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 John Timpson with Libby Purves at the Liberal Assembly, Blackpool including at
6.45, Prayer for the Day
The Rev Augustine Hoet, CR
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by Brian Perkins
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Book: Thoughts, Prayers, Reflections, £1.35, available from bookshops
by H. G. WELLS
3: How Mr Hoopdriver was Haunted
Of confrontations, fantasies and dreams ...
An ordinary talk show with some extraordinary people.
Producer IAN R. GARDHOUSE
visits Lincolnshire where members of the Sewstern and District Horticultural Society put their questions to
GEOFFREY SMITH bill SOWERBUTTS and PROFESSOR ALAN GEMMELL Questionmaster KEN FORD
BBC Manchester
Book: Down the Garden Path, 13.50, available from bookshops
NEM, p 34; Blest be the everlasting God (BBC HB 486); Psalm 114; Mark 9, vv 30-50 (RSV); Jesus lives! thy terrors now (BBC HB 106)
Prayer book: New Every Morning, £1.75 hardback,
11.25 paperback, available from bookshops
I am David
6: Back on the Road
News, views and advice for consumers
Presenter Jenni Mills
Marital black comediei starring
Betty Marsden and Hugh Paddick 4: At Hilary's with Tammy Ustinov Steven Pacey and Ron Pember
Written by BARRY PILTON
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: Victoria Wood , writer, singer and comedienne.
Country Diary: Robin Page talks about last month in his Cambridgeshire village.
You Had Me in Stitches: Maureen Galvin looks at different methods of sewing you up after surgery.
The Day of the Triffids (10)
Story: The Five Funny Men by MARY VAUGHAN JONES
Plan by STEPHEN SWAILES with At the age of 18, Arthur Groombridge draws up a Plan that will direct his life until he dies. At certain ages he will: become an Articled Clerk (22); travel to America (26); become Deputy Audit Manager (28); Audit Manager (30) and marry (32). Everything goes very successfully according to the plan until Arthur reaches the age of 32 and discovers you cannot ' plan ' a wife.
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN
from the Queen's Free Chapel of St George, Windsor Castle sung by the Men of the Choir
Responses (Philip Moore ) Psalms 53, 54, 55 (Stanford, Barnby, Robinson,
Robinson)
First Lesson: 1 Kings 13, vv 1-10
Canticles (Philip Moore in G)
Second Lesson: Acts 11, vv 19-47
Anthem: Lord, thou hast been our refuge (Ernest Walker)
Choir directed by CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON Organist JOHN PORTER
Treasures of Provence by T. V. NEWMARK
Read by David March
For a cottage in Provence, the room was remarkably unattractive; poorly and sparsely furnished, everything old, dilapidated and dusty. Producer MITCH RAPER
The news magazine Presenters Robert Williams and Joan Bakewell
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
Half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world including Financial Report
Sounds and scenes from a past year challenge the memories of residents: Terry Wogan and Ann Meo Guests
Humphrey Lyttelton and Bernard Falk
Chairman Richard Stilgoe Questions set by MARGARET HOWARD
Producer HELEN FRY
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
Action Desk Edition
In which the team take on bureaucracy and business to solve listeners' problems.
Presenter Vincent Kane (Repeated: Thurs 9.5 am)
Derek Cooper chairs the phone-in discussion and invites you to exchange views with guests who directly influence your lives and attitudes.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
Lines open from 6.30 pm
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad, reported by David Henshaw Steve Bradshaw and Michael Cooke
Producer GERRY NORTHAM Editor COLIN ADAMS BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Thurs 11.5 am)
Presenter Colin Ford
Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
and the Fascist Beast
Sale
A painter fills his canvasses with birds and flowers he has never seen ...
Edward Cole presents musical nostalgia for late-night listening long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
