6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and Wendy Jones
6.45* Prayer for the Day with FR ALBAN MCCOY
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
by JOHN LE CARRE (13)
conducts 55 minutes of interviews, conversation and discussion with his guests live in the studio. Including The Week So Far by Russell Davies.
Producer JENNY DE YONG
(Broadcast Sun 2.2 pmi Book, Down the Garden Path, £3.50, from bookshops
NEM p 75; 0 day of Cod, draw nigh (BBC HB 24);
Psalm 119 part 2; Acts 28, vv 1-10 (AV); 0 Lord, thou art my God <BBC hb 470) long wave only
Clap Handies. Clap Handies! Part 2 by FRED URQUHART
Read by FRASER KERR
Alice Buchan , baby-sitter extraordinary, spends a further evening with little Delia Blaikie. It is - if anything - even noisier than the first.
News. views and advice for consumers.
Presenter Bill Breckon
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Peter Hobday *'th voices and topics in and behind the headlines
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Among today's items
Guest of the Week: the author V. S. Pritchett.
Could It Happen Again?: CLAIRE MITCHELL talks to MIKE and LYNDA about the Possibility that the baby Lynda is carrying could have the same genetic deficiency from which their previous child died. Kidnapped (5)
Charlotte Cornwell in A Question of Divorce
A dramatic monologue by POSY COLTOF
You are having an affair with Peter, aren't you? "I said. The girl looked extremely
Confident. It was strange how quickly she took charge of the situation.
Yes," she said quietly.'
A woman recalls her husband's unfaithfulness, her fight to keep him and the inevitability of what followed.
Producer JOHN CARDY
A series in which busy People pause awhile and consider the views from their windows.
Winifred Foley lays aside her pen for a while to consider the view from her cottage on the fringe Of the ancient Forest of Dean.
Producer JOHN HARRISON
BBC Bristol
Annerton Pit (3)
Presenters Gill Pyrah and Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather;
Programme news
Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world including Financial Report
Sounds and scenes from a past year challenge the memories of residents
Terry Wogan and Ann Meo and guests Nancy Wise and Irene Thomas
Chairman Richard Stilgoe
Questions set by LIBBY SPURRIER
Producer HELEN FRY
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
A weekly investigation into accusations of unfairness, fraud and injustice.
Presented by Roger Cook (Repeated. Thurs 9.5 am)
by Scott Dobson starring Mike Neville and George House.
A north-eastern entertainment presenting a lighthearted guide to the comedy and music of Tyneside, with Little Billy Fane, The Northumbrian Traditional Group led by Joe Bennett, Katherine Tickell (Northumbrian pipes), The Shire Moor Marras, Marion Aitchison, Ralph Hawkes, Norman Shiel, Bill Zobell.
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad.
Reporter Tudor Lomas
Producer GERRY NORTHAM
Editor STUART SIMON
BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Thurs11-5 am)
includes Bartholomew Fair a National Youth
Theatre production at the Shaw Theatre; and a discussion about the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall. London.
Presenter Natalie Wheen
Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
with Alexander MacLeod and voices and opinions from around the world
by J.R.R. Tolkien
Prepared for radio in 26 episodes by Brian Sibley
[Starring] Ian Holm as Frodo, Michael Hordern as Gandalf, Robert Stephens
as Aragorn, William Nighy as Sam, Peter Woodthorpe as Gollum, Richard O'Callaghan as Merry, John McAndrew as Pippin, Douglas Livingstone as Gimli, David Collings as Legolas and Gerard Murphy as the Narrator
'I have come' said Frodo. 'But I do not choose now to do what I came to do. I will not do this deed. The Ring is mine!' And suddenly, as he set it on his finger, he vanished from Sam's sight. Sam gasped, but he had no chance to cry out, for at that moment many things happened.
(Gerard Murphy is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
Souvenir Tolkien posters available at £1.00 each (p and p incl) from Radio 4 Poster Offer [address removed] (POs and cheques payable to BBC Radio)
Theme music (record REH 415, cassette ZCR 415), from record shops
Bevis: the Story of a Boy (13) long wave only
Radio 4's international business report; market trends long wave only
Edward Cole presents musical nostalgia for late-night listening. long wave only
Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
