Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With TOM TICKELL
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
with her conversational guests Producer VICTOR LEWIS SMITH Stereo
by TERENCE HARDS
Read by Crawford Logan
In a South American country, a young man with a gun has been arrested entering the Presidential Palace. When he is brought before the General, their conversation takes an unexpected turn.
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
NEM, p 114; The Lord is King! Lift up thy voice (BBC HB 26); Psalm 46; I Samuel 10, vv 1-7;
Songs of praise the angels sang (BP 77). Stereo
This week:
David Crystal talks to Loreto Todd about pidgin and Creole versions of English, where
English linguistic imperialism meets indigenous languages and doesn't quite win. Producer MICHAEL LAWTON
Presented by John Howard
by BERKELY MATHER (4)
Presented by Gordon Clough
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: The Milkman and His Horse by JENNY O'MAHONY
2.5 Something to Think About The Giving Earth
2.15The Song Tree Jesperand the 100 Hares (3)
2.35 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry): Songs of the Greenwood
2.45 Nature Slow-worms and Lizards
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Alice Walker , the prize-winning black American novelist. Leo Days (7)
by HUGH JENKINS
The years have brought distinction and maturity to Paul Davies but here he looks back to the less certain time of his teens; to his conflict between his practical and social ideals and the necessity to earn a living; but above all to the uneasy relationship with his girl, Sylvia Watson.
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON. Stereo
A personal selection of poems compiled and presented by Dannie Abse
Readers BRIAN CARROLL and FREDA DOWIE
Producer ALEC REID
The Past is Myself (8)
Presenters Susannah Simons and Robert Williams continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With CLIVE ROSLIN including Financial Report
5: Gossip
(Details tomorrow at 12.27pm)
Presented by Roger Cook
The environment programme Presented by Hugh Sykes
The Metropolitan Counties and the GLC have put a lot of money and effort into visible improvements to cities. What will happen when these authorities are abolished? Plus an ecologist and a developer, who combine forces to plan a Southport golf course. Producer MICK WEBB
Peter Hobday with news, views and stories from the business world.
Producer ROSALIND BEW
The Unpromised Land
With Israel withdrawing from Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan believe the time is ripe for new negotiations on the Israeli-occupied West Bank. But what will be the role of the PLO and are the Palestinians prepared to accept a Jordanian solution?
David Wheeler examines some of the new ideas coming from Cairo and Amman.
Producer DAVID POWELL
Further memories of a boyhood in the Hebrides.
The first of five programmes.
As war approached, the rasp of the corncrake was replaced by the drone of the Lysander spotter plane patrolling the beaches of the island of Harris. 1: Showing the Flags
Finlay J. Macdonald describes the crofters' preparation for the visit of a real VIP.
Producer LESLIE ROBINSON
0 HEAR THIS! page 16
Presented by Natalie Wheen Producer JOHN POWELL
My Uncle Silas by H. E. BATES abridged for radio and read by David Neal 1: The Lily
The first of eight short stories about one of Bates's richest characters, his Great-Uncle
Silas, who lived a wondrous life of wine and women in a beautiful part of Bedfordshire. Directed by CHERRY COOKSON
Presented by Richard Kershaw
followed by an interlude
Photography
12.30 High Street Photographer (RV) Written and presented by MARYA BURGESS and at 12.50 Setting Up on Your Own Written and presented by SEANMAFFETT
