News, weather, papers and sport
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and Libby Purves
6 45" Prayer for the Day With CANON JOHN SMITH
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by pauline bushnell
7 30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Noel Edmonds conducts unlimited conversation, interviews and argument with his guests live in the studio.
Including RUSSELL DAVIES 'S look at The Week So Far Producer UN GARDHOUSE
Book, Down the Garden Path, £3.50, from bookshops
NEM, p 93; Father, 0 hear us, seeking now (BBC hb 260); Psalm 11; Matthew 5 vv 17-26 (av); Glorious things of thee are spoken
(BBC HB 176) long wave only
The End of the Season by PETER ROBERTS Read by Kenneth Fortescue
Richard Baker presents a blend of musical entertainment on record, mixing the well-loved with the less familiar, and occasionally including the spoken word.
Producer RAY ABBOTT
News, views and advice for consumers.
Presenter Jenni Mills
Some personal impressions, thoughts and opinions of country life as seen through the eyes and ears of PERCY EDWARDS-the countryman whose unique talents have made his name synonymous with the life and sounds of the countryside.
His guest is Eric More cambe - friend and fellow bird-watcher. Producer
JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Robin Day with voices and topics in and behind the headlines.
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
at the NT direct from the National Theatre on London's South Bank
Sue MacGregor talks to Sir Peter Hall. Felicity Kendal and The Cambridge Buskers amongst others; while Tony Barnfield reports on some of the more unusual activities of the NT, and their new production of Man and Superman in rehearsal.
The Temptation of Jack Orkney (3)
Producer JANET THOMAS
John Hates Mary by OWEN HOLDER
If John hates Mary, Harold loathes his wife Paula. So much so, that he's decided to kill her.
And being such a brilliant chap, he's planned the ultimate in perfect murder. But it all goes nightmarishly wrong!
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON
The first of six programmes in which we ask busy people to pause awhile and consider the views from their windows.
Today Malcolm Muggeridge looks out from his home in Sussex.
BBC Bristol
from Liverpool Cathedral Introit: Make a joyful noise (Mathias)
Responses (Navlor)
Psalm 33 (G. C. Martin )
Canticles: Leighton (Collegium Magdalenae Oxoniense)
Readings (NEB): Jonah 3 and 4; I Cor 10, vv 1-13
Anthem: Gloria in excel-sis (Weelkes)
Director of the Music
RONALD WOAN
Organist IAN TRACEY BBC Manchester
There Came Both Mist and Snow (8)
The news magazine
Presenters Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden
In the Chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE. Executive producer BOBBY JAYE
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
1 The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.'
Anthony Smith visited astrologer Julia Parker to have his birth-chart cast and to learn whether the fault is in our stars, ourselves, or even astrology. Producer RICHARD ELLIS
(Repeated: Thurs 9.5 am)
In August 1939, a bus load of men and women of various European nationalities and diverse talents was driven from Broadcasting House in London to Wood Norton near Evesham in Worcestershire. On arrival they plunged at once Into a demanding round-the-clock routine.
' It was something worth doing that I could do ... lovely job.'
' The atmosphere was hectic but rather cheerful ...'
' A tremendous experience, humanly, professionally, politically.... ' ' An extraordinary experience, like being in a new planet ... '
Alvar Lidell narrates the story of the BBC's Monitoring Service during the Second World War.
Script by NORMAN LONGMATE Interviews by ROBERT ROWE Reader SEAN ARNOLD Producer
BARBARA CROWTHER
The Rt Hon Roy Jenkins on his retirement as President of the European Commission, in conversation with Michael Charlton , about the Common Market, British politics and his own future.
Producer CAROLINE THOMSON (Repeated: Thurs 11.5 am)
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Natalie Wheen Producer JOHN BOUNDY
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 letters T T ' U ' and ' V ' which include TOPOL, Tw3 and ART TATUM, plus the programme's special mystery guest.
Producer
DANNY GREENSTONE
(Nextprog: Mon 12.27 pm)
Lord Jim (8) long wave only
long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
