Presented by Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With ROGER PARRY
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport with CHARLES COLVILLE
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters
The last programme of the series in which Colin Semper airs your comments and pursues your complaints and queries about BBC programmes and policies.
Producer JANET THOMAS
The Human Comedy
An excerpt from the book by WILLIAM SAROYAN
Read by Errol MacKinnon Producer MITCH RAPER
NEM, p 62; Forth in thy name (BBC HB 406); Jesu lead my footsteps ever (Bach);
Mark 12, w 1-17; Christ is our comer-stone (BBC HB 258) Stereo
Raffles and the Dead Body Flower Stamford Raffles, 19th-century visionary, humanitarian, founder of Singapore, brilliant naturalist and collector, discovered the biggest flower in the world: Rafflesia arnoldii.
Andrew Mitchell follows in his footsteps into the mountain jungles of Sumatra.
Producer CAROL JEFFERSON-DAVIES BBC Bristol
Presented by Pattie Coldwell
The fifth of six programmes in which Jeremy Nicholas takes an affectionate look at a hundred years of British comic song-writing.
Producer LAN GARDHOUSE
Presented by Brian Widlake
1.55 Listening Corner Let's Play it Again Presented by LOUIS ROBINSON
2.5 Let's Join In King Melonskin and the Hungry Monster by JEAN KENWARD
2.25 Sounds, Words and Movement The Ice Dragon (whole story) based on a story by OLIVER POSTGATE Presented by JILL shilling and PAUL BURA
2.40 Listen! Armada Rock by CHRISTOPHER RUSSELL
10: Time is Running Out
Introduced from Manchester by Judy Merry
Dr Johnson loved them, devotees drive miles for them, so why are Staffordshire oatcakes still not considered a national delicacy?
To Be Beside the Seaside: BOB BATTERSBY has just retired as Blackpool's director of attractions. He has extolled the virtues of 'fresh air and fun' for 30 years while watching the tide of tourism change.
Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
The Private World of Georgette Heyer (8)
by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
The last of three parts dramatised for radio by A.R. Rawlinson and Michael Bakewell
The citizens of Troy are united in judging the annual Trojan picnic to be a success, although there is some gossip that Mrs Goodwyn-Sandys has made the journey out with one of the town's most eligible bachelors and returned with the other....
BBC Bristol
(Stereo)
Clive Jacobs brings you the stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport with help from ALANAH MARTIN and TOM BOSWELL
Producer IRENE MALUS
Editor ROGER MACDONALD
Jennings in Particular by ANTHONY BUCKERIDGE abridged in nine episodes and read by the author (9) Producer GRAHAM GAULD
(Starting on Monday: A Gun for Sale by Graham Greene )
Presented byGordon Clough and Susannah Simons
With BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report
With Steve Brown, Helen Lederer, Clive Mantle and Nick Wilton
Music by STEVE BROWN
Written by ARNOLD BROWN , PAUL B. DAVIES , KIM FULLER. JEREMY HARDY , HUNTER AND DOCHERTY, HELEN MURRY , GEOFFREY PERKINS , VICKY PILE. ROGER PLANER , SMITH AND kyan, NICK WILTON and producer JAMIE RIX
(Nick Wilton really is as short as we say he is)
Stereo
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television. Producer ANNE HOWELLS
Stereo
Judges, magistrates, barristers, solicitors, academic lawyers and others contribute to the last programme in this topical magazine series, which examines issues thrown up by the courts and by Parliament and considers the administration and practice of justice.
Presented by Joshua Rozenberg Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF
The Rt Hon Denis Healey , mp Andrew Neil , Editor, The Sunday Times
Sir Peter Hall , Director, the National Theatre and Margaret Daly , mep tackle the questions raised by an audience from Esher, Surrey Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
MX funding agreed
14 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Job creation given as reason why vote on MX funding went Reagan's way. Show more
by Alistair Cooke
Presented by Michael Billington
Producer KEVIN JACKSON
The Rich Mrs Robinson by WINIFRED BEECHEY abridged in ten episodes by CLARE TAYLOR
Read by PAULINE LETTS (10) Producer PETER WINDOWS BBC Birmingham
(Starting on Monday: The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter )
with Bill Wallis , David Tate , Sally Grace and Jon Glover Written by IAN BROWN. RICHARD QUICK . PAUL B. DAWES , MARTIN BOOTH . PETE SINCLAIR. STUART
SILVER, DAVID COHEN , JEREMY HARDY , PETER HICKEY and others
Producer JENNIE CAMPBELL
followed by an interlude
Software Review (Catalogue)