Presented from the South East by Bryan Platt
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Libby Purves
6.45* Prayer for the Day With CANON JOHN GUNSTONE
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Part 2
8.59 Continental Travel Information
Exploring Outer Space 1 takes off like a spaceship and lands like an aeroplane.'
How much difference will the Shuttle make to space travel? Will we be able to build rockets in space and establish colonies there? What is Britain's part in space exploration? What is
Voyager 11 expected to find when it reaches
Saturn later this year? Dr Garry Hunt , head of the Laboratory for
Planetary Atmospheres, University College, London, joins
Sue MacGregor on a mission to answer your questions. Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
NEM, p 122; Christ the Lord is risen (BBC hb
100): Psalm 34, w 11-22; Matthew 28, vv 8-20 (AV); The strife is o'er, the battle done (BBC hb 114) long wave only
Speed Queen by JENNY OLDFIELD
Read by Sharon Duce
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
Another Time. Another Place by JESSIE KESSON
' " All I can say is better her than me! "
" I just refused! I refused point blank to have anything to do with Prisoners of War! Italians at that!
A good thing they didn't ask you, Jess! They knew better!
Your own man is still missing ..."
", , . in Italy."
Directed by MARILYN IRELAND . BBC Scotland
' One bright February day we saw a bat being mobbed by gulls. Why was it out in the sunshine and flvins so early in the year? Bob Stebbings Fred Slater and Peter Ferns tackle listeners' questions.
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
Presenter Jenni Mills
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor Talking Point.
Believe it or Not: astrologer RUSSELL GRANT takes a peep at the future and discusses the Taurus personality with SIAN PHILLIPS.
In the Mind's Euer: Mind Set determines how we see ourselves, others and the world we live in. MARK BROWN looks at ways we can set and unset our minds for the better. 5: If Only ...
Vinyl Magic:
PETER CLAYTON takes a whimsical look at hi-fi.
Up the Crdsslng
2: Name an' Address
byEDITHWUARTON dramatised for radio five parts by EII.EEN CULLEN with and 5 After her social disgrace. Lily finds herself clinging to the very fringes of society. She decides to try and determine if Simon Rosedale will take up his former proposal of marriage to her.
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
A series of six programmes
5: The Language of Science
Why is scientific jargon so difficult to understand? Sometimes it is deliberately obscure so the uninitiated cannot appreciate that fundamentally it is trivial! But science also has to give precise definitions to millions of quantities - each requiring a name. These names are normally chosen to honour eminent scientists. and David Jones investigates the best way to get one's name immortalised in science.
Producer MARTIN GOLDMAN BBC Scotland
Four contestants compete in the semi-final for the 1981 title, arranged by Garden News Chairman
John Timpson
Questions set by GEOFF AMOS
Producer TONY SHRYANE
BBC Birmingham
Talking to Animals
3: Blow Gently Down Your Nose
Presenters
Joan Bakewell and Robert Williams
5.50 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
10: North o/ England Dr John Kemp
(industrial medical officer) Dorothy Morton
(retired headmistress) Mark Elsen
(licensed taxi proprietor) David Winpenny (teacher)
The programme includes Beat the Brains, in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
Programme devised by JOHN t. WYNN
Questions set by IAN GILLIES Producer
RICHARD EDIS
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
An epic adventure in 12 parts in time and space including some helpful advice on how to see the Universe for less than 30 Altairian dollars a day.
Fit the third: after being improbably rescued from certain death in the vacuum of space, Arthur Dent and his new companions now face a missile attack and certain death.
Starring Peter Jones as the Book
with Richard Vernon as Slartibartfast
and Simon Jones as Arthur Dent, Geoffrey McGivern as Ford Prefect, Stephen Moore as Marvin, Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox, Susan Sheridan as Trillian, David Tate as the Computer
(Repeat)
(Stephen Moore is a National Theatre player)
A Portrait of Sir William Herschel
In the first of a new series of 13 programmes, Robin Ray traces, with records, the artistry and achievement of some of the world's greatest musicians.
This week: the Irish tenor John McCormack Producer
CHRISTINE HARDWICK
Too Much. Too Little or Just Right?
When the In Touch team visited Liverpool recently, local people were invited to participate in a forum about the programme, and today's edition includes some excerpts from that discussion.
Listeners from all parts of the country are invited' to add their comments in the off-air phone-in which follows the programme from 9.30-10.0 on [number removed]. Presented by Peter White
Producer THENA nESHEL
Free quarterly bulletins summarising information broadcast, available from Room 816, Broadcasting House, London WIA IAA
Edwin Mullins presents a review of the RSC's new production of The Knight of the Burning Pestle at the Aldwych Theatre, London; and from
America, a report on music in New York.
Producer CARROLL moore
The People of the Sea (2) lorig wave only
long wave only
and other folk songs arranged by Hoist,
Vaughan Williams. Bridge and Grainger, played by the ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA with the AMBROSIAN SINGERS gramophone records
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
