Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 281,494 playable programmes from the BBC

Presenters Brian Redhead and JOHN TIMPSON
6.45.* Prayer for the Day With FR MICHAEL HOLLINGS
7.0, 8.0 « Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.30 8.30 News headlines
7.45. Thought fur the Day

Contributors

Presenters:
Brian Redhead
Presenters:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Fr Michael Hollings
Read By:
Pauline Bushnell

Plays from the series "Just Before Midnight"

"Filling"
by Lee Torrance
with Bernard Gallagher and Lolly Cockerell
Having the dentist poke around your gums is pretty shiver-making. When he's drilling your tooth and rowing with his wife. all you can do is groan and sweat and listen....
(Repeat)

"Loving Room"
by Connie Bensley
[Starring] Sheila Hancock as Meggie, Tim Pigott-Smith as David
'You're shy, aren't you Meggie? I can tell from the way you keep edging me away from the bedroom door.'
'I'm so out of practice, that's what it is really.'
The situation is not helped by tearful neighbours and a quest for owls.
(Rpt)

12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only

Contributors

Writer (Filling):
Lee Torrance
Director (Filling):
Peter King
Robert:
Bernard Gallagher
Helen:
Lolly Cockerell
Receptionist:
Liza Flanagan
Patient:
Leonard Fenton
Writer (Loving Room):
Connie Bensley
Director (Loving Room):
Alec Reid
Meggie:
Sheila Hancock
David:
Tim Pigott-Smith
Graham:
Tammy Ustinov
Graham's father:
Philip Voss
Kate:
Lolly Cockerell
Jock:
Tom Cotcher

with Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: Daley Thompson, Britain's decathlon superstar.
Saving in the High Street (I): At your Post Office.
Bangkok - ' Venice of the East? ': ANNE CATCHPOLI samples the life of Thailand's capital. Stepsons (3)
long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Daley Thompson
Unknown:
Anne Catchpoli

by John Pilkington

Alan takes Ruth down to the country to visit his parents for the weekend.

Ruth: Do they know we're living together?
Alan: Of course they know.
Ruth: Well, that's one hurdle out of the way.

But there are more hurdles than they expect.

Contributors

Writer:
John Pilkington
Director:
Penny Leicester
Ruth:
Auriol Smith
Alan:
David Timson
Deirdre:
Irene Sutcliffe
Bill:
John Bott

for Ash Wednesday, from the Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge
Preces and Responses (Tomkins)
The Miserere: Psalm 51 (Allegri)
First Lesson: Daniel 9, vv 3-10, 15-19
Canticles <E. W. Naylor in A)
Second Lesson; Hebrews 3, vv 12-19 and 4, v 13
Anthem: Hear my prayer (Purcell)
Acting organist PETER HURFORD
Organ student IAN SHAW

Contributors

Unknown:
E. W. Naylor
Organist:
Peter Hurford

A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SURYANE John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden
In the Chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE. Executive producer BOBBY JAYE
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward J. Mason
Unknown:
Tony Suryane
Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Ian Wallace
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Producer:
Bobby Jaye

in Los Angeles ' It's a town like any other town, filled with walking people, filled with the arts, filled with glamour and degradation. It has everything. It is in most ways America in microcosm, but more it is the cutting edge of America. What happens here happens five years before anywhere else in America. We send the style to the rest of the country.'
(HARLAN ELLISON) with the voices of: DR PAUL ABRAMSON , RAY BARNETT , COMMANDER WILLIAM BOOTH, GYPSY BOOTS, TVONNE BRAITHWAITE BURKE. OTIS CHANDLER , ALISTAIR COOKE , GORDON DAVIDSON , IVOR DAVIS , SALLY DAVIS , HARLAN ELLISON, COUNCIL-MAN ROBERT FARRELL , CON-GRESSMAN BARRY GOLD-
WATER JR, JOHN HOUSEMAN , CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD , MICHAEL JACKSON , LIEUT VICTOR LEEMAN , JIM LOPER , ART SEIDENBAUM, JACK SMITH , BRYANT STERLING, DR CHARLES YOUNG, and the people of Los Angeles. Reporters TONY BARNFIELD ,
LOUISE FARR , BARBRA PAS-KIN, GILL PYRAH
Technical assistance
BASIL NEWMAN. Producer
DAVID RAYVERN ALLEN

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Paul Abramson
Unknown:
Ray Barnett
Unknown:
Tvonne Braithwaite Burke.
Unknown:
Otis Chandler
Unknown:
Alistair Cooke
Unknown:
Gordon Davidson
Unknown:
Ivor Davis
Unknown:
Sally Davis
Unknown:
Robert Farrell
Unknown:
Gressman Barry
Unknown:
John Houseman
Unknown:
Christopher Isherwood
Unknown:
Michael Jackson
Unknown:
Victor Leeman
Unknown:
Jim Loper
Unknown:
Jack Smith
Reporters:
Tony Barnfield
Unknown:
Louise Farr
Unknown:
Basil Newman.
Unknown:
David Rayvern Allen

The South Africans
I The Springtime of Mr Botha
The wind of change has taken a long time to reach South Africa. Mary Goldring reports on its effect upon blacks, who think it has arrived too late, and whites, who are learning to come to terms with it. What the social changes, the upsets, and the new factor of soaring gold prices are doing to their lives, aspirations and jobs is the subject of the first of two programmes.
Producer TOM READ
(Repeated: Thurs 11.5 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Mr Botha
Unknown:
Mary Goldring

A nine-part series, in which Jeremy Siepmann follows the changing fortunes of the orchestra and the society whose tastes it has always mirrored.
2: Private Privilege and Public Pleasures
This week, in a sea of revolutionary fervour, the orchestra is found released from courtly bondage and thrown on the mercies of a new master - The Public.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeremy Siepmann
Producer:
Arthur Johnson

BBC Radio 4 FM

About BBC Radio 4

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Appears in

About this data

This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More