6.25 Shipping forecast long wacc only
Presenter John Timpson with LIBBY PURVES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV STEPHEN WINWARD
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.30.8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
An ordinary talk show with some extraordinary people. Including The Week so Far by Russell Davies
Producer IAN GARDHOUSE
Ken Ford invites GEOFFREY SMITH
BILL sowERBUTTS and PROFESSOR ALAN GE.MMEI,L to answer questions which listeners have sent in by post.
BBC Manchester
Questions should be on postcards onlu, please, and addressed to Gardeners' Question Time, BBC Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9PX
nem, p 9; High in the heavens, eternal God (BBC HB 9); Psalm 65; Acts 10. vv 17-32 (AV); Lord of beauty, thine the splendour (BBC HB 327)
Dragonflight (3)
with Richard Baker
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breekon
A panel game, whose unruly members are occasionally kept in disorder by the Chairman Nicholas Parsons and in which
Kenneth Williams Clement Freud Derek Nimmo and Bob Monkhouse endeavour to prevent each other from talking for just a minute on this-or that. Devised by TAN MESSlTER Producer DAVID HATCH
12.55Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presented by Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: Rachel Triekelt , Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford.
Pick of the Paperbacks: chosen by JUNE KNOX-MAWER and EDWARD BLISHEN. The Royal National Rose .Society: JII,L BURRIDGE visits the gardens and rose trial grounds at St Albans.
The End of the Affair by GRAHAM GREENE abridged in ten parts by GABRIEL WOOLP
Read by CHERYL CAMPBELL and GABRIEL WOOLF I 10)
(Music: Herrmanns Clarinet Quintet)
Story: The Travelling Grasshoppers by DOREEN COATES
Audience by VACLAV HAVEL translated and adapted by VERA BLACKWELL with Harold Pinter as Ferdinand Vanek and Peter Vaughan as the Head Maltster
Place: Czechoslovakia. Time: The present. Ferdinand Vanek is a writer, but he works in a brewery. The play takes place in the office of the Head Maltster of the brewery. Vaclav Havel is now himself in detention after the trial of dissidents held in Prague in October 1979. Directed by BERNARD KRICHCFSKI
(First broadcast on R3)
from Coventry Cathedral Introit: Rejoice in the Lord (Paul Wright ) Coventry Responses (Little)
Psalm 148 (Garrett)
Lessons: 2 Chronicles 29, vv 27-30: 1 Peter 1. vv 3-9 Office hymn: Let all the world in every corner sing (A and M Rev 375)
Canticles (Rubbra in A flat)
Anthem: Ye choirs of new Jerusalem Stanford) Director of Music
JAN LITTLE
Organist PAUL WRIGHT BBC Birmingham
Word Power by PETER METCALFI Read by Geoffrey Beevers
' In the warfare of official argument, this was a veritable nuclear device.'
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
A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANI John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the chair Steve Race
Questions compiled by STEVE RACE
Executive producer BOBBY JAYE
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
BBC Birmingham
A weekly investigation into accusations of unfairness, fraud and injustice. Presented by Koger Cook
Derek Robinson chairs the weekly phone-in discussion and invites you to exchange views with guests who directly influence your lives and attitudes. Producer PETER WINDOWS BBC Birmingham
Lines open from 6.30 pm
What Jack May Never Build
The Isle of Grain power station is only one of the big projects in Britain which have run into trouble.
This week Mary Goldring asks how you run a vast construction site. Can clients, contractors and workforce resolve their problems? If not. will the multi-nationals turn their backs on Britain? And what could that mean for the economy?
Producer DAVID MORTOM
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Chris Dunkley Producer CARROLL MOORE
Douglas Stuart reporting
of Religion
David Jason takes the pulpit and solemnly pronounces on the more offbeat aspects of religion. His mission is hampered by Sheila Steafel Malcolm Terris and Jon Glover
Music by DAVE COOKE
Lyrics ALISTAIR BEATON Written by COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH
ANDY HAMILTON , GUY JENKIN RORY MCGRATH , OWEN BREN-MAN and BRIAN BETBELL Producer JIMMY MULVILLE
Staying On (13) long wave only
long wave only
long wave only
Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
