News, weather, papers and sport
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
6.45* Prayer for the Day BROTHER BERNARD APPS
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
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.57 Weather: travel
Fifty-five minutes of enlightening entertainment with this week's midweek people. Birthday treats with libby Purves.
Producer PETER cstall
visits Surrey where members of the Peaslake, Shere and Gomshall Gardening Association put their questions to Dr Stefan Buczacki, Geoffrey Smith and Clay Jones.
Questionmaster Ken Ford
BBC Manchester
Mr and Mrs Dove by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Read by David Ashford
nem. p 118: 0 happy band of pilgrims (BBC HB 335); Psalm 46: Matthew 16. vv 13-20(rsv);Forallthy saints. 0 Lord (BBC HB 228)
followed by travel
Richard Baker presents a blend of musical entertainment on record. mixing the wetl-loved with the less familiar, and occasionally including the spoken word.
Producer RAY abbott
Pattie Coldwell and the team bring you the latest consumer news.
Plus a further report from JULIA piper on the Trading Standards Officers
Conference in Eastbourne.
with Emma Thompson and special guests Jeep
After its great success on , the A38 in Plymouth, the Traffic Jam Show tackled the East Lanes Road. Written by RICHARD STILGOE
Producer mike CRAIG
BBC Manchester
12.55 Weather: travel: programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day with voices and topics In and behind the headlines
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor. Including Guest of the Week: the poet, plavwright and novelist Ian McEwan.
Spot Your
' Summertime ' Picture: CLARE SELERIE-GREY eavesdrops at the judging of the Woman's Hour/iuoio times Painting Comnetition.
A Strong-arm Job: DAVID RIDER hears about a scheme to help young people use a major asset. their muscle-power. Close Quarters (5)
by Elizabeth Jane Howard, dramatised by Catherine Lucy Czerkawska
A series of 20th-century English short stories dramatised for radio.
with Petra Markham as Meg
Meg moves to London in the swinging 60s in search of excitement and 'Mr Right'. Her next step towards independence is to buy a second-hand car, but she very quickly discovers that there is something terrifyingly wrong with it...
The English Abroad A series of seven programmes presented by Kevin Crossley-Holland 2: Switzerland
Readers ROD BEACHAM and peter WICKHAM Producer ALEC REID
Dirty
Gyppo tom 09LKY talks about life on the road and reads some of his poetry. 2: No Fixed Abode
The Takeover by MAEVE INCHY abridged in two parts and produced by john CARDY Head by Felicity Hayes-McCoy (1) Sara thinks of herself as just an average, competent plodder on the payroll, but when she gets Eve for a secretary she finds she's tied herself to a rocket.
Presenters
Susannah Simons and Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
with PAULINE BrSHNEI.l.
Including Financial Report
devised by EDWARD J. mason and TONY SHRYANE John Amis and Frank Mulr 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 third of seven programmes with David March as James Holman
Narrator JOHN ROWE When James Holman sailed from London for St Petersburg in June 1822 he kept from his friends the real motive for his journey.
He planned. in fact. to complete, as he called it. , a circuit of the whole world For a traveller with so large an ambition Holman was at a considerable disadvantage. He was blind.
With GARARD GREEN
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
In the last of three talks, Douglas Stuart recalls some of the people whose services he enjoyed and whose friendship he valued during 16 years living abroad as a BBC foreign correspondent. Servants
Series producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
The prima ballerina Lynn Seymour is interviewed by Dr Anthony Clare about the most significant influences on her private and professional life.
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
includes reviews of the eighth Nureyev Festival at the London Coliseum which includes Don Quixote, choreographed by Nureyev for the Boston Ballet; and The Government Inspector, Gogol's satirical comedy starring Derek Griffiths at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre. Presenter Natalie Wheen.
John Morgan reporting
The Nigel Pry Show with Helen Atkinson Wood Angus Deayton , Michael Fenton-Stevens , Geoffrey Perkins and Philip Pope Written by GEOFFREY PERKINS and ANGUS DEAYTON With JOHN CANTER . RICHARD cvrtis and others
Music by Philip pope
Producer JIMMY mulville ( Repeat)
A Square of Sky (3) long wave only
Radio 4's international business report; market trends long wave only
long wave only
Weather report; forecast Innq wave only followed by an interlude
12.15-12.23' am Shipping forecast; inshore forecast
