6.25 Shipping forecast lone wave onlu
Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV VERNON SPROXTON
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Bead by NIALL TOIBIN (8)
KEN FORD invites FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBOTTS and PROFESSOR ALAN GEM-MELL to anBwer questions which listeners have sent in by post
Questions should be on postcards. only and addressed to Gardeners'
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BBC Manchester
Who's Afraid of Microchips? . ,
Under the auspices of the Southern Science and Technology Forum, industrialists, scientists. teachers, trades unionists and others are this week debating the ways in which new technology may affect the education and employment of the next generation. A report from Southampton University on the last day of the conference.
Borne by the Sea
Every 12 hours or so the relentless tide delivers on to our beaches another batch of biological flotsam which helps to tell the life story of many of the creatures that live beneath the waves.
A Radio Nature Trail with John Barrett looking for clues on the tide line. Introduced by Derek Jones
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
NEM, p 30; 0 Saviour, where shall guilty man (BBC HB 87); Canticle 5; Matthew 26, W 57-68 (AV); When I survey <BBC HB 97)
By a Frozen River
The third of three stories by NORMAN LEVINE
Read by Jon Glover
Story: Woof's Worst Day by PATRICIA CLEVELAND-PECK
Presenters Sue Cook and George Lace
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presented by Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Bette Davis , one of the Hollywood ' greats '.
(Bette Davis is to The Movie Crazy Years-a nostalgic look at Hollywood in the 30s, tonight on BBC2 at 7.5 pm)
Play the Game: a beginners' guide to sport. TodayRICHARDVAUGHANis exhausting himself on the squash court.
A Teenage Pick of the Paperbacks: chosen by STEPHANIE CALMAN and RICHARD HAYES , and conducted by CHRISTOPHER WENNER.
Sabrina (12)
Honey Life (Medeni Zivot) by VOJISLAV DONIC translated by DASA DRNDIC The original Yugoslavian production was submitted to the Prix Italia in 1978. A young girl and boy play in a garden; their innocent games evoke the adult world on which the games themselves are based, and through the children's natural innocence the adult values are gently mocked. The Girl's Family: The Boy's Family:
Music composed by MILO-RAD KUZMANOVIC and played by the BEOGRAD RADIO-TELEVIS MUSIC ENSEMBLE
Technical assistance by MARJAN RADOJCIC (Radio-Beograd) and PETER BELHAM (BBC)
Directed by DARKO TATIC for Radio-Beograd and MICHAEL ROLFE for the BBC
A BBC Birmingham production in collaboration with Radio-Televis Beograd)
from St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin
Introit: If ye love me (Stewart)
Responses (St Patrick's
Use)
Psalms 65, « and 67 (Chants: Maclagan, Thalben-Ball, Selby)
Office Hymn: No, not despairingly (Stewart)
Canticles: St Patrick's Service (Greig)
Lessons: Zechariah 7, vv 8-12; Luke 12, vv 32-40
Anthem: How dazzling fair (Wood)
Organist and Master of the Choristers JOHN DEXTER
Assistant organist STEPHEN BARBER
Organ scholar DAVID ADAMS BBC Northern Ireland
Lucia's Progress (8)
with Susannah Simons and John Sergeant
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.51 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
Presented by Patrick Fyffe and George Logan
With ROT BARRACLOUGH Written by MIKE CRAIG LAWRIE KINSLEY and RON MCDONNELL
Producer JAMES CASEY BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
A weekly investigation into accusations of unfairness, fraud and injustice.
Presented by Roger Cook
Margaret Price made her reputation as a leading recitalist and for her singing and interpretation of the great Mozartian operatic roles. In this programme, recorded at her home in Paris, she recalls the influences on her career and talks about her life as an international singer.
Producer TELERI BEVAN BBC Wales
Presenter Jackj Gillott Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
9.59 Weather
Alexander MacLeod reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
A series of six programmes in which Tony Bilbow takes a look at some favourite stereotypes and asks ' But what's it really like?'.
6: Men in Space
' You have to find locations ... Now you find yourself an alien planet-that isn't a sand-pit - somewhere within a 20-mile radius of London. It difficult.'
(CHRIS BOUCHER ,
Script editor, Blake's 7)
Producer PETER EVERETT
BBC Manchester
Phil Smith takes a whimsical look at life.
BBC Manchester
The Painter of Signs (3) 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
