Programme Index

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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

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Peter Hobday
Unknown:
Fr Eric Doyle
Read By:
Pauline Bushnell
Editor:
Julian Holland

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
long wave only

Contributors

Presented By:
Louise Boning

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

Contributors

Unknown:
Canon Jim Richardson

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
long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Johnston
Producer:
Anthony Smith

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

Contributors

Presented By:
Robert Gittings
Presented By:
Readers Eleanor Bron
Producer:
Brian Patten
Unknown:
John Franklyn-Robbins

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

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo
Unknown:
Sheila Hancock
Unknown:
Gyles Brandreth
Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
Pete Atkin

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

Contributors

Introduced By:
Chris Mohr
Unknown:
Simon Calder
Editor:
Wyn Knowles

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

Contributors

Presenters:
Valerie Singleton
Presenters:
Gordon Clough
Editor:
Derek Lewis

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

Contributors

Unknown:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Unknown:
Willie Rushton
Unknown:
Barry Cryer
Unknown:
Humphrey Lyttelton

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)

Contributors

Directed By:
Brian Miller
Jack London:
Keith Alexander
Charmian London:
Kate Harper
Martin:
Peter Whitman
Voice of The Press:
William Roberts

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

Contributors

Presenter:
Paul Vaughan
Producer:
Richard Bannerman
Editor:
Rosemary Hart

BBC Radio 4 FM

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More