News, weather, papers and sport
Presented from the North by Ken Ford
A regional view of farming in the week ahead
BBC Manchester
C.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Brian Redhead reports from Blackpool on the opening day of this year's Trades Union Congress. in London John Timpson
6.45* Prayer for the Day with SISTER MARTINA
7 0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
A look ahead with Dilly Barlow
f: Italy by Bike
Unpredictable conversation from the personalities who will be making this week's news. Kenneth Robinson sometimes mentioned. Producer PETER ESTALL
Series offiveprogrammes 2:Mala Young
This young mother was seriously ill, but instead of seeing her condition as a disaster, she found ways of coping with whatever came along. She spoke to
Jocelyn Ryder-Smith about her approach to life.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
NEM, p 25; Come, my way, my truth ; Psalm 27,
Part 1; Wisdom of Solomon 9. vv 17-18 and 10, vv 9-14 (RSV); Love divine all loves excelling (BBC HB 329) long wave only
by Jill Norris
Read by Sheila Mitchell
Brian Johnston visits Winchcombe, Gloucs
The facts and fallacies of dieting.
Presenter David Pontlng Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Fri 4.5 pat)
Presenter Jenni Mills Editor DAVID HARDING
of Myths and Legends The last in the present series
Does the Loch Ness monster really exist? Is there life after death?
Why do fingers and toes go all crinkly in the bath? All these and many more questions are answered by David Jason Sheila Steafel and Jon Glover
Script by LAURIE ROWLEY
ANDY HAMILTON , GUY JENKIN COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH , RORY MCORATH , CHARLIE ADAMS and BOB SINFIELD
Music by NICK BICAT
Lyrics by ALISTAIR BEATON Producer JIMMY MULVILLE
(Repeated: Tues 10.30 pm)
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 by Sue MacGregor including during the week some Talking Point discussions, your letters and other items.
Among those today
Collecting: advice and anecdotes from DAVID BENEDICTUS.
Curtain Up ... on the world of arts and entertainment with TONY BARNFIELD.
A Forgotten Season by KATHLEEN CONLON abridged in nine parts by DOREEN ESTALL Read by PATRICIA ROUTLEDGE (3) Editor WYN KNOWLES
Fritz Spiegl keeps his customary keen eye and ear on what's written and said.
BBC Manchester
A London Girl of the 1880s (7)
Presenters
Gordon Clough and Gill Pyrah 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
(Repeated: rues 1.40 pm)
(Revised repeat of 9.5 am)
The Prisoner's Wife by Bill Lyons with Angela Pleasence as Mary Michael Graham Cox as Steve.
What do you do when you lose your job? Steve blows his redundancy money on a 'character cottage' and moves from South London to Somerset. It's a wonderful life for the kids, and the village really is a self-contained community - but perhaps a bit too self-contained for anybody's good.
Directed by Jane Morgan (Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)
includes James Mason 's autobiography Before I Forget; The Flame Trees of Thika, a seven-part ITV serial based on the book by Elspeth Huxley. starring Hayley Mills ; and Oblomov, the award-winning Russian film directed by Nikita Mikhalkov.
Presented by Paul Vaughan Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
Editor ROSEMARY HART
9.59 Weather
Charles Wheeler reporting with voices and opinions from around the world Editor ALASTA1R OSBORNE
Presented by Peter Evans What is happening in science? A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories.
Producer RICHARD ELLIS
The Turn of the Screw by HENRY JAMES abridged in five episodes by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by Anna Massey (1) ' In going on with the record of what was hideous at Bly I not only challenge the most liberal faith - for which I little care; but - and this is another matter - I renew what I myself suffered.' Producer MAURICE LEITCH (First broadcast in 1977) long wave only
long wave only
A sequence of Chopin waltzes plaved by ANDRAS SCHIFF at a piano recital in the Queen
Elizabeth Hall , London. (First broadcast on R3) long wave only
Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
12.15-12.23* am
Shipping forecast and inshore forecast
