6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Peter Hobday and John Timpson
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD BARRIES
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
8.35 Your Letters
by the SDP/Llberal Alliance
8.57 Weather: travel
A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL
(Repeated; Sat 4.2 pm)
Old Man of the Moor by GEORGE BEARDMORE Read by Sean Barrett
NEM, p 21; Come, 0 thou TraveUer unknown (BBC HB 4); Psalm 1; Matthew 4, vv 12-25 (RSV); Jesus shaM reign where'er the sun (BBC HB 460)
followed by travel
Jim Flegg cocks an ear
(not a gun) at two short-tailed, dumpy game birds: the red grouse ot the high moors and the lowland equivalent, the partridge.
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
Pattie Coldwell with the latest news, advice and Information for consumers.
Today It's a Bargain and Norman Tozer investigates value for money when buying car roof racks.
J2.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced from Manchester by Marjorie Lofthouse who meets George Smith ,
International florist. His career first bloomed In his army days when ordered to arrange flowers for the generals wife.
, ' I'm a natural hoarder,'
. says Nancy, Lady Bagot. whose 1950s couture clothes have just become a museum coiluesctlon.
Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
Family matters (3)
dramatlsed for radio Inn six parts by BRIAN GEAR with music composed by SIDNEY SAGAR
6: Franklin Blake is to put himself Into the frame of mind he was In the night a year agoas when the moonstone was stolen, and take a dose of opium to see if It will
Induce htm to steal the ©sis-
Directed by BRIAN MILLER
BBC Bristol
Not a Sherpa in sight, Jocelyn Rix walked to the foot of Everest along the paths the goat herds use.
Employment In the 80. cirnrofframines
4- People Not Statistics what can be done when both traditional employers and small businesses are unable to provide a Job for everyone who wants one'
Special measures to create work or work experience may be part of the answer. But, to succeed they have to offer the right opportunities » the right irlTn'Bedhead, with Ken Walsh of the institute of Manpower Studies, goes behind the statistics of unemployment to find out who the jobless are and to discover what they want.
Consultant JOHN ATKINSON Producer
CHRISTOPHER STONE
The Breaker hvKITDENTON. bridged in 13 parts by MADGE HART and read by THE AUTHOR (8)
Presenters Robert Williams and Susannah Simons on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
with BRIAN PERKINS
Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world including Financial Report
with Chris Serle bringing you the stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport, with help from Eric Tobltt. AVanalt Martin . Tom Boswell ,Producer ctorr dob son Editor ROGER MACDONALD
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days. Producer katc FENTON
(Repeated: Sat 10.45 am)
A personal portrait In conversation, recollection and anecdote; an assessment of a public figure or the story of a private individual.
tonight comes from
Halesowen, West Midlands where people In the public eye answer questions from an invited audience.
Chairman David Jacobs Producer GEOFFREY JAMES (Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)
Includes reviews of Footlights/ A Hundred Years of Cambridge Comedy by Robert Hewison ; and the British premiere of The Dining Room by American playwright A. R. Gurney at the Greenwich Theatre. Presenter
Michael Billington
Producer CARROLL MOORE Editor ROSEMARY HART
with Alexander MacLeod and voices and opinions from around the world Editor KEN GOUDIE
A sort of revue written and performed by Robert Bathurst Jimmy Mulville
Rory McGrath
Emma Thompson and Grill Rhys Jones
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
The Turn-around (5) long wave only
Radio 4's international business report; market trends long wave only
Extracts from the day's major speeches recorded at campaign meetings. Presenter John Hosken long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude