6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Libby Purves and HUGH SYKES
6.45 Prayer for the Day With SISTER MARTINA
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45 Thought for the Day
by DAVID GARNETT (4)
On a good day, a string quartet in the South of France can earn up to £40 an hour ...
I always leave my fur coat off when we play in Leicester Square, it doesn't do to dress too well ...
We expect to be fined at least once a week.
Richard Stllgoe meets musicians whose pitches range from Bond Street Tube Station to the South of France ... and the various authorities who want to ban them, encourage them. license or arrest them. Producer
NICK HUGHES (Rev repeat)
Tom Vernon in France Part the Fourth (of 6): Working Glass and Upper Class. How Our Hero Tasted Wine from Every Conceivable Side of the Hill; His Admiration for Glass-Blowers; His Meeting with an Aristocrat who had Escaped the Revolution but not the Coach Parties; An English Garden; and How He Arrived at a Town Built Upon Water.
Producer JOY HATWOOD
NEM, p 21; The Holly and the Ivy (OBS 38); Psalm 1; John 1, vv 40-51 (AV); God from on high hath heard (BBC HB 49)
7: Dark Days
1: A Child of the ChapelHarry Soan has been telling stories all his life.
In this six-part series, he tells his own story . . . and begins, not unnaturally, with his childhood. BBC Birmingham
(First broadcast in 1977)
Including JILL TODD and the BBC Shopping Basket. Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
Thirteen programmes featuring stories of crime and detection in London.
Written by Robert Barr
with Ray Brooks as Detective-Sergeant Brook, Christopher Blake as Detective-Constable Maxton.
(12:55 Weather and programme news - long wave only)
Presented by Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor
Reach: RICHARD VAUGHAN finds out about the Retired Executives Action Clearing House.
A Fair Selection: CLAtRE EDWARDS with her choice of newly published magazines.
Talking Point.
Dear Editor . . . . . PAT ROWE collects some letters for publication.
Children in the House (6)
Story: Timothy's Bed by CHRISTINE CHAUNDLER
Down to Earth by AILEEN LA TOURETTE
Maureen O'Brien as Mary Kate Binchy as Maureen When she was a little girl, Mary had a vision of the Virgin Mary - nobody else believed in it. Perhaps it was a dream but what follows in her adult life is more of a nightmare.
Hymns sung by pupils of the MARIA FIDELIS CONVENT school, London
Directed by JANE MORGAN (Maureen O'Brien won last year's Society of Authors PYE Radio Award for the best radio performance by an actress)
with David Jacobs
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
The Dog by STEPHEN SYLVESTER
Read by Kathleen Helme Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
with Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
Strong Poison by DOROTHY L. SAYERS. adapted in six parts by CHRIS MILLER starring with and 4: Miss Murchison Producer
SIMON BRETT
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm)
The Voyage Out
John Mole introduces the first of six selections of poems which take us a little further out each week.
1: Homes Readers
Frances Horovitz and John Franklyn-Robbins Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Sat at 4.30)
Leader Jose-Luis Garcia, conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras
Jacqueline du Pre (narrator)
Clifford Benson and Frank Wibaut (pianos)
Part 1
Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture, Nocturne and Scherzo
Saint-Saens The Carnival of the Animals
the art and artifice of making oneself understood. The fourth of five programmes
4: Losing Something in Translation
Producer SIMON ELMES
Part 2
Bach Overture to Cantata No 174
Arensky Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky Mozart Three German Dances (K 605), including The Sleigh-ride
When the 1930s Depression in New Zealand left Fred Miller out of work, he panned for gold in a Central Otago river, while his wife Ngaire, brought up their two-year-old son in a cave.
Presented by Don Mosey BBC Manchester
Presented by Paul Vaughan
Producer CLARE SELERIE
9.59 Weather
Anthony Howard presents this hour-long edition
Lord of the Flies (3) long wave only
long wave only
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Weather report: forecast followed by an interlude
