from the Royal Show, Stoneleigh in Warwickshire with Allan Wright
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Peter Hobday
6.45* Prayer for the Day With RABBI LIONEL BLUE
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.251, 8.25- Sport
7.30. 8.30 News Summary
7.45. Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
A look ahead with Kate Moon
goes into the BBC Sound Archives to contemplate current affairs and future events with the benefit of hindsight.
Producer HELEN FRY
(Repeated: Fri 11.45 pm)
8.57 Weather; travel
A lively matching of wit and wisdom between some of the personalities who will be in the news this week. Also, Kenneth Robinson.
Producer JENNV DANKS (Rev repeat at 7.20 pm)
by Jill Norris
Read by Elizabeth Proud
NEM. p 1: A stranger once did bless (BBC UB 70); Psalm 1; Matthew 12, vv 1-9 (RSV); Strengthen for service (BBC HB 215)
followed by travel
From Newbury In
Berkshire and Including visits by Brian Johnston to the town's famous racecourse and a grammar school for the deaf.
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners.
Presented by Norman MacCalg
Readers FULTON MACKAY and BONNIE HVRREN
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol Requests to:
Poetry Please!, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Paul Heincy presents Britain's only daily
Programme for consumers which today calls for your questions to an Education Forum. Are
Your children making the most of their educational opportunities? What more could you do to help them on their way? The lines openatll.oamon [number removed]
Editor JOHN GETGOOD
Vincent Price
Presents Dilys Laye S)rlVia Coleridge and Norman Bird in Is There Anybody There? by WILLIAM INGRAM
Not far away in discreet suburbia is to be found the home of Griselda Thorpe - medium and clairvoyant and her elder sister Edie. And it Is to this genteel house that Henry Jollit comes in search of a preview of eternity.
Directed by JOHN DYAS
(Repeated: Tues 10.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; travel; Programme news
Presenter Brian wldlake with views and topics in and behind the headlines Editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Some Talking Point discussions, Your Letters and other topics. Among these today:
The Roots of Romance: RAY BARRON explores the earliest stories of love. Close Quarters (8)
Editor WYN KNOWLES
The Killing by JOHN ASHE
Patricia Carroll
'introduces and plays music from her Victorian collection of pieces composed by famous pianistsoftheday.
This week Julius Schulhoff Producer ANDREW MUSSETT
Judgement Day by PENELOPE LIVELY abridged in ten parts by EVANGELINE BANKS
Read by Joan Hart (1) Brisk, capable Clare
Paling, a middle-class agnostic with a prosperous husband. beautiful children and time on her hands, finds rural life makes no demands on her abounding energy. It takes a village pageant. violence and death to show her there is uncertainty everywhere and so much to learn. Producer JOHN CARDY
Presenters Valerie Singleton and Gordon Clough
Editor DEREK LEWIS
on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
with PAULINE BUSHNELL
Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world including Financial Report
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
(Revised repeat of 9.5 am)
A Modern Relationship by ANITA BRONSON with and Carol has shared
Edward's house, his bed, and his life for 12 months. Theirs is a ' modern relationship nice and uncomplicated. with no dramas, and no strings. But what you say when you start a relationship, and what happens when you're actually living it, doesn't always add up to the same thing.
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)
Cyril Luckham remembers some amusing moments during his early days as an actor nearly 50 years ago and recalls that the life of a strolling player was not always as glamorous as it may have seemed to the audiences. BBC Bristol
includes reviews of Blue Highways - A Journey into America by William Least Heat Moon: and Joan Crawford - The Ultimate Star. a biography of the Hollywood actress by Alexander Walker. Presenter
Christopher Bigsby
Producer CARROLL MOORE Editor ROSEMARY HART
with Simon Winchester and voices and opinions from around the world. Editor KEN GOUDIE
Presenter Colin Tudge A weekly review of discoveries and developments in the world's leading laboratories.
Producer JULIAN BROWN
A Square of Sky (6) long wave only
long wave only
long wave only
Weather report: forecast long wave only followed by an Interlude