6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Libby Purves and Hugh sykes
6.45* Prayer for the Day withPEGGYMAKINS
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Readbypaulinebushnell
7.30,08.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
conducts 55 minutes of interviews, conversation and discussion with her guests live in the studio.
Producer IAN GARDHOUSE
Book, Down the Garden Path, £3.50, from bookshops
NEM, n 58; Be near us,
Holy Trinity (BBC HB
165); Psalm 150; Acts 17, v 24 to 18, v 4 (AV); o God of truth, whose living word (BBC HB 359) long wave only
Glad Tidings by GRAHAM EDWARDS
Read by Sion Probert
'He stood ankle deep in the tidal waves as he stared at the bottle, The neck appeared to be carefully corked and it rode high and buoyant on the water Why seal an empty bottle, he wondered, " unless ... '''
Presenter Bill Breckon
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Robin Day
by the Conservative Party
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Verity Lambert , Chief
Executive, Euston Films
Sealand: MOLLY PRICE-OWEN visits a disused fortress, seven miles out at sea, the home of ROY AND JOAN BATES.
Reading Your Letters. Paris Report: from HELENE VERET.
More Work for the Undertaker (6) long wave only
Not Known at this Address
A radio play by PETER JOHNSON with Don has everything: a good job, a wife and children, a girlfriend, amiable colleagues. But when he gets promotion life changes....
Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING
A six-part series
5: The Old Man of the Wall
David Bean continues his travels in the Anglo-
Scottish Border country and explores some relics of the Romans.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
Bernard Miles and Joss Ackland tell the story of The Mermaid Theatre from its inception in St John's Wood, via The Royal Exchange in the City of London, to its home in Puddle Dock. They celebrate the opening of the theatre this week following its face-lift.
Additional memories come from c. WALTER HODGES , SALLY MILES,
MAURICE DENHAM , NIGEL HAWTHORNE ,
ROBERT CUSHMAN , and messages from BERYL REID , HARRY SECOMBE and SPIKE UILLIGAN.
Script by RICHARD QUICK Producer
JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE
Illyrian Spring (11)
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
Last in the series 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)
Tom Vernon travels out into the English summer to discover four towns in which there is still a holiday flowering of tradition.
3: Appleby-in-Westmorland
Appleby Horse Fair
Producer JENNY DE YONG
(Repeated: Thurs 9.5 am)
What are the benefits of exploring space? How much is Britain involved in building space craft? What effect has the success of the Space
Shuttle had? Dr Garry Hunt , Head of the Laboratory for Planetary Atmospheres, University College, London, joins Sue MacGregor. Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
The Survivors
The big fish are in trouble, but how are the small fry managing in the murky waters of the recession? Is the secret of modern business success to stay small and work all hours? What do you do to survive, indeed succeed?
Presenter Mary Goldring Producer
JOSHUA ROZENBERG
(Repeated. Thurs 11.5am)
The Mermaid Theatre in London re-opened last night with a new musical based on BEN JONSON 'S Jacobean comedy Eastward Ho!; and in Scotland, the new
Pitlochry Festival Theatre is to be opened tomorrow by IIRH THE PRINCE OF
WALES, who will see the British premiere production of The Murder of Auguste Dupin.
Stephen Philips reports on these two occasions; Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
with Peter Paterson and voices and opinions from around the world
by J. R. R. TOLKIEN prepared for radio in 26 episodes by BRIAN SIBLEY starring and 18: Minas Tirith
' I must go to the defence of Minas Tirith,' said
Aragorn, ' but there is only one way that will bring me to the coastlands before all is lost. That is the Paths of the Dead.'
' The Tower trembles; to the tombs of kings doom approaches. The Dead awaken; for the hour is come for the oathbreakers.'
' The oath that they broke was to fight against Sauron, and they must fight therefore, if they are to fulfil it.' with and and MICHAEL SPICE
JOHN CHURCH, MARTYN READ and HAYDN WOOD Singer oz CLARKE
Music composed and conducted by STEPHEN OLIVER
Episode adapted by MICHAEL BAKEVVELL
Directed by JANE MORGAN
(Gerard Murphy is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
The Moving Toyshop (8) 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
