Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
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* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Presented by Roger Cook
Mary Rose-a glimpse in time
Bones, pollen and insects have been preserved for four-and-a-half centuries in the mud beneath the waters of the Solent in the wreck of the Mary Rose. Never before has a shipwreck been researched for its natural history but today Dr Margaret Rule heads a team that is, step by step, bringing a wealth of new knowledge on how we can discover our natural past. Presented by Barry Paine
Producer CAROLE JEFFERSON DAVIES BBC Bristol
Mutatis Mutandis by GERRY OMALLEY
Read by Aiden Grennell 'All the mourners on foot including the two sons, Thomas and Michael. A crisp bright morning in early March, the sun dancing on the rippling water of the bay.'
Producer KATHRYN PORTER BBC Northern Ireland
reflecting the issues of the day Stereo
Four programmes in which
Hilary Townsend recalls some aspects of rural life in the 1930s. 2: Farming in Dorset. BBC Bristol
Presented by Pattie Coldwell
2: Moving
1.55 Listening Corner
4: Andrew McAndrew and the Tap Tops
2.0-2.30 Par Étapes French Graded Objectives (2) 5: Shopping in a Market and at the Post Office and at 2.15
6: Staying with a French Family
2.30-3.0 English for Examinations (14-17) Communication (Are you receiving me?)
3: Weighing the Evidence
2.30 Based on interviews Presented by BRIAN REDHEAD written by TONY PENMAN
2.45 Dramatised version by GRAEME RIGBY
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Genetic Abortion: MOYRA BREMNER talks to women about their sense of loss following the abortion of a deformed foetus. The Summer of the Barshinskeys Part 2 (9)
Uncertain Ground by RUTH GORING with Frances Jeater as Susie Susie , an intelligent, happily married woman, seems to have everything-a successful husband, a caring mother-in-law. A sudden crisis in her life, however, makes her suddenly question whether or not she is allowing herself to be smothered.
Directed by KAY PATRICK BBC Manchester. Stereo
Everyone has queries, quibbles and quandaries which they mean to resolve but which always lie unanswered at the back of their 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 Da vies presents Radio 4's good books programme. Producer HELEN FRY
A Night to Remember
9: 'We're going north like Hell'
Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With CLIVE ROSLIN including Financial Report
Stereo
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 Producer MARY PRICE
BBC Bristol. Send your letters to:
Any Answers? BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
British Film Year has been launched with its slogan 'Cinema - the best place to see a film'. Nigel Andrews examines the financial and artistic problems of an industry with declining audiences and an increasing threat from television and video.
Contributors include Sir Richard Attenborough, Bill Cotton, Gary Dartnoll, David Hare, Mamoun Hassan, Glenda Jackson, Derek Jarman and David Puttnam.
8.20* Phone in on [number removed]. Listeners are invited to put questions about the film industry to Norman Lamont, MP, Minister with Responsibility for Films; Jeremy Isaacs, Chief Executive Channel 4; John Boorman, film director; and Colin Young, Director, National Film and Television School of Great Britain.
In the chair Michael Billington
Lines are open from 7.15pm
Feature: page 13
A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families, with countrywide 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 W1A 4WW
Phone [number removed](10.0 am-5.0 pm)
meanders through the BBC Sound Archives
Natalie Wheen presents tonight's edition which includes interviews, news and reviews of books, film, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Producer KEVIN JACKSON
A Moveable Feast 7: Zelda Fitzgerald
Presenter Alexander MacLeod
11.0 Headlines on VHF/FM until 11.0
New series Groundswell The first of ten programmes on ' the environment
followed by an interlude VHFIFMjoinsat 12.10am