6.25 Shipping forecast long note only
Presenter John Timpson With LIBBY PURVES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.30.8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Let Neil Landor. the BBC Reference Library and other experts find answers to vour queries.
Producer SIMON ELMES
Questions, on a postcard to: Enquire Within, BBC, London WIA 4WW long wave only
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NEM P 102: The star of morn has risen (BBC HB 410); Psalm 147. vv 12-20; John 16. vv 12-22 (AV)'
Christ, whose glory fills the skies (BBC HB 137)
Once Upon an Ice Age
5: Not Marry one's Sister! long wave only
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Here I feel like a newborn baby. I'm going to live a new life, but just now I feel as if 1 am between two societies, between two lives
Sara is 30 and one of
55.000 people who left the Soviet Bloc last year to seek freedom in the West. For most, their country of first asylum is Austria, and their first taste of the new life a state-run refugee camp at Traiskirchen, near Vienna. As they wait for the offer of a permanent home, sometimes crowded 20 to a room, doubts and disappointments creep in. David Henshaw reports from Austria on the growing tide of East European refugees - and the conditions that drive many to risk everything to get across the border. A File on 4 report
Producer MAX EASTERMAN BBC Manchester long wave only
The blackbird - not a very colourful bird but perhaps the most musical of our songsters.
Introduced by Jim Flegg BBC Bristol long wave only
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breekon
12.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only
Presenter Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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Introduced from Wales by Noreen Bray
Welsh Guest: Craig Thomas - teacher turned thriller writer.
Steet-A Change of Life: how the coming redundancies have already affected South Wales.
After the Flood: the waters of the Rhondda have receded; the problems have only begun.
You're not Going to Believe This: tall stories from Pembrokeshire, told by GWYN GRIFFITHS. BBC Wales
Sense and Sensibility (10) long wave only
Story: Tigs and his Pockets by JANET LILLY
Presenters CAROLE BOYD and CARY TAYLOR
Written by MARY HAYDON Producer DAVID BELL
Hush, Hush by JACKY GILLOTT
* Hush, hush, whisper who dares, old Harold Sutcliffe 's not saying his prayers ... I'd rather talk to you. Anyway, there's no one to say prayers to. Pathetic spectacle I'd make talking to myself ... Talk to yourself and they take you away. Well, I'm not going. Not yet. I've things to attend to.'
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
(First broadcast in 1978)
Tommy Steele has just been awarded the Show Business Personality of the Year Award by the Variety Club of Great Britain. This crowns a career from Britain's first rock 'n' roll star through film star, actor, cabaret artist and theatre director. He talks to Sheridan Morley.
Producer JOHN BOUNDY
(Revised repeat) (Tommy Steele is at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London)
The Education of Hank Gober Junior by GENEVIEVE M. MULNZER Read by Peter Dickson Producer JUDITH ELLIOTT BBC Northern Ireland
with Gordon Clough and Janet Cohen
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
Introduced by Richard Hudson-Evans Producer GEOFF DOBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)
with Margaret Howard
Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON (Repeated: Sat 10.45 am)
of Linton Kwesi Johnson The experience of young Blacks in Britain today is given forceful expression in the poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson. The powerful imagery and compelling rhythm of his verse, often read to the backing of a reggae band, speaks of disenchantment and frustration, but also of hope for the future. Janet Cohen investigates the personality of this poet and musician who clings fiercely to his roots among London s Black community.
Producer IAN MILLER
Sir Rov Shaw Elaine Stritch Antony Jay and Derek Jameson tackle the issues raised by the audience in Amcrsham, Bucks.
Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers?, Thursday 4.15 to: Any Answers? BBC, Bristol BSS 2LR
Presented by Mark Storey Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
9.59 Weather
with Alexander MacLeod
with Bill Wallis
David Tate. Sheila Steafel David Jason and THE DAVID FIRMAN TRIO Written by GUT JENKIN , JOHN LANGDON. JEREMY BROWNE , ANDY WILSON , RICHARD QUICK and BRIAN BETHELL
Producer JIMMY MULVILLE (Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm)
The Siege of Krishnapur by .J. G. FARRELL abridged in 15 parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by JONATHAN NEWTH (15). Producer
CHRISTOPHER VENNING long wave only
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by Grant C. Eustace
A series of plays for late-night listening
When Gus, the captain of a Duty Rescue Helicopter spots a vague shape that might be a ship in distress, it looks like he's got another job on his hands. But this was to be far from just another job!
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
