from the South East with George Macpherson
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Hugh Sykes
6.45* Prayer for the Day With DOM EDMUND JONES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.30,8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
A look ahead with Peter Jefferson
sallies forth into the BBC Sound Archives in search of the sublime and the ridiculous.
(Repeated: Fri 11.45 pm)
8.57 Weather; travel
A lively matching of wit and wisdom between some of the personalities who will be in the news this week. Also,
Kenneth Robinson.
Producer PETER ESTALL
NEM, p 5; We give immortal praise (BP 93); Psalm 96: John 16, vv
22-23 (rsv); Praise to the Lord (BBC HB 17) long wave only
The Millers Secret by ALPHONSE DAUDET translated and abridged by HARRY BELL
Read by Robert Rietty Producer MITCH RAPER
followed by travel
Brian Johnston visits the historic market town of Bicester in north-east Oxfordshire - home of the Garrison, the cattle market and the Launton Handbell Ringers.
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
Presented by Charles Tomlinson
Reader John Carson
BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Fri 4.5 pm)
National Consumer Congress 1982
Do consumers have effective redress against poor traders? Is the relationship between landlord and tenants all it should be? Do the unemployed have special consumer problems?
Delegates from consumer organisations throughout Britain gathered in the University of Surrey last weekend to debate these issues.
Bill Breckon reports on their conclusions.
Producer COLIN LEWIS Editor JOHN GETGOOD
Paula Wilcox as Helen and David Wood as Ben in A Woman's Role, with Pat Heywood as Mrs Kelly Bruce Alexander as Alastair and Anita Carey as Laura
Has Ben reckoned on the divisive effect of Helen's multiplying skills with a calculator? What does it all add up to?
Written by SIMON BRETT Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Tues 10.30 pm)
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor including during the week some Talking Point discussions. Your Letters and other topics.
Talk About Trees: in a new series. BILL MATTHEWS and JANE FINNIS talk about trees - particularly those for small gardens.
Not Everyone Gets a Scholarship to Oxford: MARGARET PERCY looks at the world of a Rifted child.
The Upas Tree by EVA HANAGAN abridged in nine parts by MONICA GREY. Read by GEORGINE ANDERSON (3) Editor WYN KNOWLES
followed by travel
I, Said the Sparrow by MICHAEL DAVIES
Celia Thomson visits
Newcastle upon Tyne's Swing Bridge with local historian Joe Ging.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
The Last Resort by PAMELA HANSFORD JOHNSON
, abridged in 13 parts by BARRY CAMPBELL
Read by MARIAN DIAMOND (4)
Presenters Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
(Revised repeat of 9.5 am)
by Catharine Hughes
In September 1934, there was an explosion at Gresford Colliery in North Wales and 265 men were trapped by fire. The pithead wheels still stand as a memorial to those men entombed in the mine. This play tells the story of a young girl whose life was marred by that tragedy and by another mining disaster many years later in South Wales - on 21 October 1966.
With the children of Penygelli Junior School and the people of Coedpoeth and Wrexham in North Wales
Location sound by CEDRIC JOHNSON, DAVID GREENWOOD, GARETH WATSON and PETER CRAMM
Directed by JANE MORGAN
A BBC digital recording
(Repeated: Sun 2.30pm)
includes reviews of The Dean's December,
Saul Bellow 's first novel since Humboldt's Gift and his award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976; and Sharky's Machine, a new film directed by and starring
Burt Reynolds. Presenter Paul Vaughan
Producer RICHARD DUNN Editor ROSEMARY HART
with Alexander MacLeod Editor KEN GOUDIE
Presented by Colin Tudge Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
Gorky Park by MARTIN CRUZ SMITH abridged in 20 parts by KEITII DARVILL
Read by GAVIN CAMPBELL (11) Producer MAURICE LEITCH long wave only
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Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
