6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
6.45* Prayer for the Day
with The Rev Richard Harries
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by Pauline Bushnell
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.10, 8.10 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Part 2
8.57 Weather; travel
A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL
(Repeated: Sat 4.2 pm)
by Jill Norris
Read by Shirley Dixon
NEM, p 54; Holy Spirit, truth divine (BBC HB
155); Psalm 126; John 2, vv 12-22 (AV); Our blest Redeemer (BBC HB 160)
followed by travel
by JAMES ROOSE-EVANS In 1819 the London Theatre was fast becoming a place of artistic debauchery. It became apparent that, If theatre was to survive, the intellectual and the well-to-do had to be coaxed back. The credit for doing this belongs to Madame Vestrls , the first actress to be manager of a London Theatre, and to her successor, Marie Wilton.
Narrator JOHN PULLEN
Other parts by EDWARD CAST, DAVID GOODERSON NIGEL GRAHAM , JAMES KERRY , STUART ORGAN HENRY STAMPER ,
DAVID TIMSON , PETER TUDDENHAM
ROSALIND ADAMS , JEAN TREND Music arranged by DAVID TIMSON
Producer GERRY JONES
'... It was black, it had a long snout, quite small ears and It had a short tall. It looked, in fact, like a very, big pig, but it wasn t a pig. It was my first real live tapir.'
PresenterMalcolmCoe
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
Presenter Jennl Mills
A panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON.
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Irene Thomas and Denis Norden.
In the Chair Antonia Fraser
Questions compiled by PETER MOORE. Producers TONY SHRYANE , PETE ATKIN
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced from Birmingham by Maureen Staffer
Marian Foster talks to Birmingham-born actress Julie Walters, star of the film Educating Rita, to be released later this year.
Off the Beaten Track: Dymphna Byrne investigates something different in economical family holidays.
BBC Birmingham
The Magic Apple Tree (8)
by ANTHONY TROLLOPE adapted for radio In seven parts by BARRY CAMPBELL
7: Veni, vidi, vici
In which marriages are made and the devil is cast out....
Directed by VANESSA WHITBURN BBC Birmingham
(Sorcho Cusack , Jeffery Dench and Derek Jacobi are members of the RSC)
Twice Nightly and Beyond HENRY LIVINGS muses
To understand the silent clues from a dead body takes painstaking and unpleasant work by police surgeons and forensic pathologists.
That evidence must then be examined in court. But can legal truth, disputed by prosecution and defence, ever be the same as scientific truth? Geoff Watts investigates. Producer RICHARD ELLIS
The Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of HMS Bounty (5)
Presenters Gordon Clough and Robert Williams
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
With EUGENE FRASER including Financial Report
with Clive Jacobs bringing you the stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport.
Producer GEOFF DOBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts. (Repeated: Sat 10.45 am)
A personal portrait
Sir Campbell Fraser The Rt Rev
Hugh Montefiore , Bishop of Birmingham
Geoffrey Robinson, MP Katharine Whitehorn tackle the questions raised by the audience from Rugby. Warwickshire Chairman David Jacobs Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)
No 18 Folgate Street
Paul Allen , with Dennis Severs as his guide.
Journeys by candlelight through a house of both history and Imagination whenhevisitsthe1725 home of the Jervis family in Spitalfields, London. Four generations of Huguenot silk weavers are said to have lived through wealth and poverty, across two centuries in the five floors of this extraordinary house.
Producer JOHN POWELL
with Alexander MacLeod
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with Bill Wallis
David Tate , Tracey Ullman Written by JAMES HENDRIE JOHN REVELL , ANDREA SOLOMONS, IAN BROWN ROY APPS. BOB SINFIELD RICHARD QUICK, PETER HICKEY and others Producer
PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
(Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm)
An Ice-Cream War (5) long wave only
long wave only
An imaginary sale of the BBC's Sound Archives attracts John Walters to browse through the catalogue.
Producer DILLY BARLOW long wave only
Late-night jazz, blues and gospel music with Dilly Barlow long wave only
Weather report: forecast followed by an Interlude
