News, weather, papers and sport
Farming, food and countryside news, market trends and weather.
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and Wendy Jones
6 45* Prayer for the Day with FR ALBAN MCCOY
'.55,7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 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
Part 4*
8.57 Weather; travel
From the shores of the Mediterranean to its
10,000-foot snowcapped mountains the Alpes
Maritimes has the richest variety of wild flowers in France with 50 species found in the area yet nowhere else in the world.
Frank Perring leads Derek Jones along a floral trail in SE France. Producer JOHN HARRISON
BBC Bristol
The second of six programmes
Gerry Monte talks to six people who, though not Welsh, have chosen to make Wales their home. Naturalist John Barrett s interest in birds was fostered in a prisoner-of-war camp. It was this interest which brought him to live in the 1 naturalists' paradise of Dale on the Pembrokeshire coastline. Producer EIFION EVANS BBC Wales
nem, p 30; 0 sacred head, sore wounded
(BBC HB 86); Psalm 22; Acts 23, 12-24 (NEB); My song is love unknown (BBC HB 84) long wave only
With JOHNNY BALL
A holiday programme for children of all ages
4: Absolutely Nothing
followed by travel
We all have queries, quibbles and quandaries which we mean to resolve but which always tie unanswered at the back of our minds.
Let Nell Landor , together with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC Reference Library, sort out your queries.
Producerkatefentoh
News, views and advice for consumers
Including JILL TODD with the BBC Shopping Basket Presenter Jennl Mills Editor JOHN GETOOOD
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain.
Chairman Robert Robinson Semi-final (1)
LONDON AND HOME COUNTIES Robert Willer (civil servant) Richard West (civil servant) Nell Crockford
(information officer)
Sqn Ldr George Nichols (RAF - retired) including Beat the Brains in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
Devised by JOHN P. WYNN Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Nick Ross with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor including
Jenner and Co:
SONIA BEESLEY rediscovers the story of the early days of vaccination. An Episode of Sparrows (3)
Marche Militaire bV BRIAN MILLER
George is an ideas man and market researcher working for a toy manufacturer. He is currently working on a new line in toy soldiers; there's some still competition from
Germany and the toy weapons race is beginning to escalate.
George tries out the new soldiers and accessories on his son Jonathan who in his imagination, lives with his toy soldiers.
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol
recalled by Dr Lyall Watson
1 It is never convenient to be Immobilised by enteritis or dysentery for the first two weeks In a tropical country. I lived , in hope of finding some natural, biological way of inhibiting attacks of xenophobic microbes. Well. at last I think I have succeeded, with a little help from my friend Fred.'
Teresa McGonagle invites Jennifer Curry and P. J. Kavanagh to choose some paperbacks.
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
The Road I Travelled (7)
Presenters Susannah Simons and Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
with PAULINE BUSHNELL
Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world including Financial Report
The second of six programmes in which Terry Wogan, mindful of his mother's warnings on the uncertainties of showbusiness, searches for a secure day job - preferably one with prospects, a pension and a late-morning start. Aware from his own experience of the perils of motoring, Terry tries his hand as AA patrolman.
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm)
Cast for the week: [see below]
BBC Birmingham
Andrew Keener looks forward to the music in tonight's concert.
direct from the Royal Albert Hall.
London
Part 1
Mozart Symphony No 39, in E flat major (x 543) Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor
by ROWAN ATKINSON and RICHARD CURTIS
The second in a series of satirical, wry and parodic investigations into the lives of imaginary great men: Sir Benjamin Fletcher 'Writer, statesman, soldier and academic: Cabinet Minister, philosopher, Nobel Prize winner, musician, mountaineer, Vice
Chancellor of Salford University, painter, farmer, merchant banker, angler, diplomat, oceanographer, historian, and television personality ... a great man indeed.'
With ROWAN ATKINSON HUGH THOMAS PETER WILSON and HOWARD GOODALL
Producer GRIFF RHYS JONES (First broadcast on R3)
Hindemith Suite: Nobilissima visione
Johann Strauss Tales from the Vienna Woods
(as Radio 3)
reviews a musical version of James Hilton 's novel Goodbye Afr Chips with music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse starring John Mills as the legendary schoolmaster, Cheryl Kennedy and Nigel Stock at the Chichester Festival Theatre.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer CARROLL MOORE
9.59 Weather
John Morgan reporting
Good Behaviour (9) long wave only
long wave only
Yehudi Menuhin talks to Margaret Howard about his unusual life and plays records of some of the musicians who have influenced him. ' I had a violin in my hand when I was about five.... my first inspiration in sheer violinistics as it were was from records, in particular the recordings of Jascha Heifetz. '
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
(First broadcast on World Service) long wave only
Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
