News. weather, papers and sport
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and John Timpson
S.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICIIARD HARRIES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Tom Vernon confronts producers and management with your criticisms and comments about BBC radio and television.
Producer SUSAN SNAILUM (Repeated: Sat 4.15 pm) long wave only
Please send questions, criticisms or praise about radio or television to: Feedback,
BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW
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BBC correspondents around the world cast their collective eye over a contemporary issue.
A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL long wave only
NEM. p 17; Praise we the Lord (bp 72); Canticle 3; Hebrews 12, vv 14-29
(Rsv): The maker of the sun and moon (BBC HB 60) long wave only
by Jill Norris
Read by Shirley Dixon
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The Princely House of Hamilton
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The sight of skeins of white-fronted geese flying across the scudding clouds over an estuary is only matched by the sound of these, perhaps the noisiest, of our winter visitors.
Introduced by Jim Flegg BBC Bristol long wave only
News, views and advice for consumers
Presenter Bill Breckon
Devised by Tony Shryane and Edward J. Mason
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Antonia Fraser and Denis Norden
In the chair John Julius Norwich
(Broadcast Wed 6.30 pm)
(Stereo)
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Brian widlake with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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from Wales
Introduced from Cardiff by Noreen Bray
Taking the Waters: 'Some of the knowing ones suggest that Llandrindod and Llanwrtyd were the sites where stood Sodom and Gomorrah which accounts for the sulphurous nature of the place' stated a guide book of 1890 to the spas of mid-Wales. '
PHILIP RICKMANN reports on the campaign to revive a popular Victorian spa. Songs from the Seven Seas: at the start of Maritime England Year, STAN HUGiLL, the last British shantyman, remembers the days of sail.
Producer KATE FENTON
BBC Wales
Catrlona (12)
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Credit Account by A S. RODERTSON with Fulton Mackay as Bob Redundant at 56!
Bob Kemp decides to spend, spend, spend.
Because another job is sure to turn up.
Directed by PETER KING
Three programmes on outstanding works by French writers of this century.
1: André
Gide Gide 's rebellion against sexual and social conformity led him to be called a corrupter of youth and ' a public danger ' by critics in the 20s.
Norma Rinsler introduces readings from three short novels by this very Influential and controversial writer: The Immoralist, Strait is the Gate and La Symphonie Pastorale.
Reader Michael Goldie Producer ALAN WILDING
Marital Rites (5)
Presenters Susannah Simons and Gordon Clough on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
Clive Jacobs brings you stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport, and Tom Boswell tests the economy version of the Volkswagen Golf.
Producer GEOFF DOBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD
Written by HELEN LEADBEATER
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from the BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days.
Producer ray abbott
(Repeated: Sat 10.45 am)
Is there a conflict between a life in business and a life in politics? Profile looks at
Keith Wickenden , mp. Chairman of European Ferries.
Producer ANDREW CURRY
Baroness Phillips Lady Antonia Fraser Phil Drabble and Miles Klngton tackle the issues raised by the audience at at Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.
Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
Franklin D Roosevelt and the New Deal
15 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
The 100th anniversary of the birth of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the origin of the New Deal, and FDR's political turnaround on the size of the welfare state.
by Allstair Cooke
(Repeated: Sun 9.15 am) Book, Alistair Cooke 's
America, hardback £12.0. paperback £7.75, from booksellers
Includes F. D. It. , The Life and Times of Franklin D. Roosevelt, a centenary re-assessment by the veteran
Washington columnist
Joseph Alsop ; and Trojans by Farrukh Dhondy , the first of two productions in a three-month residency by the Black Theatre Co-operative at the Riverside Studios in London.
Presenter Sheridan Morley Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
with Alexander MacLeod with voices and opinions from around the world
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with Bill Wallis Sheila Stcafcl David Tate and David Jason
Written by BOB SINFIELD TONY SARCIIET ,
JAMES IIENDRIE , JOHN LANGDON RICHARD QUICK, ALISTAIR BEATON , PETER HICKEY and others
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS (Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (10) long wave only
Radio 4's international business report; market trends long wave only
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sallies forth into the BBC Sound Archives in search of the sublime and the ridiculous.
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
