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 BRIAN PERKINS
7.25*,8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Lively and unpredictable conversation with people from all walks of life. Tim Brooke-Taylor interviews the birthday guest.
Producer PIPPA BURSTON
by Jill Norris
Read by Shirley Dixon
nem, p 5; Christ, whose glory fills the skies (BBC HB 137); Psalm 11; Genesis 37, vv 12-24; When all thy mercies (BBC HB 22) long wave only
long wave only
A new series of six talks in which Harry Soan looks back at his youth
'through the wrong end of a telescope'.
1: Grandparents
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham long wave only
John Howard reports on topical issues and how they could affect you and your family.
by ARTHUR JEFFERSON (4)
Presenter Sir Robin Day
with Sue MacGregor including
Guest of the Week:
Arlene Phillips , exercise and dance expert, creator of Hot Gossip and choreographer of the new musical Starlight Express. The Captains and the Kings (7) long wave only
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break by JOAN MACALPINE
Angie Taylor , who is breast-feeding her baby in the restaurant of a department store, is angry and upset when she is asked to leave. With the aid of her female friends.
Angie is determined to get her own back, but if victory is to be achieved, it certainly won't be without cost.
Directed by GERRY JONES
Travellers and Settlers A seven-part series presented by the poet Fleur Adcock.
6: Desperate Wanderers Readers HENRY STAMPER
CHRISTOPHER SCOTT Producer ALEC REID
with JEFF NUTTALL
2: Larking in Liverpool
'I must live like an outcast' wrote Ludwig van Beethoven of his deafness. There are children today with this handicap who would find life impoverished and empty without music. Donny MacLeod talks to these youngsters and to others who plan to make a career of the music they cannot hear.
Producer ANN TENNANT BBC Birmingham
Atlantic City Proof (3)
with Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
with PETER DONALDSON including
Financial Report
(Details: Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
A weekly investigation 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)
by JERROLD NORTHROP MOORE The first of three portraits in words and music of the great English composer who died 50 years ago, on 23 February 1934. with Julian Glover as Edward Elgar
Narrator JOHN ROWE
How well I remember the day he was born. The air was sweet with the perfume of flowers, bees were humming, and all the earth was lovely. Father came tearing up the drive with a strange man in the carriage, and before that an old lady arrived with a large bag, and we were told by the younger maid that there was a baby in that bag!
(LUCY ELCAR)
Throughout his life Elgar was haunted by memories of his childhood - an idyllic childhood that had begun on an idyllic summer day in June 1857. These early years were crucial in the development of his personality, both as man and musician. They were to give place to a long period of drudgery and disappointment. But in 1889 Elgar married
Alice Roberts who devoted her life to the encouragement of his genius and in June 1899 the first undisputed masterpiece, the Enigma Variations, had its triumphant premiere. with CAROLE BOYD
WILLIAM EEDLE.
NIGEL GRAHAM. NIGEL LIVESEY KATHERINE PARR and PATIENCE TOMLINSON
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
Post-Recession Britain
1: Hi-tech and Low Spirits If Britain is coming out of the recession, who is going to get the new jobs, where are they going to be and, what is in human terms every bit as important, who is not going to get them?
In the course of a two-part inquiry, Mary Goldring has been talking to manufacturers, trade union conveners and wise men of all sorts about hi-tech along the M4 corridor and low spirits in the West Midlands. Producer TOM READ
(Repeated: Thurs 11.0 pm)
Nairobeans also complain of occasional lack, perhaps Worcester Sauce, crisp bread, certain make-up, and French wine. 'Huh', said Adam and I, 'you need a holiday in the Sudan'. 'Why', they said, 'is it bad there too?'
Anthony Smith continues the story of his motorcycle journey from Cairo to Cape Town last year - retracing with his son Adam the path he first rode nearly three decades ago.
Richard Mayne presents tonight's edition which includes interviews, news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Producer RICHARD DUNN
Fire Falcon (8)
Headlines, analysis and comment.
11.0 Headlines and Financial World Tonight long wave only from 11.0
12.23-12.28* am The Chip Shop Takeaway Service
(Details: Sat 12.23* am)
