News. weather, papers and sport
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
presenters Libby Purves and Hugh Sykes
6 45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45. Thought for the Day
8.59 Continental Travel Information
A six-part series in which June Knox Mawer invites a traveller to talk about the one place, the one book, the one piece of music, to which he or she would choose to return in fact or fantasy.
3: Jonathan Raban, who would return to the Mississippi carrying Lawrence Sterne's
Sentimental Journey and a recording of American Pie. Producer
BARBARA CROWTHER
BBC Correspondents around the world cast their collective eye on a contemporary issue.
A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL
NEM, p l; Fill thou my life, 0 Lord (BBC JIB
271); Psalm 63; Acts 21. vv 15-26 (av); Put thou thy trust in God (BBC HB 313) long wave only
by Celia Dale
Read by Sheila Mitchell
A collection of stories about seals from all over the world.
This week
Peter Shaugnessy chooses the cape fur seal. Produced by ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
Presenter Jvnni Mills
12.55 Weather: programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced from Birmingham by Maureen Staffer
Just What I Need:
ANN TENNANT reports on a scheme to provide tailor-made aids for disabled people.
Summertime Food: MARGARET HORSFIELD collects some ideas. Falling in Love: a mixture of memories of love and weddings. BBC Birmingham
Tolstoy Remembered (3)
by Tom Elliott
'The thing about you is, you'll be rich but never lucky. That'll be five bob and send the next 'un in will you?'
A promenade gypsy at Blackpool in the summer of 1952 sets the seal on young Leslie's future.
But not even he can cope with the monstrous piece of ill-luck which takes away his hopes just at the point when they seem to be fulfilled at last.
BBC Manchester
A series of four programmes about depression presented by Dr Dick Thompson ,
Assistant Director of the Mental Health Foundation.
1: ' Am I going mad. Doctor? '
DICK Thompson finds out what depression is and why people suffer from it. What is the difference between just feeling moody and fed up, and being a depressive, where everything is too much to cope with and life may not be worth living?
Producer SARAH ROWLANDS
King Solomon's Mines by H. RIDER HAGGARD abridged in ten parts by RONALD RUSSELL
Read by FRANK DUNCAN (10) Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
Presenters Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
As the cross-channel ferries embark on their busiest weekend of the year, Richard Hudson-Evans presents the programme live from
Dover Harbour.
Producer STEPHEN PHELPS Editor GEOFF DOBSON
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)
with Margaret Howard Producer JOHN SCOTNEY
Trevor Nunn
When he succeeded SIR PETER HALL as Artistic Director of the Royal
Shakespeare Company, Trevor Nunn felt that most of the Company regarded him as ' a juvenile who lived in a couple of rooms opposite the theatre '. Today, in the words of IAN MCKELLAN , there is no actor who has worked with him ' who isn't his devoted admirer and who wouldn't long to work with him again '.
Presenter Sonia Beesley
Producer KEITH SALMON
A panel including Lord George-Brown, Lord Marsh and Clive Jenkins tackle the issues raised by an audience from Burton, Christchurch, Dorset
Chairman David Jacobs
BBC Bristol
includes the Royal Ballet School which has been celebrating its jubilee with a series of performances at Sadler's Wells.
Presenter Sheridan Morley Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
John Morgan reporting
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with Bill Wallis David Tate
Sheila Steafel Chris Emmett with the music of DAVID FIRMAN
Written by GUY JENKIN JOHN LANGDON. RICHARD
QUICK, JEREMY BROWNE , BOB SINFIELD , BRIAN BETHELL TONY SARCHET and PETER HICKEY. Producer
PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
The Rain Forest (10) long wave only
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
