Presented from Scotland by Charlie Allan BBC Scotland
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Wendy Jones
0.45' Prayer for the Day with WILF WILKINSON
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.251, 8.251 Sport
7 30 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
3: A Disappearing Trick
8.57 Weather; travel
Shake yourself out of the seasonal sloth with wit and repartee with Henry and his guests.
Producer JOHN LAVIS
Ken Ford invites Bill Sowerbutts Geoffrey Smith and Clay Jones to answer postal questions. BBC Manchester
The Lion by WALTER MACKEN Read by Jeff Rawle
NEM, p 21; Hark! The herald angels sing (BBC HB 50); Psalm 15; John
1, vv 15-28 (NEB); Behold, the great Creator makes (BBC HB 44)
followed by travel
Richard Baker presents a blend of entertainment on record.
Presenter John Howard.
Dry rot? Woodworm? Leaking roof? Dripping basement? Today, a visit to the newly-opened exhibition by the Building Conservation Trust at Hampton Court Palace, where 25 rooms have been set aside to highlight building problems and recommend solutions.
by Terence O'Brien
When an eager young man casts himself on the job market these days he should be prepared to consider anything and, If his ambition is to be a gumshoe, he ought to expect it...
BBC Manchester
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Gordon Clough
by the Conservative Party
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Food critic Egon Ronay
Tropical Variations: JOHN WATKINS meets a unique multi-racial group - a steel band from Walsall which owes its success to the Youth Opportunities Programme.
The Magic Apple Tree abridged in 11 parts by PAT MCLOUGIILIN, written and read by Susan Hill (1) ,The magic apple tree Is a most beautiful, satisfying shape...
One Green Bottle by SHEILA HODGSON
Despite his frantic efforts to be the high-powered PR man of his dreams, everything always goes wrong for Alec Corby.
This particular chapter of accidents involves his attempt to be the first to bring back a bottle of le Beaujolats nouveau.
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON
Desmond Hawkins presents six programmes reflecting the sky. 1: Flight
Readers PAULINE WYNN and DOUGLAS LEACH
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
Distant Days
Gwen Calvert remembers her childhood In a Welsh hotel.
The Misadventures of John Nicholson (3)
Presenter Robert Williams
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
with HARRIET CASS
Including Financial Report
Devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Irene Thomas and Denis Norden In the Chair
Antonla Fraser
Questions compiled by PETER MOORE
Producers TONY SHRYANE and PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
A series of four programmes
Bernard Stone is a quiet man who runs a poetry bookshop in Covent Garden but the warmth of the atmosphere he has created regularly attracts the writers of his books to the spaces between the shelves.
Roger McGough spends a typical Saturday afternoon relaxing in the company of Bernard and his friends.
BBC Birmingham
The second of five programmes
The Lady Writers
From Agatha Christie to
P. D. James , the detection story seems a form for which women have had a special gift. How and why has this happened? Under brown paper covers, could you tell which whodunits were written by women?
Jessica Mann investigates, with contributions from P. D. JAMES , RUTH RENDELL , MARGARET YORKE , ANTHONY STORR , DULCIE GRAY ,
ELIZABETH FERRARS , HEATHER JEEVES, MARGHANITA LASKI, JOYCE ALLINGHAM , JANET MORGAN , SARAH CAUDWELL and JAMES BARNETT.
Readers KATHERINE PARR ,
MADI HEDD, JEAN TREND and HUGH DICKSON
Music by JOLYON JACKSON Producer
MARGARET WINDHAM
A 13-part series In which Jeremy Slepmann recounts, with the help of letters. diaries and memoirs, the adventures iand reflections of composers abroad.
9: Dame Ethel Smyth
A huge drop of blood flew onto my cheek and I never felt nearer going mad with horror and blood-exultation. Few Europeans had ever walked in the heart of that crowd and what astonished me, was that instead of merely flushing the air with their scimitars within a foot of one's face, these frantic Orientals did not accidentally cut down the Englishwoman who presumed to mingle with them.' with Jill Balcon as Dame Ethel Smyth
Producer CATHY WEARING
See panel below
An Unsuspected Paradise In December 1799 William and Dorothy Wordsworth moved into a former Inn called Dove Cottage. It was here that William wrote some of his best poetry and spent the early years of his married life with Mary. Coleridge and de Qulncey were frequent visitors and ' plain living and high thinking ' were the rule. Michael Oliver visits the cottage in Grasmere - now an award-winning museum - and discovers its influence on the poet. Readers ALAN DOBIE and ELIZABETH PROUD
Producer ANNE WINDER
9.59 Weather
John Morgan reporting
Bernard Price presents a 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 a National Theatre player) followed by an interlude
Mr Sponge's Sporting
Tour (12): long wave only
Radio 4's international business report; market trends, long wave only
1 A view of Mozart's operas transformed means the best of the real world transformed - but brother, can we spare that paradigm? '
John Morgan makes his own private journey on the road to a Mozartian Damascus. Producer SIAN LLOYD
BBC Wales
Weather report; forecast followed by an Interlude
