News, weather, papers and sport
Producers
LESLIE COTTINGTON and MARTIN SMALL
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day with THE REV GEORGE MULRAIN
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by CHRISTOPHER SLADE
7.25-, 8.25* Sport
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.57 Weather; travel
The Queen's English.... Your chance to participate at this moment in time in an on-going phone-in situation. There's two experts in the studio, Dr Robert Burchfleld, Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionaries, and Professor Randolf Quirk, Vice-Chancellor of the University of London: so hopefully you'll get on the blower to them with your questions on the use and abuse of the English language. Chairperson
Sue MacGregor Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
BBC correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - th-e politics and the people.
NEM, p 67; Holy Father. God of might (BP 29); Psalm 93; Acts 17, vv 16-27 (rsv); God who spoke in the beginning (BP 24): long wave only
Sunset Song by NORRIE IIEARN
Read by Denys Hawthorne Producer JUDITH ELLIOTT BBC Northern Ireland
followed by travel
Wednesday is Yoga Day by JACKI HOLBOROL'GH
Bulls and cows have horns as do billy and nanny goats. Rams have horns, yet ewes don't.
Why? The team answers vour wildlife questions.
Presented by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 3.5 pm)
Presenter Bill Breckon
by A. G. MACDONELL adapted tn six episodes by BARRY TOOK
3: Games, Sports and Pastimes
Other parts played by SPENCER BANKS and members of the cast Producer BOBBY JAYE
(Repeated: Wed 10.30 pm)
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor
My Yiddishe Momme: KAREN DECO looks at the reality behind the Jewish mother stereotype. My Favourite Room
BARBARA CARTLAND shOWS
GRISELDA CANN her library.
Tea and Tranquillisers - the Diary of a Happy Housewife by DIANE IIARPWOOD abridged dn nine parts by DELIA PATON Read by Caroline John (1)
' A day in the life of Jane Bennett. I start my day at 7.20 am, when my departing husband brings me a cup of tea. At 7.21 precisely my girls burst into the bedroom yelling. rhey've been up since six and are full of joie de vlvre-can they be mine? ' (Music: Moross' Concerto for Flute with String Quartet)
A dramatisation in eight parts by Frederick bradnum of Books Do Furnish a Room, Temporary Kings and Hearing Secret Harmonies, the final trilogy of ANTHONY POWELL 'S 12 novels.
The Second World War has drawn to a victorious conclusion. For Nicholas Jenkins another phase has passed. He returns to civilian life finding that war has left, on the one hand, a passionate desire to tackle a lot of work: on the other, never to do any work again. The Dance is building up now to a vast picture of modern life. in which violence and disaster are only just below the lighthearted surface. 1: Books Do Furnish a Room
Title music composed by ANTONY MIALL
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD
This week in a four-part series, Tim Sebastian , who was for three years BBC
Correspondent in Warsaw, recalls some of the people for and against change in Poland.
1: The Party Men
Professor Ian Stevenson of the University of Virginia is a psychiatrist who now devotes most of his time to investigating the claims of people who believe they have lived previous lives. He talks about his work with June Knox-Mawer.
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
Voices in the Garden (10)
Presenters Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
Chairman Robert Robinson 22: NORTH OF ENGLAND
Quentin Mitchell (schoolmaster)
Fr David Drake-Brockman (priest)
Adrian Perry (educational administrator)
David Sparrow (local government solicitor)
Including Beat the Brains Devised by JOHN P. WYNN Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS
(Repeated.Thurs 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
Barry Cunliffe examines the life and work of six pioneers of archaeology - people who enriched our understanding of the past through their endeavours, dreams, visions and obsessions.
5: Archaeology in the Holy Land with Mary Wimbush as Dame Kathleen Kenyon Compiled from contemporary sources by PETER JAMES
Producer JOHN KNIGHT
(Repeated: Sat 2.35 pm)
(Details: Wed 4.10 pm)
(Details: Friday 11.3 am)
News, views and information for visually-handicapped people. Many people who are registered as blind still have some useful sight. Would it be better to register them as visually handicapped?
Hannah Wright reports. Presenter Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL Listeners can phone in queries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed], 8.30-10.0 pm Handbook of aids and services, £2.95, from BBC Publications, PO Box 234, London SE1 3TH
includes reviews of two new records by Elisabeth Soderstrbm of songs by Tchaikovsky and Richard Strauss : and Star Trek 11, the Wrath of Khan. further adventures of the Starship Enterprise, based on the cult hit TV series. Presenter Edwin Mullins Producer JOHN BOUNDY
Stephen Milligan reporting
More raucous fun performed by the youthful Stephen Fry and Emma Thompson together with Rory McGrath. Jimmy Mulville and Griff Rhys Jones, three men for whom the sands of time are fast running out
Written by RORY MCGRATH , JIMMY MULVILLE , JON CANTER and others. Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
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