Presented from the South West by Robin Hicks Producer MARY PRICE BBC Bristol
Presenters Peter Hobday and Michael Stewart with John Timpson reporting from Jordan on HM The Queen's visit.
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by CLIVE ROSUN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
Presenter John Timpson We invite you to eavesdrop as Today continues with a short edition of the programme as it would be broadcast if it were addressing itself to the people of Jordan - the news as Jordan sees it, a review of the papers, sport, weather, and a Moslem Thought for the Day.
with Clive Roslin
taking a look at some topics and personalities of this coming week.
Producer IAN STRACHAN
The Telephone by MARY TREADGOLD
Read by Elizabeth Proud Producer MITCH RAPER
The Fate of John the Baptist
NEM, p 102; Ah, holy Jesus (BBC HB 500); Psalm 90;
Mark 6, w 14-29; Let thine example, holy John (EH 223) long wave only
Brian Johnston is in the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. He visits Sheerness docks, a very successful private steelworks and meets a man who's an expert on national anthems.
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
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with Dannie Abse
Readers ANGELA DOWN and ANDREW SACHS. Compiled by MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol long wave only
Presenter Pattie Coldwell Editor KEN VASS
A non-stop comedy carbaret with Fundation who are Joe Griffiths (on piano) Gareth Hale , Norman Pace , Terry Morrison and Maryanne Morgan
Written by FUNDATION with contributions from CHARLIE ADAMS
. GEOFFREY ATKINSON.
PAUL B. DAVIES .
JOHN LANGDON and SIMON PARKE Producer ALAN NIXON
(Repeated: Tues 6.30 pm) (Fundation are at the Tramshed, Woolwich, London)
Presenter Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
with Gillian Reynolds
Not Just the Home Fires: The First World War was, for many women, a unique opportunity to work and earn their own money.
GORDON COOPER reports on an oral history project which revealed the impact it had on their lives.
The Birds Fall Down (8) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS long wave only
Craft by GUY MEREDITH
Denis Owen reveals the hidden legends behind such titles as Garrulus glandarius for the common jay or 'Good King Henry' for a wild spinach....
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD
BBC Bristol
Woman and Puppet (3)
with Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton Editor DEREK LEWIS
with PAUUNE BUSHNELL including
Financial Report
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
A five-part inquiry into the Foreign Office
4: Back at 'the Office'
Simon Jenkins returns to Whitehall to talk to the Foreign Secretary and those who formulate foreign policy in London and explores the changing relationship between diplomats and their home civil service colleagues. Producer ANNE SLOMAN
Written and read by Ian Skidmore
The last of five extracts from an unreliable autobiography
The Irish Horse Scandal Adapted and produced by HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
Too Late the Phalarope The novel by ALAN PATON dramatised by STEWART CONN with 'He did not go to van Onselen Street, but crossed to where it is dark, away from the pools of light. And he came to the place where the blue gums are, and the kakiebos weed in the vacant ground. And he stood there waiting, with the mad sickness and the fear. And there, God forgive him, he possessed her.'
Directed by STEWART CONN (Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)
Improbability
Science deals in probabilities. Nothing is certain, but some things are highly unlikely. It would take a long time for monkeys walking over typewriters to produce a Shakespeare sonnet - but it would happen eventually.
David Jones reveals the closest known parallel to those monkey-bards.
Producer MARTIN GOLDMAN
with Christopher Frayling Producer KEVIN JACKSON Editor ROSEMARY HART
The Cone-gatherers (6)
Editor BLAIR THOMSON long wave only from 11.0
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