S.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
« 45* Prayer tor the Day
With FR ALISTAIR MACLELLAN
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.25', 8.25* Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Part 3
8.57 Weather; travel
Not the Twelfth Night show with exotic and entertaining guests, helping to dismantle the decorations.
Producer JOHN LAVIS
Alice Buchan and the Muggers by FRED URQUHART Read by Fraser Ktrr
NEM, p 46; Jesus, Lord, we look to thee (BBC HB 374); Psalm 85; John 2, vv 1-11 (Av): How sweet the name (BBC HB 142)
followed by travel
Richard Baker presents entertainment on record. producer RAY ABBOTT
Presenter Bill Breckon
A series of six light-hearted adventures involving the grandsons of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson.
1: The Case of the Grandfather's Client
Written by Grant Eustace
Producer Paul Mayhew-Archer
Presenter Gordon Clough with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor Including
Guest of the Week:
The Forces' Sweetheart, Dame Vera Lynn
Sisters-in-Law : who are the people dn our legal system? LIBBY FAWBERT talks to women who practise law, make
Judgments, or give advice to those who need it. 4: The CAB Lady
The Magic Apple Tree (6)
Ties of Loyalty by MELVILLE JONES
Henry is Head of the English Department at a minor public school. He stands for all that the new generation of schoolmasters regard as old-fashioned, but he is upright, humorous and Immensely popular with the old boys. Thus when the Headmaster suggests premature retirement, there is bound to be opposition.
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol
Desmond Hawkins presents six programmes reflecting the inspiration poets have found in the sky. 2: The Weather
Readers DOUGLAS LEACH and PAULINE WYNN
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
Twice Nightly and Beyond The playwright HENRY LIVINGS muses on his experiences as an actor.
Alzheimer's Disease and the Ageing Brain
Around one in ten of the over-65s have the severe memory loss and Intellectual impairment that are symptoms of Alzheimer'sdisease,the commonest form of senile dementia. Georgina Ferry talks to scientists who are beginning to unravel the changes In the brains of these patients and examines the prospects lor treatment. Producer DEBORAH COHEN
The Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of HMS Bounty (3)
Presenter Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
(Details; Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
A series of four programmes
Roger McGough reflects on the ups and downs on writing for a living.
3: One Thursday Morning Someone close to Roger wakes up to an identity crisis. Who is it? Well, that's the crisis!
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
The Detective Hero In the third of five programmes, Jessica Mann examines the phenomenal success of women crime-writers. Is the series detective essential? Is he always a fantasy figure? Does his author inevitably fall in love with him?
SARAH CAUDWELL , JAMES BARNETT , P. D. JAMES
MARGHANITA LASKI , JOYCE ALLINGHAM ,
ELIZABETH FERRERS , RUTH RENDELL HEATHER JEEVES
7ENA SCOTT-ARCHER and MARGARET YORKE assist the investigations.
Readers KATHERINE PARR ALEXANDRA MATHIE , MADI
HEDD, FRANCES JEATER 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 and reflections of composers abroad.
10: Gottschalk
' Life in the tropics in the midst of a halfcivilised and voluptuous race, cannot be that of a London Cockney, a Parisian idler, or an American Presbyterian. I can well understand why the demi-savages of the Savanna, prefer their own poetic barbarism to our barbarous progress.' with Greg Hicks as Gottschalk
Producer GRAHAM SHEFFIELD
(Details; Friday 11.3 am)
Presenter
Susannah Simons
Producer Richard DUNN
9.59 Weather
with Alexander MacLeod with voices and opinions from around the world
An Ice-Cream War (3) long wave only
Radio 4's international business report; market trends long wave only
Nicholas Evans , a former miner from the Aberdare Valley in South Wales, didn't start painting until he was almost 70. Now, his pictures of mining scenes and valley life are highly regarded. He is also a committed Christian and preaches in Pentecostal churches all over South
Wales, seeing his art as a way of praising God, as a kind of singing.
Producer MARK OWEN
BBC Wales
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
