6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presented by John Timpson
With LIBBY PURVES
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV VERNON SPROXTON
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by JOHN MARSH
7 M 8.30 News headlines 7i45* Thought for the Day
Read by NIALL TOIBIN (9)
with regulars Anthsny Clare. Moyra Bremner and Russell Davles. taking a look at the week so far, and talking to some of the people who have made the news.
Songs from SANDRA KING Producer SALLY THOMPSON
nem, P 34; Jesus. where'er thy people meet BBC HB
263); Psalm 57; Matthew 26, v 69 to 27, v 5 (AV); Lord of all hopefulness (BBC HB 309)
A Family occasion by STELLA MAHON
Read by Catherine Gibson A Sunday in March 1945, in East Belfast ... the pains had been going on all night, so the district midwife was sent for .. at twenty past eleven, the baby was held upside down by its heels and smacked by a rough red hand... the bell of the church at the end of the street had just begun to ring for morning prayer
,thewomancried with relief.'
Producer JUDITH ELLIOTT BBC Northern Ireland
A variety show specially recorded in Edinburgh, featuring the best of comedy and music and a few oddities from the Fringe of this years Festival.
Producers GEOFFREY PERKINS and GRIFF RHYS JONES
Story: Fraidv Mouse by ANNE WELLINGTON
Including JILL TODD and the BBC Shopping Basket. Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presented by Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Talking Point: opinions and ideas.
Sir Fred. . . Wise Old Owl!: TONY BARNFIELD talks to SIR FREDERICK ASHTON, Britain's premier choreographer, as he approaches his 75th birthday.
Reading Your Letters.
European Partners: ANNE HOWELLS joins the Morriston Orpheus Male Choir on their visit to Ferrara, their twin town in Northern Italy. Sabrina (13)
The weekend's listening on Radio 4UK
In the sixth of his discoveries of places and their writers, Tom Vernon goes to Edinburgh, 'Athens of the North' but also the home of stories of adventure, and meets David Datches and Ludovic Kennedy among others.
(Repeat)
The Island
A comedy by JAMES SAUNDERS
The male of the species having apparently been wiped out, a group of women live undisturbed on a luscious, sun-drenched island. Their existence is almost tediously idyllic until two men are washed up on the shore.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY
Lucia's Progress (9)
with Susannah Simons and John Sergeant
5.5d Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Finanelal Report
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pin) Written by TESSA DIAMOND
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
9: Manners Makyth Man Readers Prunella Scales and Martin Starkie
Producer GRAHAM GAULD
A sequence of dramatisations by BILL MORRISON of four Philip Marlowe novels 1939-1949
4: The Little Sister (1949)
The background Is Hollywood, where everybody gives a performance and nothing is as it seems. Orrin Quest is missing and his little sister asks Marlowe to find him. But all our hero finds - is corpses.
Musical research ADRIAN EDWARDS
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN
An anthology of views on how the older generation behave, as expressed by their grandchildren. Presented by Marilyn Alan
Producer THENA HESHEL
Spy Master
1 To be a very good entertainer you must really appeal to the intellectual and artistic senses, the moral senses as well; to engage a reader thoroughly is probably to be profound in some way, assuming you've got the right reader! '
John le Carre talks about the writing and philosophy of his spy novels and the television adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, which stars Sir Alec Guinness as George Smiley, the spy ' who travels without labels in the guard's van of the social express'. Presenter
Paul Vaughan Producer
CHRIS SWANN
9.59 Weather
Alexander MacLeod reporting
In a series of six programmes Dr Anthony Clare gives his personal assessment of the present state of psychotherapy in its many forms. 6: Does It Workt
Producer SALLY THOMPSON
Fritz Splegl keeps a keen eye and ear on what's written and said.
BBC Manchester
The Painter of Signs (4) long wave only
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Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was born in 1678, but it was not until this century that the full range of over 700 compositions was discovered.
Michael Oliver discusses the composer-priest with his new biographers and a leading exponent of his work. Vittorio Negri , who conducted the first recording of Vivaldi's opera Tito Manlio.
A Kaleidoscope production by CHRIS SWANN
Weather report; forecast followed by an Interlude
