6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson with Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day with DAVID MILES-BOARD
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by Harriet Cass
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.57 Weather; travel
Bernard Price presents personal anthology in celebration of the great collectors and craftsmen of a bygone age, the treasures and much-loved trifles they left behind, and the people and places he has visited during a lifetime in the world of antiques.
Readers JUNE BARRIE and MARTIN JARVIS
Producer SARAH PITT
BBC Bristol
(Martin Jarvis is
National Theatre player) (Repeated: Wed 10.30 pm)
And Never the Twain Shall Meet
Between the two great continents of Asia and Australasia, there is a 1 line ' which separates the elephants and rhinos from the cockatoos and platypuses. Wilma George. recently returned from
Indonesia, talks to Peter France about this great divide, first noted by Alfred Russel Wallace in 1863. Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
See feature page 66
The last of the present series.
David Holloway , Editor of Handyman Whichf
David Nye , DIY consultant Marianne Gray , author of Working from Home, 201 Ways to Make Money respond to questions from DIY enthusiasts of Mickleton Village in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire In the Chair Bill Breckon Producer CLIVE RICHE Editor JIM BLACK
Sister Enda's Lamb by NESTA TUOMEY
Read by Brenda Winter Producer JUDITH ELLIOTT BBC Northern Ireland
NEM, p 5; Wake, 0 wake! for night is flying (BBC HB 40): Psalm 47: Isaiah 53, vv 1-6: Thy kingdom come! On bended knee (BBC HB 28)
followed by travel
with Nell Landor
Producer KATE FENTON
Questions, on a postcard please, to: Enquire Withm, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW
with Bill Breckon : and the BBC Shopping Basket
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Gordon Clough
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor A Genie is Bornr: a look behind the scenes as TON I ARTHUR, gUCSt presenter of Woman's Hour earlier this year. plucks up her courage and whittles down her waistline for her panto debut in Aladdin.
The True Story of the Nativity?: BERNARD JACKSON has been to Bethlehem, where he discovered that the events surrounding the birth of Jesus may not be quite as the Gospels record.
The Fib and Other Stories written and read by George Layton abridged by DELIA PATON 1: The Fib :
by ANTHONY TROLLOPE adapted for radio in seven parts by BARRY CAMPBELL withand
5: The Hunt is On
In which Frank seeks a messenger to Fanny and Barry proposes a dastardly deed.
Directed by VANESSA WHITBURN BBC Birmingham
Advent Calendar Christingle in the Moravian Church.
Frank Delaney presents the magazine programme for browsers and bookworms.
Producer ANNE HOWELLS
Mr Thompson by ARTHUR CALDER-MARSHALL Read by ANNA CALDER-MARSHALL
Producer CHERRY COOKSON
Presenter Robert Williams 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
Written by ALAN BOWER
Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
Marking the centenary of the birth of Sir John Christie , the Festival's founder,
Edward Greenfield presents selections on record of some of the finest productions seen in the Sussex Opera House. Included are
DAME JANET BAKER in Cavalli's La Cahsto and Gluck's Orfeo, which last summer, brought her last stage appearance; and victoria HE LOS
ANGELES joining the cast as Rosina for a recording of Rossini's The Barber of Seville. Part 1
Subjects raised in last week's Any Questions? with David Jacobs
Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol
Part 2
'The story of the azure main, of England's greatness, and the whole stirring many-coloured panorama of ancient days and battles, fought on the other side of uncounted sunsets.'
G.A. Henty, the greatest English writer of boys' adventure stories, was born 150 years ago this month. With Clive in India, By Sheer Pluck, Held Fast for England, these titles encapsulate the spirit of the 82 tales of derring-do penned by this former war correspondent for a generation of young Empire builders.
Jeffrey Richards revisits Henty's world in the company of A.J.P. Taylor, Tom Jackson, Roy Henty, Peter Newbolt and Denis Butts
(William Squire is in "Camelot" at the Apollo Victoria Theatre, London)
John Morgan reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour (9)
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
