Producer LESLIE COTTINGTON
A note from Religious Affairs Correspondent Gerald Priestland
6.55 Weather; programme news
A weekly review
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN
BBC Birmingham
with Norman Tozer
(Broadcast last Thursday)
7.55 Weather: programme news
with Tony Lewis
This week direct from Cardiff featuring
Personalities involved in tile day's opening Rugby Union International of the season - WALES vENGLAND. Plus the rest of the news.
A Radio Sport and OB production
with Bernard Falk.
Including NIGEL COOMBS with the latest news on the travel and holiday scene: ERIC TOBITT with leisure ideas and a look at what's worth watching on ' the box'.
Producer JENNY MARSHALL
Editor GEOFF DOBSON
with John Ardagh
Producer WALTER WALLICU
Hugo Young views the past week through the eyes of backbench MPs.
New Every Morning. page 110: Beloved. let us love (BBC HB 373): Psalm 16; John 15. vv 9-17 (RSV); Love divine, all loves excelling (BBC HB 329)
with Margaret Howard (Broadcast yesterday)
BBC Correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people.
Presenter Louise Botting With inflation still well into double figures, high interest rates and new products being launched every week in the savings market. Money Box is on hand to unravel, explain and advise.
A Financial World Tonight production
The last seven days put in a questionable way by Barry Took to Alan Coren
Hunter Davies Richard Stilsoe Jane Walmsley
Compiled by JOHN LANGDON and the producer ALAN NIXON
(Repeated: Mon 7.20 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
'Ihe Rt Hon
Michael Foot , MP Teddy Taylor , up
Lady. Antonia Fraser Emrys Roberts from Carmarthen, Dyfed
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The team dips into the heap of listeners' questions.
by Jaroslav Hasek dramatised in five parts by Barry Campbell from the translation by Cecil Parrott
with Richard Griffiths as Svejk and
A new serialisation of the classic Czech satire of life in the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the First World War. It is the tale of the progress of Josef Svejk, a dog-seller from Prague, officially classified as an idiot but in fact a deeply intelligent and cunning man, through the frequently lunatic, often sadistic bureaucracy of the Austrian military machine. As Svejk says himself: A monarchy as chaotic as this ought not to exist at all.'
BBC Birmingham
A series of five programmes chronicling colonial life in Africa. compiled from the memories of the men and women who worked there. 2: Sanders of the River - The DO in the African Bush
Charles Allen talks to the men who went out at the height of colonial rule to administer huge areas as District Officers. Their work was hard, sometimes dangerous, nearly always lonely.
Some of their experiences seem remarkably close to their fictional counterpart - Sanders of the River.
Producer HELEN FRY
Book (same title), £6.95, from bookshops
A personal portrait of Greek film actress and socialist mp
Melina Mcrcouri
Six programmes
3: All in the Mind
Suggestion can be a powerful force in medicine. Robert Eagle investigates how it is being harnessed by some alternative practitioners to help patients heal themselves.
Producer JANE WOOD
An irreverently critical look back at the news.
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
Another round of animated table talk. bounced off current public and private preoccupations.
Musical interlude by INSTANT SUNSHINE
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Richard Baker presents a blend of musical entertainment on records. Producer RAY ABBOTT
The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells dramatised for radio by Terry James with Hywel Bennett as Bedford and William Rushton as Cavor.
This is the first play in an occasional series that follows the writing of science-fiction from the turn of the century to the present day.
July 1900: as a result of discovering a substance that defies gravity. Cavor, an idealistic man of science, finds himself with Bedford, a likeable young opportunist, in a sphere heading for the moon....
Two chaps on a beach, Haydn Wood and David Bradshawe
Directed by Glyn Dearman
Why do we have to sleep? To recover from the stresses and strains of the day? To rehearse for the next? Or perhaps for no reason at all?
Geoff Watts examines some of the theories that have been advanced to explain our daily need for unconsciousness.
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
An evening meditation led by Stephen Whittle
BBC Manchester
For people who live and work in the country - or would like to. Introduced by Jeanine McMullen
Producer SARAH PITT
BBC Bristol
Folk music of the world with Jeremy Siepmann
gramophone records
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
