Presented from the South East by Bryan Platt
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Libby Purves
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV DR JOHN NEWTON 7 0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by CHRISTOPHER SLADE
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
A look ahead. with Edgar Martin
again tries to set the record straight with the help of the BBC Sound Archives.
(Repeated: Fri 11.45 pm)
Unpredictable conversation from the people who will be in the news this week.
Unrepeatable material supplied by Kenneth Robinson.
Producer PETER ESTALL
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NEM, p 30; Ah. holy
Jesus. how hast thou offended (BBC HB 500); Canticle 5; Genesis 12, vv 1 and 5, and 13. vv
5-17 (rsv); Rock of ages. cleft for me (BBC HB 286) long wave only
by Jill Norris
Read by Sandra Clark
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Brian Johnston visits
Elie and Earlsferry, Fife long wave only
Presented by Dannie Abse Readers WILLIAM SQUIRE and FRANCES HOROVITZ Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Fri 4.5 pm) Requests to:
Poetry Please!,
BBC Bristol, BS8 2LR long wave only
Presenter Jenni Mills Editor DAVID HARDING
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Presenter Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor , including during the week some
Talking Point discussions, Your Letters and other topics.
Among these today
But it Doesn't Like Me: PETER SPINKS looks into current thinking about food allergy.
You Have to Have a Bun or Else You Can't Ride
Side-Saddle; RUTH CHATTO talks to JANET MACDONALD and VALERIE FRANCIS. Secret Places by JANICE ELLIOTT abridged in ten parts by JANET HICKSON
Read by FLEUR CHANDLER (10) (Music: Arnold's Second Flute Concerto)
Editor WYN KNOWLES long wave only
A Voice in My Hand by CHARLOTTE HASTINGS
The last in a six-part series about people whose jobs bring them directly or indirectly into confrontation with the world at large. Sergeant Major
Producer ADRIAN MOURBY BBC Birmingham
Wild Strawberries (5)
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
(Repeated. Tues 1.40 pm)
(Revised repeat oj 9.5 am)
by Muriel Spark dramatised by Pauline Spender
with Sian Phillips as Sister Alexandra and Margaret Robertson as Sister Gertrude
A sparkling satire on the Watergate affair. At the Abbey of Crewe, the sisters are about to elect a new Abbess. Sister Alexandra has no doubts whatsoever that she will he elected. She has reasons to be confident: the cloisters are bugged.
But the first glimmers of trouble begin when Sister Felicity's thimble goes missing.
Directed by David Spenser
(Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)
Every year on the Monday following his installation, the new
Lord Mayor of London gives a banquet in honour of his predecessor. John Hosken will describe the scene in the Guildhall, London, before the new Lord Mayor proposes a toast to Her Majesty's Ministers. The Prime Minister, The Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher , MP, replies with what is traditionally a major speech on the country's position in international affairs.
Producer CAROLINE ELLIOT
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Presented by Peter Evans
A review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories.
Producer JULIAN BROWN
The Magic Glass (6) long wave only
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
