Presented from Wales by JOHN GLYN-JONES BBC Wales
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenter John Timpson with LIBBY PURVES
6.45* Prayer for the Day With THE REV R. T. BROOKS
7.0, 8.0 Today's News ReadbyColindoran
7.30, 8.0 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
with Christopher Slade
in the BBC Sound Archives
Producer PETER ESTALL long wave only from 9.35
Carolyn Hardy, Chairman, talks about gardens opened this year in aid of district nurses' benefit funds, and other charitable causes.
Booklet: Gardens of England and Wales, 50p from bookstalls, or 75p from [address removed]
(long wave only)
long wave only
long wave only
NEM. p 110; Help us to help each other. Lord (BBC RB 378); Psalm 138; John 17, vv 1-13 (AV); Love, unto thine own who earnest (BBC HB 523)
Once Upon an Ice Age
6: The Joys of Exogamy long wave only
long wave only
If something is Impossible - it cannot be a fact. Or can it?
Dr Lawrence Le Shan talks to Jocelyn Ryder-Smith about Is scientific approach to a new view of reality.
BBC Birmingham
(long wave only)
poetry requested, by Radio 4 listeners. Presented by t. J. Kavanagh
Readers Hugh Burden and Frances Horovitz Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
Requests to: . Poetry
Please!. BBC, Bristol BS8 1LR: long wave only
News, views and advice for consumers, including World of Work with ideas oncareersandtraining.
Presenters Molly Price-. Owen and George Luce Editor DAVID HARDING
HELP! page 15
ChairmanRobertRoblnson 7: Midlands (1)
Anthony Richmond (Schoolmaster) Charles Ludlow
(Photographic interpreter) Anne Lakin
(Record storekeeper) John Robinson
(Retired bookseller)
Including Beat the maim
Programme devised by JOHN r. WYNN. Questions
' set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30 pm)
12.55Weather; programme, news: long wave only
Presenter Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
long wave only
Introduced by Jennl Mills Make it Your Business: can a hobby, or a dream, become a successful small business? RON ALLDRIDGE reports.
Talking Point: opinions and ideas ...
On Holiday in Britain (4): JILL COCHRANE takes a break in Essex and Suffolk.
Sense and Sensibility (11) Editor WYN KNOWLES long wave only
Story: Spring by ARNOLD LOBEL
Go Down in Darkness by ROD BEACHAM
Sylvester by JOHN UNSWORTH
Read by Gavin Campbell Producer FRANCES DONNELLY
The news magazine with Gordon Clodeh . and Joan Bakewell Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Shipping forecast . long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report andhalfanhourofreports from BBC Newsmen around the world
Frank Muir and Alfred Marks investigate the humour of the subject.
'To learn English you must begin by thrusting the jaw forward, almost clenching the teeth, and practically immobilising the lips'
(Jose Ortego y Oasset)
with the voices of Tony Hancock, John Bird and John Fortune, Woody Allen, Joyce Grenfell, Dick Bentley and June Whitfield and Victor Borge
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
Presented by Karl Sabbagh
What is happening in science? A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories.
The author of The Shadow of a Gunman was born in the Dublin slums a hundred years ago and died In Torquay in 1964. Another Irish playwright, Hugh Leonard, talks about Sean O'Casey's explosive impact on the Irish theatre of his time.
by Sean O'Casey
'A gunman on the run! Be careful, be careful Donal Davoren. But Minnie is attracted to the idea, and I am attracted to Minnie. And what danger can there be in being the shadow of a gunman?'
Sean O'Casey was born on 30 March 1880 and to mark the centenary Radio 4 is broadcasting this new production of his first performed play.
BBC Northern Ireland
(Repeated: Sun 2.30-pm)
Phil Smith explores the relationship between the Pennine landscape and the people in it.
The sporting gentry of Wensleydale and Nidderdale.
BBC Manchester
A nightly review of books, films, plays and broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presented by Paul Vaughan
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world. Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
by Kingsley Amis, adapted in 15 episodes by Angela Thomas
Read by Victor Spinetti
'"Can I help you?" she asked. I tried, successfully I think, to suggest how very unlikely this was... She looked up at me with wide dark eyes and checked whatever she'd been going to say. Her frown lifted. "Yes, I should think you probably can".'
BBC Wales
(long wave only)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends: long wave only
long wave only
Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
