News, weather, papers and sport
Market prices and intelligence, the weather, and what's new for farmers.
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Libby Purves
&,45' Prayer for the Day With THE REV BROOKE LANE
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by Pauline BUSHNELL
7.30. 8.30 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
nem, p 89; Awake, my soul, and with the sun
(BBC HB 403); Psalm 67; Acts 19. vv 21-34 (av);
Fight the good fight with all thy might <BBC hb 302) long wave only
The Company Wife byBETTYBURTON
Read by Elizabeth Proud 1 Kate raised herself on one elbow to turn the pillow onto its cooler side. She heard a noise from the servants' rooms, high on the roof of the next block of Bats. It was the sound of scuffling bare feet and a whispered argument. A door creaked shut, then all was quiet again.'
Presenter Jenni Mills
News, views and advice for consumers, including ADRIAN HOLLOW AY, Who advises on how to get the most out of your camera.
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Robin Day with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: the portrait painter June Mendoza.
Billy the Kid. 100 years after the death of the kid RO" ALLDRIDGE looks at how a killer became a folk hero.
Semi to Stately Home: SUSAN MARLING visits Canon Frome Court, where several families enjoy life in a country mansion.
Whose Wedding?: the royal quiz continued.
More Work for the Undertaker (11)
Queenie's Channel by DAVID WHEELER with Beryl Reid as Queenie . There are too many people in this world going about doing good, It's an epidemic, I don't want to be done good to, I want to be accepted for what I amor else put away. Now you know.' But a weekend alone with a broken television set brings
Queenie some surprises ...
Directed by MARGARET ET ALL
A six-part series
6: Sandstone and the Solway
David Bean ends his exploration of the Border country with the haaf net fishermen of the Solway Firth.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
A special edition of the new writing anthology, recorded before an invited audience, using favourite pieces of prose and poetry from the first three series. Introduced by Brian Thompson with BRIGIT FORSYTH TONY ROBINSON and songs by MARK BUNYAN Producer
KAY JAMIESON BBC
Manchester
George Wedell has spent a lifetime walking the corridors of power as civil servant, church administrator, university professor and bureaucrat. Tonight he proposes a new law of bureaucracy: ' Don't worry about a policy of your own; just stand your predecessor's on its head.'
BBC Manchester
King Solomon's Mines (3)
Presenters
Robert Williams and Susannah Simons on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
(Details: Friday 12.27 pm)
! Written by HELEN LEADBEATER
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
Tom Vernon travels out into the English summer to discover four towns in which there is still a holiday flowering of tradition.
The last town: Grantham The joust at
Belvoir Castle
Producer JENNY DE YONG
Why is it desirable to be normal? How objective are job interviewers?
Can psychology ever be an exact science? A few of the wide range of questions posed by listeners and discussed by Dr John Nicholson and Professor Noel Dilly. In the Chair
Sue MacGregor
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
The Hi-Tech Heist
includes the first major exhibition of PICASSO'S work to be held in London since 1967 at the Hayward Gallery; and Those Radio Times by SUSAN BRIGGS , a nostalgic scrapbook which recaptures the excitement of the early days of radio.
Presenter Paul Allen
Producer CARROLL MOORE
with Alexander MacLeod and voices and opinions from around the world
by J. R. R. TOLKIEN (19)
The Rain Forest (3) 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
