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 Brian Redhead and Libby Purves
6.45* Prayer for the Day with THE REV BARRIE ALLCOTT
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day Book. Thoughts. Prayers, Reaections, £1.35 from bookshops
Part 3
Noel Edmonds conducts unlimited conversation, interviews and argument with his guests live in the studio. Including
RUSSELl BAVIKS 'S took at The Week So Far
Producer IAN GARDHOUSE
Book, Down the Garden Path. £3.50, from bookshops
NEM, p 62; Father, we praise thee (BBC HB 405); Psalm 36; Matthew 3, vv 1-12 (AV); Holy Father. in thy mercy (BBC HB 386) long wave only
Book, New Every Morning, hardback £1.75 and paperback £1.25, from bookshops
The Ritual Man by DOUGLAS RAILTON
Read by John Westbrook
News. views and advice for consumers.
Presenter Bill Breckon
Winner of the ' best programme or series of programmes for young listeners ' in the 1980 Society of Authors/Pye Airards to Radio. An adventure in time and space including some helpful advice on how to see the Universe for just over 30 Altairian dollars The a third programme of the second series in which our heroes have some close encounters with others and themselves.
ARTHUR: It's not a ques tion of whose habitat it is its just a question of how hard you hit it.
Radiophonic sound and music by PADDY KINGSLAND Written by DOUGLAS ADAMS Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
(Stephen Moore is a NT player)
12.55Weather; programme news
Presenter Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGrcgor
Guest of the Week: NeU Spencer. Editor of the New Musical Express.
Diary of a Country Parish: ROBIN PAGE talks about last month in his Cambridgeshire village.
What Did You Do in School Today (3): BARBARA MYERS and JULIA KNIGHT find out about project-work in primary schools.
Small Beginnings: ELIZA BETH DE CASTRES talks about collecting silver.
A. J. Wentworth , BA (8)
by Peter Johnson
A travelling salesman has problems when he tries to please two women, and himself and his boss. In the end. who wins?
' After all these years, what do you know?' That's the deceptively simple question devised by American lecturer Michael Meyers , to help people to construct their own personal encyclopaedia of knowledge. What starts as a game, ends as a revelation.
Producer MARY PETT (Repent)
sung by the Exon Singers in the Abbey Church of St Mary the Virgin. Tewkesbury
Introit: Mary walked through a wood of thorn (Radcliffe)
Versicles and Responses: (Radcliffe)
Psalm 37 (Stainer)
Lessons: Isaiah 60, vv 1-12; I Thessalonians 5, vv 12-28
Canticles: The Gloucester Service (Howells)
Anthem: The weeping babe (Tippett) conductor
CHRISTOPHER TOLLEY
Organist COLIN WALSH
BBC Birmingham
There Came Both Misl and Snow (3)
Presenters
Rebert Williams and Susannah Simons
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
Halfan-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world including Financial Report
by P.G. Wodehouse. Adapted in six episodes by Richard Usborne
Starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves and Richard Briers as Bertie Wooster
(Repeated: Fri 12.27pm)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
An entertainment for narrator and brass band adapted by Alfred Bradley from the story by Oscar Wilde.
Robert Powell tells the story of the Swallow who befriends the golden statue of the Prince who wants to make the world a better place.
The specially composed music by Roger Payne is played by Besses o' th' Barn Band, conductor Roy Newsome.
BBC Manchester
An Analysis enquiry
Nearly one person in five in Britain today is an old-age pensioner. More important, one-and-a-half million of them are over 80 What sort of standard of living can we afford to give this ageing population? Can we improve their quality of life? Should we be devoting more resources to keeping people alive longer?
Mary Goldring talks to economists, doctors, sociologists and to the old themselves about the moral and financial problems of an elderly country followed by
A chance to put questions about the medical. social and financial aspects of old age to a panel of experts chaired by Mary Goldring
Producer CAROLINE THOMSON (Revised repeat of Life Begins at 66 on Thursday at 11.5 am)
Presenter Richard Cork Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
Douglas Stuart reporting
with Barry Took and chief page-turners Michael McClain and Marie Sutherland
Today, the letters ' P and ' Q ' which include COLE PORTER. MONTY PYTHON and EZIO PINZA, plus special guest Nigel Dempster.
Producer DANNY GREENSTONE
Lord Jim (3) long wave unly
long ware only
Edward Cole presents musical nostalgia.
Weather report: forecast followed by an interlude
