News, weather, papers and sport
Market prices and intelligence, the weather and What's new for farmers
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
In New York
Brian Redhead reports direct from the Democratic Convention in New York.
In London, Libby Purves including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With Robert Rietty
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by Dilly Barlow
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Book: Thoughts, Prayers. Reflections, ã1.35, available from bookshops
3: The Romance of War
An ordinary talk show With some extraordinary People.
Including The Week so Far by Russell Davies
Producer IAN R. GARDHOUSE
Book, Down the Garden Path, £3.50, available from bookshops
NEM, p 58; Be near us, Holy Trinity (BBC HB 165); Psalm 150; Mark 3, vy 7-19 (rsv); Bright the vision that delighted tBBC HB 269)
Greenmantle by JOHN BUCHAN abridged in 11 instalments by BARRY CAMPBELL
Read by IAIN CUTHBERTSON 11: The Little Hill Producer
TOM KINNINMONT BBC Scotland
dips into his collection of gramophone records and Presents a selection of music for your pleasure
Barkworth's Preview: p 15
News, views and advice for consumers.
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 Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: Richard Adams, author, and President of the RSPCA.
All About ... 3: Mustard GYN FREEMAN talks to JUDY
RIDGWAY
Reading Your Letters.
Country Diary: ROBIN page talks about his Cambridgeshire village. A Portrait of Jane Austen (8)
Story: Nozzle the Ant Eater by CHRISTOPHER NEWBY
The Brontes of Haworth
The true story of a unique family dramatised in five parts by CHRISTOPHER FRY with Eslelle Kohlcr and Vicki Ireland as Charlotte and Anne
Denys Hawthorne as their father The
Reverend Patrick Bronte 5: Tasting Happiness
In which Anne at last finds peace and Charlotte gains a husband. the story
Directed by DICKON REED
A BBC World Service Drama production
from Lincoln Cathedral Responses (Clucas)
Psalms: 69, 70 (Turle, Hine)
First Lesson: II Samuel 12, vv 1-25 (NEB)
Canticles (Stanford in A)
Second Lesson: Acts 2, vv 1-13 (NEB)
Anthem: He is the way (Bryan Kelly)
Hymn: 0 Jesu, king most wonderful (EH 419) with a choir of boys and young men from churches, colleges and schools affiliated to the Royal School of Church Music directed by JOHN COOKE Organist PETER SMITH BBC Manchester
The Last of the Line Written and read by Yvonne Gilan
5.50 Shipping forecast long 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: John Pardoe and Ann Leslie
Chairman Richard Stilgoe Questions set by MARGARET HOWARD
Producer HELEN FRY
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
A weekly investigation into accusations of unfairness, fraud and injustice. Presented by Roger Cook Producer JOHN EDWARDS
(Repeated: Thurs 9.5 am)
According to the experts, work is becoming obsolete. Within the next 20 years for many people the whole idea of a ' job ' as a lifelong occupation will be a thing of the past. In the western Protestant tradition, work was seen as the way of glorifying God. Will humanity itself be diminished without work?
Graham Turner reports Researcher JUDI PRICE
Producers DAVID WINTER and CHRIS REES
Politics Without Power
The new Parliamentary Select Committees have been at work for a year now, examining the policies and workings of Ministers and their departments. Constitutionally they have little or no real power, but can Ministers and Civil Servants ignore them? Presented by Alastair Hether ington
Producer DAVID MORTON
(Rptd: tomorrow 11.5 am)
Presenter Jacky Gillott Producer JOHN POWELL
Douglas Stuart reporting
The fourth in a series of 13 plays by John Mortimer
with Maurice Denham as Rumpole and Margot Boyd as Hilda
in which Horace Rumpole, barrister at law, is engaged in sorting out the one rotten apple which may corrupt the sweet-smelling purity of any barrel, and comes unexpectedly to the defence of the police.
In" Patagonia (3)
with Edward Cole long wave only
Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
