6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.45* Prayer for the Day with PEGGY MAKINS
7.0, 8.6 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Ned Sherrin presides over live interviews, reviews and gentle mischief. Including RUSSELL DAVIES 'S look at The Week So Far Producer IAN GARDHOUSE
Book, Down the Garden Path, £ 3.50, from bookshops
NEM, p 9; Sing to the Lord a joyful song (BBC HB
19); Psalm 8: Isaiah 55, vv 1-11 (AV); Let us, with a gladsome mind (BBC HB 461): long wave only
My Brilliant Career. 3: A Well-shaped Young Filly
News, views and advice for consumers.
Presenter Jenni Mills
12.55Weather; programme news
Presenter Gordon Clough
by the Conservative Party
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: Dr John Harder , President of the Royal College of General Practitioners. Reading Your Letters.
What Did You Do in School Todayt (2): BARBARA MYERS and JULIA KNIGHT find out about play periods in primary schools. Pied Piper by NEVIL SHUTE abridged in 12 instalments by JANET HICKSON
Read by JOHN WESTBROOK (12) (Music: Sibelius's 5th Symphony)
What the Butler Did by DAVID WHEELER with Peter Sallis
Every impoverished aristocratic family needs a butler who will do anything he's asked. And if he does more than he's asked, who's to know?
Directed by MARGARET ETALL
from Guildford Cathedral Responses (Byrd)
Psalm 89 (Hopkins, Parry, Barnby): First Lesson: Isaiah 51, vv 1-8; Advent Antiphon: 0 Adonai; Canticles: Wood in E flat, No 2; Second Lesson: Luke 20 vv 27-44; Anthem: All wisdom cometh from the Lord (Philip Moore)
Organist and Master of the Choristers PHILIP MOORE
Sub-organist PETER WRIGHT
Fire Salvage
Written and read by Yvonne Gilan
The news magazine Presenters
Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
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
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves by P. G. WODEHOUSE adapted in six episodes by RICHARD USBORNE starring
Michael Hordern and 3: Bartholomew, Blackmail and Barefaced Lies
Producer DAVID HATCH
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
A weekly investigation into accusations of unfairness, fraud and injustice.
Presented by Roger Cook
A radio portrait of George Eliot (1819-80) Written by MICHAEL KITTERMASTER with and ' In all autobiography there is, nay ought to be, an incompleteness which may have the effect of falsity. We are each of us bound to reticence by the piety we own to those who have been nearest to us and have had a mingled influence over our lives.
(GEORGE ELIOT )
After his wife's death, 'Johnny' Cross embarked on a detailed and voluminous Life. His task was to be more arduous than he thought, in an age when hypocrisy and prudery spared no-one, not even the great literary figures of the time. With the voices of GORDON GOSTELOW PETRA DAVIES
JUDY FRANKLIN AMANDA MURRAY
CHRISTOPHER SCOTT JOHN CHURCH and ANTHONY HYDE Directed by MAURICE LEITCH
Mr Mugabe Counts his Friends
Mary Goldring reports on how life has changed for better - and for worse - since last spring when white Rhodesia became black Zimbabwe under Prime Minister ROBERT MUGABE. In the crossfire of bullets in Bulawayo and verbal battles in Salisbury, who's come to
Mr Mugabe 's aid materially as well as morally, and who's let him down? Producer TOM READ i Repealed. Thurs 11.5 am)
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer PAUL CAMPBELL
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
Barry Took opens, and leafs through, his alphabetical anthology of show-business aided and abetted by chief page-turners Michael McClain and Marie Sutherland.
Today, the letter ' B which includes MEL HROOKS , TONY BENNETT and BEACHCOMBER, plus the programme's special guest Janet Brown.
Producer DANNY GREENSTONE
Tales of the Supernatural Thurnley Abbey by PERCEVAL LANDON adapted by i. M. DONALDSON Read by Tom Fleming
'The scar is still on my hand, but it has healed, and so I think has my mind, but it went near to ruin that night ... I wouldn't live at Thurnley Abbey for all Broughton's money.' BBC Scotland long wave only
Radio 4's international business report; market trends long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
