News; weather; papers and sport
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.45* Prayer for the Day with THE REV SIDNEY EVANS
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN MARTIN
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
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Amid the daytime bustle of Regent's Park lies a moonlit world of night creatures where fruit bats and Tasmanian devils live side by side with owl monkeys, kiwis and echidnas -inhabitants of the Nocturnal House at London Zoo.
Brian Bertram takes
Derek Jones on a radio nature trail through this shadowed world to discover some of London's more unusual nightlife. Producer MELINDA BARKER BBC Bristol
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Sport for All by JENNY OLDFIELD
Read by Shirley Stelfox 1 " Keep Fit," Linda had yelped, dropping her mascaratube."Mum, you're joking! " This from the bonded infant, the curled foetus she once carried for nine months. Mockery was her fortenow."Don'tyou have to be under 30 or something? Are you sure they'll let you join? " ' Producer GWYN Richards BBC Birmingham long wave only
NEM, p 50; Mv Father, for another night (BBC HB 407); Psalm 89, vv 1-10;
John 9, vv 1-12 (av); New every morning is the love (BBC HB 408)
followed by travel (long wave only)
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Let Nell Landor , together with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC Reference Library, sort out your queries.
Questions, on a postcard please, to: Enquire Within, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW.
Producer DILLY BARLOW long wave only
News views and advice for consumers; and the BBC Shopping Basket. Presenter Jennl Mills
Colin Sheffield David Holloway and David Nye respond to questions from diy enthusiasts from Satchwell Domestic Heating Controls (Motherwell Factory)
In the Chair Libby Purves Producer cathy STEWART Editor JIM BLACK
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Including
German Measles: Dr Simon Smail explains how to avoid catching it in pregnancy.
Rooms in the House: Cindy Selby examines their history and development. 2: The Living Room.
School for Love by Olivia Manning, abridged in 12 parts by Janet Hickson
Read by Sheila Mitchell (1) Waiting to return to England at the end of the war, Felix, an orphaned young boy, finds himself in Jerusalem In the care of the monstrous Miss Bohun.
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The War for Chantry Fields by JOHN KIRKMORRIS withand
The assistant editor of a provincial newspaper is given a lead on a corruption scandal regarding a local development scheme. Up for promotion, he is keen to make a quick killing. but this particular piece of investigative journalism proves a dangerous and difficult case.
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON
Wordsmiths
Stanley Ellis comments on the changes in pronunciation over the years.
Trouble for Lucia (6)
Presenters Robert Williams and Gordon Clough on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather: programme news
With EUGENE FRASER
Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world including Financial Report
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm)
Cast for the week: [see below]
BBC Birmingham
Jeremy Slepmann looks forward to the music in tonight's concert.
leader DESMOND BRADLEY conducted by Paavo Berglund
Julian Lloyd Webber (cello) direct from St David 's Hall, Cardiff Part 1
Schubert Symphony No 8, inaminor(D759) (Unfinished)
Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo theme. Op 33. for cello and orchestra
A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions?
Introduced by David Jacobs
BBC Bristol
Part 2 Brahms
Symphony No 1, In c minor, Op 68 BBC Wales
includes a preview of The Captain's Doll,
James Saunders ' adaptation of a D. H. Lawrence story starring Jeremy Irons and Jane Lapotaire on BBC2. Friday: and reviews the Tate Gallery's exhibition of the work of James Barry , the late 18th-century Irish painter. who, perhaps more than any other artist of his generation. struggled to establish the Grand Style in Great Britain.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer JOHN POWELL
John Morgan reporting
The Voyage of the Destiny (14) long wave only
Radio 4's international business report; market trends. long ware only
Weather report; forecast followed by an Interlude
