News, weather, papers and sport
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and Hugh Sykes
6 45* Prayer for the Day THE REV CANON JOHN SMITH
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines 7,45. 'thought for the Day
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Chris Serle investigates the agonising business of buying and selling houses - how to buy, occupy and improve a house for the smallest possible outlay and with the least possible trouble.
With the help of financial expert Tom Tickell Chris shows you how to beat the system and avoid costly mistakes.
producer STEPHEN pnELrs Editor ROGER MACDONALD
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nem, p 79: All praise to thee (BBC hb 401);
Psalm 148; Corinthians 4, vv 1-5, 14-20 (av); 0 food of men wayfaring (BBC HB 209) long wave only
Monkey Business by MARK ADLARD
Read by Russell Dixon Producer GILLJAN HUSH BBC Manchester
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Let Neil Landor , together with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC Reference Library, sort out your queries.
Producer JEREMY BIRCHALL long wave only
Inclurding JILL TODD ,with the BBC Shopping Rasket. Presenter Jenni Mills
12.55 Weather: programme news
Presenter Robin Day with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor , including Wild Girt: the Australian singer and songwriter
ROBYN ARCHER talks about her life and work.
Catch a Craft (1): sally TARRANT-WILLIS suggests painting on silk. Stepping (7) long wave only
by David Bartlett
As the birds return instinctively each year to the bird table in the garden, so Edward comes back to his own watering ground in times of crisis.
(BBC Wales)
(Stereo)
A weekly look at some of the people and the places around the United Kingdom that don't always make the national headlines.
An Old Captivity (4)
Presenters Robert Williams and Susannah Simons on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme new*
Including Financial Report
A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions? Introduced by David Jacobs
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Norman Tozer with how to get the best value for your hard-earned cash. (Repeated: Sat 7.50 am)
Written by JAMES ROBSON (Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
Simon Brett 's fifth selection of ' Useful Verse ' gives advice on the instruction of children. Readers HEATHER BELL , DAVID BRIERLEY, STELLA FORGE, WENDY MURRAY. JOHN BYE
Producer ALEC REID
or Bunthorne's Bride!
An Entirely New and Original Aesthetic Opera in Two Acts
Written by W.S. Gilbert
Music by Arthur Sullivan
Dramatis Personae:
Officers of Dragoon Guards:
Narrator John Rye
BBC Singers
BBC Concert Orchestra, leader John Bradbury, conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras
Act 1
(First broadcast on R3)
8.40 During the Interval
A recording of Stanley Holloway reading 'The Yarn of the Nancy Bell', from W.S. Gilbert's Bab Ballads.
8.45 Patience Act 2
includes reviews of Nancy Astor , the new nine-part serial on BBC2, starring
Lisa Harrow : and the English National Opera's new production of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman at the London Coliseum. Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer BRIAN BARFiELD
John Morgan reporting
Charmed Lives (4) long wave only
Radio 4's international business report; market trends long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
