with Peter Hobday and John Timpson
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAUUNE BUSHNELL
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
And good company - 55 minutes of conversation with people from all walks of life.
This week's birthday guest is
Dame Cicely Saunders talking to Sheila Hancock.
Producer PIPPA BURSTON Stereo
Caldas the Detective by PATRICIA LANGDON-DAVIES Read by Jill Balcon
'The hair on Caldas's neck stood on end as he bared his gums at the man....'
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
Ten programmes
8: Three Cheeky Monkeys
Johnny Morris calls on 25 years of dealing with animals -and their dealings with him. BBC Bristol
Presenter Pattie Coldwell Reports on topical issues and how they could affect you and your family. If you have any comments on today's programme, phone [number removed]after
11.0 am
Stereo
Presenter Sir Robin Day
Further adventures of Big and Little (2) by SUE LIMB with ROY KINNEAR and KENNETH WILLIAMS Narrator jo MANNING WILSON
A series selected from the work of one of radio's leading dramatists
with Michael Bryant as Ellis and Jan Waters as Una
Ellis and Una want to spend an illicit night together. They book into a hotel in a nearby town to avoid being seen by friends and colleagues. That part of their plan succeeds but it is about the only part that does!
(Michael Bryant is a National Theatre player)
(Stereo)
An occasional series about people who are happy at their
The Chief: David Wright Producer JOCK GALLAGHER
BBC Birmingham
The Year of the Lion (5)
Presenters Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
with CUVE ROSLIN including Financial Report
devised by tony SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden
In the Chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE
Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm) Stereo
(Repeated: Thursday 1.40 pm)
Presenter Roger Cook Producer JOHN EDWARDS
(Repeated: Thursday 12 noon)
with Peter Hobday
A ten-part series in which Jeremy Siepmann casts a generally benign but occasionally cynical eye on the history of home music-making. 7:The Entertainer
In which toy soldiers give way to a bevy of piano-stool strategists, a drawing-room reciter fires a damp squib, and feminine virtue, yet again, is put at risk.
Producer RAY abbott. Stereo
Bugging the Corridor Where are Britain's new industries going to come from? Out of the laboratories at
Cambridge and spreading along the Mil corridor is one based on the genetic manipulation of bacteria.
Mary Goldring describes its developments, its considerable growing pains and its possible impact on the region and on the country's economy. Producer ANNE WINDER
(Repeated: Friday 10.45 am)
Five programmes in which playwright Brian Thompson attempts to catalogue random memories as preparation for an autobiography.
3: France. BBC Manchester
Presenter Natalie Wheen Producer JOHN BOUNDY
Riceyman Steps (3)
Presenter Richard Kershaw
11.0 Headlines on VHF until 11.0
Asian Links The last of six programmes in which Asians in Britain talk to TOWYN MASON Hong Kong Series producer JOAN GRIFFITHS
12.30 Making Work
3: Convincing Employers Presenter JOHN WALTERS
12.50 YTS Briefing 3: Special Projects Presenter GRAHAM TAYAR
