Presented from the North by Ken Ford
BBC Manchester
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenter Brian Redhead With PAUL BURDEN
6.45* Prayer for the Day With THE REV LESLIE STOKES
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
with Susan Denny
in the BBC Sound Archives
NEM, p 102; The star of morn has risen (BBC HE 410); Psalm 147, vv 1-12; 1 Corinthians 12, vv 12-20 (AV); How brightly beams (BBC HB 141)
The Moon in the Cloud (6)
A radio biography in three parts in celebration of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother's 80th birthday. Written by MARGARET FORSTER Narrator
Virginia McKenna Part 1: When Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon arrived at Westminster Abbey on her wedding day, 26 April 1923, King George V noted, as he wrote later in his diary, that the sun came out The reference was, of course, to the weather.
But the phrase perfectly describes the entry on to the royal stage of the young, smiling bride who was to become in turn Duchess of York, Queen Consort, and Queen Mother. This series tells her story with contributions from some of the men and women who have shared in it, as well as recordings of great royal occasions.
Producers ALAN HAYDOCK and ELIZABETH KERR
(Repeated: Wed 7.45 pm) (Virginia McKenna broadcasts by arrangement with the LondonPalladium)
The Facts and Fallacies of Dieting. Presented by Caroline Parsons
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Including World of Work Presenter Jenni Mills
Chairman Robert Robinson 24: Wales and Northern Ireland (Round 2)
Carolyn Bryn-Jones Leslie Parris (Bookseller) Hazel Cathcart (Teacher) Robert Parke (Sales representative)
Including Beat the Brains Programme devised by JOHN p. WYNN.
Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS
(Repeated; Thurs 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presenter Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor
What Shall We Tell the Children (1) : About Religion? DAVID HAWKSWORTH talks to a family about their beliefs.
Her Boots Got Her the Job: ENID ALLEN talks to ANNE CATCHPOLE about working for the Women's National Land Service Corps, during the First World War.
A Hebridean Voice: FINLAY j. MACDONALD encounters the Parish Pump.
A Barren Island with Hardly a House Upon it: Hong Kong has changed dramatically in the past 100 years as MIKE SHEILS discovered - and soon it will be cheaper to visit. The House in Paris (3) Editor WYN KNOWLES
Beatrix Potter Week
Story: The Tale ol. Peter Rabbit / abridged by MOIRA MILLER
Book, Listen with, Mother Stories. £3.25, from / bookshops
Love on the Dole
By Elvi Rhodes
Read by Betty Hardy
with Gordon Clough and Janet Cohen
Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
(Details: Wed 10.30 pm)
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
Presented by Peter Evans Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
by Ramsay Williams
"A new Church will be established under a new Prophet. Be ready, Joseph Smith for you shall be the prophet for this time of the living God!"
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, or the 'Mormon' faith as it came to be known, was established 150 years ago this year in the United States in a time of religious and messianic ferment. This play chronicles the epic struggle of the church to survive, from the death of Joseph Smith, the great trek to Utah under the leadership of Brigham Young, to the death of Young some years after the American Civil War.
(BBC Bristol) (Rptd: Sun 2.30 pm)
(Feature p14)
In six programmes Finlay J. MacDonald reminisces on a Hebridean boyhood. 3: The Word Game in which his Gaelic schoolmates vie with each other to learn English.
Producer LESLIE ROBINSON
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer ANNE WINDER Editor ROSEMARY HART
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORN £
Summer Lightning by P. G. WODEHOUSE abridged in 15 episodes by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by Ian Carmichael (1) The setting is Blandings Castle in the heart of pastoral England. Lord Emsworth drools over his prize-winning pig The Empress of Blandings ' and spends the rest of his time avoiding his dreadfully bossy sister. The plot involves numerous visitors to the Castle, falling in love and out of windows and some insidious, evil person who kidnaps ' The Empress Producer PETER KING
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
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Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
