Presented from the South West by Robin Hicks
Producer MARY PRICE BBC Bristol
Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by CLIVE ROSLIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
A look ahead with Robert Booth
meanders down some meaningful cul-de-sacs in the BBC Sound Archives. Producer KATE FENTON
Fifty-five minutes of lively conversation between the personalities of this week's news.
Producer LAN STRACHAN. Stereo
Presented by Louise Botting The programme with the latest news from the world of personal finance, covering investment, tax, pensions, insurance, and a look at some particular money problems sent in by listeners. Address: Money Box,
Room 4058, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW
The Darkness Out There by PENELOPE LIVELY
Read by Mary Wimbush Producer MITCH RAPER
New Every Morning, page 13; Thy hand, 0 God, has guided (BBC HB 187); Psalm 24; H Corinthians 4, w 13-18; As pants the heart for cooling streams (BBC HB 451) Stereo
Presented by Kingsley Amis Readers BARBARA JEFFORD and MARTIN JARVIS
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol
Pattie Coldwell presents and lends a sympathetic ear to your phone comments and queries on [number removed]. Editor KEN VASS
A Tale of Two City Gents by Wally K. Daly starring
Donald Hewlett as Charles and Michael Knowles as George, also featuring this week Norma Ronald, Tony Anholt, David Ryall, Michael Bilton and Colin Starkey
Theme music by Jim Parker
Producer John Fawcett Wilson
(Stereo)
Presenter Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Listening Corner Cats and Mice Presented by KENNETH SHANLEY Storyteller PAM AYRES Today's story The Patchwork Cat by WILLIAM MAYNE Script by MARY KALEMKERIAN
2.5 Playtime Presented by JUDY BENNETT With IAIN LAUCHLAN
2.20 Introducing Science The Sun Unit 3, Programme 2
2.40 Noticeboard TONY BARNFIELD previews Economic and Business Education
2.45 Radio Club With TIMMY MALLETT
A special outside broadcast edition from the Belfast
Festival at Queen's University. Wendy Austin and Sean Rafferty introduce some of the stars and international performers who come to
Belfast to take part in the second largest arts festival in the United Kingdom.
Guests include Robert Morley , Elaine Delmar , and members of The Royal Shakespeare Company with music from
Thomas and Mary McGlaughlin Producer COLIN LEWIS Bad Company by UZA CODY abridged in 11 parts by JANET HICKSON
Read by DAVID MCAUSTER (5) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
Almost Time for School by GORDON MCKERROW
Stereo
Part 4
The unheroic tale of Barry Pilton 's encounter with Britain's most arduous walk, the Pennine Way.
Read by DAVID ROPER
Producer THOMAS SUTCLIFFE
Let the People Sing 6: First Appearance
Presenters Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With PAULINE BUSHNELL including Financial Report
The news of the last seven days examined by the people who write it, with searching questions put in a curious way by David Taylor to
Alan Coren , Geoffrey � Dickinson, Alan Rusbridger and Julia Langdon
Written and compiled by JOHN LANGDON and JENNIE CAMPBELL L Producer JENNIE CAMPBELL
Stereo
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.40 pm) j
Presented by Clive Cookson Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
Some people find it hard to write a letter, while others can use words on paper as an artist uses paint.
What influences a person to become a writer? Carole Stone and Bernard Rutherford invite you to eavesdrop on an intimate conversation with Edna O'Brien and Frederic Raphael
Producer STUART HOBDAY BBC Bristol. Stereo
Swimmer by CHRISTOPHER RUSSELL
The joint winner of the 1983 RADIO TIMES play competition) with Julian Firth as Neil and
Neil Crosby , a taunted crippled boy, learns to swim brilliantly. But when he falls in love with a girl at the pool, his obsessional belief in water as his true element turns to something more sinister.
Location recording at the Porchester Baths, London, by CEDRIC JOHNSON. JULIAN WALTHER and BRIAN PRIOR
Technical presentation by DAVID GREENWOOD , PAUL PEARSON and VANESSA ELLNER
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY
During the first few days in office the new Lord Mayor of London gives a traditional banquet in honour of the retiring Lord Mayor.
Peter Jones sets the scene before Sir Alan Traill proposes the toast to Her Majesty's
Ministers; the Prime Minister. The Rt Hon
Margaret Thatcher. mp, replies with what is recognised as one of the major speeches on the country's position in international affairs.
Theatre of Blood
Trader Faulkner, currently touring his one-man show
Lorca, evokes the controversial and colourful life, plays and poetry of the Spanish writer Federico Garcia Lorca , killed in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War.
'He was physical lightning, an energy in constant rapidity, a happiness, a brilliance, a tenderness entirely superhuman. His person was magical and dark....'
(PABLO NERUDA)
Producer JOHN POWELL Editor ROSEMARY HART Stereo
Some Do Not (6)
Presenter Richard Kershaw
11.0 Headlines
Editor BLAIR THOMSON on VHF/FM until 11.0
People's Theatre 7: The Scope of Non Professional Theatre Amateur theatre has traditionally provided opportunities for experiment and for the development of new talent. Is this still the case? Presenter JOHN RUSSELL BROWN
followed by an interlude
Lifetime: Coping with Pressure With MAUREEN GALVIN
12.30 Be at ease with yourself!
12.50 Think well of yourself! Producer PETER WARD
