6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
6.45' Prayer for the Day With THE REV JOHN BAILEY
6.55. 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25', 8.25' Sport
7.30. 8.30 News summary
7.45* Thought for the Day
Part 3
Producer PETER ESTALL
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Ken Ford invites Bill Sowerbutts
Dr Stefan Buczackl and Daphne Ledward to answer questions sent in by post. BBC Manchester
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The Link by JACK PULMAN Read by Robert Rletty long wave only
NEM, p 62; Father of peace, and God of love (BBC HB 488); Psalm 36:
Matthew 7. w 13-29 (RSV); 0 God of Bethel, by whose hand (BBC HB 495)
followed by travel long wave only
with Richard Baker Producer RAY ABBOTT long wave only
Call to Account
Legal, decent, honest and truthful? How well do the advertisers live up to their own Ideals? Pattle Coldwell invites your calls and comments to the studio guests. The lines open at 11.0 am. Call [number removed]
A serial in nine parts by STEPHEN BARLAY , starring Ian Hendry as Maxon. and Toby Robins as Jacqueline with Paul Hardwick as the Nachalnik 8: Crackpotnt
Music composed and played by ED WELCH (piano) With RON ASPERY (saxophone)
Directed by PETER KINO
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor. Including Guest of the Week:
Pat Lowry , Chairman of Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS).
I Can Do It By Myself:
ROSEMARY EVANS takes the last of four sideways looks at her divorce. Woman's Weekly/ Woman's Hour
Competition - the prizewinning new romantic novelist.
Family Matters (11) long wave only
Winner of a 1982 Giles Cooper Award
Invisible Writing by DONALD CHAPMAN with Sylvestra Le Touzel as Helen and Astra Sheridan as Young Helen
Helen Fraser 's life is told through a series of letters. Directed by PETER KING
Compiled and presented by Michael Ffinch
Reader Ronald Pickup
Had we but World enough, and Time,
This coyness Lady were no crime.
We would sit down, and think which way
To walk, and pass our long Love's Day.
BBC Bristol
John Wyatt continues his search for truth and adventure by going
Further Back to Nature.
He talks to Helen Palmer.
Children at the Gate (3)
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 including Financial Report
devised by EDWARD j. MASON and TONY SHRYANE John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden
In the Chair Steve Race Compiled by STEVE RACE Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
Last of the weekly dnvest'igattions into the problems of listeners. Presenter Roger Cook
(Repeated: Thurs 9.5 am)
by JOHN KEAY First of seven programmes with Narrator JOHN ROWE
Philip Thicknesse was a familiar figure in 18th-century Bath. He was an inveterate traveller, and died. as he would have wished, on the road - en route to Paris - at the age of 73. Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
In three talks, Douglas Stuart recalls some of the people he met and whose careers he observed during 16 years as a BBC foreign correspondent.
1: Spies - Kim Philby and Otto John
With Dr Anthony Clare. Actress Sarah Miles reflects on the most significant influences on her private and professional life.
Producer Michael Ember
Aldeburgh Festival The 36th Aldeburgh Festival, founded by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears , started last weekend. Highlights this year include a performance of Britten's War Requiem, conducted by Simon Rattle ; a production of Turn of the Screw directed by Basil Coleman ; and a series of discussions and concerts focusing on the Polish composer Lutoslawski. Natalie Wheen talks to Simon Rattle ,
Basil Coleman. Sir Peter Pears , John Piper and Oliver Knussen.
Producer JOHN BOUNDY
John Morgan reporting including a report on the young and unemployment
Good Day Sport with Helen Atkinson-Wood
Angus Deayton , Michael Fenton-Stevens , Geoffrey Perkins and Philip Pope. Written by GEOFFREY PERKINS and ANGUS DEAYTON With JON CANTER , RICHARD CURTIS and others.
Music by PHILIP POPE
Producer JIMMY MULVILLE
The Turnaround (12) long wave only
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Dame Angela Marvell celebrates her 70th birthday in conversation with Peter France and Sir Kenneth Shandy. Also taking part are Arthur Marshall and Kenneth Williams.
BBC Bristol
(First broadcast in 1976) long wave only
Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an Interlude
12.15-12.23* am Shipping forecast; Inshore forecast