With JANET MAYO
Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
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
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Signs of Life
Derek Jones look at the signs and sounds of wildlife that in winter lie hidden under the cover of darkness and the January snows.
Producer CAROL JEFFERSON-DAVIES BBC Bristol
The Other Side of Summer by JACI STEPHEN
Read by Marilyn Le Conte 'She picked up the stone reverently; laid it carefully on the cement, as if afraid to wake it....'
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
from Manchester led by THE REV
KENNETH STEVENSON With the MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY CHAMBER CHOIR
Matthew 11, w 2-6; Hark, the glad sound (BBC HB 490);
Gloria (Mozart); God is love (BBC HB 7)
BBC Manchester Stereo
The last of five programmes. The Coal Merchant
The miners' strike has drawn attention to industry's dependence on coal. But, for how long can the coal merchant keep the home fires burning? Howard Whitehouse talks to David Willmott about his life as a coal merchant.
Producer JULIAN HITCHCOCK BBC Birmingham
Presented by Pattie Coldwell
In the last of four programmes Leonard Pearcey talks to the prolific composer Carl Davis about the writing of humorous music, and how he creates his orchestral portraits.
Producer RICHARD WILLCOX Stereo
Presented by Sir Robin Day
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: The Two Robins by RUTH AINSWORTH
2.5 The Music Box written and presented by MICHAEL BURNETT and SANDRA KERR
2.20 Living Language With GEORGE LAYTON The Sailor's Return A programme of poetry compiled by JANET WHITAKER
2.40 Newscast A current affairs series for schools and colleges Presented by UBBY FAWBERT
Introduced by Sue MacGregor 'We love each other. There's no doubt of that whatsoever.' ANDREA ADAMS talks to wives who have had to cope with the knowledge of their husbands' homosexuality.
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (9)
The Penrhyn Summer by ALISON LEONARD
The legacy of Britain's longest industrial strike hangs over an idealistic university student as she goes about her holiday job. Eighty years on the scars are still evident in Penrhyn, but they are starting to infect Madeleine, too.
Other parts played by DEREK RICHARDS
Directed by ADRIAN MOURBY BBC Wales. Stereo
We all have queries, quibbles and quandaries which we mean to resolve but which always lie unanswered at the back of our minds.
Let Neil Landor , together with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC Reference
Library, sort out the answers. Questions, on a postcard please, to: Enquire Within
BBC Broadcasting House London WIA 1AA
Producer STEPHEN Shipley
Hunter Davies presents Radio 4's good books programme, including this week a new biography of Sir Thomas More. Producer ANNE HOWELLS
The 27th Kingdom
4: Portents, Prodigies and the Untoward
Presented by Phil Longman and Susannah Simons
continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With HARRIET CASS including Financial Report
(Stereo)
(Repeated: tomorrow 1.40 pm)
Written by MARGARET PHELAN Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions?
Introduced by John Timpson Compiled by LAURIE MASON Producer MARY PRICE BBC Bristol
Send your letters to: Any Answers? BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR
Reports from BBC correspondents around the world.
A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL
(Repeated: tomorrow 10.0 am)
An Introduction to Political Thought
Seven programmes presented by Brian Redhead
5: Rousseau and Smith Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(1712-78) was probably the most profound and certainly the most influential political thinker of the 18th century. Adam Smith (1723-90) is famous as the founder of the modern science of economics. With Dr Robert Wokler of the University of Manchester and Dr John Robertson of St Hugh's College, Oxford.
Producer CHRISTOPHER STONE
A BBC Ariel book 'Political Thought from Plato to Nato' is available from booksellers
A personal portrait in conversation, recollection and anecdote; an assessment of a public figure or the story of a private individual.
A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families, with country-wide news and views on all matters of concern to them.
Presented by John Mills Editor MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence and enquiries to: BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW
Phone [number removed](10.0 am-5.0 pm)
Presented by Paul Vaughan
Second from Last in the Sack Race (9)
National and international news, background analysis and comment
Presented by Richard Kershaw
11.0 Headlines on VHF/FM until 11.0
Measuring Up Six programmes in which MARGARET KORVING Seeks out expert advice about how to assess and improve your employment prospects-whether you have lost a job, come to a 'dead end', or reached a turning-point in your life.
4: Planning Your Next Move
followed by an interlude
Sex Education Presented by DR MARTIN GAY and DIANE MARSHALL
12.30 1: Asking and Making Choices and at 12.50 2: Relationships