with John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters
Susan Marling with your criticisms and comments about BBC radio and TV. (Repeated: Sun 6.15 pm)
Presenter Peter Evans Producer DEBORAH COHEN
The Chase by GUY DE MAUPASSANT translated by HARRY BELL Read by David March
from Edinburgh led by STUART MILLER Reading:
Jeremiah 20, vv 7-18 long wave only
long wave only
An alternative guide to the African night Presented by Brian Bertram
Producer MELINDA BARKER BBC Bristol long wave only
with John Howard
It's a Bargain: Norman Tozer looks at car batteries
Presenter Brian Widlake
Introduced from Bristol by Jenni Murray
What Makes Women Laugh?:
CAROLYN HARTMAN gets West Country women telling jokes to explore whether women's sense of humour is different from men's.
Jamaica, here I come!:
VALERIE HALL , a Jamaican woman from Cornwall, who'd never sailed before, tells how she crossed the Atlantic in a small yacht to her homeland in the West Indies.
Producer JENNI MILLS BBC Bristol
Earthly Possessions (10) long wave only
by HENRY JAMES dramatised for radio in four parts by DAVID WILLIAMSON
4: Roderick's fiancee,
Mary Garland has come to Rome with his mother. But he is in love with Christina Light , and she is engaged to her Prince.
Music composed by JOANNA MACGREGOR
Directed by JAMES RUNCIE
Journey of a Lifetime LYNN TEN KATE'S diary of an overland drive to Sri Lanka with her husband and 11-year-old daughter. 8: The Baluchistan Desert -Home for Christmas
Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
A series of six programmes in which Caribbeans in Britain talk about their continuing links with the places from which they have settled here.
4: The Windwards and Leewards
Kathy Williams' enquiry goes island-hopping down the eastern chain from the newly independent St
Kitts/Nevis to Grenada, pausing a St Lucia, which has changed hands 14 times between the English and the French.
Producer JOAN GRIFFITHS
The Leopard (10)
with Richard Bath and Susannah Simons
with BRIAN PERKINS including
Financial Report
with Clive Jacobs bringing you the stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport with help from TOM BOSWELL ,
ALANAH MARTIN. RICHARD HUDSON EVANS and ERIC TOBITT. Producer IRENE MALLIS
Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days. Producer JULIAN HALE
(Repeated: Sat 10.45 am)
A personal portrait in conversation, recollection and anecdote; an assessment of a public figure or the story of a private individual.
Lord Marsh Helene Hayman Alastair Graham Julia Cleverdon tackle the issues raised by the audience at Diss, Norfolk
Chairman David Jacobs Producer MARY PRICE BBC Bristol
Sheridan Morley presents tonight's edition which includes interviews, news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Producer JOHN powell
Ethan Frome by EDITH WHARTON abridged in five episodes by ROBBI PENGELLY Read by MICHAEL J. SHANNON (5)
Producer MAURICE LEITCH (Starting on Monday: 'Fire Falcon' by Duff Hart-Davis )
reporting the news and the background to the news from around the world
10.30 Headlines
11.0 Headlines and Financial World Tonight long wave only from 11.0
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with Bill Wallis David Tate Jon Glover and Sally Grace Written by Producer
PAUL MAYHEWARCHER
(Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm) long wave only
long wave only
