Presented from Scotland by Charlie Allan BBC Scotland
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
6.45* Prayer for the Day With PAMELA EGAN
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought /or the Day
by SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (2)
8.57 Weather; travel
Astronomy
After dark tonight whether you are a dedicated or casual stargazer, you will be able to see Venus, Jupiter and Saturn in close-up as they dominate the skies. Everybody has a question about astronomy.
Put your own question to Heather Couper ,
Astronomy Educator at the Old Royal Observatory In
Greenwich, who Joins Sue MacGregor. Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
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A Summer Tenant by PAT BURCHARD
Read by June Barrie Constance took everything under her wing, even the smallest bird.
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol long wave only
from St George 's Church. Brandon Hill, Bristol NEM, p 93; 0 thou who earnest from above
(BBC HB 362); Psalm 139, vv 1-9, 23 and 24; I
Thessalonians 4. vv 9-18 (GNB); Let all the world (BBC HB 275) BBC Bristol
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The Video Man by BILL LYONS
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We read your letters, play your favourite sounds and give you another chance to win the mystery sound competition. Presented by Derek Jones
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 3.5 pm) long wave only
Presenter Jennt Mills
Chairman
Robert Robinson
8: Midlands and East Anglia
Allan Chapman (senior lecturer)
Ian Baird (teacher) Andrew Cobley
(computer programmer) Dersford Sudworth (sales engineer)
The programme Includes Beat the Brains
Devised by JOHN P. WYNN Questions set by IAN GILLIIS
Producer RICHARD EDIS
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day
by the Conservative Party
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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with Sue MacGregor
Period Property: if you're In the market for an unusual older home - be it a cottage or a castle - there's a new way of finding out what's available,bbianleadsou talks to MARGARET IIORSEFIELD.
Who Can 1 Turn To? People have phobias about the most extraordinary - and ordinary - things. In the sixth in this series about people with problems,
RICHARD HEMINGWAY finds out what help is available.
The London Embassy (6) long wave only
by Wally K. Daly
Dabbling with new machinery can often produce extraordinary results particularly when the machine In question is an "Electronic Agitator-stroke Molecule Adjustor". Then anything can happen... and does.
The Cottage Garden Year: Spring
Lys de Bray picks some plants for your pleasured) Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
The true story of a mysterious midsummer manhunt.
August Bank Holiday, 1927 An ordinary little man in a trilby hat paces the promenade at Great
Yarmouth. His picture is In the paper, his name on handbills all over town: there is a reward on his head. The wanted man is Mr Lobby Lud. Miles Kington tells the Story of the sensational newspaper stunt which for years turned the nation Into seaside A sleuths.
Featuring the original Mr Lobby Lud. W. T. Chinn Producer
SIMON ELMES
The Russian Interpreter(2)
presenters Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
by BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
with Anthony Holden Producers JULIAN HALE and ROSEMARY ATKINS
(Repeated; Wed 1.40 pm)
Producer MAGGIE REDFERN
What's it Worth*
The libel laws exist to protect your reputation - but a suit can cost
£20,000. How can a poor man protect his name?
Reporter Roger Finnigan Producer PAUL CAMPBELL Editor DAVID TAYLOR BBC Manchester
Three programmes In which Christopher Matthew talks to travellers about the reality rather than romance of journeys. 1: Two Men in a Boat
In 1871. Geoff Allum and his cousin spent 73 days rowing the Atlantic from Las Palmas to Barbados in a boat not much bigger than a dining-room table'. '. He recalls the journey now in terms of physical discomforts and mental anguish.
Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester
Presenter Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Includes reviews of Eureka, a new film directed by Nicolas Roeg. starring Gene Hackman and Jane Lapotalre ; and Duluth, Gore. Vidal's parody of romantic action and TV soap opera. Presenter Paul Allen Producer
ANTHONY CHEEVERS
with Simon Winchester
The Handyman (2) long wave only
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Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an Interlude
