6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenter Brian Redhead With MIKE WOOLDRIDGE including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With THE REV DAVID CAINK
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
visits Devon, where members of the Newton Poppleford Garden and Allotments Association put their questions to GEOFFREY SMITH
BILL SOWERBUTTS and PROFESSOR ALAN GEMMELL Questionmaster KEN FORD BBC Manchester
(How Does Your Garden Grow? Friday 4.10 pm)
NEM. p 34; Christ the Lord is risen: (BBC HB 100); Canticle 8; Acts 12, vv 11-25 (AV); Hark how the adoring hosts above (BBC HB 489)
Dragonflight (8)
Presenter Bill Breckon
A panel game
ChairmanNicholasParsons in which
Kenneth Williams Peter Jones
Clement Freud and Derek Nimmo endeavour to prevent each other from talking for just a minute on this or that. Devised by IAN MESSITER
Producer DAVID HATCH
12.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only
Presented by Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by with Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: Leo Sayer
(Leo Sayer: Fri 5.45 R1)
All About... Flour (1): Maureen Galvin talks to Gill Niblock of the Flour Advisory Bureau.
Country Diary: Robin Page talks about this past month in his Cambridgeshire village.
Good Day... Bad Day: Ron Alldridge investigates Bio-rhythms.
Smallbone Deceased by Michael Gilbert abridged in 11 parts by Jack Singleton
Read by Peter Copley (1)
When Abel Horniman, senior partner in Horniman. Birley and Craine (Solicitors). and co-trustee of the Ichabod Stokes Trust, dies. he leaves behind him two problems. Where is the key to the Trust deedbox? And where is the other trustee?
(Music: Ibert's Marine Symphony)
Story: A Swim by ARNOLD LOBEL
Read by MARION CONROY
by Peter Francis Browne
On the rugged and remote coast of Wales it may not seem surprising to find a distinguished Anglo-Welsh poet. Perhaps a little surprising that he is also a priest. But the young man who visits him comes in search of yet another identity.
(BBC Wales)
from Durham Cathedral
Responses (Francis Jack son)
Psalms: 12, 13 and 14 (Croft, Ouseley. Elvey)
Readings (NEB): Isaiah 35; John 14. vv 1-7
Canticles (Bairstow in D) Anthem: If thou shalt confess (Stanford)
Hymn: Thou art the way (St James)
Organist and Master of the Choristers
RICHARD LLOYD. Assistant organist ALAN THURLOW
BBC Manchester
Shadows by FRANCES WILSON
Read by Joan Matheson
with Joan Bakewell and Robert Williams
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
includi ng Financial Report
300th Edition
A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE 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 1.40pm)
Action Desk Edition
Presenter Vincent Kane (Repeated: rhurs 9.5 am)
Your chance to speak to
Sir David MeNee , Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. In the Chair. Derek Robinson. Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
Lines open from 6.30 pm
A Licence to Make Programmes
The scramble for the 16 television franchises has produced 44 contenders. At stake is the right to make programmes for an eight-year period and a share in a revenue totalling over £400-million a year, and growing. Who are the newcomers, and what are their motives?
Presenter David Wheeler Producer TOM READ
(Repeated: Thurs 11.5am)
Presenter Chris Dunkley Producer JOHN POWELL
Douglas Stuart reporting
of the Body with David Jason
Sheila Steafel Malcolm Terris and Jon Glover
Music by DAVE COOKE
Lyrics by ALISTAIR BEATON Written by COLIN BOSTOCK -SMITH, ANDY HAMILTON , GUY JENKIN, RORY MCGRATH OWEN BRENMAN and BRIAN BETHELL. Producer JIMMY MULVILLE
A Diary Without Dates (3) long wave only
long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
12.15-12.23* am Shipping forecast; Inshore forecast
