6.25 Shipping forecast (long wave only)
Presented by Libby Purves and Paul Burden
including at:
6.45* Prayer for the Day
The Rev Richard Harries
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by Brian Perkins
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Unload your query on to Neil Landor and let the BBC Reference Library and other experts find the answer for you.
Questions, on a postcard, to: Enquire Within, [address removed]
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jonou'at'eontM
BBC Correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people.
NEM, p 9; Father, who on man dost shower (BBC m 389); Psalm 65; John 12, vv 20-36 (AV); Son of God. eternal Saviour (BBC BB 377)
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Introduced by Wynford Vaughan Thomas
In Oxfordshire at lambing time, Mollie Harris finds good prospects for the protected Cotswold breed, while Eric Simms watches for the birds that herald the spring with Dr Bruce Campbell at Wootton.
In Northumberland and Sussex, Keith Allan and Donald Johnson see the country crafts of saddlery and flint stone-walling still being practised.
In County Fermanagh, John Bennett takes a last look at the landscapes and legends around Lough Erne before the onset of tourist development, and in the military training areas around Aldershot Martin Muncaster talks to the man who repairs the ravages of mock battle.
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The approach of spring is heralded by the cheery song of Britain's commonest bird: the chaffinch.
Introduced by Jim Flegg
BBC Bristol
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presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
12.55 Weather: programme news: (long wave only)
1.55 Shipping forecast (long wave only)
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Introduced from Bristol by Jenni Murray
Education, wot's it all about?: a discussion in which parents and teachers examine their views on education, and assess how important educational standards are to society.
Dan Archer, alias actor Edgar Harrison, talks about life outside The Archers, and his association with this popular programme.
A review of the regional papers with John Howard.
Daphne Hubbard on 'the aftermath of an industrial dispute'.
BBC Bristol
Daughters of the Vicar: 4
(long wave only)
Story: "The Happy Little King's New Jersey" by Moira Heritage
Presenters Gladys Whitred and Tony Aitken
by Bruce Stewart
With Anna Calder-Marshall as Sister Andrea and Megs Jenkins as Mother Lucy
Sister Andrea, working on a research grant, has produced competing evidence that Pope Joan. the one and only female Pope, was not mere legend, but really existed. When Sister Andrea requests ecclesiastical permission to publish her findings, her manuscript is turned down. Determined to fight the decision. she is made to realise there are more serious implications.
(Stereo)
(First broadcast in 1978)
'Villi' Campbell is a Scotsman who lived in the Soviet Union for over 40 years and became a clown in the State Circus. In 1935 he was playing jazz in a small town on the edge of the Gulag Archipelago. There he fell in love with a girl waiting to be transported to one of the Camps and probable death... Should he be ashamed of what he did?
by Pat Burchard
Read by June Barrie
'There, lying on an elegant chaise-longue was Miriam, breast-feeding Amos, reading Proust, and eating a bowl of thick, glutinous, nourishing broth.'
BBC Bristol
The news magazine with Gordon Clough and Joan Bakewell
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including financial Report and half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world
Richard Hudson-Evans brings you stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport.
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days.
(Repeated: Sat 10.45 am)
As General Secretary of the National Council for Civil Liberties, Patricia Hewitt's job is to sound the warning when basic freedoms are in danger. But whose values decide the issues?
Hugh MacPherson inquires into the woman behind the campaigns and the headlines.
Jimmy Reid, Ludovic Kennedy, Claire Rayner and Bernard Dineen tackle the issues raised by the audience in Dalton-in-Furness, Cumbria
Chairman David Jacobs
BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers?, Thursday 4.15, to: Any Answers? [address removed]
Presented by Mark Storey
Peter Paterson reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with Bill Wallis, David Tate,
Sheila Steafel, David Jason 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)
The Siege of Krishnapur (5) long wave only
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
(long wave only)
by Colin Finbow
A series of plays for late-night listening.
In a menage a trois situation, the three protagonists mourn the passing of the 1950s - for rather different reasons.
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
