News, weather, papers and sport
A regional view of farming in the week ahead, presented from Scotland by Allan Wright BBC Scotland
6.2 Shipping forecast (long wave only)
Presenters John Timpson and Wendy Jones
6.451 Prayer for the Day THE REV BARRIE ALLCOTT
8.55,7.53 Weather forecast
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.251. 8.25* Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
A look ahead with Laurie Macmillan
again tries to set the record straight with the help of the BBC Sound Archives.
(Repeated: Fri 11.45 pm)
8.57 Weather; travel
and a lively assortment of guests to entertain vou with 55 minutes of live conversation.
Producer PETER ESTALL
(Reused rpt o/ Sat 12.2 pm)
The Convert by GUY DE MAUPASSANT translated by HARRY BELL Read by David March Producer MITCH RAPER long wave only
for the liberation of the Falkland Islands and in commemoration of the fallen.
IlM The Queen and members of the Royal Family join the congregation in St Paul's Cathedral with the next-of-kin. detachments from the Task Force who took part in the action and members of the public. THE ARCHBISHOP OF
CANTERBURY gives the address
THE BISHOP OF LONDON and THE DEAN AND CHAPTER are Joined by representatives from British churches and the Forces for this ecumenical service. CHOIR OF ST PAUL 'S CATHEDRAL
Cathedral organist and Master of the Music
CHRISTOPHER DEARNLEY
Master of St Paul 's Choir BARRY ROSE
THE FANFARE TRUMPETERS OF THE ROYAL MILITARY SCHOOL OF music, Kneller Hall and THE FANFARE TRUMPETS OF THE CENTRAL BAND OF THE RAF
Commentator at St Paul's ROBERT HUDSON
News, views and advice for consumers.
Presenter Bill Breckon Editor JOHN GETGOOD
111 Upper Lip, Jeeves by P. G. WOBEHOUSE adapted in six episodes by RICHARD USBORNE starring and 04:
In Which Spode is Unsuccessful, and Gussie Unrepentant
Producer DAVID HATCH
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
(Bruadcast Friday 7.5 pm)
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Including during the week some Talking Point discussions. Your Letters and other topics.
Among these today:
Taking Your Test: why do women find it harder than men to pass the driving test? Driving Instructors, test candidates, and the Chief Examiner at the Department of Transport, talk to SARAH MCNEILL. First Lady of Greece:
ROBERT MACDONALD meets MARGARET PAPANDREOU. formerly Margaret Chant of Chicago.
Tea and Tranquillisers - the Diary of a Happy Housewife (51
Editor WYN KNOWLES
The Woman's Hour Book. £6.50 from booksellers
by Derek Kartun
The last in a series of four programmes
D uglas Stuart looks back at four statesmen he watched in his years as a BBC Foreign Correspondent.
John F. Kennedy - the new-style president for the New Frontier. Series producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
The Cosway Miniature by ROBERT RUBENS abridged in seven parts by BARRY CAMPBELL Read by Isla Blair (1)
After an unhappy orphaned childhood and two disastrous marriages, Bonnie finds herself a mother of two and distinctly hard-up. Then along comes Simon, a fascinating, ambivalent young man with a very novel idea of how to make some quick cash. They form an elegant partnership in crime. Producer JOHN CARDY
Presenters Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton on VHF until 5.55
5 '0 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
The last of eight programmes in which the last week is put in a questionable way by Stan McMurtry to Alan Coren
Richard Ingrams Julia L.angdon and David Taylor
Producer ALAN NIXON
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
(Revised repeat of 9,5am)
by Laurence Sterne
A dramatisation by Peter Buckman of Laurence Sterne's comic novel
with music by James Walker
[Starring] Nigel Hawthorne as Tristram, Robert Lang as Uncle Toby, Richard Hurndall as Mr Shandy, Vivian Pickles as Widow Wadman
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy together with divers reflections on Life, Death, Love, Religion and Art
Our hero Tristram Shandy endeavours to tell us the story of his life but is much hampered by his delight in irrelevant anecdote and his love of humorous serendipity.
Covering Shots
Starving children, wounded soldiers. devastated lands - they touch us more profoundly through newspaper photographs than in almost any other way. Yet the press photographer is. with rare exceptions, unknown and unregarded.
Colin Ford. Keeper of the National Museum of Photography, examines the role of the newspaper photographer with the help of Picture Post pioneers Stefan Lorant and Sir Tom Hopkinson and the former Editor of The Times, Harold Evans. He also questions Press
Association photographer Martin Cleaver and his Picture Editor, Colin Macer on their recent experience of publishing memorable images of the Falklands In the daily papers.
Producer RICHARD dunn Editor ROSEMARY HART
Stephen Milligan reporting 1 ditOr KEN GOUDIE
Presented by Peter Evans
What Is happening in science? A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories.
Producer JULIAN BROWN
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The Sending (6) by GEOFFREY HOUSEHOLD adapted in ten episodes by NEVILLE TELLER Read by TOM BAKER Producer ALEC ntio long wave only
Radio 4's international business report; market trends lony wave only
long wave only
Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
