t25 ShipPing forecast
Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
PraveT for the Day THE REV DAVID PARTRIDGE
7-4- 8-8 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.4 Thought for the Day
Starting School
In the next few weeks, thousands of small children will be starting school for the first time, and thousands more transferring from primary to middle or secondary schools. What do parents and children need to know before school
Begins? How can we ensure that every child has a happy start at the new school? And what kind of help can both
Children and parents eXpect from the school?
JUlia Knight, teacher and mother of four, and Bernard Ashley, junior school headmaster, will be in the studio to answer Your questions. Barbara
"yers is in the Chair. Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
BBC Correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people.
nem, p 93; How glorious Sion's courts appear
(BBC HB 493); Psalm 34 vv 1-10; Wisdom of Solomon 1, vv 1-2. 12-15 (rsv); Happy are they (BBC hb 274) long wave only
Just in Time by BERTHA SKUDDEH Read by Maggie McCarthy Why was she so miserable? Hadn't she everything she could possibly want: a good husband who provided well for her, two lovely healthy children, the use of the car and many other mechanical aids to make her daily tasks more easy.
Producer JANE MARSHALL
The Backlog by TIM PERRY
■ Can bats pollinate flowers? '
Bob Stebbings ,
John Cooke and Bill Condry answer your questions on bats, reptiles, spiders, birds and plants. Presented by Derek Jones Producer
ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBGBristol
(Repeated: Sat 2.5 pm)
Presenter Jenni Mills
' The best of Leacock exists somewhere between the amiable nonsense of characteristic English humour (eg Wodehouse) and the hard-hitting and almost vindictive satire of much American humour.*
(J. B. PRIESTLEY )
A dramatisation of some of his best pieces featuring Freddie Jones with Geoffrey Matthew
Sheila Steafel. Bill Wallis Jingles by philip POPE
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Peter Ruff
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor
Have Job, Will Traeel:
SONIA BEESLEY meets some of the people who have decided to live and work abroad. 1: An Eye to the Greener Grass.
National Youth Theatre: TONY BARNFIELD meets founder director MICHAEL CROFT , playwright PETER TERSON , and some of the 600 youngsters involved in the company's 25th anniversary season. Kidnapped (9)
by STENDHAL (4)
... by Anthony Smith
A Profile of Barry Hines
"...a lot of English novels are very tepid - the minor emotional crises of the middle classes. I think there are far more important things to write about..."
Best-known as the author of Kes, Barry Hines has been writing for nearly 20 years. Recently June Knox-Mawer visited him in Chapeltown near Sheffield to discuss his work past and present.
Annerton Pit (7)
Presenters Gill Pyrah and Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain Chairman
Robert Robinson Fourth semi-final
28: Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Peter Symms (lecturer) Hugh Stewart (scientific information officer) Barry Jones (fitter)
Meirlys Lloyd-Hewitt (librarian)
The programme includes Beat the Brains in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN
Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS
(Rptd: Thurs 12.27 pm)
(Repeated; Wed 1.40 pm)
What's new in medical science? How well are the doctors looking after us? Is our money being spent to best effect? Geoff Watts reports
Producer LOUISE PURSLOW (Repeated: Sat 3.0 pm)
Anne Macnamara looks at the work of today's missionaries, especially in the emerging countries. Who are the missionaries today? And what is their role in the countries in which they are working? The programme tries to answer these questions. as well as investigating some of the dangers and problems which the missionary faces.
Producer PAUL COBLEY
Each week ANTONY HOPKINS explores a different musical work or topic, explaining his thoughts at the piano and illustrating them with records.
Talking newspapers exist in many areas to give the local news on tape to blind people - but are they selecting the right news? Should blind people get more or less specially recorded material? What are the chances of a national daily or weekly being recorded onto tape? These issues will be discussed by Jo Deaper , Chairman of Talking
Newspapers Association, with David Scott and Brian Reinecke , who are both involved in the production of talking newspapers, and Enid Dance , who conducted her own survey to find out what the blind readers thought about it all.
Presenter Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Blind listeners can phone in suggestions and comments relating to the programme on [number removed], 8.30-10.0 pm Free quarterly bulletins summarising information broadcast, available from Room 816, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA
includes the British premiere of Chapter Two by NEIL SIMON , starring MAUREEN LIPMAN at the Lyric Theatre,
Hammersmith; and a report from
Michael Oliver at" the Edinburgh International Festival on the National Theatre of Romania and the Conference on Television and the Arts.
Presenter Natalie Wheen Producers BRIAN BARFIELD and JOHN BOUNDY
with Alexander MacLeod and voices and opinions from around the world
Black Mischief (2) long wave only
long wave only
Symphony No 3, in D
DRESDEN STATE ORCHESTRA conducted by WOLFGANG SAWALLISCH long wave only
Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
