6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and Hugh Sykes
6.45. Prayer /or the Day with FR ALBAN MCCOY
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by- bkyan MARTIN 7 25-, 8.25- Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Part 3
8.57 Weather: travel
Veteran interviewer
Libby Purves invites the birthday guest to reveal all and Clare introduces you to some unfamiliar and fascinating personalities.
Producer JENNY DANKS
It's in the Post
Listeners' letters dealing with summer gardening problems are answered bv
Geoffrey Smith
Chris Brickell and Daphne Ledward
Questionmaster Ken Ford BBC Manchester
NEM, p 25; Help me, dear Lord, ito love thee more
(bp 30); Psalm 9; Acts 22, v 30 to 23, v 11 (NED); In Christ there is no east or west (BP 38) long wave only
3: Looking Round, Feeling Great.'
followed by travel
Presenter Jennl Mills
by JOHN LE CARRE (5)
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Gordon Clough
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor including Guest of the Week: the cellist, Julian Lloyd Webber F is for Fibre (and Fitness): BARBARA MYERS examines the evidence that high-fibre food is essential for good health and finds out how you get more fibre into your diet. An Episode of Sparrows (2)
The Baby and the Bathwater by HILARY BURFORD
Ruth, one of life's interminable losers, decides to embark on an independent lifestyle after separating from her husband. But establishing her freedom means resorting to the small ads and the chaos of the rat race.
Schoolchildren from the CROWN MEADOW FIRST SCHOOL, ALVECHURCH, ' WORCESTERSHIRE Directed by VANESSA WHITBURN BBC Birmingham
Six programmes in which Anthony Curtis presents poems of homage and self-portrait.
3: Painters. Readers ROD BEACHAM; FRANCES JEATER Producer ALEC REID
recalled by Dr Lyall Watson
' The Healer pushed the patient's head back until his mouth was wide open and with his thumb and forefinger simply picked out the offending molar as though it had been lying there loose under the tongue. I knew for a fact that it wasn't."
Reporter Margaret Percy Producer PAUL CAMPBELL BBC Manchester
The Road I Travelled (6)
Presenters Robert Williams and Susannah Simons on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
with PETER DONALDSON 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 by STEVE RACE Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
Presenter Roger Cook
(Repeated: Thurs 9.5 am)
In the 25th year of the BBC's Natural History Unit, the second half of a series in m parts... Narrator
David Attenborough
22: Low Rumblings and Grumblings
Sounds at frequencies well below the range of human hearing are used by some creatures for communication.
Don Griffin , of Rockefeller University, New York. Cynthia Moss. of New
York Zoological Society. Robert Moss , of Institute of Terrestrial Ecology. Banchory, and Douglas Quine , of Dalhousie University, Halifax, reveal how elephants greet each other, capercaillies court, and pigeons navigate using infrasound.
Written and produced by MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol
Talking About Music
Producer PATRLCK LAMBERT
A Return to Wild Wales in the summer of 1854. George Borrow , English poet, eccentric, romantic, gypsy and walker, set out to explore the roads of Wales on foot, with satchel o'er my shoulder and my umbrella in my hand '. Last summer. 100 years after Borrows death, June Knox-Mawer put best foot forward from her own home in the heart of North Wales in search of reminders of the people and the places who for George Borrow were the essence of Wild Wales '. Producer
SIMON ELMES
reviews a new album with Sarah Vaughan and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gershwin
Live!; and visits
' Sculpture for a Garden at Tatton Park,
Knutsford. Cheshire, where 15 leading British sculptors exhibit waterways, planters, bird tables and ornamental objects to challenge the conventional garden gnome!
Presenter Natalie Wheen Producer RICHARD DUNN
John Morgan reporting
by A. G. MACDONNELL
The last of six episodes, adapted by BARRY TOOK Fox Hunting, Feasting and Fun Evan Davies HAYDN JONES and other parts by MADI
HEDD, THERESA STREATFEILD , NICHOLAS COURTNEY , RONALD HERDMAN and SPENCER BANKS Producer BOBBY JAYE
Good Behaviour (8) long wave only
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Edward Cole presents musical nostalgia for late-night listening long wave only
Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
