6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and Wendy Jones
6.45* Prayer for the Day 8 55, 7.55 Weather forecast 70. 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.57 Weather; travel
Veteran interviewer
Llbby Purves invites the birthday guest to reveal all and Clare introduces you to some unfamiliar and fascinating personalities.
Producer JENNY DANKS
Ken Ford invites Bill Sowerbutls
Professor Alan Gemmeil and Clay Jones to answer questions which listeners have sent in by post.
BBC Manchester
NEM.p46'. The race that long in darkness pined (BBC HB 496): Psalm 32; Acts 15, vv 22-35 (RSV);
Fight the good fight with all thy might (BBC HB 302) long wave only
A Bad Lot written and read by Brian Glanville
followed by travel
Presenter Bill Breckon
by John Le Carre adapted in seven parts by Rene Basilico
A minor diplomat disappears from the British Embassy in Bonn - and London sends Alan Turner to find him.
(Bernard Hepton is in Seasons Greetings at the Apollo Theatre, London)
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Lucinda Prior-Palmer -
Green, three-day eventer. ' Brass Tacks': LINDSAY MACKIE explores a self-help scheme for the unemployed.
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page (8)
Abba Dabba Honeymoon by ELIZABETH TROOP with and Having lived together for five years. Hugo and Suzi know all there is to know about one another. But when Hugo decides that they need the stability of marriage, their honeymoon in Brittany reveals something of the 'animal' in Suzl's nature, and that is the beginning of the end ... Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY
Six programmes presented by the poet Kit Wright 5: Modern Love
Reader PETER HOLMES Producer ALEC REID
Derek Jones recalls past conversations with Rolf Harris , Derek Nimmo and Harry Secombe. 2: Koala Bears BBC Bristol
Voices In the Garden (6)
with Susannah Simons and Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
including Financial Report
A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden
In the Chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE
Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm) (A new television series of My Music begins on Friday, BBC2 8.35 pin)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
4: The Narrowboats For the last leg of his journey around the Midland canals Roger McGough is joined by deckhands Maria Aitken and Susan Penhaligon for a lesson in how the boats arc made and how they are steered, as they travel through one of the most beautiful parts of rural Worcestershire.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
In the 25th year of the BBC Natural History Unit. the second half of a series in 26 parts. Narrator David Attenborough
18: Raspers and Scrapers Using sophisticated recording equipment, researchers have discovered that a multitude of hard-bodied invertebrates communicate with sound. John Mercer of University College. Galway,
Ken Norris of the University of California at Santa Cruz. David Pye of University College,
London, and George Uetz , of the University of Cincinnati, eavesdrop on the underwater conversations of spiny lobsters, ghost crabs, snapping shrimps and caddis fly larvae, and the ' love-calls ' of spiders. Written and produced by MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol
Talking About Music
Each week ANTONY IIOPKINS explores a different musical work or topic.
Producer PATRICK LAMBERT
The arrival of the first baby is a very special time for any couple.
KATE is 28 and PETE is 30, and they live in a small flat in London. On 21
April 1982 Kate cave birth to a baby boy - Timmy. You can follow Kate and Pete through the first weeks of coping with their new baby at home.
Presenter Maureen Galvin Producer SARAH ROWLANDS (A new series of And
Then There Were 3 begins on R4 VHF next Sunday)
Some Figure In the World Sir Christopher Wren 1632-1723
After the Great Fire of London in 166S,
Christopher Wren transformed the city's skyline with the spires of some 40 churches. dominated by St Pauls. To celebrate the 350th anniversary of Wren's birth. Michael Oliver visits an exhibition of his designs and models at the Whitechapel
Gallery and assesses his achievements in the light of two new books. The Work of Christopher Wren by Geoffrey Beard and Sir Christopher Wren by Kerry Downes.
Producer JOHN POWELL
John Morgan reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
Mother and Son (8) long leave only
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Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
