Producers
LESLIE COTTINGTON and MARTIN SMALL
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and Libbv Purves
6.45* Prayer for the Day With ROBERT RIETTY
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
The ordinary talk show with some extraordinary people, including
The Week So Far by Russell Davies and a song from Victoria Wood
Producer IAN GARDH0USE long wave only from 9.50
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(Broadcast Sun 2.2 pm)
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Book, Down the Garden Path, £3.50, from bookshops
NEM, p 17: Child in the manger (BBC HB 45);
Canticle 3; Romans 8, vv 22-39 (RSV); Jesu thou joy of loving hearts (BBC HB 323) long wave only
The Treasure Game by H. E. BATES
Read by Simon Prebble long wave only
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News, views and advice for consumers.
Presenter Jenni Mills
A five-part serial dramatised for radio by TED WILLIS from his own novel. with
1918: Captain Tremayne, aboard the armoured train The Royal Flush is travelling across Russia towards Ekaterinburg in an attempt to rescue the Russian royal family from the Bolsheviks.
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN (Broadcast Sun 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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with Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: the wine and gardening expert Hugh Johnson. Reading Your Letters. Cri de cocur: OLIVER POSTGATE on a subject which affects him deeply. Bookbinding: is for craftsmen. NATALIE WHEEN reports. Close to Home by DEBORAH MOGGACH abridged in 12 parts by ANN REES JONES. Read by FRANCES JEATER (12)
(Music: Stravinsky's Jeu de cartes): long wave only
by Dennis Potter
Starring Denholm Elliott as Harris and Ian Ogilvy as James
In a dingy flat in Moscow he sits alone - a traitor to his family, his friends, his colleagues. Then the international press descend upon him. and he gives his first interview - an interview which brings forth terrible, haunting memories.
Adapted for radio and directed by Derek Hoddinott
A BBC World Service Drama production
Christopher Serpell talks about the remote background to Hardy's Wessex - and what's happening to it in the 80s.
from the Chapel of Magdalen College, Oxford
Introit: Lift up your heads (Rose)
Responses (Rose)
Psalms 81 and 82 (Marsh, Battishill)
First Lesson: Exodus 12, vv 21-36
Canticles: The Short Service (Bernard Rose )
Second Lesson: Hebrews 10 vv 1-17
Anthem: The spacious firmament (Rose)
by Susan Hill, abridged in eight episodes by Brian Gear
Read by Gary Bond
Presenters Susannah Simons and Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
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
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
A weekly investigation into accusations of unfairness, fraud and injustice.
Presented by Roger Cook
A radio ballad by Ewan MacColl and Charles Parker on the three generations of The Herring Fisherman
Told by Sam Lamer of Winterton, Ronnie Balls of Yarmouth, George Draper of Lowestoft, Frank West of Gardenstown, with the crew of the Honeydew and men and women from the fishing communities of East Anglia and the Moray Firth
'You just couldn't see the ship. All you could see was the mast sticking out of the water! I think that if I'd lost my nerve I should a' lost my ship. I realised that if we kept dodging the ship, with the weight of the fish we had in her - she just wouldn't lift to the swell, everything was coming down on top of her!'
Set into song by Ewan MacColl
With A.L. Lloyd, Elizabeth and Jane Stewart, Ian Campbell, John Clarence and a section of the Clarion Singers under Katharine Thomson
The hymn sung by Lewis Cardno of Cairnbulg
The poem The Elusive Herring written and read by James Burnett of Gardenstown
(First broadcast on the Home Service. This programme won the Prix Italia in 1960)
What Price? What Defence?
The Government's decision to replace
Polaris with Trident - at a cost of at least £5,000 million - has now been approved by Parliament. But can we afford Trident as well as our other programmes of conventional weapons? Would British participation in a Rapid Deployment Force, mean sacrificing our existing defence commitments? Are rising costs going to force us to rethink our entire defence capabilities and our strategy?
Michael Charlton is in the Chair. Producer DAVID MORTON
includes a report from the Cannes Film Festival; and a review of Muriel Spark 's new novel,
Loitering with Intent.
Presented by Paul Allen Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAM
9.59 Weather
Peter Palerson reporting
by J.R.R. Tolkien, prepared for radio in 26 episodes by Brian Sibley
Starring
'This at least is plain,' said Frodo aloud to himself. 'The evil of the Ring is already at work even in the Company, and the Ring must leave them before it does more harm. I will go alone.
Some I cannot trust, and those I can trust are too dear to me. Strider will be needed at Minas Tirith now Boromir has fallen into evil. I will go alone. At once.' With
Music composed and conducted by STEPHEN OLIVER.
Episode adapted by BRIAN SIBLEY
Directed by JANE MORGAN
(Gerard Murphy is a member of the RSC)
Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural
Three stories by ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
Read by George Coulouris 1: The Occupant of the Room
' The instant the room was dark he realised that it was more than he could stand; for, with the blackness, there came a sudden rush of cold that he found it hard to explain.' Producer
BRIAN DEAN long wave only
Radio 4's international business report; market trends long wave only
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Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
