6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and Wendy Jones
6.45* Prayer for the Day with FR ALBAN MCCOY
8.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.57 Weather; travel
Unusual and entertaining table talk plus the birthday interview with Libby Purves.
Producer JENNY DANKS
NEM, p 97; Faith of our fathers (BBC HB 174);
Psalm 119, vv 1-8; Acts
19 vv 21-34 (RSV); 0 God of truth (BBC HB 359) long wave only
Kind Oblivion's Shade by FRED URQUHART
Read by Fraser Kerr
followed by travel
Presenter Jennl Mills
by John Le Carre, adapted in seven parts by Rene Basilico
Starring Kenneth Haigh as Alan Turner and Bernard Hepton as Rawley Bradfield
with David McAlister as Peter de Lisle
Turner widens the scope of his investigation - and finds that he's on the trail of a ladies' man.
(Bernard Hepton and Marcia Warren are 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
Introduced by Sue MacGregor , including Guest of the Week: the actor Trevor Eve.
All Human Life: CHERYL ARMITAGE discovers the range of work carried out by a Bristol social security office.
Tea and Tranquillisers - the Diary of a Happy Housewife (7)
A comedy by Bertolt Brecht translated by Jean Benedetti
With Stacy Dorning as the bride and John Carson as her father
His father-in-law tells embarrassing stories, his best man sings an unsuitable song and a friend's wife breaks up his furniture. It's not much fun for Heinrich but it's even worse for his bride when it is revealed that this is not such a respectable wedding.
(John Carson is in 'The Jeweller's Shop' at the Westminster Theatre, London)
Six programmes in which Anthony Curtis presents poems of homage and self-portrait.
1: Mentors
Readers ROD BEACHAM and CHRISTOPHER SCOTT Producer ALEC REID
Did great composers live ordinary lives?
Donald James reveals that Haydn's marriage was far from blissful. BBC Bristol
The Cosway Miniature (3)
with Susannah Simons on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
devised by EDWARD j. MASON and TONY SIIRYANE 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: Thurs 1.40 pm)
(Details: Thurs 9.3 am)
In the 25th year of the BBC's Natural History Unit, the second half of a series in 26 parts. Narrator David Attenborough
The roaring of the red deer stag, the shrieking of foxes, and the ultrasonic squabbling of rats are sounds that fill the British countryside at certain times of the year.
Tim Clutton-Brock of Cambridge University, Gillian Sales of King's College, London, and David MacDonald of Oxford University are attempting to understand when and why these animals use sound for communication.
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
Fyfe Robertson investigates the scandal that rocked the Attlee government in the late 40s and 50s. After the war Britain was desperately short of food. The Labour government decided to clear 5,000 square miles of East African bush and grow
600,000 tons of groundnuts a year, from which margarine could be made. A vast mechanical invasion took place in Tanganyika. Soon there was chaos. Hundreds of bulldozers were wrecked, ploughs broken by bushes they were meant to uproot, unexpected drought and rain brought havoc and roads were impassable. The Great Groundnut Scandal investigates why the scheme failed, who was to blame, finds out what's happening in East Africa today and reports on other agricultural disasters that still occur. Taking part are: Lord Shinwcll,
Sir George Bishop , Major-General Desmond Harrison.
Professor Hugh Bunting and Dr Eric Clayton. Producer ROGER CLARK
This year the Buxton Festival celebrates the centenary of the birth of the Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly. Natalie Wheen visits Buxton for performances of his opera Hary Janos , concerts reflecting the tradition of Hungarian music, and an exhibition of Hungarian folk art.
Producer JOHN BOUNDY
John Morgan reporting
The Sending (8) long wave only
Radio 4's international business report; market trends long wave only
long wave only
Weather report: forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
