News, weather, papers and sport
Market prices and intelligence, the weather, and what new for farmers.
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and Libby Purves
6.45* Prauer for the Dai) THE REV ADAM FORD
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45' Thought for the Dan
The ordinary talk show with some extraordinary people, including The Week So Far by Busseir Davies
Producer IAN GARDHOUSE long wave only from 9.50
long wave only
Book, Down the Garden Path, £3.50, from bookshops long wave only
NEM p 79; for the beauty of the earth (BBC at 272); Canticle 6, pt 2; Romans15.vv7to13 and 16, vv 25 to 27 (Rsv); Praise, 0 praise our God (BBC HB 441) long wave only
The Bridge by H. E. BATES
Read by Shirley Dixon Producer MITCH RAPER long wave only
long wave only
long wave only until 11.20
Presenter Jenni Mills
News, views and advice for consumers.
A five-part serial dramatised for radio by TED WILLIS from his own novel
Ekaterinburg 1918:
Captain Tremayne has had to bring forward his attempt to rescue the Tsar and the Imperial Royal family from the Bolsheviks. He and Kasakov prepare for the assault on the House of Special Purpose.
5: The Secret of the Forest
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN
12.55 Weather; programme news.
Presenter Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: the actor and broadcaster, Hubert Gregg.
Reading Your Letters. Would You Stand for Thist: Bob Prizeman examines National Anthems in all their variety.
Do's, Don'ts and Dodges: sewing hints from BETTY FOSTER.
A Death Out of Season (I) long wave only
(Hubert Gregg , says
Thanks for the Memory, Radio 2, Wednesday
10.30 pm)
Rattling the Railings by PETER TERSON
, I'm frightened of living alone for the rest of my life: I might grow queer and hit the cheap sherry; I might wear purple hats and too many beads and rattle the railings of the park with my stick.'
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristot
(First broadcast in 1979)
Ian Mitchell , after nine years as a BBC foreign correspondent and foreign news editor, has been adjusting his perspectives on a round-the-world journey. Series producer FADDY O'KEEFFE
from
Canterbury Cathedral
Introit: Psallite Domino (Byrd). Responses
(Ayleward). Psalm 18 (Atkins, Buck, Eivey) First Lesson:
Deuteronomy 31, v 30 to 32, v 14
Canticles: Third Service (Anthony Piccolo ) Second Lesson: 1 John 1, v 1 to 2, v 6; Anthem: My soul, there is a country (Parry)
Organist ALLAN WICKS
Assistant organist DAVID FLOOD
Bahama Crisis
by DESMOND BAGLEY abridged in ten parts by BARRY CAMPBELL , read by LEWIS FIANDER (10)
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
with Susannah Simons and Joan Bakewell On VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
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)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
An investigation into accusations of unfairness, fraud and injustice.
Presented by Roger Cook (Repeated: Thurs 9.5 am)
Violet Carson recalls life before she donned a hair net and became Ena Sharples; how she and her younger sister joined the Market Street Cinema orchestra; being a solo with the BBC Northern Orchestra, singing in Children's Hour, playing 'anything and everything they threw at me' in Have a Go and becoming a radio actress. Introduced by Geoffrey Wheeler
BBC Manchester
Academics are protesting loudly over the Government's decision to cut spending on universities and polytechnics. Are the cuts just meant to balance the Treasury's books? Or has the Government got a clear idea for a new policy on higher education?
Presenter Mary Goldring
(Repeated: Thurs 11.5 am)
includes a review of Maybury, the BBC2 drama series set in the psychiatric unit of a general hospital; and The Art of David Munrow , a three-record set commemorating the versatility of this talented musician. Presented by Paul Vaughan
Producer ANNE WINDER
with David Lay
by J. R. R. TOLKIEN (13)
The Sea Wolf (8) long wave only
long wave only
long wave only
Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
