6.25 Shipping forecast long wave onlu
Presenters Wendy Jones and Chris Lowe
6.45* Prayer for the Dall with SIR ROBERT RIETTY
S.55, 7.55 weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN martin
7.25\ 8.15* Sport
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45. Thought for the Day
Part 3
8.57 Weather: travel
Bob Wellings invites the birthday guest, to reveal all and Clare introduces you to some unfamiliar and fascinating personalities.
Producer JENNY danks
A magazine programme introduced by Ken Ford with Bill Sowerbutts ,
Peter Seabrook. Daphne Ledward , Phil Swindells and Dr Gillian Fearn.
This week: Garden centre ' buys ', garden planning. new equipment, what makes a weed and help for the handicapped gardener.
BBC Manchester
nem, p 50; Lord of beauty, thine the splendour (BBC hb 327): Psalm 139; Acts 25, v 23 to 26, v 8 (neb); Most ancient of all mysterjes (Bp 61) long wave only
With JONATHAN ADAMS Today our fearless presenter finds himself looking through the bars of a few dungeons.
Assisted by GEORGE LAYTON DEREK FARMER. STEPHEN TEES and Michael iiurwitz
followed by travel
A-level results are published today and You and Yours examines the options for those whose results exceed, or possibly fall short of, their expectations.
Presenter Bill Breekon 0 YOU AND YOURS: page 65
by John Le Carre, adapted in seven parts by Rene Basilico
Starring Kenneth Haigh as Alan Turner
with David McAlister as Peter de Lisle
Alan Turner suspects that he may be chasing a defector who hasn't defected.
(Marcia Warren is in "Seasons Greetings" at the Apollo Theatre, London)
(Broadcast Sun 7.2pm)
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Peter Hobday with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Including
Guest of the Week: novelist, critic and poet Malcolm Bradbury.
Moving Pictures: KAREN DECO investigates the ingenious world of the pop-up book and talks to two of its masters, ian pienkowski and ROBERT CROWTHER.
An Episode of Sparrows (7)
Tigers by ELIZABETH KAY
It never rains but it pours, as Jennie and M'ike discover on holiday with their two children in ' sunny ' Cornwall. But after a damp start, their summer break turns out to be rather more action-packed than they had anticipated.... john bull (guitar) Directed by CHERRY COOKSON
Anthony Curtis presents poems of humage and seif-portrait. 3: Actresses
Readers rod beacimm FRANCES JEATER and CHRISTOPHER SCOTT Producer ALEC REID
Richard Graves tells of death in Bath and other places.
BBC Bristol
Four programmes about life on - and below - the breadline.
1: Ordsall Flats
Salford's Ordsall flats were built In the 1940s as part of a brave new world to replace the squalor of 19th-century back-to-back housing. In 1982 many windows are boarded up, sewage flows from broken pipes, rats Inhabit piles of rotting refuse - and 130 families still live there.
Ian Breach reports
Producer ALASTAIR WILSON A File on 4 special series BBC Manchester
Treasure Island (3)
Presenters Robert Williams and Liz Donnelly on VIIF 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 shrvanc 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: Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated. Thurs 1.40pm)
(Details: Thurs 9.5 am)
In the 25th year of the BBC's Natural History Unit. the second half of a series in 26 parts. Narrator
David Attenborough
23: Primate Territories
The kind of sound which we make with larynx squeezed rigid and emotion out of all control Is, for the indri, a song.' Alison Jolly of Rockefeller University, New York, and David Chivers of Cambridge
University, show how the wail of the indri is used to defend home territories, while the bark of the howler monkey serves to space out family groups.
Written and produced by MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol
Talking About Music
The last in the present series in which ANTONY hopkins explores a musical work or topic. explaining his thoughts at the piano and illustrating them with records.
Producer PATRICK LAMBERT
Alan Protheroe reflects on those who. by circumstance or design, fly by night.
Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
Why are we as a society so reticent about death? Why do so many people find their first contact with a dying person a deeply unsettling experience?
Margaret Percy talks to people who are facing up to the prospect of their own death, or have experienced the death of someone close to them. and finds out what services are available to support both the dying and the bereaved.
Producer DENNIS simmons
includes reviews of two new productions of Hamlet with Edward Fox playing the title role at the Young Vic and Anton Lesser in Jonathan Miller 's production at the Warehouse, London; and a collection of essays on writers and politics by Gore Vidal.
Pink Triangle and Yellow Star. Presenter
Christopher Bigsby
Producer Brian BARFIELD
John Morgan reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
Written by Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins.
The first in a new series of six programmes broadcasting to you locally wherever you are in the nation.
Radio Active is back, celebrating its bicentenary after only 17 years in existence with The History of Radio Active
(Broadcast Mon 12.27 pm)
(Feature p13)
Mrs Zant and the Ghost by WILKIE COLLINS abridged in three parts by robbi pencilly Read by Stephen Murray (1)
In Kensington Gardens on a fair sunny day, a young widow senses strange presence. The man on the park bench. who notes her distress. soon finds himself caught up in a strange mystery story which moves rapidly to a tragic climax.
Producer Maurice leitcii long wave only
long wave only
Edward Cole presents musical nostalgia for late-night listening, long wave only
Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
