News, weather, papers and sport
Marketpricesand intelligence the weather, and what's new for farmers.
Producers
LESLIE COTTINGTON and MARTIN SMALL
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and Libby Purves
6.45. Prayer lor the Day With ROSEMARY WAKELIN 71 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
3: passion
conducts 55 minutes of interviews, conversation and discussion with his guests live in the studio. Producer IAN CARDHOUSE
Book, Down the Garden Path, £3.50, from bookshops
NEM, p 9; My God, my King (BBC HB 13);
Canticle 6, ptl; Wisdom of Solomon 7, v 28 to 8, v 13 (RSV); Sing to the Lord (BBC HB 19) long wave only
by Jill Norris.
Read by Sheila Mitchell
'Nowadays Susan's mother was always visiting Mrs Bell and having "sittings". It wasn't clear to Susan just what "sittings" were, but she did know they sometimes made her happier. She also knew her father did not approve and said that they would do more harm than good'
Presenter Bill Brcckon
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Among today's items Guest of the Week: the Australian-born pianist, Gwenneth Pryor. Now He's at Home All
Day: JILL BURRIDGE talks to a wife whose husband has recently retired. Three stories by SEAN O'FAOLAIN. read by T. P. MCKENNA 3: Childybawn
by John Ashe
with Ian Lavender as Roly Gilmore
Roly Gilmore, gentleman burglar, has been released from prison and the police are rather keen to discover what he did with the haul from the job he was brought in for...
(BBC Bristol)
(First broadcast in 1978)
(Stereo)
A series of six talks in which events from the past are recalled by a sight, sound, smell, taste or touch.
1: Prams, Poets and Painters
Reflected by Mervyn Levy
Presented by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas In the Shropshire countryside Bob Danvers-Walker discovers a working farm museum, and in the Scottish Highlands Bob Watt follows the skirl of the pipers. Mollie Harris has bcen on holiday with her grandsons in the Welsh mountains and Eric Simms has followed a North Lincolnshire nature trail. In a Kent village Martin Muncaster talks to an artist and the characters he draws from life and Robert Powell visits the Norfolk Broads. And in the far south west Bob Forbes and Tom Salmon wallow in nostalgia.
Producer DON MOSEY BBC Manchester
A London Girl of the 13805 (4)
Presenters Robert Williams and Gill Pyrah on VHF until 5.55
5.5t 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 Aqn Meo and guests
Henry Kelly and Libby Purves
Chairman Richard Stilgse Questions set by LIBBY SPURRIER
Producer HELEN FRY
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40pm)
A weekly investigation into accusations of unfairness, fraud and injustice.
Presented by Roger Cook (Repeated: Thurs 9.5 am)
Uncomfortable new walking boots? Then why not do as John Hillaby suggests and sit wearing them in a bath of water while you listen to him and Alan Mattingly of the Ramblers'
Association offering listeners advice and opinions on all aspects of rambling and walking. In the Chair
Sue MacGregor Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad.
Reporter Tudor Lomas Producer DAVID Rogers Editor STUART SIMON BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Thurs 11.5am)
includes a new production of The
Beggars Opera by John Gay , performed by Scottish Opera at the Edinburgh International Festival; and The Four Seasons, a film written and directed by M'A'S'U star. Alan Alda. Presenter
Stephen Phillips Producer
CLARE SELERIE-GREY
with Alexander MacLeod and voices and opinions from around the world
by J. R. R. TOLKIEN (26)
Black Mischief (8) 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
