6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV STUART GIBBONS
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45. Thought for the Day
Including The Week so Far by Russell Davies
Producer IAN GARDHOUSE
NEM, p 5; Let all the world (BBC HB275); Psalm 19 vv 1-11; 1 Corinthians 15, vv 1-11 (AV); Praise, my soul (BBC HB 15)
Greenmantle by JOHN BUCHAN abridged in 11 parts by BARRY CAMPBELL
Read by lain Cuthbertson 1: A Mission is Proposed
Richard Hannay , hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps, is seconded from the trenches to combat the German menace in the Middle East during the First World War. What is the evil menace? Hannay knows only that it will fan the flames of Islam and launch a Holy War against the British in India.
Producer TOM KINNINMONT BBC Scotland
Presenter Bill Breckon
says Cardew Robinson to Tom Mennard , Jan Harding , Peter Robinson KEN FRITH (piano) producer MIKE CRAIG BBC Manchester
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presenter Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: George Howard , new Chairman of the Board of Governors of the BBC.
First Impressions: Veronica Gordon-Smith recently visited Northern Ireland for the first time.
Creative Circles: arts and crafts countrywide.
The House in Paris (10)
Story: The Giant Roly Poly Pudding by Val Annan
The Brontes of Haworth
The true story of a unique family dramatised in five parts by CHRISTOPHER FRY
3: Delusion's Song: in which Charlotte falls in love and so does Branwell.
Directed by DICKON REED
A BBC World Service Drama production
from Wells Cathedral Responses (Byrd)
Psalms: 147-150 (Aldrich, Stanford, How, Talbot) Canticles (Murrill in E)
Lessons (rsv): 1 Samuel 23, vv 14-29; Luke 22, vv 24-34
Anthem: Let me rejoice (John Joubert )
Office Hymn: Praise to the Lord, the Almighty(EH536) The choir of boys and young men from churches, colleges and schools affiliated to the Royal School of Church Music directed by MARTIN HOW Organist DAVID THORNE BBC Bristol
How do you Like
Children? by STUART READY Read by Jennifer Piercey Miss Luke recalled a question once put to the eminent comedian, W. C. Fields: ' How do you like children? ', to which the reply had been given unhesitatingly - ' Fried.'
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
S.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
Sounds and scenes from a past year challenge
Terry Wogan and Ann Meo guests: John Timpson Eleanor Summerfield
Chairman Richard Stilgoe Questions set by MARGARET HOWARD
Producer HELEN FRY
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
You can smell the refuse dumps of Cairo from miles around - piles of rags, bones, tins and paper await collection, while the rotting foodstuff is gorged by thousands of pigs, who rootle around the dumps. In the middle of all this live the Zabaleen, the refuse collectors of Cairo. Their homes are built from the very rubbish they collect. Mike Hopwood reports on the dehumanising effect of life on the rubbish dumps and asks what can be done.
Producer DAVID WINTER
by Anthony Smith
The Right Way?
Have you sometimes wondered how the Cabinet's hard liners justify and explain their economic policies when they are not being shouted down in the House of Commons, but attempting to win over major economists and industrialists?
Eavesdrop on one of Mrs Thatcher 's most influential, yet lesser-known cabinet ministers, Trade Secretary The Rt Hon John Nott , HP, doing just that.
Discussion chaired by Mary Goldring
Producer TOM READ
(Repeated: Thurs 11.5 am)
Presented by Jaeky GiUott Producer ANNE WINDER
Douglas Stuart reporting
and the Dear Departed
The second in a series of 13 plays by JOHN MORTIMER in which Horace Rumpole , barrister at-law, forsakes his normal stamping ground to appear in a disputed will case.
He learns how to address an empty jury box and cope with a client who has passed over.
Directed by IAN COTTERELL
Summer Lightning (8)
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
