6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.45 Prayer for the Day: The Rev Richard Harries
7.01 Today's News
Read by Peter Donaldson
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45 Thought for the Day
8.57 Weather; travel
by Anthony Smith
A Radio News production by RICHARD ANTHONY BAKER
NEM, p H8; Awake, my soul, and with the sun
(BBC liB 403); Psalm 46; Deuteronomy 30, vv 4-6, 11-20 (RSv); Judge eternal, throned in Splendour (BBC in. 393) long wave only
The Necklace by GtY DE MAUPASSANT translated and adapted bvHARRY8ELL-h
Read by David Marc
"postponed from 22 Feb)
followed by travel
Current and controversial issues are put on trial before Chairman Geoffrey Robertson and an audience of jurors.
Today's motion: That the Prevention of Terrorism Act should now be repealed
Proposer The Rt Hon Roy Hattersley, mp
Opposer Ivan Lawrence, QC, AlP
Two advocates will each call supporting witnesses. The jury will vote at the beginning and end of the trial so that any swing of opinion may be measured.
Producer Maggie redfern
Few can be unmoved by the exaltation of larks singing against a wide blue sky. Jim Flegg harkens to the bird that has inspired so many poets and musicians. BBC Bristol
News, views and advice for consumers.
Presenter Bill Breckon
Cookery
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
1.55 Shipping forecast long tvave only
Introduced from Wales by Noreen Bray
Life on the Outside: five mentally subnormal teenagers who were considered unfit for life outside an institution, were given the chance in 1974 to share a house with Cardiff students.
SYLVIA HORNE reports on the success of this experiment.
LlanfaJrpwll ... etc: after ten years of living near the tiny Anglesey village with the preposterous name, Ian SKIDMORE struggles manfully with a new DIY pronunciation guide. Producer KATE FENTON BBC Wales
The Intruder (8)
Moveable Assets by R. D. WINGFIELD with Martyn Read as Mr Merrick
A new bank has been built and it's reputedly the most burglar-proof in Europe. But where there's a bank, there's temptation - and Mr Merrick thinks he has found a way to beat even the most sophisticated electronic devices ...
Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING
as enjoyed by Fiona Richmond
A six-part series 3: Town Dialects
If you think that people who live in towns don't speak dialeet. you'd be wrong! Brian Redhead , with the help of BBC Local Radio Archives sets out to discover why. Consultant MALCOLM PETYT
Producers
ARTHUR WOOD and CHRISTOPHER STONE
A Short Walk In the Hindu Kush (2)
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
with Clive Jacobs and Tom Boswell testing the Talbot Samba.
Producer Stephen phrlps Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: MOil 1.40 pm)
Margaret Howard
Producer peter hoahe
(Repeated: Sat 10.45 am)
A personal portrait
The lit lion Dame Judith Hart , mp
Sir Monty Finniston
Professor Laurie Taylor at Clithcroe, Lanes
Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)
includes reviews of the new television adaptation of Wilkie Collins ' The
Woman in White on BBC2; and the first London production of The Prince of Hamburg by Hcinnch von Kleist at the National's
Cottesloe Theatre.
Presenter Sheridan Morlcy Producer
CLARE SELERIE-GREY
John Morgan reporting
with Bill Wallis
David Tale , Sheila Steafcl and Chris Emmett
Written by BOB sinfield
TONY SARCHET , JOHN I.ANCUON JAMES HENDRIE , RICHARD
QUICK, PETER HICKEY ,
JOHN REVELL , DAVE DIXON. ANDREA SOLOMONS and others Producer
PAUL MAYIIEWARCHER
(Repeated. Sat 5.25/>7"1
Pictures by KATIIERINF. MANSFIELD Read by Eileen Atkins long wave only
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Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
