News, weather, papers and sport
Presented from-Northern Ireland by John Johnston
A regional view of farming in the week ahead BBC Northern Ireland
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Libby Purves and Hugh Sykes
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With THE REV ALEC CILMORE
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.30 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day Thbughts, Prayers, Reflections, a collection of short talks, £1.35. available from bookshops
A look ahead with Paul Leighton
6: New York, New York
The live talk programme which takes its own unpredictable look at some of the predictable topics of the forthcoming week - helped, as always, by the personalities who'll be in the news.
Producer PETER ESTALL
Money Box keeps you in touch with financial happenings
Presenter Louise Botting
Featuring: a new Unit Trust managers' portfolio - six leading groups pick their winners for the year ahead and comment on past successes, and mistakes.
There still time to match your investment skills against the professionals in the 1980/81 Unit Trust ' Investor of the Year competition.
Details from: Money box, [address removed]
A Financial World Tonight production
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NEM. p 122: 0 dear and heavenly city (BBC HB 251); Psalm 34, vv 11-22: Mark 14. v 66 to 15, v 5 (RSV); How bright these glorious spirits shine! (BBC HB 492) long wave only
The Pleasure Garden (3)
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On 21 May 1979 the British cargo ship Sibongo, on' a trading voyage between Bangkok and Hong Kong, answered distress calls from two small fishing boats crammed withsick,andhungry Vietnamese refugees. The hundreds of men, women and. children were taken on board, fed with the crew's rations and treated from the ship's small stock of medicines. The refugees became the centre of an international storm, as the Sibonga was detained outside Hong Kong and the boat people forbidden to leave the ship by the Hong Kong authorities without an undertaking from the British Government that they would be allowed into Britain.
Producer JENNYDE YONG long wave only
Presenter P. J. Kavanash Readers HUGH DICKSON and BRENDA KAYE
Producer BRIAN PATTEN
BBCBristolPlease!,
Requests... poetry Please!. BBC, Bristol B58 2LR long wave only
News, views and advice for consumers
Including a daily focus on unemployment in the Action Special week.
Today: Personal Expertence
Presenter Jenni Mills Editor DAVID HARDING
Clement Freud invites you to share his enjoyment in recalling the words, music and people that have tickled his sense of humour.
Producer BRIAN COOK
. 12.55 Weather: programme news
Presenter Brian Wldlake
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Introduced by Chris Menr Children's Books and Writers: HARRY SECOMBE talks about his lesser-known role as a otuldren book writer, plus a look at some new fiction.
The Morning After: MAUR-EENGALVIN looks at various methods of post-coital contraception.
Reading Your Letters.
Forthcoming Attractions: GORDON cow previews films on BBCtv.
Love for Lydia (8)
Editor WYN KNOWLES long wave only
So What Do We Do About Henry?
A new play by CHARLOTTE HASTINGS especially written for Dame Flora. withand
None of Henry's immediate family wants to do anything about Henry because it will inconvenience their personal affairs.
But does Henry actually 'want anything done? Directed by GRAHAM GAULD
Arthur Askey recalls some stars of a few years ago. Today: Jimmy Wheeler Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
The Package by DAVID WALLACE
Read by Jon Glover
' One day a package arrived. There was no stamp, not even the address. It was a blank cardboard box tied up with string, quite unexceptional, you'd never give it a second look.' Producer MITCH RAPER
Presenters Garden Clough and Joan Bakewell Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
and the Perils of the Sea (Details: Wed 10.30 pm)
(Repeated: Tuei 1.40 pm)
Peter Cook
Sue MacGregor Arthur Marshall and John Mortimer , QC are quizzed on sayings. funny and fatuous.
Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER. Devised - and presented by Nigel Recs Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
The Adventures of -the. Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha by MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA '
Adapted for radio in two parts by JOHN ARDEN (2) with
Don Quixote , the Knight of the Rueful Countenance, having offered to fight a lion and having charged a field of giants disguised as windmills and withstood the temptations of many enchanters, is then challenged by the Knight. of the Mitrors who claims to have overthrown the boldest Knight in all the world. ;
Music composed by STEPHEN BOXER
Directed by ALFRED BRADLET BBC Manchester
(Repcated: Sun 2.30 pm)
Four programmes about people who are happy at their work. 2: Ronald Pennell, Engraver.
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer CARROLL MOORS Editor ROSEMARY UART
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Presented by Peter Evans What is happening in science?
Producer DEBORAH COHEN
Can You Forgive Her? (16) long wave only
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First of three programmes of Lieder in English
Schubert Six Songs from Th6 Fair Maid of the Mill
(English translation by CLARE CAMPBELL )
IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
JENNIFER PARTRIDGE (piano) long wave only
Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
