Presented from Wales bv Gerry Monté BBC Wales
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Wendy Jones
6 45* Prayer for the Day With MARK WILLIAMSON
6 55. 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.250. 8.25* Sport
7.30 8.30 News headlines
7.45. Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
A look ahead with Harriet Cass
again tries to set the record straight with the help of the BBC Sound Archives.
Producer SIMON ELMES
(Repeated. Fri 11.45 pm)
8.57 Weather; travel
who invites you to meet some of the names who are hitting the headlines this week.
Kenneth Robinson adds his own brand of humour.
Producer JENNY danies
long wave only
long wave only
The Romantic Young Lady by W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Read by Garard Green Producer MITCH RAPER long wave only
NEM. p 42; The advent of our King (BBC HB 39); Psalm 122; Luke 22. vv 7-23 (NEB); Wake. 0 wake! for night is flying (BBC HB 40)
followed by travel long wave only
Brian Johnston visits Chelsea, London
long wave only
Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners
Presented by Dannie Abse Readers BARBARA JEFFORD and HUGH BURDEN
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol long wave only Requests to:
Poetry Please!, BBC, Bristol BSS 2LR
News, views and advice for consumers.
All this week, CUERVL ARMITAGE looks at the latest thinking in antenatal care - what the National Health Service can do for you and what you can do for yourself. Today: why your health before pregnancy can be as vital as your health during pregnancy.
Presenter Jennl Mills Editor JOHN GETCOOD
Casablanca transformed Humphrey Bogart from an actor renowned for gangster roles into a big romantic star with one of the cinema's most enduring images. The Cult Figure In the last of two programmes. Terence Pettigrew looks at
Bogart's later years, which included his personal and professional partnership with Lauren Bacall and his Oscar-winning performance in The African Queen. Producer WENDY CLAY
12.55 Weather: travel: programme news
Presenter Brian Wldlake with views and topics in and behind the headlines
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor will include during the week some Talking Point discussions. Your Letters and other topics. Among these today:
Monkey Business:
ANDREA ADAMS visits the Leonard Williams monkey sanctuary at Looe in Cornwall, home of the only colony of South-
American woolly monkeys successfully bred outside their natural habitat. The Hidden Face (9) Editor WYN KNOWLES long wave only
The Woman's Hour Book, f6.50 from booksellers
Project Genesis by PAUL THAIN
The first in a series of six programmes on the facts and fallacies of dieting.
Beans are the very in-thing in both healthy eating and for slimming, because you get a lot of protein without fat, and they're very titling.
(AUDREY EYTON)
David Ponting lunches with Audrey Eyton and learns how to enjoy his food and stay trim.
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Murder Unprompted by SIMON BRETT abridged in ten parts by BARRY CAMPBELL Read by Geoffrey Matthews (1) When The Hooded Owl transfers to the West
End, there are shocks in store for the cast; and Charles Paris plays detective as well as understudy.
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
Presenters
Valerie Singleton and Gordon Clough on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
With PETER DONALDSON
Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world Including
Financial Report
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
(Revised rpt of 9.5 am)
The Trial by FRANZ KAFKA dramatised for radio by HANIF KUREISHI
Joseph K. is an unexceptional man. He lives a quiet life and works in a bank. But one ordinary morning he is woken by two men. and finds himself under arrest. What is his crime? From that moment on, Joseph K. enters a strange, bewildering world of nightmare.
Priest
HUGH DICKSON
Directed by DAVID SPENSER
(Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm) (Mike Gwilym is a member of the Royal
Shakespeare Company)
' This was by no means an ordinary film subject. It was going to be daunting to mount, financially. It would have to be conceived on an enormous scale and was going to be very hard to script and to cast.'
Richard Attenborough talks about Gandhi, starring Ben Kingsley. premiered in London this week and a review is included in tonight's programme.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer PHILIP JORDAN Editor ROSEMARY HART
with Alexander MacLeod Editor KEN GOUDIE
Presented by Peter Evans What is happening in science? A weekly review Producer DEBORAH COHEN
The Years (6) long wave only
long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
12.15-12.23* am Shipping forecast; inshore forecast
