News, weather, papers and sport
Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenter Brian Redhead with LIBBY PURVES including at
6 45* Prayer for the Day THE REV JOHN BRETHERTON
7.0, 8.8 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7;45* Thought /or the Day
Book: The BBC Guide to Parliament, f4.50 from bookshops
An ordinary talk show with some extraordinary people.
Including The Week so Far by Russell Davies
Producer IAN GARDHOUSE
A year of Gardeners' QuestionTime
KEN FORD recalls some of the places visited, and some of the questions asked during the past year with FRED LOADS BILL SOWERBUTTS and PROFESSOR ALAN GEMMELL Producer KEN FORD BBC Manchester
Book Down the Garden Path,' £3.50, available from bookshops
NEM. p 21; 0 splendour of God's glory bright (BBC HB 409); Psalm 1; Matthew 17. vv 1-13 (AV); Shepherd divine, our wants relieve (BBC HB 348)
Greenmantle. 6: The Companions of the Rosy Hours
dips into his collection of gramophone records and presents a selection of music for your pleasure. Producer RAY ABBOTT
Presenter Jenni Mills
says Cardew Robinson to Tom Mennard Bernie Clifton and George Roper KEN FRITH (piano)
Producer MIKE CRAIG BBC Manchester
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presenter Peter Hobday
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
David Aaronovitch , the new President of the National Union of Students Dead or Alive?: does English folk song and dance have a place in the 1980s? JANE FINNIS reports. Discoveries of the Deep: SIR ALISTER HARDY recalls a scientific expedition over 50 years ago, aboard the Discovery. A Portrait of Jane Austen
Granny Week
Story: Granny Apple's Old Straw Hat by PAULINE HILL
The Brontes of Haworth
The true story of a unique family dramatised in five parts by CHRISTOPHER FRY
4: Rewarding Destiny, in which literary success finally comes to the sisters but Branwell loses the battle with the ' dragon ' in his mind.
Sheila Allen as Mrs Gas kell who tells the story
Directed by DICKON REED
A BBC World Service Drama production
from
Canterbury Cathedral Responses (Ayleward)
Psalms: 32, 33, 34 (Jones. Randall, Ouseley)
First Lesson: 1 Kings 19, vv 1-16
Canticles (Brewer in E flat) Second Lesson: 2 Peter 1, vv 12-21
Anthem: The Spirit of the Lord (Elgar)
A choir of boys and young men from churches, colleges and schools affiliated to the Royal School of Church Music directed by HARRY BRAMMA Organist colin WALSH
Shot Actress - Full Story by H. E. BATES taken from Twenty Tales Read by Charlie Chester
' No one in Claypole knew Miss Porteous. We knew she had been an actress, but where she'd been an actress, and when, nobody knew.
Presenters Joan Bakewell and Robert Williams
5.50 Shipping forecast Tong wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
Sounds and scenes from a past year challenge the memories of residents: Terry Wogan and Ann Meo
Guests: Bernard Falk and Humphrey Lyttelton Chairman Richard Stilgoe Questions set by MARGARET HOWARD
Producer HELEN FRY
(Richard Stilgoe presents Looking Good. Feeling Fit tomorrow 6.50 pm BBC1)
Renton Laidlaw 's job is many a man's dream-travelling around the world covering big golf tournaments for the BBC and the Evening Standard.
In an informal conversation with John Kerr , he talks about the golfers, the hotels and the man with the soft-boiled egg ... Producer CHARLES G. NAIRN (First broadcast on Radio Scotland)
by Anthony Smith
A Place Apart
Direct rule from Westminster is everyone's second best solution for running Northern Ireland. The government has produced new suggestions for devolving power to the Province in the hope of bringing peace, stability and economic reconstruction.
But between the gunmen, the politicians and the ordinary people can these goals be achieved? Can there be a settlement without power sharing and an ' Irish dimension '? If not, will direct rule and an army presence continue indefinitely?
Presenter John Eidinew Producer
CAROLINE THOMSON
Presented by John Jacob Producer JOHN BOUNDY
Douglas Stuart reporting
and the Gentle Art of Blackmail by JOHN MORTIMER
Directed by IAN COTTERELL
Summer Lightning (13)
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Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
