News, weather, papers and sport
direct from the Dairy Farming Event at Stoneleigh in Warwickshire.
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenter John Timpson With LIBBY PURVES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by CHRISTOPHER SLADE
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day Thoughts, Prayers, Reflections, a collection of short talks, £1.35, available from bookshops
by H. G. WELLS
10: The Abasement of Mr Hoopdriuer
Pursued and impoverished, the hero tells all.
David Simmons takes up Vour comments about BBC Programmes and policy with producers and management.
Producer JENNY DE YONG (Repeated: Sun 5.0 pm)
Please send questions, criticisms or praise about radio or television, to: Feedback, BBC, Broad-casting House, London WlA 4WW, or phone (01) [number removed], Friday to Sunday 7.0-9.0 pm
BBC Correspondents around the world cast their collective eye on a contemporary issue.
A Radio News production by JOHN ALLEN
nem, p 79; Thy mercy, Lord. is in the heavens (BBC HB 482); Psalm 104, vv 25-36; Mark 12. vv 1-12 (Rsv); Sing to the Lord of harvest (BBC HB 442)
Gentleman and Ladies (5)
This is the most absurd scheme that ever entered the head of man to conceive.
This infernal nuisance - the locomotive monster-coming throuoh ecery man's grounds between Manchester and Liver-An account of the formidable political and physical obstacles that had to be overcome before the world's first complete railway was opened on 15 september 1830.
Narrator David Mahlowe George Stephenson
PETER WHEELER
Other parts played by RUSSELL BIXON , GARARD GREEN, WILFRED HARRISON , RONALD HARVI , KATE LEE. ALAN MEADOWS, ALAN ROTHWELL and HERBERT SMITH
Written by NORMAN LONG -MATE. Producer
STANLEY WILLIAMSON
BBC Manchester.
Phil Drabble looks at two of Britain's smaller deer - the Muntjac and the Roe. Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
Presenter Jenni Mills Editor DAVID HARDING
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced from Wales by Noreen Bray
A Passion for the Game: a look back at 100 years of Welsh Rugby with highlights remembered by commentator G. V. WYNNE JONES and player BARRY JOHN.
Not Like Us: as a new mosque opens in Cardiff, KATHY EDWARDS looks at the lifestyle of Muslim women.
A (Stately) Home of Your Own: MARTIN GRIFFITHS tells the story of his low-budget rescue of a historic building. BBC Wales Mrs Miniver (3)
Story: Green Grobblop and Blooly by EUGENIE SUMMERFIELD
Presenters PAT GALLIMORE and MICHAEL DEACON. Written by EUGENIE SUMMERFIELD Producer DAVID BELL
Cold Storage
A farcical comedy by c. m. STUBBS with Brian Carroll as Dr Pin beck
Leueen Willoughby as Miss Plum Bill Reimbold as Dr Friberger John Bott as Mr Tod
Taxi driver ADRIAN EGAN Sealed up alone in a morgue with 341 corpses -not the ideal job for a sensitive young man like Dr Pinbeck, especially as any one of those corpses could come alive at any moment.
Directed by JOHN CARDY
The last programme presented by John Tidmarsh 5: Caribbean Cuisine
Exotic fruits and vegetables from the West Indies are now to be found in many British markets. But how are they cooked and presented in places where they are part of the familiar diet?
Series producer
FRANK WARWICK
The Promised Land Written and read by Valerie Georgeson
'Jim was so fancy free then. If she went with him, he'd said, they'd sell his land and the house after the next bumper strawberry harvest and set out with the money, painting the whole world red.'
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
Presenters Gordon Clough and Janet Cohen
5.58 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
Half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world including Financial Report
Richard Hudson - Evans brings you stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport.
Producer DEBORAH CHRISTIE Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)
June Knox-Mawer presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes.
Producer MADELINE JAY
(Rptd: tomorrow 10.45 am)
A personal portrait
A spontaneous discussion by Lady Antonia Fraser Ann Mallalieu
General Sir John Haekett Dr Sanjoy Roy-Chowdhury Chairman David Jacobs from Ingatestone, Essex Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? on Thurs at
6.30 to: Any Answersf, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Presenter Sheridan Morley Producer
RICHARD BANNERHAN
Sheridan's Films: page 20
Stephen Milligan reporting
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with David Jason , Bill Wallis. David Tate , Sheila Steafel
THE DAVID FIRMAN TRIO
Written by GUY JENKIN , JOHN LANGDON , RICHARD QUICK, ANDY WILSON , BOB SINFIELD , BRIAN BETHELL , JEREMY BROWNE , CHRIS STRATFORD, DAVE MORLEY
Producer GRIFF RHYS JONES (Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm)
Can You Forgive Her? (5)
The second of four programmes.
An imaginary sale of the BBC's Sound Archives attracts Margaret Howard to browse through the catalogue and choose the recordings she would most like to own.
Producer MADELINE JAY
with Dilly Barlow
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
