6.25 Shipping forecast (Iong wave only)
Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day
The Rev Richard Harries
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by Laurie MacMillan
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45 Thought for the Day
8.57 Weather; travel
with Tom Vernon
(Repeated: Sat 4.15 pm)
A Radio News production by Richard Anthony Baker
NEM, p 58; Firmly I believe and truly (BBC MB 168): Canticle 2; John 18 vv 12-24 (rsv); We give immortal praise (bp 93)
(long wave only)
by Jill Norris
Read by Shirley Dixon
followed by travel
Although marriage appears to be as popular as ever, one in every four British marriages ends in divorce; the number of one-parent families is close to a million; and a third of a million women are living with a man to whom they are not married. Is the family as we've known it, redundant?
Bernard Shaw condemned it for its 'unnatural packing into little brick boxes of little parcels of humanity of ill-assorted ages.'
Frank Delaney visits a family of eight, a family of four, a single mother and her son, and a married couple who have chosen to remain childless, and talks to them about the relevance of family life in the 80s. Research Pam Helton. Producer Jane Marshall.
BBC Birmingham.
(Repeated: Tues 8.20 pm)
Once the blackbird opens its beak it is perhaps the most musical of songsters. Introduced by Jim Flegg
BBC Bristol
Presenter Jennl Mills
A new series in which Frank Muir and Alfred Marks skip through the comic literature of the subject, making notes in the margin of jokes, quotes, newspaper clippings and recorded humour from Jeremy Taylor, Joyce Grenfell, Peter Sellers, Irene Handl, Alan Bennett, Eleanor Bron, John Fortune and The Mad Show
'The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.' (Oscar Wilde)
(Broadcast Wed 6.30pm)
Feature p17
12.55 Weather: travel programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast
(long wave only)
from Manchester with Dinah Maiden
Latins from Lancashire: Karen Johnstone and Marcus Hilton, both 21, are Europe's champion Latin American amateur dancing pair.
'The ladies (evidently tourists) turned an eye of interest upon our little garden and cottage'. (Dorothy Wordsworth, 1800)
Now, 60,000 people a year visit Dove Cottage and Wordsworth Museum, Grasmere Stanley Williamson takes a tour.
BBC Manchester
The Upas Tree (7)
followed by travel
by John Ashe
with Jack Watson as Mr Henley and Rosalind Adams as Hacker
Hacker is what today is known as 'a gifted child'. But in a minor public school during the Second World War his boredom and facetiousness are not easily recognised as symptoms of disguised brilliance.
with the boys of Dartington Hall School, Dartington and the choir and boys of Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Bristol
BBC Bristol
Could it be your child who is glue sniffing? What should you do? As concern mounts and the number of young people experimenting with glue and other solvents is Increasing, Peter Evans talks to some of the people involved - parents, professionals and the sniffers themselves.
The Last Resort (8)
Presenters Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
including Financial Report
Direct from the English Channel, with Richard Hudson-Evans on board a hovercraft, Clive Jacobs on a conventional ferry, and Susan Marling trying out the jetfoil. Going
Places looks at the fierce competition on cross-channel routes as the operators prepare for the start of the summer rush next weekend.
For the ferry data sheets, please send a 12 x 9 inch envelope with 16Jp or 22p postage, to Going Places, [address removed]
Help: page 79
(Repeated; Mon 1.40 pm)
with Margaret Howard
(Repeated: Sat 10.45 am)
Piet Dankert has risen quickly in Dutch politics and in Europe; at 48, he is president of the European Parliament. Robert Rowe called on him in his home town of Edam.
Producer WILLIAM HORSLEY
The Rt Hon Sally Oppenheim, MP; The Rt Hon Roy Hattersley, MP; Sir Peter Hall and Reg Pycroft tackle the issues raised by the audience at Mellon Mowbray, Leicestershire
Chairman David Jacobs
BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)
includes reviews of A Coat of Varnish. a play by Ronald Millar. at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket and Victor Victoria , Julie Andrews ' first musical film since 1969.
Presenter Sheridan Morley Producer ANNE WINDER
Charles Wheeler reporting
with Bill Wallis, David Tate, Sheila Steafel and Jon Glover
Written by Bob Sinfield, Tony Sarchet, James Hendrie, John Langdon, Richard Quick, Peter Hickey, John Revell, Dave Dixon and others
(Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm)
Gorky Park (15) long wave only
(long wave only)
long wave only
long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
