6,25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0, 8.8 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.36, 8.3t News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
A short story by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Read by Roy Dotrice
Producer MAURICE LEITCH
8.59 Continental Travel Information
Margaret Percy with your criticisms and comments on the BBC. Producer john shrine
(Repeated: Sun 5.0 pm)
After last week's examination of the Brixton riots,
Paul Reynolds , the BBC's New York Correspondent, looks back to the 60s and the Black riots in some of America's major cities to see what has been done there to encourage better community relations.
A Radio News production by TIM MABY
(Repeated: Sat 3.0 pm)
NEM, p 58; Father most holy (BBC HB 167);
Canticle 2; Romans 13, vv 1, 7-14 (RSV); Come, ye people (BBC in 270) long wave only
Figure of Eight bV SYLVIA HAYktON
Read by Robert Rietty Producer MITCH RAPER
The nuthatch is a DIY bird. it plasters the entrance to its nest and lays a bark carpet. Even its food is held in a vice and hammered open. Introduced by Jim Flegg BBC Bristol
Presenter Jenni Mills Editor DAVIB HARDING
12.55 Weather: programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced from Birmingham by Maureen Staffer
Full Circle. GYN FREEMAN on the revival of interest in spinning-wheels. A Child in 20.000: infantile hypercalcaemia is a very rare condition which has mental and physical effects. )AARGARET HORSFIELD reports.
Pastures New: country-writerharrysoanrecalls a visit to the Alms. BBC Birmingham
A Death Out or Season 13)
Taptoe Through Um Telephones
A comedy thriller by JOHN FLETCTIF. R
Gerald is a keen young telephone tapper working for ' Britain's fastest growth industry
Computer Espionage. He spends his spare time playing with electronic gadgetry in his attic while his wife downstairs consoles herself with the gin bottle. Meanwhile intrigues and conspiracies are afoot at the Computer Centre. Gerald is called in to investigate but also inadvertently discovers that his wife has friends in unexpected quarters. The play has a happy ending.
Radiophonic music and effects by DICK MILLS Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIH BBC Bristol
Geoffrey Smith talks to
Ken Ford about the week in his and your garden. Producer UN FORD BBC Manchester
John Russell Brown with the seventh of eight programmes. The Making of a Dramatist: Stephen Poliakoff
' I write for the theatre because it is the writer's medium, the writer is the most important thing in terms of the play. Also I enjoy the live aspect of theatre, and the fact that a play goes on evolving once you've written it.'
JOHN RUSSELL BROWN talks to playwright Stephen Poliakoff about his approach to writing for the theatre.
Producer DENNIS SIMMONS
Bahama Crisis by DESMOND BAGLEY abridged in ten parts by BARRY CAMPBELL
Read by LEWIS FIANDER (7) Producer PAMELA HOWE
BBC Bristol
Presenters
Gordon C lough and Susannah Simons on VlIF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
Half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world including Financial Report
with (live Jacobs bringing you stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport, including Continental Travel Information
Producer Stephen PHELPS Editor ceoff DOBSON
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from the BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days. Producer PAT PRYOR
(Repeated; Sat 10.45 am)
< Repeated: Sat 4.16 pm)
The Rt Hon Sir Richard Marsh Jean Rook
Laurie Taylor Paul Boateng from Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol iRcpeuted: Sat 1.10 pm) Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? on Thursday at 6.30 to: Any Aiiswersf,
BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
reviews John Kennedy Toolo's Pulitzer Prize winning novel A
Confederacy of Dunces; and a new production of John Arden 's Serjeant
Musgrave's Dance at the Cottesloe Theatre. Presented by Michael Billington
Producer Clare SELERIE Editor ROSKMARY HART
with Alexander M^Leod and voices and opinions from around the world
with Bill Wallis
David Tate , Chris Emmett Sheila Steafel and the music of David Firman Written by GUY jenkin , JOHN LANGDON , RICHARD QUIRK, JEREMY BROWNE , BOB SINFIELD ,
BRIAN BETHELL , TONY SARCHET and peter HICKEY. Producer PAUL MAYHEW - ARCHER
(Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm)
The Sea Wolf 15) long wave only
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An imaginary sale of the BBC Sound Archives attracts playwright Alan Plater to browse through the catalogue and choose the recordings he would most like to own.
Producer JEREMY sircrall long wave only
with Dilly Barlow
Radio 4 goes up tempo long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
