Live from the Royal Show
6.25 Shipping forecast long* wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45 Prayer for the Day: The Rev. Richard Harries
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by Bryan Martin
7.251, 8.25* Sport
7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters
8.57 Weather; travel
A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL
(Repeated: Sat 4.2 pm)
Seventeen by WILLIAM SAROYAN
Read by Peter Craze
nem, p 17; God is love: let heaven adore him (BBC hb 7); Psalm 82: Matthew 12, vv 38-50 (rsv); God's law is perfect, and converts (BBC HB 456)
followed by travel
Current and controversial issues put on trial before Chairman Geoffrey Robertson and an audience of Jurors.
Today's motion: Capital Punishment Should be Restored.
It is proposed by Eldon Griffiths, MP and opposed by The Rt. Hon. Enoch Powell, MP
The two advocates each call supporting witnesses to be questioned and cross-questioned: the jury votes at the beginning and end of the trial so that any swing of opinion can be measured and a verdict reached.
Flying silently through the South American night, the vampires are out searching for a sleeping victim and the blood on which they depend. Pat Morris brings to life the story of these bats.
BBC Bristol
Pattie Coldwell with the latest news, advice and information for consumers. Today
Norman Tozer looks for value for money If you're thinking of hiring equipment to help with decorating.
For details of all the items in this week's programmes, send a sae marked Fact Sheet No 9 to [address removed]
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced from Birmingham by Marian Foster
Epilepsy: Marian Foster discusses the illness with a doctor, a parent and a sufferer.
5,000-metre world record holder, David Moorcroft, talks to Kay Alexander about athletics and his work in Coventry as the Director of a YOP scheme in sport.
BBC Birmingham
"Pastoral" (2)
by MARY RENAULT adapted for radio In 11 parts by MICHAEL BAKEWELL 5: The Labyrinth with Theseus is drawn into the ancient labyrinth, where he has two mysterious and important encounters.
Music composed by CHRISTOS PITTAS
Directed by david SPENSER
Manners, Ancient and Modern
4: Thoroughly Modern Manners as laid down by Debrett and selected by REG REES
On Sunday The BBC Television Shakespeare cycle continues with Cymbeline on BBC2. Jeffery Dench, an associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company, introduces the play and characters. "We have Imogen at the core, this pure white lovely girl on a hazardous journey surrounded by rainbow-coloured people who seem to be the symbols of human fallibility and the human power of destruction."
Judgement Day (5)
with Susannah Simons and Gordon Clough
on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long ware only
5.55 Weather; programme news
With BRIAN PERKINS. including Financial Report
Chris Serle brings you the stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport, withhelpfromEric
Tobitt. Alanah Martin and Tom Boswell.
Producer IRENE MALLIS Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Rcpeated: Mon 1.40 pm)
with Margaret Howard
(Repeated: Sat 10.45 am)
A personal portrait
from Looe, Cornwall
Katharine Whitehorn, Richard Needham MP, Rabbi Julia Neuberger, David Penhaligon MP
Chairman David Jacobs
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)
includes a review of Rossini's opera La Cenerentola. a new production by John Cox at Glyndebourne; and a preview of Shakespeare's Cymbeline, starring Richard Johnson and Helen Mirren, on BBC2 next Sunday night. Presented by Michael Billington.
John Morgan reporting
With Bill Wallis and David Tate
Written by James Hendrie, Ian Brown, Nick Revell, Andrea Solomons, Roy Apps, Richard Quick, John Langdon, John Collee, Roger Planer, Peter Hickey and others.
Producer Jennie Campbell (Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm)
A Square of Sky by JANINA DAVID abridged In ten parts by ANGELA THOMAE Read by ANNETTE CROSBIE (10)
Producer MARTIN JENKINS (long wave only)
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
