Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Making Arrangements by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by Margot Boyd Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
reflecting on the issues of the day introduced from Broadcasting House by The Rev Robert Foxcroft
(Stereo)
Presented by Paul Heiney
Stereo
Presenter Sir Robin Day
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: The Machine Band by LEE PRESSMAN
2.5 Music Box Written and presented by MICHAEL BURNETT and SANDRA KERR
2.20 Living Language Speak Up With GEORGE LAYTON and A Pair of Sinners by ALLAN AHLBERG
2.40 Newscast A current affairs series for schools and colleges. Presenter ubby FAWBERT
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Learning the Light Fantastic: BERNARD JACKSON Visits
Highnam Court , a 17th-century mansion in Gloucestershire, for an early music weekend. A Room with a View (7)
From a Great Height by MARTIN LUCAS
With his wife's enthusiastic support, Peter Fuller has given up accountancy and together they have moved into the gentle tranquillity of the country. Peter is going to be a writer. But the Fullers soon discover the rustic peace is an illusion - they have neighbours.
Directed by DAVID SPENSER Stereo
with Neil Landor
Producer NIGEL ACHESON
Pierre et Jean (6)
Presenters Susannah Simons and Robin Williams continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
with Clive Roslin including Financial Report
Stereo
(Repeated: Friday 1.40 pm)
BBC Birmingham
Introduced by John Timpson Compiled by laurie MASON Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
A series of five programmes which profiles the nations of the United Kingdom 3: Scotland
To many people, Scotland is still a land struggling to escape from its past: dying industries and faded hopes of nationhood, draped overall in the inescapable myth of heather and tartan chauvinism. Others point to the wealth created there by North Sea oil and the jobs generated by the new electronics industries in 'Silicon Glen'.
In this fresh assessment of State of the Nation, Scots men and women from all fields of achievement reflect on their own feelings about their homeland and its future.
Presenters Donald MacCormick and Mary Marquis
Written and compiled by JOHN KERR Research DOREEN STEWART
Producer GEOFFREY CAMERON
Presenter John Mills for disabled listeners Editor MARLENE PEASE
John Barth
'The metaphor I like to use about writing comes from coastal piloting -in dead reckoning one determines where to go by determining where one is, by reviewing where one's been - that's the self-consciousness that I find in my fiction which is simply imitative of life.' The
American novelist John Barth , author of Giles Goat-Boy , The Sot-Weed Factor and Sabbatical, in conversation with Christopher Bigsby , talks about his life and childhood on the coast of Maryland; the consequences of being a twin; the impact of an academic career on his prose; and the nature of Scheherazade, who had to tell stories or die. Producer CARROLL MOORE
Mr Facey Romford's Hounds 4: The Lady Whip
Presenter Alexander MacLeod
11.0 Headlines on VHF/FM until 11.0
Joining In. A series of six programmes on voluntary groups with SUSAN MARLING. 3: Getting to Grips with Government (Revised repeat)
followed by an interlude
Programmes affected by transmitter breakdown earlier in the term may be broadcast.
