A meditation for the beginning of the new day.
Presented by Brian Redhead in London and John Timpson at the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
Part 3
takes the chair for 55 minutes of lively and unpredictable conversation with people from all walks of life.
Producer PIPPA BURSTON. Stereo
Alice and the Jogging Plumber (2) by FRED URQUHART
Read by Fraser Kerr
NEW, p 58; Away with our fears (BBC HB 147); Psalm 143;
I Samuel 17, w 1-11; Beloved, let us love (BBC HB 373) Stereo
Derek Robinson challenges some beliefs we take for granted - and finds that the facts tell a very different story.
1: The Swedish Way of Death Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Presenter Paul Heiney
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].
by TED ALLBEURY
1: How It All Began
1.55 Listening Corner Presented by kim CLIFFORD Storyteller CHRISTOPHER LILLICRAP Today's story Alfie's Feet by SHIRLEY HUGHES
2.5 Something to Think About Fox, Cat and Dog by olive DOVE Music by ROBIN MCPHERSON
2.15 Quest The 19th-Century Jewish Community
2.35 Pictures In Your Mind (Poetry) Dandelion Countdown by ZOE BAILEY
2.45 Nature Searching Through Leaves by JEAN KENWARD
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
John Ridgway , Atlantic rower, adventurer and round the world yachtsman.
The Tiger and the Rose (2)
A five-part comedy series based on the novel by E.F. Benson dramatised and narrated by Aubrey Woods
Disaster strikes in Riseholme and has to be hushed up to spare a multitude of blushes.
(Stereo)
Six variations on the theme of love, written and presented by Liz Lochhead
2: More Other Poets and Shakespeare Readers
JOHN SHEDDEN , FINLAY WELSH and ANN SCOTT. JONES Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo
Stepping Westward by MALCOLM BRADBURY abridged in 13 parts by ELIZABETH BRADBURY
Read by Robert Powell (13) Producer ALFRED BRADLEY BBC Manchester
Presenters Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
With PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report
Derby High School, Bury v. Moorhead High School, Accrington
Questionmasters Tim Gudgin and Paddy Feeny
(Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday 1.40 pm)
In the second of five programmes, Bill Breckon looks at the changes we are beginning to see in the way houses are bought and sold.
He investigates, with financial expert, Tom Tickell , whether these changes make the process cheaper, quicker and easier.
Editor ROGER MACDONALD Producer HELEN ROBSON
(Repeated: Thursday 11.0 am)
Rudyard Kipling first travelled from India to England at the age of 5; he remained an enthusiastic traveller all his life. Marghanita Laski follows his travels, and explores that world which Kipling brought to life in his writings. 3: To the Antipodes
Readers JON STRICKLAND ,
HENRY STAMPER. GARARD GREEN and ARNOLD DIAMOND Producer HELEN FRY
The last of six programmes in which Antony Hopkins explores a different musical work or topic, explaining his thoughts at the piano and illustrating them with records. Producer PATRICK LAMBERT Stereo
Star Wars
Destroying enemy nuclear missiles in space is on the cards, according to President Reagan. Is this vision of the future a real possibility or pure science fiction. Can the United States afford the cost? How will Russia respond and will Western Europe be more, or less, secure?
Presented by David Wheeler Producer DAVID BROOKE
(Repeated: Friday 11.0 am)
A lighthearted look at the life and music of Noel Coward 5: Noël on England
Presented by Sheridan Morley Producer DAVID RAYVERN ALLEN (First broadcast on World Service)
Presented by Paul Allen Producer JOHN POWELL
I Heard the Owl Call my Name (3)
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
11.0 Headlines on VHF/FM until 11.0
11.0 A vous la France! A new 15-part series of French for beginners.
1: Vous désirez? YVES AUBERT and PHYLLIS ROOME introduce the language needed to buy drinks and croissants or to ask for tourist information. Written and produced by ALAN WILDING
(Students' book, £5.25, 3 LP records, £4.75 each or 2 cassettes, £3.74 each) ●HELPLINES: page 93
Flannelled fools waving handkerchiefs on a village green - an instant image of rural England. Jim Lloyd looks behind the advertising cliches at the 20th-century revival of a pagan ritual when he joins one thousand Morris Men from all over England for the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the MORRIS RING . Producer GEOFFREY HEWITT BBC Birmingham
followed by an interlude
Voix de France: French V
12.30 5: La vie en province
12.50 6: Le malentendu
