Producers MARTIN SMALL and LESLIE COTTINGTON
A note from Religious Affairs Correspondent Gerald Priestland
6.55 Weather; programme news
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
7.55 Weather; programme news
Introduced by Gerald Williams
Featuring Rugby Union: AUSTRALIA play the Second Test of their tour when thev meet WALES. From Cardiff, a full preview. Snooker: The Coral UK Professional
Championships are coming to a climax at Preston. Meet the personalities who have been making the headlines.
Cricket: from Hyderabad, PETER BAXTER reports on the second day of England's match with South Zone.
A Radio Sport and OR production
Bernard Falk. with IAN 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: [address removed]
Melanie Phillips looks at the weekly magazines Producer SHARON BANOFF
Matthew Coady views the past week through the eyes of backbench mps and peers.
Producer ELLIE UPDALE
New Every Morning, page 97: Lord, thy word abideth (BBC HB 190); Psalm 33. vv 1-12;
Hebrews 4. vv 7-16 (RSV); Speak forth thy word (r.p 78)
Louise Botting keeps you in touch with what's happening in the field of personal savings. and the financial problems of everyday life.
A Financial World Tonight production
(Repeated: Mon 10.2 am)
Barry Took and panellists Alan C'oren
Valerie Grove Russell Davies and Nick Ross
Written and compiled by JOHN LANGDON and the producer DANNY GREENSTONE (Repeated. Mon 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
Clive Jenkins
Andrew Alexander William Hague
Dr Patricia Hollis from Wisbech. Cambridgeshire
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presented by Derek Junes Your wildlife questions answered.
A comedy by Peter Gibbs
with Richard Briers as Eric, Wendy Richard as the Girl, Ronald Herman as Mr Gale, Michael Tudor Barnes as Mr Horobin, and Jean Trend, John Livesey, and John Marsh as the Announcer
It is some time in the future when things have got even worse. Eric is looking for the pudding-rice in a super-hypermarket. It is a race against time...
(Repeated: Tues 11.5 am)
(Richard Briers is in "Arms and the Man" at the Lyric Theatre, London)
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care.
We all have queries, quibbles and quandaries which we mean to resolve but which always lie unanswered at the back of our minds.
Let Neil Landor, together with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC Reference Library, sort out your queries.
(Rptd: Thurs 11.50 am)
Questions on a postcard to: Enquire Within, [address removed]
How We Caught the British Disease
A historical fantasy in five parts by ROY LEWIS
4: Why We Needed an Empire including Benjamin Disraeli, Joseph Chamberlain, Lord
Milner, Sir Ernest Cassel, Stanley Baldwin, Sir Alfred Mond, etc.
Reporter played by Anna Massey
With JOHN LIVESEY, MICHAEL SPICE, MICHAEL DEACON, CYRIL SHAPS, ALEXANDER JOHN, GABRIEL WOOLF, GEORGE PARSONS and NICHOLAS COURTNEY
Producer RICHARD KEEN
Presenter John Mills is in Hull to study some interesting case histories taken up by the local Disability Rights Group. He visits Community Care, an organisation providing practical help for elderly people in Hull. Editor MARLENE PEASE
A four part journey along the trade route which has connected China with Europe for more than 2,000 years.
Jessica Rawson. Deputy Keeper of Oriental Antiquities. British
Museum, explains the historical background and Philip Short. recently the BBC's Peking Correspondent. looks at the modern face of China. 1: Xian
The ancient capital, the * City of Tranquility the start of the Silk Road. Producer ROY IIAYWARD BBC Bristol
An irreverently critical look at the week's news
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
Amiably competitive conversation inspired by current public and private preoccupations. MUSiC b.V PETER SKELLERN Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Richard Baker presents a blend of musical entertainment on record, mixing the well-loved with the less-familiar and occasionally including the spoken word.
Producer RAY ABBOTT
(Repeated. Wed 11.5 am)
by Frederick Bradnum
With Robin Ellis as Harry Meadows
Murder and violence play an alarming part in Harry Meadows' dreams, in which a character dubbed by his psychoanalyst 'Horrible Harry' shows himself to be cunning, vicious and a winner. The real Harry feels a failure: his career in the army has ended in disaster and his wife, who despises him, has left. It would seem things could get no worse. but the dreams become even more of a nightmare.
The great Swedish soprano reflects on the darker side of life, and its expression in music. ' With so much fear and fright around the world, is there really a chance for anyone to be happy?
Every day becomes a Diei Irae, a day of wrath.' Producer -
STANLEY WILLIAMSON BBC Manchester
An evening meditation led by The Rev Frank Topping
A brand-new late-night repeat.
Revision Lesson 5: The Burkiss Way:
Penultimate Repeat starring Jo Kendall Nigel Rees
Chris Emmett Fred Harris Written by ANDREW MARSHALL and DAVID RENWICK
Producer DAVID HATCH
Harry Soan looks back at six villages which have been his home and some of the folk who gave them their character.
5: In the Vale of Evesham Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
