Presented from Scotland by Allan Wright BBC Scotland
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Presenters John Timpson and Chris Lowe
6.45. Prayer for the Day
With METROPOLITAN ANTHONY. Archbishop of Sourozh
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN ooran
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45, Thought /or the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
with John Marsh
goes into the BBC Sound Archives to contemplate current affairs and future events with the benefit of hindsight.
with Dr Richard Baker. LLD (Strathclyde)
Fifty-five minutes of lively conversation to cheer you at home and our invited audience at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. Producer PETER ESTALL
Presenter Louise Bolting A financial World Tonight production
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NF.M. p 97: Almighty God. thy word is cast (BBC HB 188): Psalm 50; II Timothy 3, v 14 to 4. v 5 (av): Lo. round the throne (BBC HB 230) long wave only
In the first of five programmes this week.
Kogcr McGough conducts the Radio 4 touring double-decker through the City of Glasgow and pulls in to the Mitchell Theatre for a spot of entertainment from Wildcat Productions.
Producer JOCK GALLtCHEtt
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Brian Johnston visits
Dumfries, the birthplace of Robert Burns.
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Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners
Presented bv
Norman MacCalg
Readers BILL SlMPSOr4 and DIANA bishop
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol long wave only
News, views and advice for consumers
Presenter Bill Breckon Editor joiin cetcood
A network airing for the award-winning Scottish comedy programme.
All performers guaranteed without kilts.
Naehaggis,naetartan, nae heather, nae bother, with Ron Bain Gregor Fisher Tony Roper and Peter Nardini
Producers COLIN gilbert and TOM KINNINMONT BBC Scotland
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake
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visits Stirling
Before an audience In the Logie Theatre.
Sue MacGregor talks to Sir Kenneth Alexander. Principal of Stirling University: prison governor Agnes Curran : opera singer Bill McCue ; and some of the other fieoplewholiveandwork n this ancient town.
Producers ROSALIND BEW and SALLY THOMPSON The Intruder (9)
Editor WYN KNOWLES long wave only
Murder in a Nice Neighbourhood bv JACK CERSON
As a Gaelic-speaking Highlander,
Finlay J. Macdonald examines Dr Johnson's dictum that languages are the pedigree of nations and wonders whether language is at the root of the age-old lowland Scots prejudice against the Highlander. BBC Scotland
A Short Walk In the Hindu Kush (3)
Presenters Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather: programme news
including Financial Report
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
(Revised repeat of 9.5 am)
Outside the Jeweller's by KAROL WOJTYLA (POPE JOHN PAUL it), translated by BOLESLAW TAB0RSKI with Maureen O'Brien Barbara Jefford Nigel Hawthorne
Written in the late 1950s, this is a dramatised meditation on marriage: an account of the marital fortunes of three interrelated couples across two generations. It is also about love, bereavement, breakdown and hope in marriage.
With PATRICK BARR. DIANA
BISHOP, BRIAN CARROLL. JOHN CHURCH.LOLLY COCKERELL, ALEXANDER JOHN ,
MICHAEL MCSTAY and AMANDA MURRAY It is a Christian meditation but powerfully suggestive o/ the world as it is.
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The message was to look beyond mere human existence, however joyful or painful, and relate it to God and eternity, with humility.
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A beautifully discreet and unassertive production.
(FINANCIAL TIMES)
Directed by •*UN TIIEOCHARIS
(First broadcast on R3)
includes Of This Our Time - A Journalist's Story 1905-1950. the autobiography of Tom Hopkinson. former editor of Picture Post: and On Your Way Riley by Alan Plater , starring
Brian Murphy as Arthur Lucan. the original Old Mother Riley , and Maureen Lipman as Kitty McShea. at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer CARROLL MOORE Editor ROSEMARY HART
Peter Paterson reporting Editor KEN GOUDLE ;
Peter Evans presents
a review of discoveries i and developments from I laboratories in the Lowlands.
Producer DEBORAH coiien
Chaliapin
An autobiography as told to MAXIM CORKY compiled and edited by NINA FROUD and JAMES HANLEY abridged in ten parts by CAROLE ROSEN
Read by Brian Pringle (1) The legendary Russian bass tells his famous compatriot about his life from childhood poverty with a drunken and often brutal father and a long-suffering mother, through years that were to be as colourful and dramatic as the man himself.
Producer DAVID JOHNSTON long wave only
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Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an Interlude
