with Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

and good company 55 minutes of conversation with people from all walks of life.
Tim Brooke-Taylor says
'Happy Birthday' to this week's special guest.
Producer PIPPA burston

Westchester Town written and read by BRIAN GLENVILLE
2: The Striker's Tale
(Final tale: Fri 10.30 am)

NEM, p 71; All praise to thee (BBC HB 119); Psalm 119, vv 9-16; John 17, vv 6-19; The church's one foundation (BBC HB 184) long wave only

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In the second of four programmes, John Ebdon offers some more oblique reflections on present-day life in the Greek islands. long wave only

by ARTHUR JEFFERSON (1)

Presenter Sir Robin Day

with Sue MacGregor including
Guest of the Week:
Barbara Switzer , Deputy General Secretary of TASS.
Earthly Possessions (3) long wave only

Happy Jack by JOHN GODBER
This play, about the life story of a Yorkshire miner and his wife, won the National Student Drama Festival Outstanding
Production Award in 1982 and subsequently won a 'Fringe First' at the Edinburgh Festival.
Directed by MARTIN JENKINS

Travellers and Settlers A series of seven programmes presented by the poet Fleur Adcock
3:The Northern ContinentReaders CHRISTOPHER SCOTT.
HENRY STAMPER
Producer ALEC REID

Journey of a Lifetime LYNN TEN KATE'S diary of an overland drive to Sri Lanka with her husband andllyear-otd daughter. 2: Iraq -Ninevah and Baghdad

The Leopard (3)

with Robert Williams and Susannah Simons

with CLIVE ROSLIN including Financial Report

Did you know that Joss Ackland was a tea planter?
Find out more about the famous with Chairman Gyles Brandreth
Panellists Roy Kinnear June Whitfield and Brian Johnston
Guests Tony Blackburn Anne Diamond and Magnus Pike
Producer PAUL SPENCER
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)

(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)

George Walker
FIEORGE WALKER was a Billingsgate porter, an East End boy who became a champion boxer and made money. Now he is the guv'nor of a vast leisure empire.
Which is why Ray Gosling chose the story because it's an old-fashioned rags to riches tale - with luck, hard work and the backing of a close-knit family. Series producer JOY HATWOOD

Lewis Dodd meets Tessa Sanger in The Constant Nymph with Martin Jarvis and Janet Maw
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol

Pure Angelic Trebles The second of two programmes in which
Boris Ford investigates the differences between boys' and girls' voices, and examines differences between Anglican and Catholic Church traditions. Producer JILLIAN M. WHITE BBC Birmingham

with Mine has not been a life of consistent efforts towards a single end. It seems to me that I have been like a shuttlecock bandied to and fro by lunatics.
Arthur Ransome was 46 when he published
Swallows and Amazons. He'd lived the Bohemian life of a struggling writer in Chelsea and to escape an unhappy first marriage fled to Russia, where he became embroiled in the Revolution.
But his abiding passion was the Lake District and in his effortless prose he opened up for children the world he himself loved best - fishing, sailing and camping.
Ion Trewin presents a portrait of Arthur Ransome who was born 100 years ago today. Producer JOHN KMGHT BBC Bristol

Of course there had been changes while my back was turned. The old port of Shellal had been shifted. And as plain as rust and smoke and dirt can be, the vessels were not the same. Or rather they were precisely the same, but decayed, battered, antique remnants of their former selves ... If this was the Sudan, the Sudan was plainly in a bad way.
Anthony Smith continues the story of his motorcycle journey from Cairo to
Cape Town last year.

Presenter Natalie Wheen Producer JOHN BOUNDY

Nineteen Eighty-Four (13)

10.30 Headlines
11.0 Headlines and Financial World Tonight long wave only from 11.0