6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Libby Purves
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV NEIL HEAVISIDES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7 30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45. Thought for the Day
The Weather
Ice Age or heat wave, which way is our weather heading? Are we ever likely to be able to control the weather and so protect our food supplies? How much has history been made by the weather; was the Great Plague spread by the prevailing wind; and were the Highland
Uprisings exacerbated by the cold? Hubert
Lamb Professor Emeritus of the University of East Anglia, and Lionel Smith , agricultural meteorologist, Join Judith Chalmers to answer your questions. Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
(Repeated: Wed 7.45 pm) long wave only
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NEM, P 114; Give me the wings of faith to rise
(BBC HB 229); Psalm 42; Acts 1 vv 15-26 (Rsv);
0 happy band of pilgrims (BBC m 335) long wave only
The Geese in the Green Woollen Jackets by DAVID MARTIN
Read by Bill Hunter
Producer JUDITH ELLIOTT BBC Northern Ireland
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Can't Complain by ROBERT DAVIS
A lonely old lady latches on to all and sundry, boring them with her fictitious ' life story. But she discovers the truth about herself.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLET long wave only
It was a foot long, three inches in circumference and black and slimy. It had a small pointed head with feelers, and a stubby tail. What was it? '
Roger Lovegrove , Michael Tweedie and David George tackle more of your questions.
Presented by Derek Jones Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 2.5 pm) long wave only
Presenter Jenni Mills
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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Introduced by Chris Mohr Personal Wonders: chosen by ALISON BRUCE Talking Point.
Closing Time:
RON ALLDRIDGE goes to the zoo to find out what goes on when you are not about. Growing the Best (2): carrots and beetroot
- tips from CLAY JONES. The Crimson Chalice by VICTOR CANNING abridged in 12 parts by DOREEN ESTALL
Read by Martin Jarvis (1) In AD 450 Britain lies wracked by violence and predatory invaders, swarming to fill the vacuum left by the departure of the Romans. The stage is set for
Arthur the once and future king ' - but he is still to be born ...
(Music: Herrmann's
Symphony): long wave only
by EMILY BRONTE (1)
' In the 1970s, they advertised for architects and social workers, etc, to plan this place for an expected Liverpool baby boom. It would be exciting work, they said. But some were caught short with their trousers down.'
Producer ALISTAIR WILSON
by OLGA FRANKLIN with Boris Isarov 'as Lev Tolstoy
An impression of Tolstoy's only visit to London. In 1861 he was 33 years old, with a considerable literary reputation in his own country. He was also an impoverished member of the Russian aristocracy, disdainful, unpredictable, quarrelsome and practically toothless. In bis trunk, together with a fashionable new suit, he carried the first draft, live times rewritten, of a new novel - War and Peace.
England is thought the most civilised country in the world. I want none of it. This kind of civilisation repels me. I feel a positive nausea. Narrator GABRIEL WOOLF
Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS
The Trumpet Major (2)
Presenters
Robert Williams and Joan Bakewell
S.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
including Financial Report
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain
Chairman Robert Robinson 2: London John Clark
(computer salesman) Lef Lubett
(London Metal Exchange) Hilary Potts (secretary) Ray Ward
(Civil Service librarian) including Beat the Brains Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN. Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS
(Rptd: Thurs 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care.
Producer ALISON RICHARDS (Repeated: Sat 3.25 pm)
(Details: Friday 11.5 am)
The final programme in a series in which Marian
Foster introduces a choir. This week: Southampton
UniversityMadrigal Society conductor DAVID BROWN accompanist ROBIN BOWMAN BBC Bristol
' I won't be responsible if you live on your own is a remark that doctors and well-meaning relatives make to elderly blind people.
Margaret Ford discusses some of the issues involved in these situations. Introduced by David Scott Blackhall Producer THENA HESHEL
Presented by Colin Ford Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
John Morgan reporting
A ten-part adventure serial in time and space by James Follett
The crew of the starship Challenger have escaped from the dangers found aboard its sister ship, only to discover that the Challenger itself has vanished!
Directed by Glyn Dearman
(At the time of recording, the cast were members of the BBC Radio Drama Company)
The Painted Veil (2) long wave only
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Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
12.15-12.23* am Shipping forecast; inshore forecast
