6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenter Brian Redhead with LIBBY PURVES
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV BARRIE ALLCOTT
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
by JACK LONDON (4)
{Broadcast Sun 4.30 pm)
9 Lady Ryder
Sue Ryder was in her mid 20s when she return-
J ed from Poland after the Second World War, deter™ mined to start her
Foundation as a living memorial to the millions who gave their lives in two world wars. Today she is the driving force behind 72 homes and 99 shops in this country and abroad, which give help to those in need whatever their age, race or creed.
Presenter Derek Robinson Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Bristol
NEM, p 114; 0 dearest Lord, by all adored iBBC HB 266): Psalm 29; Mark 6. vv 45-56 (RSV); Behold, the mountain f BBC HB 485)
Missee Lee 110)
Arthur Askey recalls today Robb Wilton.
(Repeat)
Including Jill Todd and the BBC Shopping Basket. Presenter Bill Breckon
Larry Adler , Susan Hill
Spike Mullins , Molly Parkin are quizzed on sayings funny and fatuous.
Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher. Devised and presented by Nigel Rees Producer ALAN NIXON
12.55 Weather: programme news: long uave only
Presenter Brian Widlake
'Broadcast Wed 7.5 pm)
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Unlocking the Gates of Gibraltar: DOREEN TAYLOR reports on how this will affect the Rock
Response: The second in a series on language and understanding by PROFESSOR RANDOLPH QUIRK.
Who Pays the Supreme Sacrifice? : MAUREEN GALVJN talks to war widows
Talking Point: opinions and ideas
The Day of the Triffids by JOHN WYNDHAM abridged in 14 instalments by DOREEN ESTALL
Read by David Ashford (1) Everyone recognised that triffid plants had unpleasant characteristics - like a stinging weapon that could kill a grown man. Still, as long as men were able to see, triffids were no great problem to control. But then came the night of 7 May, when something occurred which blinded most of the human race.
(Music: Alwyn's Symphony No 2)
Story: The Garden by ARNOLD LOBEL
Read by MARION CONROY
The Best Man by CHRIS BARNARD
Stuart Organ as Allic Graham Chinn as Charlie It doesn't bode well for a marriage when the groom views the wedding like a rabbit eyeing a stoat and the bride prefers the best man. Perhaps it's just as well that the best man is a confirmed bachelor.
Directed by JOHN CARDY
For people who live and work in the country - or would like to. Introduced by Jeanine McMullen
BBC Bristol
Cut Glass by PATTIE HALLAM
Read by Judith Barker Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
Presenters Robert Williams and Janet Cohen
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
From the original 64 contestants who set out on the road to the title Brain of Britain 1980 back in February, the four Survivors are now just one step away from their goal. Robert Robinson 'Chairman)
29: The Final Ralph Gordon
(Marketing manager) Dr John Perring (Physicist)
David Milnes (Solicitor) Tim Paxton (Teacher) Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN
Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS
In the second programme of the series devoted to D. H. Lawrence , Alai Brownjohn illustrate how Lawrence drew awa' from his contempories The Georgian Poets, ii his unsentimental under standing of working life Readers MARY JONES. SION PROBERT. Producer ALECEID
direct from The Royal Albert Hall , London
Amsterdam
Concertgebouw
Orchestra, leader THEOOLOF conductor Bernard Haitint Part 1
Mozart Symphony No 40 in a minor (K 550)
in conversation with Frank Delaney
The writer looks back over a career which began in 1955, with the publication of The Ginger Man.
Bruckner Symphony No 5, in B flat major
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer RICHARD DUNN
Anthony Howard reports
The Goshawk (4)
with Laurie Macmillan long wave only
Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
