News, Weather, papers and sport
Presented from
Northern Ireland by John Johnston A regional view of farming in the week ahead
BBC Northern Ireland
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with Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
6.45* Prayer for the Day with FR 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 David Hltchinson
puts his own point of view with the help of the BBC Sound Archives. Producer SIMON ELMES
.Repeated: Fri 11.45 pm)
8.57 Weather: travel
who invites you to meet some of the names who are hitting the headlines this week.
Kenneth Robinson adds his own brand of humour.
Producer JENNY DANKS
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Presented by Louise Boning
The programme that keeps you in touch with what's happening in the field of personal savings. tax, mortgages, insurance, social security and the financial problems of everyday life.
A Financial World Tonight production
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The Impulse by M. ALISON BEVIS
Read by Mary Wimbush Producer MITCH RAPER long wave only
from Leeds Parish Church led by CANON JIM RICHARDSON with the CHAPEL CHOIR OF LEEDS GRAMMAR SCHOOL
0 King. enthroned on high (BBC HB 158); Guide me, 0 thou great Redeemer (BBC HB 140); John 16, vv 1-11 (AV); Anthem:
Cast thy burden upon the Lord (Mendelssohn) BBC Manchester
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Brian Johnston visits Gloucester. Cathedral city, port and county town, it has a variety of industry and a great deal of history. This year It celebrates its quincentenary.
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
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Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners. Presented by Robert Gittings
Readers ELEANOR BRON ano JOHN FRANKLYN-ROBBINS Requests to:
Poetry Please!, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
(John Franklyn-Robbins is a member of the RSC) long wave only
News, views and advice for consumers.
Presenter Bill Breckon Editor JOHN GETGOOD
A new series of rhetorical extravaganzas in which
Kenneth Williams Derek Nimmo Sheila Hancock and Gyles Brandreth submit themselves to the unhesitating, undeviating and unrepetitious discipline of Nicholas Parsons (or not).
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Tues 10.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Brian Wldlake with views and topics in and behind the headlines Editor DEREK LEWIS
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Introduced by Chris Mohr will include during the week some Talking Point discussions. Your Letters and other topics.
Among these today: The World on a Shoestring: SIMON CALDER discovers that it's still possible to travel abroad for next to nothing.
Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective (9)
Editor WYN KNOWLES 0 Woman's Hour/
Radio Times Painting
Competition details and entry form on page 14 long wave only
Lady Audley's Secret by MARY E. BRADDON
An occasional series about people who are happy at their work. 1: The Tailor: Lance Hudson
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER
BBC Birmingham
Goldfinger
Part 2: Coincidence
Episode 6: If You Touch Me There
Presenters Valerie Singleton and Gordon Clough
Editor DEREK LEWIS on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
with BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
The antidote to panel games (also available as a blank video)
Tim Brooke-Taylor and Willie Rushton v Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer
On the button Humphrey Lyttelton
On the keys COLIN SELL
On the skids PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
(lieuiscd rpt of 9.5 am)
Jack by STEVE MAY
In 1906, the American novelist and adventure-story writer Jack London undertook to circumnavigate the world in a small boat, accompanied only by his wife, Charmian. In a series of revealing letters from both Jack and Charmian the ultimately tragic story of this, the most quintessentially ' macho ' of American writers is unfolded ...
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)
A nightly magazine of news, interviews and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting. music and exhibitions.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
Editor ROSEMARY HART
Editor KEN GOUDIE
Presenter Peter Evans What is happening in science?
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
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Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude