Producers MARTIN SMALL and LESLIE COTTINGTON ,
with Gerald Priestland
6.55 Weather: programme news
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
7.55 Weather: programme news
with Gerald Williams Featuring
Cricket: from Bombay, news on the second day of ENGLAND'S First Test with INDIA. DON MOSEY reports.
Snooker: The Coral UK Professional
Championship is well under way at Preston. Meet the personalities. A Radio Sport and OB production
Introduced by Bernard Falk , with help from IAN LYON and SUSAN MARLING , taking a critical look at the holiday travel and leisure scene.
Producer JENNY MARSHALL Editor ROGER MACDONALD For information sheets send a large sae to: Breakaway, BBC[address removed]
Desmond Wilcox looks at the weekly magazines. Producer HUGH PURCELL
Matthew toady views the past week through the eyes of backbench mps and peers.
Producer ELLIE UPDALE
New Every Morning, page 21; Christ is alive! Let Christians sing (BP 8):
Psalm 15; Philippians 2, vv 1-11 (RSV); How brightly beams the morning star (BBC HB 141)
Editor PADDY O'KEEFFE
Presenter Louise Bolting keeps you in touch with what's happening in the field of finance.
A Financial World Tonight production
(Repeated: Mon 10.2 am)
Barry Took with Alan Coren
Richard Ingrams. Sue Cook and Michael White
Written and compiled by JOHN LANGDON and the producer DANNY GREENSTONE (Repeated: Mon 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
Lord Mancroft
Professor Brian Morris John Palmer
Beata Brookes , MEP from Chepstow, Gwent
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Thirty Minutes by LEONARD GREEN with Gabriel Woolf as Charles Kay Adshead as Catherine ' We've known each other 20 minutes and unless we do something you'll be gone in another ten.'
Charles opens the door to Catherine, the young baby-sitter, while his wife gets their car ready to drive to the weekly bridge game. He spends a mere five minutes with the girl each week, but finds he is also opening an intense episode in his life during the same short moments.
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN. BBC Bristol (Repeated: Tues 11.5 am)
' Down here among the women, we have no option but to stay.'
Fay Weldon , reputed to be our most intelligent and hard-hitting feminist today. Her novel Praxis was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1979 and she is also a well-known playwright. As her new play After the Prize opens in New York, she talks to Janet Cohen. Producer
GWYNETH WILLIAMS
Let Neil Landor , together with the help of the BBC Reference Library, sort out your queries.
Producer SIMON ELMES (Rptd: Thurs 11.50 am) Questions on a postcard to: Enquire Within, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW
How We Caught the British Disease
A historical fantasy in five parts by ROY LEWIS 3: Educating an Industrial Nation including Richard Cobden , Thomas Arnold , Matthew Arnold , W. E. Forster ,
Robert Lowe , H. G. Wells Reporter played by Anna Massey
With JOHN LIVESEY , MICHAEL SPICE, MICHAEL DEACON, DOUGLAS BLACKWELL ,
ALEXANDER JOHN , MALCOLM HAYES , CHRISTOPHER SCOTT , GEORGE PARSONS , NICHOLAS COURTNEY ,
MARGARET ROBERTSON , GARARD GREEN. Producer RICHARD KEEN
A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families, with countrywide news and views on all matters of concern to them.
Presenter Marilyn Alan Editor MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence address: BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW
Tel: [number removed]Ext 7048
The last in a series of six programmes Faces of Cardiff
Cardiff, boom port of Victorian times. had one of the earliest immigrant communities of any size in Britain. Now a new wave of immigrants has come - from Asia. How do they relate to one another and to the citv at large? Compiled and produced by HERBERT Williams. BBC Wales
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
Music by PETER SKELLERN Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Richard Baker presents a blend of musical entertainment on record. Producer RAY ABBOTT
(Repeated: Wed 11.5 am)
A modern Russian comedy by Emil Bragansky and Eldar Ryazanov translated by Robert Dalglish and adapted for radio by Glyn Dearman with Ian Lavender as Zhenya Lukashin, Penelope Wilton as Nadya Sheveleva, Edward de Souza as Ippolit
Zhenya Lukashin celebrates his engagement and the New Year rather too well with a group of friends in the Moscow public baths, and ends up in Leningrad airport under the illusion he is still in Moscow.
So much in life is now standardised: standard streets with standard names, standard apartment blocks containing standard flats. Even furniture is standardised. Which is how Zhenya comes to be rudely awoken from a deep sleep by a strange girl demanding he get out of what he firmly believes to be his own flat.
(Repeated: Mon 3.20pm)
(Penelope Wilton is a National Theatre player)
The great Swedish soprano pays tribute, with the aid of gramophone records, to some of the other world-famous singers her country has produced.
' The whole poetry of our country, the bright summer nights, the sudden arrival of spring, our rocks and lakes ... all this you find in our Nordic voices.'
Producer (JENNY LIND) STANLEY WILLIAMSON BBC Manchester
Some thoughts, music and prayer for the ending of the day. presented by Pauline Webb
A brand-new late-night repeat. Revision Lesson 4: The Burkiss Way Action Replay starring Jo Kendall
Nigel Rees , Chris Emmett and Fred Harris
Written by ANDREW MARSHALL , DAVID RENWICK Producer JOHN LLOYD
Harry Soan looks back at six villages which have been his home.
4: In the Midlands
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
