6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenter Brian Redhead 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
(Broadcast Tues 9.15 pm)
(long wave only)
long wave only
BBC Correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people.
Producer PADDY 0
NEM. P 97; Almighty God , thy word is cast (BBC hb 188); Psalm 50; 2 Timothy 3, v 14 to 4 v 5 (AV); 0 word of God incarnate, (BBC HB 191)
The Children of Dynmouth by WILLIAM TREVOR
Read by Johnny Morris (14) long wave only
long wave only
Vastly complex decisions affecting the energy supplies to this country until the end of the century, have to be made now. Energy Secretary David Howell is under great pressure from many lobbies over nuclear power. Should he order Pressure Water Reactors from America, or stick to the British Gas Cooled type? What should be done with the deadly waste which can be fatal for many thousand years? Should we develop nuclear power at all?
Eben Wilson , who covered the windscale Inquiry for BBC Radio Carlisle, and Cumbrian Dr Reginald Lodge , examine the problems from Cumbria, one of the centres of the nuclear industry. Producer TIM PITT BBC Radio Carlisle long wave only
Jim Flegg cocks his ear towards the sound that tells us that summer is approaching - the silvery song of the willow warbler. BBC Bristol
Bird Sounds and Their Meaning, book £4.95, from bookshops
Molly Price-Owen and George Luce
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presenter Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
long wave only
2.2 Woman's Hour Introduced from Northern Ireland by Margaret Percy Studio Guest PanHonLee , born in Singapore, he was ' discovered ' playing a toy violin when a child in the streets of China Town. Leader of the Ulster Orchestra since 1975, he is leaving to become leader of the Halle. Coping with Bereavement: HELEN MADDEN talks to DR ETHNA O'GORMAN and DR LINDY BURTON.
A Novel Business: Publishing in the 70s, like many industries, suffered from rising inflation. SEAN RAFFERTY examines one family company in Northern Ireland which has expanded its output in a time of crisis.
BBC Northern Ireland Never Cry Wolf 13) long wave only
Story: Chick, Chicklet and Chick-a-ling by IVY o. EASTWICK
Presenters NERYS HUGHES and SEAN BARRETT Scripts by VALERIE MCCARTHY
Producer DAVID BELL
Getting Away by PETER WHALLEY
MARGARET: ... you were with Sheila. GERARD: Yes.
MARGARET: Your first wife. And her mother and father.... That poor young man, I remember thinking, with those terrible-in-laws.
GERARD: It doesn't seem like 27 years ago.
Directed by ALARIC COTTER BBC Birmingham
With the help of gramophone records, the English bass Robert Easton looks back over his long career. The programme is introduced by a singer of today, Ian Partridge.
A Trip to Egypt by CARL MACDOUGALL
Read by Finlay Welsh
' One Saturday, like all Saturdays, I went out for a good time, my best time yet. The pub was the same as every other pub: Fairyland. I awakened six hours later in a puddle, in a back court, broke. Booze betrayed me.'
Producer PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
Richard Hudson - Evans brings you stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport. Producer GEOFF DOBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)
with Margaret Howard Producer SIMON ELMES
Lord Hesketh
In the wake of the Hesketh Formula One motor racing team comes the Hesketh motor cycle, a 140 mph Superbike.
Henry Kelly meets the man for whom speed is a way of life.
Producer IAN MILLER
Johnny Morris
Nicholas Scott. MP Nesta Wyn Ellis Jack Straw , mp tackle the issues raised by the audience at Penley, Wrexham, Clwyd.
Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
Iranian hostage rescue attempt, 1980
15 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
How will President Carter's failed attempt to rescue the Americans being held hostage by Iran affect the forthcoming election?
by Alistair Cooke
(Repeated: Sun 9.15 am) Alistair Cooke 's America: hardback £7.50, paperback £5.25, from bookshops
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting music and exhibitions. Presenter Colin Ford Producer ANNE WINDER
9.59 Weather
with Stephen Milligan
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with Bill Wallis David Tate
Sheila Steafcl David Jason and the DAVID FIRMAN TRIO Written by GUY JENKIN , JOHN LANGDON , JEREMY BROWNE , ANDY WILSON , RICH-ARDQUlCK and BRIAN BETHELL Producer JIMMY MULVILLE
The Death of the Heart (10) long leave only
long icave only
i Broadcast Mon 8.45 am)
Weather report, forecast followed by an interlude
