6.85 Shipping forecast long wave only
presenters Libby Purvcs and Paul Burden
6 45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.1, 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.30 8.30 News headlines
7.45. Thought for the Day
8.59 Continental Travel Information
Producer PADDY 0 KEEFFE (Nextedn: Tues morning)
NEM, p 17; 0 Jesu so meek. 0 Jesu so kind (BBC HB 529); Canticle 3: Acts 11, VV 1-18 (av); 0 happy band of pilgrims (BBC HB 335)
Dragonflighl (5)
A personal account of a journey to the source of the Ganges, written and presented by Charles Allen
For 430 million Hindus, the River Ganges is an object of worship and pilgrimage. In April this year. CHARLES ALLEN became the first Westerner for many years to make the difficult journey to its source, deep in the Himalayas. Producer
SALLY THOMPSON
In the last programme of this series Jim Flegg cocks his ear towards the drumming and yaffie noises of the woodpeckers. BBC Bristol
Book: Bird Sounds and Their Meaning, 14.95, from bookshops
News. views and advice for consumers
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Brecken
12.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only
Presented by Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced from Manchester by Marjorie Lofthouse
Actor Bernard Cribbins talks about his varied career in films, television, theatre, radio and advertising.
A Day at the Fair; no roundabouts here, but plenty of junketing at one of the major events in the gypsy calendar. Phil Smith reports from the Appleby Horse Fair.
High Street Literacy: the adult literacy campaign is becoming even more accessible as Sue Margolis discovered when she went to a reading shop in Leeds.
BBC Manchester
With Scarlet Majors (2)
Story: The Sister, the Brother and the Baby by RACHAEL BIRLEY. Presenters ALISON MCMORLAND and cnRiSTOPHER SAUL
Written and produced by DAVID BELL
by Elaine Feinstein
Marika, a political refugee from Czechoslovakia, is living in a Cambridge suburb. The musical boxes, chiming clocks and stories of another world make a striking contrast to a council estate in the Fens. To a 12-year-old boy, she is both frightening and fascinating and a strange friendship begins.
The story of Harry Frasson Brian Haines and Peter Cotes tell the extraordinary tale of the Music-Hall star who was equally popular in England and France and whose ' lady friend ' was the cause of his tragic death as the result of a crime of passion. Producer BRIAN COOK
Special Day by EDITH SPENCER
Read by Marlcue Sidaway Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
with Gordon Clough and Janet Cohen
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only i.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
with Richard Hudson-Evans
With the school holidays just around the corner. Going Places examines the pitfalls of travelling to the Continent, including how to cope with breakdowns, the mysteries of foreign rail timetables, and airport delays.
With the usual round-up of up-to-the-minute Continental Travel Information Producer DEBORAH CHRISTIE Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days.
Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON (Rptd: tomorrow 10.45 am)
A personal portrait
Lord Thorneycroft, The Rt Hon Denis Healey, MP, Dame Josephine Barnes and Sir Ieuan Maddock tackle the issues raised by the audience in Luton, Bedfordshire. Chairman David Jacobs
BBC Bristol
(Rptd: tomorrow 1.10 pm)
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers?, Thursday 4.15, to Any Answers?, [address removed]
The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
How do you write about a plan to turn people into picsf Do you use the fingers, the elbows - what do you use' When you're stuck with writing a lyric - get specific!
Stephen Sondheim has turned these unsavoury ingredients into an award-winning musical, Sweeney Todd , which opens in London next week. Sheridan Morley goes behind the scenes at Drury Lane to meet the composer, STEPHEN SONDHEIM ; the Director, Hal Prince: and the stars of the show, Sheila Hancock and Denis Quilley.
Producer JOHN BOUNDY
Sheridan's Films: page 7
Stephen Milligan reports
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with Bill Wallis , David Tate
Sheila Steafel , Jon Glover and THE DAVID FIRMAN TRIO Written by GUY JENKIN. JOHN LANGDON ,
JEREMY BROWNE , ANDY WILSON , RICHARD QUICK, BRIAN BETHELL and BOB SINFIELD Producer JIMMY MULVILLE (Kptd: tomorrow 5.25 pm)
Staying On by PAUL SCOTT abridged for radio in 15 parts by DAVID H. GODFREY Read by GARARD GREEN < 15) Producer TREVOR HILL BBC Manchester
(Starting on Monday: 'A Diary Without Dates ' by Enid Bagnold ) long wave only
Radio 4's international business report; market! trends long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
