6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenter John Timpsom with LIBBY PURVES
6.45* Prayer for the Day with SISTER MARTINA
7.0 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
2 The Real Star of the Show
The Fascination of Ferns British ferns range from the shy Adderstongue to the thrusting Bracken and from the simple Harts-tongue to the graceful Lady Fern.
David Streeter leads a search for the modern representatives of the first successful land plants. Introduced by Caroline Parsons
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
A series about the people who are winning against the odds.
When the late John Stewart decided to set up a theatre in the small Highland community in 1951 he had to settle for a large tent. Now, after nearly 30 years, the theatre-in-the-tent is to have a new, permanent home thanks largely to the perseverance of Founder-secretary and now Director, Dr Kenneth Ireland.
BBC Birmingham
NEM, p 17; Come. thou long-expected Jesus fBBC HB 30); Psalm 33. vv 13-21: Mark 8, vv 22-33 (RSV); 0 thou not made with hands (BBC HB 180)
I am David. 2: Into Italy
Arthur Askey recalls some stars of a few years ago. Today: Gillie Potter
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(Home on Sunday with Arthur Askey Sun BBCI)
Including JILL TODD and the BBC Shopping Basket. Presenter Jenni Mills
Celebrations
Frank Muir and Alfred Marks investigate the humour of the subject ...
Here's to a temperance supper
With water in glasses tall And coffee and tea to end leith-
And me not there at all! with the voices of TONY HANCOCK , TOM LEHRER , MICHAEL DENTINE and NOEL COWARD
Written by FRANK MUIR and SIMON BRETT
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
12.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only
Presenter Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Talking Point: opinions and ideas
A Fine Balancing Act: MARGARET HOLLIS 'S experience of the ' do-gooder '. Science Domesticated: PETER EVANS reports on some recent developments in the laboratory which can affect you at home.
Runes and Isms: (2) Inflation: FRANCIS CAIRNCROSS illustrates some economic jargon.
The Day of the Triffids (6)
Story: Lizzie Loo 's New Shoes by ANDRE WARD
That Bread Should Be So Dear by OLWYNNE MACRAE Fiona Walker as Mary and John Rowe as David After several years as a housewife and mother, Mary decides to go back to work. Her husband seems to be all for it. yet once she starts her new job he increasingly resents the fact that she has less time and energy to devote to him. Mary's life becomes a nightmare -torn between domestic responsibilities and her need to fulfil herself ...
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON
For people who live and work in the country - or would like to. Introduced by Jeanine MeMullen Producer SARAH PITT BBC Bristol
Missed Opportunity Written and read by Ray Handy
I can't have changed all that much. surely? "she asked playfully. " Still not a grey hair in my head. you notice ... Joe realised that in one sense she hadn't changed a bit. She was flirting with him.... '
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
5.56 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
Written by ALAN BOWER
Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
The third of seven programmes in which Alan Brownjohn examines the Work Of D. H. LAWRENCE and his contemporaries.
Lawrence differed from his peers in that he was prepared to challenge and argue about assumptions regarding the nature of love.
Readers ANTHONY HYDZ and SION PROBERT
Producer ALEC REID
She qualified in 1908; for the last 50 years she has practised as a psychiatrist and is still doing so. She says: 'Very strangely, I've been a happy woman all my life. I've had suffering but it disappears into the blue ..."
Leslie Smith talks with Dr Rushforth about her life, work and beliefs. Producer
BARBARA CROWTHER
direct from Westminster Cathedral, London
Berlioz L'enfancedu Christ
Part I: Le songe d'Hérode Part II: La fuite en Egypte Part III: L'arrivée à Sals La Vierge Marie Ann Murray (mezzo-sop)
Le Recitant/Un Centurion
Anthony Rolfe Johnson
(tenor)
St Joseph/Polydorus
Stephen Roberts (bar)
Herode/Le Père de famille
Paul Hudson (bass)
Obbligato:
DAVID BOTT (flute)
PATRICIA MORRIS (flute) SIDONIE GOOSSENS (harp) BBC Singers director JOHN POOLE
BBC Symphony Orchestra leader RODNEY FRIEND conductor
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
Presenter Mark Storey Producer CARROLL MOORE
Anthony Howard reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
The Goshawk (9)
International business report; market trends
Those familiar tunes and melodies you don't often have a chance to hear, with Laurie Macmillan long wave only
Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
