News, weather, papers and sport
Presented from Northern Ireland by John Johnston A regional view of farming in the week ahead.
BBC Northern Ireland
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Libby Purves including
6.45* Prayer for the Day With THE REV MICHAEL HARE-DUKE
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by JOHN MARSH
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
A look ahead with Peter Donaldson
continues his . investigations of the BBC Sound Archives but once again comes to no serious conclusion.
The unpredictable live talk programme which looks at some of the predictable topics of the forthcoming week helped as always by the personalities who be in the news.
Producer PETER ESTALL
with Louise Botting
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NEM, P 84; Lord, as to thy dear cross we flee
(BBC HB 293); Psalm 51; 2 Corinthians 5. vv 11-21 (RSV); Jesu, thou joy of loving hearts (BBC HB 323): long wave only
Chinchilla by HARRIET O'CARROLL
Read by Elizabeth Proud ' I once had, or thought I had, a great love for an older man. I was reminded of him the other day when I discovered a gift he had given me. That time of grief, intensity and hope came back to me through a haze.'
Producer MITCH RAPER long wave only
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Some poetry requested by listeners.
Presented by Patricia Beer
Readers HUGH BURDEN GARY WATSON and PENELOPE LEE
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
Requests: Poetry Please!, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR long wave only
News, views and advice for consumers.
Presenter Bill Breckon Editor DAVID HARDING
with Barry Took and chief page-turners Michael McClain and Marie Sutherland.
Today the letters' W'
'X ', 'Y' and ' Z ' which include ROBB WILTON,
JACK WANER , ZERO MOSTEL plus the nroeramme's special guest Kenneth Williams.
Producer DANNY GREENSTONE
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Brian Widtake with voices and topics in and behind the headlines.
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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with Sue MacGregor Out of Joint: EIRONA
WISEMAN and orthopaedic surgeon GEORGE RAINE talk to MARY REDCLIFFE about congenital dislocation of the hip...
Talking Point.
Forthcoming Attractions: GORDON GOW previews films on BBCtv during the next fortnight.
Who Does What?:
SALLY DIPLOCK 'S Guide to Support Groups (1) - Gingerbread The Spy's Wife by REGINALD HILL abridged in 12 parts by BA MASON. Read by CAROLE HAYMAN (3)
Editor WYN KNOWLES long wave only
The First Men in the Moon by H. G. WELLS
An occasional series about people who are happy at their work.
This week: Joanna Monro - Actress
Producer PETER WINDOWS BBC Birmingham
No Fond Return of Love by BARBARA PYM abridged in 12 instalments by JANET HICKSON Read by Sheila Grant (1)
' There are various ways of mending a broken heart, but perhaps going to a learned conference is one of the more unusual ..."
Producer PAMELA BOWE
BBC Bristol
(Part 2: tomorrow at
4.30 pm)
Presenters Joan Bakewell and Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
Anger.
Frank Muir and Alfred Marks investigate the humour of the subject with appropriate jokes, quotes and press clippings, supported by the recorded voices of WOODY ALLEN , JOHN CLEESE and MARTY FELDMAN
MICHAEL FLANDERS and DONALD SWANN , PETER COOK and DUDLEY MOORE
When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.
(THOMAS JEFFERSON)
Producer SIMON BRETT
(Repeated: Wed 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
by Derek Walcott
Albert Perez Jordan is a retired schoolteacher and a poet. He lives, as he has always done, in Trinidad, but the place and the times have changed and children no longer chant English poetry but Black Power slogans. Jordan is looking back with regret and with amusement but he cannot escape the present.
Interviewer, RAY CHARLESON Directed by PENNY GOLD
(Stereo)
Does the ghost of George Bernard Shaw haunt the Malvern Festival Theatre, or is it merely the central heating? The Man in Grey at Drury Lane is seen only before smash hits, so how did he manage to miss My Fair Lady?
Margaret Robertson visits some haunted theatres and meets actors, producers and staff who have had unnerving experiences in them.
Producer MAXWELL BENNETT
Richard Cork presents reviews of Atlantic City, LOUIS MALLE'S prize-winning film and a new book, The World of Franz Kafka , edited by J. P. STERN.
Producer CLARE SELERIE Editor ROSEMARY HART
with David Simmons A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories.
Producer DEBORAH CQHEN
Lord Jim (11) long- wave only
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
