News, weather, papers and sport
Producers
LESLIE COTTINGTON , HERBERT DAYBELL and BRYAN PLATT
9.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
What Britain is getting up to. Two hours of news and views from home and around the world. Presented by John Timpson in Blackpool for the Conservative Party Conference and Libby Purves in London including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV FRANK WRIGHT
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Read by IAN HOLM (7)
An ordinary talk show with some extraordinary people.
Producer un x. GARDHOUSE long wave only
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NEM, p 1; Might and glory, power and wisdom (BBC HB 265); Psalm 63: Wisdom of Solomon 11, v 21 to 12, v 2 (RSV); 0 worship the King (BBC HB 471)
Read by JUNE BARRIE long wave only
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Popular classics on records presented by Richard Baker
Presenters Sue Cook and Andy Price
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presented by Brian Widlake
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with Jill Cochrane
Guest of the Week: Bernard Hepton star of the BBC tv series Secret Army
(Secret Army is currently on BBC1, Saturday evenings)
Mum's Hearing s Read Today: David Hawksworth looks at the way parents participate in schools.
Is There Anybody There?: Tony van den Berg investigates hospital ghosts - ancient and modern.
The Compleat Bachelor by OLIVER ONIONS abridged in six parts by JEAN ANSCOMBE
Read by JOHN RYE (6)
(Music: Lennox Berkeley's Sonatina for violin and piano)
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Story: The Big Help by JOAN WYATT
by John Aldred
[Starring] George Baker
with Lolly Cockerell and Michael McStay
The controversial chairman of a radio phone-in programme tries to use his show to deal with local teenage violence.
Jingles realised by Peter Howell in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
from Exeter Cathedral
Responses (Clucas)
Psalms 53-55 (Stainer, Monk, Barnby, C. L. Naylor)
Canticles (St Paul's Service: Howells)
Readings: Proverbs 24, vv 19-34; Luke 20, vv 9-26
Anthem: Sing we merrily (Sidney Campbell)
BBC Bristol
You Never Know Your Luck by DOUGLAS RAILTON Read by John Westbrook ' Sometimes tourists would visit Herzog's camp and watch him at work. They liked to take photographs of him, this old stringy worn-out man. He wondered what was said when the photographs were shown to friends in London, New York, or Stockholm. He supposed they laughed, but not too unkindly!
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
A panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Antonia Fraser and Denis Norden In the chair
John Julius Norwich
Questions compiled by PETER MOORE
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
A weekly investigation into accusations of unfairness, fraud and injustice. Presented by Roger Cook
' I have seen many men burst into tears and lamentation when mention is made of the young King after his removal from men's sight, and already there was suspicion that he had been done away with. 'Whether he has been done away with and by what manner of death, so far I have not at aU discovered.'
(DOMINIC MANCINI, 1483)
What makes the case of the Princes In the Tower such a fascinating historical detective puzzle which has intrigued scholars for centuries and will continue to do so, is the element of doubt regarding Richard 111's guilt.
Robert Harris tells the story of the disappearance of Edward V and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York, and asks how much faith we can place in the writings of Sir Thomas More , who was the only person to actually describe the alleged murders. with Peter Jeffrey as Sir Thomas More and Edward Kelsey as Dominic Mancini
- Based on the book by ELIZABETH JENKINS
Producer JOHN KNIGHT
Presented by Peter Oppenheimer
Current events, attitudes and opinions, at home and abroad.
Reporter Eric Robson Editor COLIN ADAMS BBC Manchester
Presenter
Waldemar Januszczak Producer DAVID PERRY
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Six contests between teams in London and in New York. Round 4 London: Louis Allen (Chairman) with Irene Thomas John Julius Norwich New York: Anthony Quinton (Chairman) with Brendan Gill, drama critic of the New Yorker and Shana Alexander, journalist and author End of Round 3 score: London (421/2 marks) New York (40 marks) Series producer TREVOR HILL
The Drowned World (13) long wave only
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Edward Cole presents a sequence of music for late-night listening.
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
