6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Wendy Jones and Chris Lowe
6.45* Prayer for the Day With THE REV DERRYCK EVANS
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.25*, 8.25* 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 yon to some unfamiliar and fascinating personalities.
Producer JOHN LAVIS
NEM, p75; If thou but suffer (BP 35): Psalm 119, vv 1-8; Acts 28, vv 1-10 (NEB): Love divine (BBC HB 328) long wave only
with TIM BROOKE-TAYLOR Part three. of Tim's holiday ramble, with only 45 minutes left to go. Can you identify the treasure? Or the man in black? Or anyone? Answer on a postman, please.
followed by travel
Credit Where Credit's Due 3: Home improvements Presenter Jennl Mills
by John Le Carre
The last of seven episodes adapted by Rene Basilico
Starring
Turner has discovered Harting's hide-out - and realises that the trail is leading to Karfeld's big political rally.
(Bernard Hepton is in 'Seasons Greetings' at the Apollo Theatre, London)
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: Trevor Brooking , footballer - England and West Ham United's elegant mldfield player. To be a Pilgrim (1): ADEL SALAHI In Mecca.
An Episode of Sparrows by RUMER GODDEN abridged in 12 parts by ELIZABETH BRADBURY
-Read by MARGARET TYZACK (12)
(Music: Arnold's Serenade for small orchestra)
Mrs Potter 's Portrait by CAROL RICHARDS with music by CLIVE WHITBURN
When Melport's most famous son Is invited back to paint a picture to commemorate the centenary of the granting of the borough charter, the local people are expecting a painting In the manner of Gainsborough '. But
Nicholas Smith has been In London for several years and he has the reputation of being something of a Bohemian....
Directed by VANESSA WHITBURN
BBC Birmingham
Anthony Curtis presents poems of homage and self-portrait.
Soliloquies by Women Readers FRANCES JEATER and ROD BEACHAM
Producer ALEC REID
Robert Overton recalls some bizarre experiences as a circuit judge in long-gone outposts of Empire.
2: Miss Wotherspoon's Island
Treasure Island (8)
Presenters Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
with PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report
(Details: Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
(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 24: Monkey Business A call given when two monkeys meet may also be heard when an individual encounters its favourite food. Is it the same call or are there two distinct calls that humans are unable to appreciate?
Pat Kuhl of Washington
University. Seattle, Peter Marler of Rockefeller University, New York,
Charles Snowdon of the University of Wisconsin, and Tom Strusacker of New York Zoological Society unravel the ' graded ' system of monkey calls.
Written and produced by MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol
' Chomolungma - goddess mother of the mountain snows - there Is something alluring In that towering presence. He who approaches close must be led on and, oblivious of all obstacles, seek to reach that most sacred and highest place Of all.' (NOEL ODELL) In March a British mountaineering team, led by Chris Bonington , set out to attempt Mount
Everest by way of the East-North-East Ridge. The route chosen had never been attempted before and it was impossible for the climbers to gauge 'exactly its difficulty.
Chris Bonington recalls that attempt, actually recorded on Everest as the climbers struggled up the world's highest mountain. battling with the inhospitable weather and terrain. Producer
JOHN KNIGHT
The Edinburgh Festival has
1 a distinctive
Italian flavour this year in the choice of music and drama.
Michael Oliver and Paul Allen report on the opening ceremonies and productions by the Cooperativa Teatromusica , Rome,
Puccini's Manon Lescaut by the Scottish Opera and the Fringe events at the Assembly Rooms.
Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
John Morgan reporting
Madame Bovary (3) long wave only
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Edward Cole presents musical nostalgia for late-night listening.
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Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
