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
8.45* Prayer /or the Day with RABBI HUGO GRYN
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25',8.15*Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday In Parliament
8.57 Weather; travel
An ordinary talk show with extraordinary
Including Libby Purves ' birthday guest.
Producer IAN GARDHOUSE
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Destiny Obscure by JANET CAIRD
Read by Fraser Kerr long wave only
NEM, p 102; This is the day of light (BBC HB 399); Psalm 119; Luke 16. vv
1-9 (NEB); This is the day the Lord hath made (BBC HB 400)
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Presenter Bill Breckon
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor Including
Guest of the Week: The composer
Sir Lennox Berkeley
Those Dancing Years:
Mary Ellis , Ivor Novello 's leading lady and the original ' Rose Marie now aged 82, talks about her life as a singer (with Caruso and Chaliapin) and as an actress. The Stepsisters (5) long wave only
The Serang by VINCENT MCINERNEY with On Merchant Navy steamers the Serang was the man in charge of the Indian crew. It was the custom that any unofficial profits were shared between him and the European crew. If this did not happen there was bound to be trouble.
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol
Six All
So many programmes presented by H. Colin Davis
2: All Change
Reader DAVID DAVIS
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
Thora Hird talks to MIKE CRAIG about the start of her entertaining career.
Major Issues, changing attitudes, events at home and abroad.
Landscape With Dead Dons (8)
Presenters Liz Donnelly 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
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 Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thurj 1.40 pm)
Investigations into the problems of listeners, which can include being the victims of unfair dealings, sharp practice, Injustice and even fraud. Presenter Roger Cook
(Repeated: Thurs 9.3 am)
The Arts Without Mystery
Denis Donoghue, the Henry James Professor of Letters at New York University, gives the first of six lectures on the place of the arts In modern society.
The Zealots of Explanation
'The painter Jasper Johns once remarked: " I can imagine a society without art at all, and It Is not a bad society." Did he mean that the ways of art are Intolerably oblique, and that for much of the time we want to live directly? Or that art gets In the way of other things, perhaps higher causes?' (Rptd: Sun 5.0 pm, R3. Text of this week's lecture in THE LISTENER dated 11 November)
A 13-part series in which Jeremy Siepmann recounts, with the help of letters, diaries and memoirs, the adventures and reflections of composers abroad.
2: Haydn in England
' In France, the girls are virtuous and the wives are whores; in Holland the girls are whores and the wives are virtuous; In England they stay proper all their lives.' with Peter Vaughan as Haydn Producer CATHY WEARING
2: Taking Off
Robots on an assembly line sing monotonous songs to each other, watched over by men who yesterday were peasants In paddy fields. Yesterday's wood carvers are producing cars. The people of the Pacific have encompassed an entire social and Industrial revolution in one generation. They have tumbled more times than Humpty Dumpty, spilt quitealotofbloodin the process, but, remarkably, put themselves together again. In the second of six programmes, Mary Goldring explains. Producer TOM READ
(Repeated: Thurs 11.3 am)
Christopher Blgsby
Investigates the reaction tothefirstweekof television programmes on Channel 4. Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
John Morgan reporting
Anthony Holden and Anne Gregg present ... entertainment to put the steam back into radio.
Stories behind the news and people behind the stories - a run around the Inside track of showbiz, the media, money, books, music, fashion and politics.
Producers JULIAN HALE and DICK GILBERT
Turtle Diary (3) long wave only
Radio 4's International business report; market trends long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
