News. weather, papers, sport
6.25 Shipping forecast long nave only
Presenter John Timpson With LIBBY PURVES
6.45- Prayer for the Day THE REV STEPHEN WINWARD
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.30 li News headlines
7.45. Thought for the Day
Sulawesi
From coastal mangrove swamps to the elfin forest of Mount Tambusisi; from wide-eyed tarsiers to letter butterflies - which were only found three months ago and may well be a new species to science - and sail-hacked lizards too.
Stephen Sutton explores the exotic sounds and sensations of an island in the East Indies.
Presenter Derek Jones Producer BRIAN LEITH BBC Bristol
The last of the series in which Ion Trewin presents a series of portraits of the creators of the clubland heroes - heroes who are still often portrayed in the cinema and on television and were the forerunners of James Bond. 5: Leslie Charteris
Producer JOHN KNIGHT
NEM. P 13; My Lord, my life, my love (BBC HB 330); Psalm 66, vv 1-3. 12-17; Acts 10. vv 34-48 (AV); Love of love. and light of light 1 BBC HB 521)
Dragonflight (4)
A dozen cautionary tales from Phil Smith based on his own (usually disastrous) attempts to beat the economic crisis. 5: Wardrobe Worries BBC Manchester
Including Jill Todd and the BBC Shopping Basket. Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
Bernard Bresslaw, David Buck, Mary Malcolm and Ned Sherrin are quizzed on sayings funny and fatuous - from books. journals and walls, or simply overheard.
"If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry." (O. Henry)
Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher
Devised and presented by Nigel Rees
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presented by Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor
Talking Point: opinions and ideas ...
Out of Temptation's Way: HELEN LLOYD looks at the argument for bag parks at the shop door.
Reading Your Letters.
Writers' Haunts: FRANK MORLEY , author of Literary Britain. acts as guide. 1: Along the Thames With Scarlet Majors written and abridged in four parts by DEBORAH MORRIS Read by Suzanne Delaney (1)
From 1942-47 Deborah Morris served in the Women's Auxiliary Corps (India). Those years were also the last of the British Raj, when a whole way of life was about to come to an abrupt end.
(Music: Horovitz's Music-hall Suite)
Story: Dragon Looks for a House by JOY GAMMON
The Snowstorm by ALEXANDRE SERGEVITCH PUSHKIN, dramatised for radio by JANE BEESON with It is Midwinter's Eve of 1S11: Napoleon's army is advancing through Russia. A young soldier and the daughter of a wealthy landowner are furtively planning their marriage - her parents will not give their consent and the secret ceremony is to take place at midnight in a tiny chapel miles from anywhere. But a severe blizzard plays havoc with their arrangements ... with EVE KARPF and JOSIE KIDD
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON
(Postponed from 1 May)
1 Mary Wimbush is a National Theatre player)
A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions? Introduced by David Jacobs
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
by Leslie Gardiner
Read by Robert Trotter
"Wherever Rosanna went the old lady followed. I couldn't even help with the washing-up without Mamma waddling in pursuit, amiably grinning. She planted herself between us, took the wet dishes from me and handed them to Rosanna for drying, making sure our fingers didn't come into contact".
(BBC Scotland)
The news magazine with Gordon Clough and Janet Cohen
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
West of England (Round 2)
(Repeated; Fri 1.40 pm)
Poets in School
We played again the immortal games
(HENRY NEWBOLT)
In the last of seven programmes Michael Flinch considers how poets have written about schooldays. Readers HUGH BURDEN and RICHARD PASCO Producer
SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol
leader BRENDAN O'BRIEN conducted by KENNETH MONTGOMERY
MALCOLM BINNS (piano) Part 1
Ravel Suite: Mother Goose Dohnanyi Variations on a Nursery Song
Tyneside in the second of a series of three programmes.
In 1964. in his book Britain in the 60s - The Other England, GEOFFREY MOORIIOUSE wrote that although Tyneside was the most ' depressed ' of the areas he had visited, nevertheless ' the most determined efforts to start afresh and create a modern England on a massive scale is being made.' A few weeks ago, he made a return visit. Producer PETER ESTALL
Part 2 Franck Symphony in D minor
BBC Bristol
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer ANNE WINDER
Anthony Howard reporting
Staying On (14)
long wave only
Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
