with Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30
News Summary
6.45* Prayer tor the Day
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*. 8.25" Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday In Parliament
Invites you to join him and Carol Thatcher with people who are In and out of the news.
Producer PIPPA BURSTON
by Hill Slavid
Read by Cyril Shaps
On Foreign Office Green this morning. HM The Queen unveils a statue raised by public subscription to the late Earl Mountbatten of Burma.
Her Majesty The Queen is accompanied by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and other members of the Royal Family.
Present at the unveiling are many visiting members of foreign royal families, the Countess Mountbatten and members of the Mountbatten family, the Prime
Minister, representatives from both Houses of Parliament and members from several organisations, Including the Burma Star Association and the HMS Kelly Reunion Association. There is also a presentation of a book of donors to the Countess Mountbatten.
Music played by the BANDS OF THE LIFEGUARDS AND THE ROYAL MARINES The commentators at Foreign Office Green are RAYMOND BAXTER and GODFREY TALBOT long wave only
A montage of film and television music, devised and researched by Natalie Wheen with Herbert Chappell, Geoffrey Burgon and Alan Parker and recordings from the BBC Archives.
(long wave only)
John Howard with news and Information about family finance, health, legal affairs, education and housing as they affect you.
Presenter Sir Robin Day
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Including
Guest of the Week: fashion designer for the chic but short of cash. Jeff Banks.
I Start Counting (3) long wave only
The Investigators
A series of six plays 1: The Way We Liveby TED ALLBEURY with Steve Hodson as Andrew Collins
When we read in the newspapers of someone who has been ' positively vetted ' by the security services we probably don't realise exactly what was Involved - or the possible repercussions.
Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING
The Anglo-Welsh poet
Gillian Clarke introduces poetry of her choice. 6: Elegy
Reader PAUL WEBSTER
Producer ENYD WILLIAMS BBC Wales
The Cottage Garden Year: Autumn (2)
With LYS DE BRAY
A Passage to India (8)
with Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
With Peter Donaldson including Financial Report
Second Round
9: HOME COUNTIES V MIDLANDS
(Details: Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
A series of weekly investigations into the problems of listeners, which can include being the victims of unfair dealings, sharp practice, Injustice and even fraud. Presenter Roger Cook
Producer JOHN EDWARDS
(Repeated: Thurs 9.5 am)
Sir Douglas Wass , CCB. Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury and Joint Head of the Home Civil Service until his retirement in the spring this year, In conversation with Mary Goldring about his life and work.
Next week Sir Douglas begins the 1983 Reith Lectures. Entitled
Government and the Governed, they will be broadcast on Wednesdays on Radio 4, repeated on Sundays on Radio 3 and printed weekly
In THE LISTENER.
Producer
DAVID MORTON
Peter Hobday with the magazine which goes to the shopfloor and boardrooms across the country where work is done and decisions are taken affecting the wealth of the nation.
Producer ROSALIND BEW
(Repeated: ThurslO.Oam)
It's very easy to become self-centred when your existence depends upon such a sensitive instrument as two vocal chords. Strangely enough, the instrument usually functions better if you manage not to think too much about it. The Swedish soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom chooses music to Illustrate her own approach to the problem. Producer GILLIAN hush BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Thurs 11.0 am)
Natalie Wheen presents tonight's edition which includes reviews of Blondel at the Old Vic Theatre, London, a new musical by Tim Rice and Stephen Oliver about the 12th-century minstrel Blondel who refuses to accept that his missing king. Richard the Lionheart, is dead; and Selected Letters of E.M. Forster, Volume 1 1879-1920, edited by Mary Largo and P.N. Furbank.
John Morgan reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
Busman's Honeymoon by DOROTHY L. SAYERS adapted in six episodes by ALISTAIR BEATON with special guest
3: A Policeman's Lot
Mrs Ruddle.PEARL HACKNEY
Narrator JOHN WESTBROOK Producer MARTIN FISHER
Basil (8) long wave only
Radio 4's international business report; market trends long wave only
