News, weather, papers and sport
Farming, food and countryside news, market trends and weather
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Brian Redhead with the TUC in Brighton. Wendy Jones in London.
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With THE REV JOHN CONGDOM
6.55, 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
Aged 131 Part 5
8.57 Weather; travel
offers a chance to meet some unusual and unfamiliar people and learn a little more about a well-known personality in the birthday interview. Producer JENNY DANKS
visits Wiltshire, where members of the Chippenham Garden and Allotments Society put their questions to Bill Sowerbutts
Daphne Ledward and Geoffrey Smith
Questionmaster Ken Ford BBC Manchester
nem, p 1; God is love, let heaven adore him (BBC hb 7); Psalm 8; Luke 3, vv 12-22 (NEB); Judge eternal, throned in splendour (BBC HB 393) long wave only
The Legion of Honour by GUY DE MAUPASSANT translated by HARRY BELL Read by David March Producer MITCH RAPER
followed by travel
Presenter John Howard Health Screening
The NHS has been slow to offer regular health checks. Are we missing an opportunity?
A thriller serial in five parts by R. D. WINGFIELD with 2: The Second Body
No sooner has Richard Aldridge 's body turned up when there is another one found on the cliffs: Harry Day , a scruffy old tramp, now almost unrecognisable ...
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
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:
Dr Noble Frankland , cbe, dfc, Director of the Imperial War Museum 1960-82.
To be a Pilgrim (3):
JOHN WILKINS in Lourdes. The Book of Ebenezer Le Page (7)
Day Return by PETER MACKIE with Patricia Gallimore Denis Lill and John Judd
When Jill 's former husband Eddie gets out of prison, he causes problems by wanting to establish contact with their young son, Mike.
Directed by VANESSA WHITBURN BBC Birmingham
Anthony Curtis presents poems of homage and self-portrait. Mentors
Readers ROD beacham and CHRISTOPHER SCOTT Producer ALEC REID
with LYS DE BRAY
2: Shakespeare's Flora
Whatever the causes of poverty, its effects are to beat individuals and communities into submission. In the last of four programmes
Margaret Percy considers what can most effectively help - simple charity or social action.
Producer ALASTAIR WILSON A File on 4 special series BBC Manchester
The Boy on Platform One (2)
Presenters Robert Williams and John Sargeant on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
With PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report
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 compiled by STEVE RACE
Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)
Written by DEBBIE COOK
Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
A series of weekly investigations into the problems of listeners which can include being the victims of unfair dealings, sharp practice, injustice and even fraud. Presenter Roger Cook
In the 25th year of the BBC's Natural History Unit, the last in a series of 26 parts. Narrator David Attenborough
Do Animals, Other than Humans, have Language? Alison Jolly and Peter Marler of Rockefeller University, New York and Robert Seyfarth of University of California at Berkeley, consider whether the sounds animals make constitute a language.
Written and produced by MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol
The story of Christy Nolan Victim of a difficult birth which caused severe brain damage and left him physically helpless, Christy Nolan seemed destined to vegetate for the rest of his life ... trapped in a wheelchair and behind a screen of ignorance about the state of his mind. He was unable to speak or even nod his head and could only peer through the ugliness of his handicap and the ugliness of an uncomprehending society. But today Christy is no longer isolated by his condition. A loving family, a caring doctor and a new drug combined to release him from what he calls ' the rough pastures ', and still only 17, he now writes poetry and prose with a passion and energy that surprises the critics.
The story of Christy's early frustration and his burgeoning talent is told by Jenny Cowan in conversation with Joseph Nolan , Bernadette Nolan , Yvonne Nolan , Dr Cieran Barry and actor Stephen Rea as the voice of Christy Nolan
Producer JOCK Gallagher BBC Birmingham
Finlay J. Macdonald continues his reminiscences of a boyhood in Harris in the Outer Hebrides. 2: The Big Treat
What happened when the children of the village school were introduced to the idea of Christmas. Producer Leslie ROBINSON
includes reviews of Blade Runner, a new science-fiction thriller directed by Ridley Scott. Set in Los Angeles in AD 2019, it tells the story of a group of androids who are hunted down by Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) before they carry out their plan to kill their masters; and Stiff Options, a comedy by John Flanagan and Andrew McCulloch about a smalltime cockney gangster who goes to do a ' job ' in Lancashire starring
Michael Elphick at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East.
Presenter Chris Bigsby Producer CARROLL MOORE
Madame Bovary (13) long wave only
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with Edward Cole long wave only
Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
