6.25 Shipping forecast long leave only
Presenter Brian Redhead and Libby Purves
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV PATRICK FORBES
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by DILLY BARLOW
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Noel Edmonds conducts unlimited conversation, interviews and arguments with his guests live in the studio.
Including The Week So Far by RUSSELL DAVIES
Producer IAN GARÐHOUSE long wave only
long wave only
Book, Down the Garden Path, £3.50, from bookshops long wave only
NEM, p 13: My God, I love thee (BBC HB 276); Psalm 116; Matthew 6, vv 19-34 (AV); Love, unto thine own who earnest condescending (BBC HB 523): long wave only
The Treasure by J. J. MALING
Read by Peter Toddenham long wave only
long wave only
Richard Baker presents a blend of musical entertainment on record, mixing the well-loved with the less familiar. Producer RAY ABBOTT long wave only
Presenter Jenni Mills
Gloom i Broadcast Men 6.30 pm)
12.55Weather; programme news
Presenter Robin Day with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
long wave only
Introduced by Sue
MacGregor Guest of the Week:
The Rt Hon Lord Thomson of Monifieth.
When Daddy Does the Housework : NATALIE WHEEN meets people who have reversed some of the accepted roles of the sexes.
The Wataita Love
Strangers: ANNE WARREN spent three years with Voluntary Service Overseas in Kenya. The Spy's Wife (10) long wave only
So Does the Nightingale by SHELAGH DELANEY As dad lies in his bedroom dying, Alice reveals her plans for a new independent life, shocking her nearest and dearest. She may not be young, but the vital juices still flow as strongly as ever!
Directed by PAT TRUEMAN
Today's window gazer is the actor Michael Hordern who considers the view from his cottage beside a trout stream in Berkshire. Producer JOHN HARRISON
from Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
Introit: Bethlehem Down (Peter Warlock )
Responses (Howells) Psalms: 136, 137, 138 (Lloyd, Ley)
First Lesson: I Maccabees 2, vv 49-end
Canticles: Aedis Christi (Sebastian Forbes ) Second Lesson: 1
Corinthians 15, vv 20-34
Anthem: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day (John Gardner )
Organist SIMON PRESTON Assistant organist FRANCIS GRIER
Na Fond Return of Love (8)
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)
A weekly investigation into accusations of unfairness, fraud and injustice.
Presented by Roger Cook (Repeated: Thurs 9.5 am)
by Tim Rose Price
A dramatised feature recounting the escape across England of Charles II after his defeat at Worcester. Taken from his own account dictated to Samuel Pepys at
Newmarket in 1680, and other accounts by those who assisted him.
with Ballad sung by TERRY MOLLOY
Other parts played by members of the cast
BBC Birmingham
(Stereo/Binaural)
The North Sea-Saw
There are two sides to
North Sea oil wealth. One is the money it brings: four billion pounds to the Government this year alone from special oil taxes. But there are also bad effects on ordinary industry. Mary Goldring asks whether we can avoid these by learning from the mistakes of other countries that have also ridden the North Sea-Saw.
Producer DAVID MORTON
(Repeated: Thurs 11.5am)
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
with Alexander MacLeod
A planxty was a piece of music written by the 17thand 18th-century itinerant Irish harpers as a tribute to particular friends or heroes.
Planxties and verses by TurloughO'Carolan (1670-1738) provide the backbone of Philip Hammond 's portrait of this great Irish harper. Reader AINGEAL GREHAN Producer david byers (First broadcast on Radio Ulster)
The Worm Forgives the Plough. 3: The Third Day of Creation' long wave only
long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude