Presented from the South West by Robin Hicks BBC Bristol
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Libby Purves
6.45. Prayer for the Day
With THE RT REV MICHAEL HARE-DUKE
7.1. 8.1 Today's News Read bv joiin marsh
7.31. 8.31 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
A look ahead with Peter Donaldson
sallies forth into the BBC Sound Archives in search of the sublime and the ridiculous.
(Repeated: Fri 11.45 pm)
Radio's colourful talk show which helps to dispel those grey moods of a Monday morning.
(Broadcast Sat 12.2 pm)
nem p 79; God of mercy. God of grace (BBC HB 4551; Psalm 104. vv 25-36; Matthew 4. vv 12-25 (AV); 0 food of men wayfaring 1 (BBC HB 209) long wave only
by Hazel Barker
Read by Gerald Cross
"The Invicta 104 is the most advanced chess computer in our range," he read. "So the most or least experienced player will gain hours of pleasure from it. In addition, this model comes with a unique audio feedback device. It will issue instructions and inform you of legal moves or if the game has reached check or checkmate. Like a polite appointment, it will thank you for the game!".
by Alison McLeay
'Sir James and Lady Miller request the pleasure of the company of...' There can have been few more sumptuous housewarmings than the Grand Ball given to celebrate the completion of Manderston House in the Scottish Borders, and Manderston is virtually unchanged since that day on 7 November 1905.
This dramatised impression of the Grand Ball was recorded on location at the house and on the estate, with the voices of Vivienne Dixon, Gwyneth Guthrie, Mary Riggans, John Shedden, Finlay Welsh and Paul Young.
BBC Scotland
(Repeat)
Some of the poetry requested by listeners. Presented by Patricia Beer
BBC Bristol
Presenter Jenni Mills
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 letters 'R' and 'S' which include Paul Robeson, Round the Horne and Peter Sellers.
12.55 Weather: programme news
Presenter Peter Hobday
(Broadcast Fri 7.5pm)
1.55 Shipping forecast
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Dame Peggy Ashcroft - the celebrated actress - talks about her latest ventures: a new Pinter play on radio; and Watch on the Rhine at the National Theatre.
Is This All There is?: a further education course for women looking at their place in society. Pippa Gregory reports.
Life in Havana: Sheila Mole spends six months of the year in Cuba.
The Temptation of Jack Orkney by Doris Lessing abridged in three parts by Monica Gray, Read by Alec McCowen.
Part 1: 'His father was dying, it was a telegram, summoning 'as you were unobtainable by telephone'. He had been on the telephone since seven that morning. An emotional call from an old friend, appealing to him that they shoutd make a demonstration about the refugees - Bangladesh this time - and had returned him to a politically active past.'
Music: Bridge's Quintet
(Alec McCowen is a National Theatre player)
by Anthony Read
(Broadcast Sat 8.30 pm)
An occasional series about people who are happy at their work. This week: A Brain Surgeon
BBC Birmingham
There Came Both Mist and Snow 6)
Presenters Gordon Clough and Joan Bakewell
5.50 Shipping forecast (long wave only)
5.55 Weather: programme news
including Financial Report
In the last of his series of bicycle trips, Tom Vernon visits the Mezzogiorno, and hears how what has been for centuries an oppressed and poverty-stricken region is seeking 20th-century prosperity.
(Repeated: Thurs 10.2am)
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
Broadcast Sat 12.27 pm)
by Peter Tegel
This companion play to Choice (broadcast yesterday) is set in Czechoslovakia in 1945. The German minority there were expelled, except for German Czechs who could prove they had resisted the Nazi occupation.
(Repealed: Sun 2.30 pm)
Earlier this year, four of Britain's leading humorists packed their bags for very different and far-flung corners of the world which they were visiting for the first time. Tonight, Miles Kington winds up the series with an inconclusive thought or two about Peru.
Producer simon ELMES
A nightly review of hooks, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer CLARE SELERI £ Editor ROSEMARY HART
5.51 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor AI.ISTAIR OSBORNE
from AAAS
Last week in Toronto the American Association for the Advancement of Science held its 147th annual meeting. Geoff Watts reports on some of the highlights.
Producer geoff deehan
Lord Jim by JOSEPH CONRAD abridged in 15 parts by KEITH DARVILL
Read by JOSS ACKLAND (6) Producer MAURICE LEITCH long wave only
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Weather report; forecast followed hy an interlude
