News weather, papers and sport
Producers
LESLIE COTTINGTON and MARTIN SMALL
6.2S Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and Wendy Jones
6.45* Prayer for the Day with THE REV ALEC GILMORE
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7 30 8 30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
and his guests in a mix ot weighty conversation and light banter.
Producer BILL ROGERS
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Ken Ford invites Bill Sowerbults
Professor Alan Gemmell and Geoffrey Smith to answer questions which listeners have sent in by post.
BBC Manchester
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NEM. p 102: Christ is here Emmanuel! (BP 7); Psalm 100: I Corinthians 12 vv 12-20 (AV): Come, my soul BBC HB 404) long wave only
by Brian Glanville
Read by Peter Craze
"I said You ought to ashamed of yourselves, judging a man that's not even had the chance to defend himself. You're nothing but a lot of fair-weather friends.
And I rushed out of the pub and I ran down the street, and then I suddenly thought, I've got to see him."
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Presenter Bill Breckon
with Johnny Morris
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
11.55 Weather: programme news
Presenter Robin Day
( Broadcast Tues 7.5 pm)
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor , including Guest of the Week: the President of Iceland, Vigdis Finnbogadottir. New York Report: with HELENE HANFF.
Stepping by NANCY THAYER abridged in 11 parts by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Read by -ANNA MASSEY (11) (Music: Bolling's Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano) long wave only
A comedy farce by Michael Buckland
With Peter Woodthorpe as Mendecot
This is the tale of Jack Mendecot, million-dollar plutocrat and captain of industry, who has a strange visitation from God which sets him off on the wildest chase after six new holy tablets.
Michael Boorer , education officer at the London Zoo. goes to the Giraffe House where Sebastian and Virginia live - alongside a double-decker bus
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
Sat 10.15 pm)
An Old Captivity (8)
Presenters Robert Williams and Susannah Simons on VHF until 5.55
5.53 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
including Financial Report
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
Questions compiled by PETER MOORE
Executive producer BOBBY JAYE
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thu rs 1.40 pm)
A weekly investigation into the problems of listeners, which can include being the victims of unfair dealings, sharp practice, injustice and even fraud.
Presenter Roger Cook
(Repeated: Thurs 9.5 am)
Born in County Durham, Thomas Allen is now internationally recognised as one of opera's leading baritones. In conversation with Teleri Bcvan. he looks back over his career and forward to the future. Producer
MARK OWEN BBC Wales
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad.
Reporter Eric Robson Producer STUART SIMON BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Thurs 11.5 am)
includes reviews of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler , starring Eileen Atkins , Julian Glover and Karl Johnson at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre.
Guildford: and A Mother and Two Daughters, a new novel by American writer Gail Godwin.
Presenter Natalie Wheen Producer ROSEMARY HART
9.59 Weather
John Morgan reporting and voices and opinions from around the world
(harmed Lives (8) long wave only
Radio 4 international business report; market trends long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
