Presented by 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 CUVE ROSLIN
7.25*.8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
Part 8
takes the chair for 55 minutes of lively and unpredictable conversation with people from all walks of life.
Birthday Guest: the celebrated designer, Zandra Rhodes. Producer PIPPA BURSTON Stereo
visits Lancashire where members of the MAWDESLEY village HALL put their questions to Geoffrey Smith. Bill Sowerbutts and Dr Stefan Buczacki Questionmaster Les Cottington BBC Manchester
The Visitation by J. A. GLYNN
Read by Anthony Finigan 'The priest sighed.... Ah, well, after all he was a representative of the Holy
Church; an earthly vehicle of the Divine. Rather he take the wine than these poor beasts of burden....'
Producer KATHRYN PORTER BBC Northern Ireland
nem, p 9; The eternal gates lift up their heads (BBC to 131); Psalm 119, w 49-56; Acts 10, vv 9-18; 0 Jesus, I have promised (BBC HB 360)
Stereo
A six-part series in which former preacher, Harry Soan , traces his complex relationship with God.
5: As clever as the guv'nor Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
Over the past two years more bicycles than cars have been bought in the United Kingdom. But cyclists claim that they are getting a raw deal. Pattie Coldwell investigates their complaints and Cheryl Armitage reports from this week's International Cycle Planning Conference.
by TED WILLIS (5)
Presented by Sir Robin Day
1.55 Listening Corner Presented by SUSANNA DAWSON Storyteller JOHNNY MORRIS Today's story Hamish McTaggart 's Pet by BERNARD MACLAVERTY
2.5 Something to Think About The Invisible Kitten by ZOE BAILEY
2.15 Quest The Medieval Church by GEOFFREY CURTIS
2.35 Pictures In Your Mind (Poetry) Out Among the Planets
2.45 Nature The Oak Tree
introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Baroness Ewart-Biggs Loose Connections by MAGGIE BROOKS abridged in nine episodes by MEG CLARKE
Read by Sian Thomas (1)
'Wanted: German-speaking woman. Must be mechanically-minded driver. Preferably vegetarian.
Non-smoker.' Instead she got Harry Hammell !
(Music Boiling's Concerto for guitar and jazz piano)
(Sian Thomas is in 'Othello' at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith)
Jennifer by PAUL ABBOTT
What does a mother do when her teenage daughter sends her to Coventry? How does she convince herself that it isn't necessarily all her fault?
Directed by TONY CUFF BBC Manchester Stereo
Six All
Compiled and presented by H. Colin Davis
6: All's Well That Ends Well Readers MANNING WILSON , GEOFFREY COLLINS and ROSALIND SHANKS
Producer ALEC REID BBC Bristol
Stepping Westward (3)
Presenters Susannah Simons and Richard Bath continued on VHFIFM 5.50-5.55
With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
A general knowledge contest between schools in Great Britain.
First Round - 3: Midlands ALDERMAN NEWTON'S SCHOOL, Leicester v ALDRIDGE SCHOOL, nr Walsall
Questionmasters
Tim Gudgin and Paddy Feeny Questions set by PAUL LIVESEY , NIGEL RICHARDSON and PADDY FEENY
Producer PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
(Repeated: Thursday 1.40 pm)
Twenty years ago, while she played in Goodnight,
Mrs Puffin , Irene Handl wrote the first of her two startling and original novels. Now The Sioux is reissued; and the author talks to
Monty Haltrecht about her own books and those she reads for pleasure.
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
The first of five programmes.
Rudyard Kipling first travelled from India to England at the age of 5; he circumnavigated the world in his early 20s and remained an enthusiastic traveller all his life. Every place Kipling visited and every person he met could fire his imagination and reappear later in story or verse.
Marghanita Laski follows his travels and explores that world which Kipling brought to life in his writings. 1: Europe
Readers joss ACKLAND ,
GARARD GREEN, HENRY STAMPER ,
MARK ROLSTON , JOHN SAMSON and HELENA BRECK Producer HELEN FRY
Each week, Antony Hopkins explores a different musical work or topic, explaining his thoughts at the piano and illustrating them with records. Producer PATRICK LAMBERT Stereo
The Pensions Lottery
Old age is a lottery in which the losers get a minimal state pension, the luckier get something more from their employers and the winners hit the jackpot. Could it be made less of a gamble? Would it cost a lot to do it? Are the Government's proposals merely tinkering with a big and sometimes heartbreaking problem?
Presented by Mary Goldring
A chance to put questions about pensions to a panel of experts chaired by Mary Goldring. Lines open from 8.0 pm Producer DAVID MORTON 0 FEATURE: page 84
Stars and Bars (8)
National and international news, background analysis and comment
Presented by Richard Kershaw
11.0 Headlines on VHFIFM until 11.0
Enjoying Opera Six programmes presented by MONTY HALTRECHT 6: On Stage Even the finest operas can suffer from a wooden production. But some consider we are living through the 'Age of the Producer'. What are the losses and gains? Series consultant ALAN BLYTH Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN
with John Roberts reporting from the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC.
The British road network is being pounded to bits. Tom Maddocks finds out why. The programme asks how much does the economy depend on a good road network, with contributions from transport experts, industrialists, and road users, and poses the question: Will financial cutbacks mean that unless drastic steps are taken we could be on the roads to ruin?
Producer FRANCES MACDONALD
12.30 Radio Geography: Home or Away Rural UK Written and presented by MICHAEL PICKSTOCK and at 12.50 Transport Teachers' Programme Written and presented by ASTLEY JONES
