Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 279,939 playable programmes from the BBC

06:00

News Briefing

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 06:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Source: Additional Research

06:10

Farming Today

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 06:10 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Source: Additional Research

06:25

Shipping

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 06:25 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Source: Additional Research

06:30

Today

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 06:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Including 6.45 Prayer for the Day, 7.00, 8.00 Today's News, 7.30, 8.30 News Headlines, 7.45 Thought for the Day

Source: Additional Research

08:45

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 08:45 on BBC Radio 4 FM

by John Le Carre. Abridged Reading (2)

Source: Additional Research

09:05

Tuesday Call

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 09:05 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Rambling and Walking

Source: Additional Research

10:00

News

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Source: Additional Research

10:02

From Our Own Correspondent

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 10:02 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Source: Additional Research

10:30

Daily Service

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 10:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Source: Additional Research

10:45

Morning Story

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 10:45 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Green Shoes by Jenny Oldfield

Source: Additional Research

11:00

News

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 11:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Source: Additional Research

11:05

Thirty-Minute Theatre

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 11:05 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Walking the Dog by Roger McGough

Source: Additional Research

11:35

Wildlife

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 11:35 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Source: Additional Research

12:00

News

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 12:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Source: Additional Research

12:02

You and Yours

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 12:02 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Source: Additional Research

12:27

Miles of London

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 12:27 on BBC Radio 4 FM

(5) Entertainment

Source: Additional Research

12:55

Weather

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 12:55 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Source: Additional Research

13:00

The World at One

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 13:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Source: Additional Research

13:40

The Archers

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 13:40 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Source: Additional Research

14:00

News

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 14:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Source: Additional Research

14:02

Woman's Hour

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 14:02 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Source: Additional Research

15:00

News

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 15:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Source: Additional Research

15:02

The Red and the Black

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 15:02 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Part 1 (new series)

Source: Additional Research

16:00

Happy Returns

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 16:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Writer and botanist Nicholas Guppy talks to June Knox-Mawer

Source: Additional Research

16:15

Roderick Jones

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 16:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Retired principal baritone at Covent Garden talks to Teleri Bevan

Source: Additional Research

16:45

Story Time

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 16:45 on BBC Radio 4 FM

The Boob by Capt W E Johns

Source: Additional Research

17:00

PM

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 17:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Source: Additional Research

17:50

Shipping Forecast

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 17:50 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Source: Additional Research

17:55

Weather

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 17:55 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Source: Additional Research

18:00

The Six O'Clock News

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 18:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Including Financial Report

Source: Additional Research

18:30

Brain of Britain 1981

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 18:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Source: Additional Research

19:00

News

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 19:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Source: Additional Research

19:05

The Archers

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 19:05 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Source: Additional Research

19:20

Medicine Now

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 19:20 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Source: Additional Research

19:50

Something to Perfection Brought

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 19:50 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Source: Additional Research

20:35

Talking About Music

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 20:35 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Each week Antony Hopkins explores a different musical work or topic, explaining his thoughts at the piano and illustrating them with records. This week Music and Shakespeare, including Romeo and Juliet

Source: Additional Research

21:05

In Touch

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 21:05 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Source: Additional Research

21:30

Kaleidoscope

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 21:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Source: Additional Research

21:59

Weather

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 21:59 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Source: Additional Research

22:00

The World Tonight

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 22:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Source: Additional Research

22:30

The Jason Explanation of Age

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 22:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Starring David Jason

Source: Additional Research

23:00

A Book at Bedtime

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 23:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Bevis: The Story of a Boy (2/15) by Rihcard Jefferies abridged in 15 episodes by Donald Bancroft. Read by Michael Williams. Producer Maurice Leitch

Source: Additional Research

23:15

The Financial World Tonight

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 23:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Source: Additional Research

23:30

The Great Instrumentalists

Tue 4^th Aug 1981, 23:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM

The Russian Cellist, Mstislav Rostropovich plays Haydn, Schumann, Chopin, Tchaikovsky (new series)

Source: Additional Research

00:00

News and Weather

Wed 5^th Aug 1981, 00:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Source: Additional Research

00:15

Shipping and Inshore Forecast

Wed 5^th Aug 1981, 00:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Source: Additional Research

00:23

Close down

Wed 5^th Aug 1981, 00:23 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Source: Additional Research

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While most of the data in the BBC’s Programme Index is drawn from Radio Times and BBC programmes pages, a minority of listings have been compiled using the BBC’s own historical documents and early BBC listings printed in contemporary newspapers.