News, weather, papers and sport
Farming, food and countryside news. market trends and weather
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Wendy Jones and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day With JOHN BARTON
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.25*. 8.25' Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.57 Weather; travel
• I wonder what they're really like? ' This may well be the week you discover the truth about your favourite personality as the birthday guest reveals all to
Llbby Purves , and Henry Kelly draws together a diverse mix of well-known and unknown people to entertain you with talk that might be serious, bizarre or downright hilarious.
Producer JENNY DANKS
visits North Humberside, where members of the Goole and District Flower Club put their questions to Bill Sowerbutts Clay Jones and Geoffrey Smith
Questionmaster Ken Ford
0 IN THE GARDEN: p 73
NEM, p 122; My song Is love (BBC HB 84); Canticle 16: Acts 9, vv 43 to 10, v 16 (rsv): A gladsome hymn (BP 1) long wave only
by Jill Norris
Read by Shirley Dixon
followed by travel
Choices inEducation (3) After primary education, what sort of choice will your child have at 11? Comprehensive or secondary, single or mixed sex, private or Stilt8?
Maureen O'Connor finds out the real choices available.
Presenter Bill Breckon
Adapted in six parts by John Howlett from his novel of the same name
with Hugh Dickson as Gordon Aylen
In Italy the Emelio Segre Reactor is out of control. In Whitehall Gordon Aylen's superiors decide that he does not 'need to know'.
BBC Birmingham
(Broadcast Sun 7.2pm)
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: Dr Anthony Smith ,
Director of the British Film Institute.
Industrial Links:
TIM RICHARDS hears about a scheme to give primary school children a better idea of the world of work. Morgan's Passing (10)
Krishna's Bag a comedy by DINAH STARKEY
The headmistress of a primary school is delighted to have a new young teacher added to the strength; but there's some consternation in the ranks when a long-haired youth arrives ...
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
(Postponed from 20 May)
Six programmes presented by the poet Kit Wright
3: Instead of Love
Readers HUGH DICKSON and PETER HOLMES Producer ALEC REID
as seen by four writers
2: Charles Allen - India, the people and their gods.
Berry and Co
Presenters Susannah Simons and Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
1.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world including Financial Report
A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE John Amis and Frank Muir challenge inn Wallace and Denis Norden
In the Chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE
Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Fri 12.21 pm)
(Repeated. Thurs 1.40 pm)
A four-part series
2: The Black Country Museum
Roger McGough awakes after his first night on board the Radio 4 narrowboat, to find himself at Dudley. Today he visits the Black Country Museum, a living reminder of the Industrial history of the area, which takes the form of a working village, with its chalnmakers, chemist shop and boat builder's yard.
Producer TONY SHRYANE BBC Birmingham
In the 25th year of the BBC's Natural History Unit, the second half of a series In 26 parts. Narrator David Attenborough
16: Seeing with Sound
In 1793, Italian naturalist Lazzaro Spallanzani recognised that bats are able to avoid obstacles even when they cannot see. In 1940. it was discovered that bats echo-locate with ultra-sonic sounds.
Brock Fenton of Carleton University, Ottawa, Don Griffin of Rockefeller University, New York, and David Pye of Queen Mary College, London, describe the echo-location capabilities of gleaners, honkers, whisperers, two-tone, FM and doppler bats.
Written and produced by MICHAEL BRIGHT
BBC Bristol
Talking About Music Each week ANTONY HOPKINS explores a different musical work or topic, explaining his thoughts at the piano and illustrating them with records.
Producer PATRICK LAMBERT
A tribute to Dame Marie Rambert who died on 12 June 1982, aged 94, and who founded Britain's oldest dance company. Stephen Phillips goes behind the scenes to trace the company's remarkable story. With the voices and opinions of TAMARA KARSAVINA , DIANA GOULD MENUHIN , ANTONY TUDOR , AGNES DE MILLE , PEGGY VAN PRAGII ,
SIR FREDERICK ASHTON. NORMAN MOHRICE , CHRISTOPHER BKUCE , RICHARD ALSTON ,
BRYAN ROBERTSON. ROBET NORTH
(the present director), and DAME MARIE RAMBERT
Producer JOHN POWELL
includes reviews of the two Lears at Stratford The Royal Shakespeare Company are presenting a new production of Shakespeare's King Lear, with Michael Gambon in the title role in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, and as a contrast, at The Other
Place Bob Peck plays the King in Edward Bond's version of Lear which completes his trilogy of plays based on Shakespeare.
Presenter Paul Allen
Producer RICHARD DUNN
John Morgan reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
The last of the desirable six-part sitcom
Laughter in the Dark (8) long wave only
Radio 4's international business report; market trends long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
