direct from the Royal Highland Show
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
6.45* Prayer for the Day With THE RT REV MGR JOHN CROWLEY
6.55. 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.45* Thought for the Day
Part 3
8.57 Weather; travel
Producer PETER ESTALL
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long wave only
Waiting by CHRIS SMEDLEY Read by Fraser Kerr long wave only
NEM, p 89; Before the almighty Father's throne (BBC HB 452); Psalm 67;
Matthew 9. vv 27-38 (RSV); God is our refuge and our strength (BBC He 454)
followed by travel long wave only
Playwright John Fletcher looks out from his chapel home at a Somerset village - and sees some policemen's trousers.
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol long wave only
The traditional ceremony in which HM The Queen opens the new session of Parliament and there is a formal announcement of the recently-elected Government's future plans.
John Hosken describes the arrival of the Royal Procession at the House of Lords and the summoning of the House of Commons by the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod. The Speech from the Throne is followed by an assessment of its political implications by Brian Curtois.
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How do you face the prospect of suddenly finding yourself without a job? What are the implications for your personal finances, for family life?
Pattie Coldwell reports from
Leeds with those who are trying to come to terms with unemployment and those who are trying to help.
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
long wave only
with Jennl Mills, Including:
Guest of the Week:
Norman Foster , winner of the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture 1883.
Home Help: more useful tips from DAPHNE METLAND. 2: Dyeing at home. New York Report: With HELENE HANFF.
Family Matters by KITTY BURNS FLOREY, abridged In 15 parts by DELIA PATON Read by GAYLE HUNNICUTT (15) long wave only
The Storytellers
A series of 20th-century English short stories dramatised for radio.
4: Outside the Machineby JEAN RHYS , dramatised by PATRICE CHAPLIN with In Paris in the 1930s, life Is lived to the full. but for Inez life comes abruptly to a halt when she Is rushed to the English hospital near Versailles.
Deserted by her lover and regarded with suspicion by the other patients, she is made to feel an outsider outside the machine of approved social behaviour.
Frenchman/Doctor/
Minister.......STUART ORGAN
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON
TheEnglish Abroad
Kevin Crossley-Holland with seven programmes of poems inspired by travel. 1: France
Readers LIANE AUXIN ROD BEACHAM and PETER WICKHAM Producer ALEC REID
In the Cotswolds
Maggie Colwell visits 2: Bisley
Children at the Gate (8)
with Robert Williams and Susannah Simons on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
with PAULINE BUSHNELL 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)
Clive Jacobs opens the door on the housing world. With the help of financial expert. Tom Tickell , Clive looks at the latest developments, the newest Ideas and the costliest problems that houses and homes can produce.
Producer HELEN ROBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Thurs 9.5 am)
by JOHN KEAY
The second of seven programmes with Narrator John Rowe
Thomas Manning was the first Englishman to reach the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. During the months he spent there. he was constantly in fear for his life, but he did meet the Dalai Lama. a boy of ' about 7 years old '.' could have wept,' he wrote, ' through the strangeness of sensation.' With TIMOTHY BATESON
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
In three talks
Douglas Stuart recalls some of the people he admired during 16 years as a BBC foreign correspondent. 2: Journalists
Mountaineer
Chris Bonington reflects with Dr Anthony Clare on the most significant influences of his life.
Researcher JENNY RIVAROLA Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Michael Oliver visits the Vienna Festival for the first night of Puccini's
Turandot. It is conducted by Lorin Maazel. staged by Hal Prince , and designed by a British team.
The cast includes
Katia Ricciarelli. José Carrerras and Eva Marton.
Producer JOHN POWELL
John Morgan reporting
What's Going On with Anna Daptor and Mike Stand. Starring 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
Black Heart and White Heart (2) long wave only
long wave only
long wave only
Weather report: forecast long wave only followed by an Interlude
12.15-12.23* am Shipping forecast; inshore forecast
