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 BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters
Presenter Simon Bates Producer SUSAN SNAILUM (Repeated: Sun 6.15 pm)
Presented by Colin Tudge Producer JUUAN BROWN
The Nest-Builder by V. S. PRITCHETT
Read by Hugh Dixon
NEM. p 38; New every morning is the love (BBC HB 408); Psalm 32; Genesis 42, vv 1-8; Jesu, lover of my soul (BBC HB 145) long wave only
long wave only
The 'Go-away' Birds Flashes of startling crimson wings, glimpses of iridescent greens and blues, strident, anonymous calls of 'go-waa', 'go-waa' - these are the turacos or louries of the eastern savannahs and central forests of Africa.
Presenter Malcolm Coe
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol long wave only
What the issues in the news mean to you and your family, presented by Paul Heiney.
Norman Tozer looks for value for money among painting equipment.
Full details of this week's programmes on Fact Sheet 41. Send an sae to [address removed]
Presenter Brian Widlake
Introduced from Birmingham by Marjorie Lofthouse
Together Alone: being the wife of a soldier can cause heartache - months spent apart, frequent moves, coping with growing children on your own. Many army wives feel neglected by society and isolated from help, so they have decided to help themselves. VALDA HOOD reports.
Producer ANNE BROWN
Mrs Pooter 's Diary (5) BBC Birmingham long wave only
by REBECCA WEST (3)
Slimy Things with Legs The poet and pianist Roy Fisher considers plumbing red, in tooth and claw.
A new series of seven programmes presented by Geoffrey Stern 1:Why War?
Although many still talk as if the Second World War were 'the last war' and the years since a 'post-war' era, there have been nearly 200 armed conflicts since 1945.
GEOFFREY STERN examines the persistence of warfare with the help of the great figures of the 1930s and beyond - their voices and views preserved in the BBC's archives.
Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN
Atlantic City Proof (10) written and read by CHRISTOPHER COOK GILMORE abridged in 15 parts by NEVILLE TELLER
Producer JOHN CARDY
with Susannah Simons and Gordon Clough
with PAUUNE BUSHNELL including
Financial Report
with Clive Jacobs
TOM BOSWELL
ALANAH MARTIN and RICHARD HUDSON-EVANS Producer IRENE MALUS
Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)
with Margaret Howard Producer JAN TAYLOR
(Repeated: Sat 10.45 am)
A personal portrait
Claire Rayner John Pardoe Clare Short and Angela Rumbold from Abingdon, Oxfordshire
Chairman David Jacobs Producer MARY price BBC Bristol
with Sheridan Morley Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
The Lost Domain (5)
Headlines
- news, background analysis and comment
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 , Sally Grace and Paul B. Davies Written by IAN BROWN , JAMES HENDRIE
RICHARD QUICK.
JOHN LANGDON , MARTIN BOOTH.
ALAN WHITING , PETER HICKEY and others Producer
PAUL MAYHEWARCHER
(Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm) long wave only
long wave only