsh world for a boy straight from home.
Directed by PENNY GOLD
from St Bride's Church, Fleet Street, London
Introit: We wait for thy loving kindness (McKie) Responses (Radcliffe)
Psalms: 27, 28, 29 (Ash-ton, Turle, Langston, How) First Lesson: Zeehariah 3 Canticles (Darke in F)
Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 3, vv 1-9
Anthem: Hail, gladdening light (Wood)
Organist and Director of Music ROBERT LANGSTON Organ scholar TIMOTHY COLLINS
Lucia's Progress (3)
Presented by Gavin Scott and Susannah Simons
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
Presented by Patrick Fyffe and George Logan
With DAPHNE HEARD, ROSALIE Williams and DAVID MAHLOWE Written by MIKE CRAIG LAWRIE KINSLEY and RON MCDONNELL
Producer JAMES CASET BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Thurs 1.46 pm)
A weekly investigation into accusations of unfairness, fraud and injustice.
Presented by Roger Cook
A story of the Canal Age by ANTHONY BURTON with original music by ALAN BRIDGER
' Gongoozler - an idle and inquisitive person who stands staring for prolonged periods at anything out of the common.'
(H. R. DE SALIS,
A Handbook of Inland
Navigation (1901)
... and there were some extraordinary sights to see - canals, aqueducts, flights of locks, reservoirs, long tunnels and splendid bridges. Come and gongoozle at the celebrations for the opening of the Harecastle Tunnel on the Grand Trunk Canal in 1827. The actors:
ERIC ALLAN , PATRICIA GALLI-MORE , KENNETH HADLEY ,
ROGER HUME , RALPH LAWTON , TERRY MOLLOY. HEDLI NIK-LAUS , DANNY SCHILLER
The singers and musicians: BUFFY DAVIS , DAVID BRETT , ALAN BRIDGER , MIKE LUCAS , CARMEN LYNN , DANNY SCHILLER . MARK STEEVES , BEN VAN WEEDS
Producer VANESSA WHITBURN BBC Birmingham
Presenter Paul Vauzhan Producer CARROLL MOORE
9.59 Weather
Presenter
Alexander MacLeod with reports from the Trades Union Congress in Blackpool by PETER PATTERSON
A series of six programmes in which Tony Bilbow takes a look at some favourite stereotypes and asks but what's it really like?
5: The Tycoon
' If you were to look closely into the background of any man who had made over a million pounds. there would be things they wish to hide. It's almost impossible to survive in that jungle and be absolutely straight.'
(JEFFREY ARCHER , writer and ex-financier)
Producer PETER EVERETT
BBC Manchester
Phil Smith takes a whimsical look at life.
BBC Manchester
Some Do Not (13) long wave only
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends long wave only
Edward Cole presents a sequence of music for late-night listening.
Weather report: forecast followed by an interlude
