6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With THE REV ALEC GILMORE
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0. 8.0 Today's News with PETER DONALDSON
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
7.30. 8.30 News Summary
7.45' Thouoht /or the Day
8.35* Yesterday In Parliament
8.57 Weather; travel
Fifty-five minutes of lively entertaining conversation. Birthday celebrity Interviewed by Harriet Crawley
Producer PETER EYSTALL
visit9 Berkshire where members of the Hampstead Norreys
Horticultural Society put their questions to
Dr Stefan Buczackl Geoffrey Smith and Clay Jones
Questionmaster Ken Ford BBC Manchester
by Jill Norris
Read by Mary Wimbush
NEM, p 46; The spacious firmament on high (BBC HB 21); Psalm 33, vv 1.11; Matthew 13, vv 18-23
(Rsv); Around the throne of God (BBC HB 237)
followed by travel
Richard Baker presents a blend of musical entertainment on record. Producer RAY ABBOTT
Call to Account
A top executive of British Telecom deals with your comments, queries and complaints about the telephone system. Why are calls so expensive? Why are there delays In getting phones Installed? How do I query my bill? Are rural phone boxes still under threat?
Paltie Coldwell and John Howard pose these and many other questions. To take part, ring
[number removed]after 11 0 am.
by Ted Allbeury
The second of ten parts adapted by the author from his latest novel
[Starring] Robert Beatty as Otto Schultz, Susannah Fellows as Debbie and Michael J. Shannon as Tony Symons
(Broadcast Sun 7.2 pm)
12.55 Weather: travel: programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: M.M. Kaye, author of the best-selling novel The Far Pavilions.
A King in Question: the debate about Richard III remains unsettled. Jenny Cuffe reports.
"The High Path" by Ted Walker abridged in seven parts by Pat McLoughlin
Read by John Pullen (1)
The poet Ted Walker begins his autobiography In 1932.
Marigold by MARGARET MILES , With
A successful young pop singer's sudden death in a car accident has left her husband shattered. He has an unusually close relationship with his mother-in-law and. over the next difficult months, they struggle to come to terms with their very different senses of loss ...
Radiocompere JAMES bhyce Directed by CHERRY 00OKSON
Seven programmes presented by Kevin Crossley-Holland
John Stirling is a golf professional and top coach. He admits to a lifelong love affair with the game and shares some of his memories.
BBC Birmingham
Judgement Day (8)
with Susannah Simons and Peter Ruff on VHF until 5.55
5.54 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
with HARRIET CASS including Financial Report
A musical quiz devised by Edward J. Mason and Tony Shryane
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden
In the Chair Steve Race
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
(Details: Thurs 9.5 am)
by JOHN KEAY and JEAN-PIERRE DE ROHAN The fifth of seven programmes with Narrator john ROWE Charles Waterton achieved instant fame with the publication of his book Wanderings in South America in 1825. This indefatigable
Yorkshireman made three exciting explorations of the Jungles or South
America and his accounts of them won admiration from his reviewer for the , genuine zeal and Inexhaustible delight with which all the barbarous countries he visited arc described '. With MICHAEL DEACON
Producer ALAN BAYDOCK
In a series of six weekly talks Michael Elkins , who has lived in Israel since 1948 and was BBC
Correspondent there for 17 years, plots his own course through the history of modern Israel. 2: The Ingathering of the Exiles
In the decade that followed the independence of 1948. Israel more than doubled her population.
She brought In Jews from all over the world - from the West, China and India, the mountains of Yemen, and Jewish communities of which no one had ever heard.
In the last of the current series of interviews, the peace campaigner,
Pat Arrowsmlth ,reflectswith Dr Anthony Clare on the most significant
Influences on her life.
Research JENNY rivarola Producer MICHAEL E)EUR
includes reviews of Theatre in My Blood, biography of the choreographer
John Cranko by John Pcrcival : and a biography of the pianist Vladimir Horowitz by Glenn Plaskin.
Presented by Paul Allen
Producer ANTHONY CHEIVERS
John Morgan reporting
The Pavilion on the Links (3) long wave only
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Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an Interlude
