6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Brian Redhead and Wendy Jones
6.45* Prayer for the Day With THE REV ALEC GILMORE
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.25«, 8.25* Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
a story by Jack London, abridged by Vivien Creegor
Read by Alan Dobie
8.57 Weather; travel
Including Libby Purves birthday guest.
Producer IAN GARDHOUSE
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visits Lancashire where members of the Caton and District Floral and Horticultural Society put their questions to Bill Sowcrbutts
ProfessoT Alan Gemmell and Geoffrey Smith
Questlonmaster Ken Ford
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The Wild Cherry Tree by H. E. BATES
Read by Elizabeth Proud long wave only
nem, p 75; Stand up, and bless the Lord (BBC hb
268); Psalm 119; Luke 13, vv 22-35 (NEB); Guide me, 0 thou great Redeemer (BBC us 140)
followed by travel long wave only
Richard Baker with entertainment on record. Producer \RAY abbott hevisedrptof Sat 7.35 pin) long wave only
The traditional ceremony in which The Queen. Lords and Commons come together for the formal announcement of the Government's intentions for the next session of Parliament.
Peter Jones describes the arrival of the Royal Procession in the Chamber of the House of Lords and the summoning of the House of Commons by the Black Rod.
The Speech from the Throne by HM The Queen is followed by an assessment of Its political Implications by Brian Curtols long wave only
Presenter Jenni Mills
Six contests between teams in London and in \New York. Round 5 LONDON
Louis Allen (Chairman) with Irene Thomas and John Julius Norwich NEW YORK
Anthony Quinton (Chairman) with Brendan Gill , author and theatre critic of The New Yorker and Shana Alexander , journalist and author Question researcher JULIE BARTLE
ProducerTREVOR HILL BBC Manchester
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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with Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: The outgoing General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, Sidney Weighell.
Reading Your Letters
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G. B. EDWARDS Part Three
Abridged in eight parts by DOREEN ESTALL
Read by Roy Dotrice
(Music: Planel's Trumpet Concerto) long wave only
The Admission by MELISSA MURRAY
Lynn is recovering In hospital from a nervous breakdown. An Intelligent and highly articulate woman, she finds being Institutionalised a nightmare and deeply resents the daily routine of sessions with an analyst, drugs, treatment.
Other parts by JOHN WARNER ALAN DUDLEY , JILL LIDSTONE Director CHERRY COOKSON
Six All presented by H. Colin Davis
1: All My Eye and Betty Martin
Readers DAVID DAVIS and ROSALIND SHANKS
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
With PHIL SMITH
2: A Nation of Hucksters
Landscape With Dead Dons (3)
with Gordon Clough and Robert Williams 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.
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
(Details: Thurs 9.5 am)
' There were no books in my house. My father was a police sergeant in a little village called
Warren Point in the north of Ireland. We did have an upright piano but that seems an aberration. I recall only one book - called Guide to Careers.' Denis Donoghue , the HenryJames Professor of Letters at New York/ University, talks to Paul Vaughan. Producer /.
THOMAS SUTCLIFFE
(The Arts Without Mystery, Professor
Donoghue's first 1982 Reith Lecture, next Wed 7.45 pm, and in THE LISTENER next week)
First of 13 programmes with Jeremy Siepmann 1: Berlioz in Italy * I loaded a pair of double-barrelled pistols, examined and replaced in my pocket two bottles of those Invaluable cordials, laudanum and strychnine and, reassured as to my arsenal, went out Into the streets of Florence ... ' with John Woodvine as Berlioz
Producer CATHY WEARING
1: Seeds of Change
The world is split from north to south by two great oceans, the Atlantic and the Pacific. We, and the rest of the Atlantic communities, are in recession economically, some even talk about spiritual malaise, while those living around the Pacific are going from strength to strength.
Some of them are as rich as we are and becoming richer by the day.
Mary Goldring has spent this year travelling through the region to discover why. In the first of six programmes she describes the mixture of fear, greed and pride behind their success. Producer TOM READ
Poetry is so much in the centre of man and his words, that those who slip into writing poems are liable sooner or later to indulge themselves in formulating thoughts about the character and role of poetry.
(GEOFFREY GRIGSON )
Christopher Bigsby reviews the poetry and note books of Geoffrey Grigson which are published this week.
Producer CARROLL MOORE
John Morgan reporting
Anthony Holden and Anne Gregg present entertainment to put the steam back into radio.
A run around the Inside track of showbiz, the media, money, books, music, fashion and politics. Producers JULIAN HALE and DICK GILBERT
I Like it Here by KINGSLEY AMIS adapted in eight parts by JOHN SCOTNEY Read by EDWARD WOODWARD (8) long wave only
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
