Presented from Wales by Gerry Monte BBC Wales
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
6.45* Prayer for the Day with ERIC DOYLE
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 Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
A look ahead with Robert Booth
Five selections read by Jim Norton (1)
Myles na Copaleen was the name Flann O'Brien adopted for Cruiskeen Lawn, the column he wrote for The Irish Times. In it he first introduced to the world such immortal comic creations as The Brother, The Plain People of Ireland and of course, those two maddening punsters, Keats and Chapman.
Producer Maurice Leitch
8.57 Weather; travel
How many good resolutions have you broken so far? What about the one to listen to Start the Week every Monday? You won't survive 1983 without it. Producer Jenny Danks
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long wave only
The Challenge by JOHN G. MILLER
Read by John Westbrook Producer MITCH RAPER long wave only
NEM, p 62; Songs of praise the angels sang (Bp 77);
Psalm 107. vv 31-42; John 3 vv 13-21 and 31-36 (AV); The God of Abraham praise (BBC HB 283)
followed by travel long wave only
Brian Johnston visits Ashford, Kent
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Presented by Charles Tomlinson Readers POLLY JAMES and MARTIN JARVIS (Martin Jarvis is a National Theatre player) long wave only
Presenter Jennl Mills Editor JOHN GETGOOD
Busman's Honeymoon by DOROTHY L. SAYERS adapted In six episodes by ALISTAIR BEATON starring
2: Credit Where Credit's Due
Producer MARTIN FISHER
12.55 Weather: travel: programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor including
Fast Family Fare: (1) starters MARY BERRY with six demonstrations on how to prepare real and wholesome food quickly and efficiently. The Passionate Pilgrim: JUNE KNOX-MAWER reflects on the life and work of Katherine Mansfield. A Maze of Benefits:
FRANCLS BENNETT helps you find your way around the maze of Social Security benefits. 1: Benefits for the unemployed
The Magic Apple Tree (9) Editor WYN KNOWLES long wave only
The Honourable Schoolboy by JOHN LE CARR É (1)
The last of six programmes on the facts and fallacies of dieting. Exercise Is one thing, but belly dancing is quite another - in desperation
David Pontlng tries it out. Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol
The Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of HMS Bounty (6)
with 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
Including Financial Report
Can Willie Rushton and Tim Brooke-Taylor win with a cross-court volley to silly-mid-on or have Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer got them snookered behind the goal? Referee Humphrey Lyttelton
With Matthew Scott at the piano.
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
(Revised rpt of 9.5 am)
A ballad play of the life and times of Robin Hood by David Buck
with Denis Quilley, Julian Glover, David Timson, John Hollis and Bernard Hill
In the heart of an English forest, King Richard I is encamped with a group of soldiers, prior to moving against a hunted enemy. To entertain his men, he orders two of his ballad singers to recount the tales and legends of Robin Hood.
includes a review of The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, starring Donald Sinden and Beryl Reid at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London.
Presenter Paul Vaughan
9.59 Weather
Peter Paterson reporting Editor KEN GOUDIE
Presented by Colin Tudge What Is happening in science? A weekly review of discoveries and developments.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN
An Ice-Cream War by WILLIAM BOYD. adapted in 12 parts by DOREEN MAHON Read by RONALD PICKUP (6) Producer
MICHAEL HEFFERNAN long wave only
long wave only
Records of Dlnu LipatU playing piano music by Scarlatti, Chopin, Bach.
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
