6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenter John Timpson with Libby Purves
including at 6.45* Prayer for the Day
with Fr Eric Doyle
7.9, 8.0 Today's News
Read by Brian Perkins
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Forecasting the Weather
A peck of March dust is worth a king's ransom.
The weather affects us all but we complain that our systems of weather forecasting are inaccurate. If we could predict, or even control, the weather precisely, could there then be a weather war? Is country lore more reliable than the long-range weather forecast? Hubert Lamb , Professor Emeritus of the University of East Anglia, and Lionel Smith , agricultural meteorologist, are in the studio to answer your questions.
Sue MacGregor is in the Chair
Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Lines open from 8.0 am long wave only
long wave only
Producer ELIZABETH SHEEHY long wave only
NEM, p 46; 0 Love, how deep, how broad, how high (BBC HB 73); Psalm 119. pt 4; John 13, vv 1-11 (AV); Ye servants of the Lord (BBC HB 372)
Wings Over Wales (7) long wave only
long wave only
What Colour is the Sea? by J. C. CALIBURN
TITUS: How's your father - he's a painter, isn't he? Yes Sir, he's all right Sir, he paints the sea, Sir, but he doesn't know what colour it is - he doesn't know anything.
A father copes with the adolescent difficulties of his son Titus.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY long wave only
Diane Harron presents a selection from some of the BBC's local and regional broadcasts.
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham long wave only
Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
Whitby in North Yorks
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presenter Brian Widlakc
by the Labour Party
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
The Sunday Joint ... and the Weekday Treat: JILL BURRIDGE learns about meat. 2. Pork,
Talking Point: opinions and ideas....
Reading Your Letters.
Spirit of Place: (2) France - an anthology of words and music compiled by SHIRLEY DU BOULAY.
Sense and Sensibility (2) long wave only
Story: Patti Evans and the Telephone by C. E. ELLIS
by D. H. Lawrence, freely adapted in six episodes by Roy Spencer
Starring Sarah Badel, Clive Francis, Peter McEnery and Penelope Wilton
with Eleanor Bron
BBC Manchester
(Peter McEnery is a member of the RSC)
Pardon Me, Pretty Baby by MARY CARTWRIGHT
Read by Sheila Mitchell
with Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
A panel game whose unruly members are occasionally kept in disorder by the Chairman Nicholas Parsons and in which
Kenneth Williams Peter Jones
Clement Freud and Derek Nimmo endeavour to prevent each other from talking for just a minute on this - or that.
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer DAVID HATCH
(Just a Minute return* on 2 April)
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
Themes from the 70s. A series of ten programmes 8: Room for Wonder
Some callefl her a goddess and defender of the poor. Others called her a tyrant and dictator. During the dark days of the emergency they talked of Indira's India. For Indians the 70s was the decade of Mrs Gandhi victor in the war with Pakistan, then totally rejected by the 300 million electors of the world's largest democracy in 1977 -now at the end of the decade, Prime Minister again after one of the most extraordinary political comebacks in modern times.
Douglas Stuart reports on India - test case for democracy in the Third World.
Producer DAVID POWELL
Worth Saving Up For
Hannah Wright with suggestions for domestic equipment that is particularly valuable for blind home-makers, and Rosalie Goldson on the problems of blind mothers wanting to take their babies out in the pram.
Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Free quarterly bulletin, summarising information broadcast, available from [address removed]. Send four large saes for a year's supply.
Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
Presented by Jacky Gillott Producer RICHARD DUNN
Douglas Stuart reporting
by C. S. FORESTER adapted for radio by VAL GIELGUD starring Nigel Anthony with Terence Skelton Peter Vaughan and Robert Lindsay
Book 4: Lord Hornblower 2: Plan for Rebellion
Location recordings by DAVID FLEMING-WILLIAMS and CHRISTOPHER HAYTON WEBB Music composed by JOHNNY PEARSON
Directed by TREVOR HILL BBC Manchester
The Siege of Krishnapur (7) long wave only
long wave only
long ware only
Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
