Presenters Brian Redhead and Michael Stewart
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
Bob Symes , steam enthusiast and amateur cook, deserts his kitchen and sallies forth in search of leisure occupations suitable for a gentleman of increasing age and girth.
Anything goes - as long as it doesn't require money, athleticism or genius.
2: Here Be Dragonnes ... investigating myth, history and mystery on your own doorstep. Producer KATE FENTON
A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL
The Measure of a Wife by GUY DE MAUPASSANT translated by HARRY BELL Read by David March
NEM, p 114; God is love: let heaven adore Him (BBC HB 7);
Psalm 85, w 8-14; Exodus 14, w 5-14: Lead us 0 Father, in the paths of peace (BBC HB 308) Stereo
Joe Henson , a Gloucester Old Spot sow and nine piglets, muse over the association between man and pig which began nearly 9,000 years ago. Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
Presenter Pattie Coldwell
Stereo
Presenter Brian Widlake
Janet Sorensen talks to infant and nursery school children about clothes. Today the theme is Clothes for Hot and Cold Weather
Introduced from Birmingham by Marjorie Lofthouse
Monyhull Leisure Venture: Within the grounds of a Birmingham mental handicap hospital, patients and members of the local community are creating a leisure garden for young and old alike. PENNY SEARLEY meets the workers. Producer ANN TENNANT BBC Birmingham
The Public Image (3)
by DAPHNE DU MAURlER dramatised for radio in four parts by BRIAN GEAR
1: Cornwall 1810. Through the driving rain of a dismal
November day a coach makes its way slowly through the mire. Inside, Mary trembles at the fate which is taking her to Jamaica Inn ...
Narrator GEORGE RAISTRICK
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol Stereo
Ray Barron reflects on encounters with four people, who tried to leap from the Third World to the West. 2: Laleh the Iranian
BBC Manchester
Do we still believe in the old superstitions? Are they dying out and are we creating new ones? If we believe in them, do we connect them with their religious or pagan origins?
Peter France, keeping fingers crossed and touching wood, attempts to find out.
Researcher SHELLEY BOVEY Producer SHIRLEY PENROSE BBC Bristol. Stereo
0 Woddis On ... p 77
Bootle Bounces Back
5: Bootle Makes Somebody Happy
The Admiral looks for trouble. With Bootle aboard, he doesn't have to look very far.
Presenters Gordon Clough and Robert Williams continued on VHF 5.50-5.55
with BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report
With Clive Jacobs.
ALANAH MARTIN , TOM BOSWELL and RICHARD HUDSON-EVANS . Producer IRENE MALLIS
Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Monday 1.40 pm) Written by MARGARET PHELAN Agricultural story editor ANTHONY PARKIN
Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
(Frank Middlemass is a member of the RSC)
with Margaret Howard Producer JAN TAYLOR
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am) Stereo
A personal portrait.
Molly Parkin , novelist Sam Toy , Chairman and Managing Director, Ford Motor Company Ltd Clive Jenkins , General
Secretary, ASTMS and Robert Adley , mp from Fishguard, Dyfed
Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
Convention histories
14 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
As the Democrats get ready to crown their chosen leader, look back to a time when political conventions were full of surprises. Show more
by Alistair Cooke
with Michael Billington Producer JOHN BOUNDY
Riceyman Steps (15)
Presenter Richard Kershaw
Bill Wallis , David Tate , Sally Grace and Paul B. Davies Written by IAN BROWN , JAMES HENDRIE , RICHARD QUICK,
JOHN LANGDON , PAUL B. DAVIES , MARTIN BOOTH, ALAN WHITING , STEVE PUNT, PETE SINCLAIR , PETER HICKEY and others
Producer PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
Programmes affected by transmitter breakdown earlier in the term may be broadcast.