wjth John Timpson and Brian Redhead 6-30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
M5* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Jead by EUGENE FRASER
7.25*,8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in farliament
8.50* Your Letters
with Simon Bates
Producer SUSAN SNAILOM (Repeated: Sun 6.15 pm)
Presented by Peter Evans Producer DEBORAH COHEN
The Seeding 20s by GWYN THOMAS
Read by Glyn Jones
nem, p U0; God is love: (BBC HB 7); Psalm 31; II Corinthians 4, v 7 to 5, v 5; God the Father's only Son (BBC HB 303) long wave only
long wave only
More Beasties and Thingummyjigs .
Ian Linn wanders through the rhyming world of ditties and verse in celebration of stripes and spots, claws and paws, feathers and fur.
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol long wave only
Paul Heiney with a look at the Radio 1 Which Way Now campaign. Norman Tozer looks for a bargain among record cleaning devices.
Presenter Brian Widlake
Introduced from Glasgow by Mary Marquis
Comhairle nan sgoiltean araich: few children now speak Gaelic in those areas where everyone once habitually used the language. Some parents are pinning their hopes for a revival of their nataive tongue in a new playgroup scheme for the under-5s, but the first groups to strike success have been set up south of the Scottish Highland line in the urban central belts.
REEVEL ALDERSON has been talking to the people involved.
Producer ELAINE MACLEAN BBC Scotland
The Captains and the Kings (4) long wave only
by REBECCA WEST dramatised for radio in three parts by JOAN O'CONNOR
1: 'Despite his brilliant journalism, Papa gambles compulsively and disastrously so that the family is often on the move, held together by Mama's household economies and by the music lessons she gives to all her four children. The family's arrival in London seems to mark the beginning of permanence and real family life -but nothing in the Aubrey household stays the same for long....'
Directed by MARGARET WINDHAM
Backstage
Honor Blackman recalls her film career and stage experiences.
A series of six programmes 5: Trinidad and Tobago Kathy Williams reports on the oil-enriched republic where calypso, the carnival and the steel band have sprung from the fusion of diverse cultures. Producer JOAN GRIFFITHS
The Family by MAEVE BINCHY Read by Felicity Hayes-McCoy Producer JOHN CARDY
with Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
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 and RICHARD HUDSON-EVANS.
Producer IRENE MALLIS
Editor ROGER MACDONALD For details of car tests send an sae to [address removed]
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days. Producer PETER HOARE
(Repeated: Sat 10.45 am)
A personal portrait of a public figure or the story of a private individual.
Lord Melchett Richard Cottrell , MEP Sue Slipman and Peter Wilkinson from Tewkesbury
Chairman David Jacobs Producer MARY PRICE BBC Bristol
with Michael Billington Producer JOHN BOUNDY
Fire Falcon (5)
Headlines, analysis and comment
11.0 Headlines and Financial World Tonight long wave only from 11.0
with Bill Wallis , David Tate , Sally Grace and Paul B. Davies Written by IAN BROWN. JAMES HENDRIE
RICHARD QUICK.
JOHN LANGDON. PAUL B. DAVIES
MARTIN BOOTH. ALAN WHITING PETER HICKEY and others Producer
PAUL MAYHEW ARCHER
(Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm) long wave only
long wave only