Presenters 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 PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
This week's team is made up of the dedicated enthusiasts behind the Welsh National
Opera company. Their home is in Cardiff but Jimmy Hill meets them on tour in North Wales - putting on opera in a cinema for the holidaymakers of Llandudno.
Research KAREN DECO
Producer MIKE CHANEY : Stereo
visits the International
Garden Festival at Liverpool where members of the Horticultural Trades
Association put their questions to Geoffrey Smith Clay Jones and Dr Stefan Buczacki
Questionmaster Ken Ford. BBC Manchester
Where There's Life by VIVIENNE APPLE
Read by Hedli Niklaus Producer GWYN RICHARDS BBC Birmingham
NEM, pllO; Give to our God immortal praise (BBC HB 6); Psalm 93; 1 John 2, w 1-11;
Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us (BBC HB, 307) Stereo
Stereo
The last of ten programmes Plonky the Parrot
Johnny Morris calls on 25 years of dealing with animals - and their dealings with him. BBC Bristol
Presenter Pattie Coldwell
If you have any comments on today's programmes, phone [number removed]after 11.0 am
dramatised in eight parts from his novel by ALLAN PRIOR withand
2: The Burial Mound at Mab's Hill
When Fleet Street journalist Alison Bowers appeared on Danny Watson 's TV chat show two media megastars collided. But the stormy encounter told him two things - he wanted to see her again and something was just about to happen in England that would give him a really big story - maybe the biggest ever.
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON
Stereo
Presenter Sir Robin Day
Janet Sorensen talks to infant and nursery school children about clothes Today's theme is What We Wear on Our Feet
with Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Heather Angel , award-winning natural history photographer and President of the Royal
Photographic Society. The Public Image by MURIEL SPARK, abridged in six parts by SALLY SKRIMSHIRE
Read by Hilary Tindall (1)
Annabel Christopher was once just an English girl from
Wakefield. But now, in Rome, with her screenwriter husband, she is an international movie star with a 'public image' to maintain.
(Music: Bush's First Symphony)
The Return of Uncle Arthur by VICTOR CANNING and After he dies Nancy and John think they have heard the last of Uncle Arthur. However, his executors spring a surprise.
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD
The second of the series in which Kevin Crossley Holland presents poems about the British abroad. This week: Spain. Readers
CAROL DRINKWATER and ANTHONY HYDE
Producer ALEC REID. BBC Bristol
Bootle Bounces Back 3: Bootle Gets the Bird
The Admiral sends his flag lieutenant on an inspection of HMS Unbridled. Only Bootle is aboard. It's a meeting of Beauty and the Beast.
Presenters Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
with PAULINE BUSHNELL 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 Compiled by STEVE RACE Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm) Stereo
(Repeated: Thursday 1.40 pm)
A weekly investigation into the problems of listeners. Presented by Roger Cook
Producer JOHN EDWARDS
(Repeated: Thursday 12 noon)
In 1951 South African-born Tom Blomefield arrived in Rhodesia to prospect for minerals. Soon he was farming 4,000 acres of virgin land in the north-east of the country, opening up roads and building a house with his own hands. He became a wealthy tobacco farmer-until sanctions under
UDI brought financial ruin. At heart a sculptor, he turned part of his farm into a community for African sculptors. Now, with his encouragement and inspiration, their work is in museums and galleries all over the world.
TOM BLOMEFIELD tells Bernard Jackson the story of his life and work at Tengenenge, Zimbabwe.
Producer ANNE HOWELLS
A ten-part series in which Jeremy Siepmann casts a generally benign but occasionally cynical eye on the history of music-making in the home.
9:Deus ex Machina
In which the drawing room is visited with a plague of robots, and humans grow more passive. Reader JOHN WESTBROOK Producer RAY ABBOTT Stereo
Christopher Hogg , who as Chairman of Courtaulds has steered his company through the depths of recession, reflects on business, industry and the economy, in a conversation with Mary Goldring. Producer DAVID MORTON
(Repeated: Friday 11.0 am)
The last of five talks in which playwright Brian Thompson attempts to catalogue random memories as preparation for an autobiography. Teaching
BBC Manchester
Presenter Natalie Wheen Producer KEVIN JACKSON
Riceyman Steps (13)
National and international news, background, analysis and comment.
Presenter Richard Kershaw
11.0 Headlines on VHF until 11.0
War and Peace in Our Time Seven programmes
2: Algerian Independence DANIEL SINGER talks about the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62), and discusses some of the implications with series presenter GEOFFREY STERN. Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
Programmes affected by transmitter breakdown earlier in the term may be broadcast. Software Review (1)
