6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Libby Purves and Hugh Sykes
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
by DAVID GARNETT abridged in five parts by MADGE HART. Read by MICHAEL HORDERN (5)
Producer MAURICE LEITCH
(First broadcast as 'A Book at Bedtime' last Easter)
Unload your query on to Neil Landor. Producer
BARBARA CROWTHER
Questions, on a postcard, to: Enquire Within, BBC, London WIA 4WW
NEM, p 46; Quem pastores laudavere (Carols for Choirs 2: 36); Psalm 32; John 2, vv 1-11 (AV); It came upon (BBC HB 52)
by LOUISA M. ALCOTT abridged in nine parts by CHRISTINE MEEK
Read by ANNA MASSEY 8: Confessions
Producer MARILYN IRELAND BBC Scotland
James Cameron looks at the sporting and dramatic side of Victorian life as seen and reported by staff of The Sporting Times with Harold Kasket
Fraser Kerr , Harry Landis and illustrated by contemporary songs sung by DORCAS JONES , PETER REEVES. CHARLES WEST and CHARLES YOUNG and his SINGERS AND MUSICIANS
The Sporting Times (or The Pink 'Un as it came to be known) was the raciest weekly paper of its day. To be seen reading it was a sign of real 'worldtiness'. It sent catchphrases winging through London; it enriched the Oxford Dictionary with entirely new words; it ' invented cricket's famous Ashes. With its salty gossip column and its abiding interest in the music-hall, wining, dining, and the Turf, it caught the very tang and tenor of the Naughty 90s and the brief Edwardian summer.
Written by GERALD FROW Producer JOHN DYAS
(Charles West is In ' Annie ' at the Victoria Palace Theatre, London)
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over ...
Those are the poet Browning's words on the song-thrush. Now, ornithologist Jim Flegg adds his thoughts. BBC Bristol
Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
Editor DAVID HARDING
12.55Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presenter Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced from Manchester by Marjorie Lofthouse
Tips for Tap: PETER SHARRATT dons his dancing shoes to join a tap class for grown-ups.
Cold Comfort Farm: GEORGE BAYLEY discovers the rigours of winter hill-farming.
From Blue Peter' to Panto: NATALIE ANGLESEY talks to guest. Peter Purves about his career, BBC Manchester
(Peter Purves is in ' Cinderella ' at the Rex Theatre, Wilmslow)
Children in the House by NAN FAIRBROTHER abridged in seven parts by SALLY SKRIMSHIRE
Read by JILL BALCON (7)
(Music: Beach's Piano Quintet)
Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: The Happy Little King has a Problem by MOIRA HERITAGE Presenters
ALISON MCMORLAND and SAM KELLY Written by ALISON MCMORLAND
Producer MARY HAYDON
Fond Memories by CAROLYN SALLY JONES with Ray Smith as Lewis Vaughan
Mr and Mrs Vaughan , now in their 60s, make an annual pilgrimage, with their daughter and son-in-law, to the same seaside resort where, many years before, they spent their honeymoon.
GRETA: Oh, it gets lonely sometimes, feeling you're the only one - the only one that remembers. I'd have thought we'd have had some memories the same.
Directed by MICHAEL ROLFE BBC Birmingham
Compiled and narrated by Michael Ffinch
Reader Colin Baker
The sages have a hundred maps to give
That trace their crawling cosmos like a tree.
They rattle reason out through many a sieve.
That stores the sand and lets the gold go free:
And all these things are less than dust to me
Because my name is Lazarus and I live.
BBC Bristol
We Apologise for the Delay by JENNY OLDFIELD
Read by Richard Leech
' Amidst the crush of early commuters, streaming from all directions towards the ticket queues. the old man made his steady way towards the timetable board, evidently in no hurry to catch a train.'
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
with Gordon Clough and Robert Williams Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
Richard Hudson-Evans looks into the transport crystal ball with John Arnott-Brown Martin Page
Peter Oppenheimer and Brian Robins
Producer GEOFF DOBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm) Written by HELEN LEAD-BEATER and ALAN BOWER Cast for the fortnight:
BBC Birmingham
with Margaret Howard Producer JOHN KNIGHT
(Repeated: Sat 10.45 am)
Dorothy Tutin. who played the part of Viola in Peter Hall 's production at Stratford in 1958, presents a personal view of Twelfth Night, to be seen this Sunday on BBC2.
Producer ALAN WILDING
(Dorothy Tutin is a National Theatre player)
Alan Fisher
Lord Mancroft Anthony Rosen and Patricia Hayes tackle the issues raised by the audience in Wring-ton, Bristol.
Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)
Presenter Chris Powling Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN.
9.59 Weather
Stephen Milligan reporting
with Bill Wallis
David Tatc , Sheila Steafel Chris Emmett and THE DAVID FIRMAN TRIO Written by GUY JENKIN , JOHN LANGDON , JEREMY BROWNE , ANDY WILSON , RICHARD QUICK and BRIAN BETHELL
Producer JIMMY MULVILLE (Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm)
Lord of the Flies (4) long wave only
long wave only
A talk by Dr Patrick Nuttgens
'The fascination of this country's heritage lies not just in the well-known buildings, parks and stately homes - it's everywhere.'
Conversations Prior to Kick-off by PETER WHALLEY Mr Dugdale has sat next to Mr Huntley at a football match every alternate Saturday for years and they've always agreed about the game. He seems a natural person to turn to for advice.
Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
