Presented by John Nicholson BBC Northern Ireland
A meditation for the beginning of a new day
Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With ROGER PARRY
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by DAVID SYMONDS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
with Brian Perkins
continues his investigations of the BBC Sound Archives but once again comes to no serious conclusion.
Producer ANGELA HIND
Fifty-five minutes of lively conversation between the personalities in this week's news.
Producer IAN STRACHAN. Stereo
Morty by HILL SLA VID
Read by Cyril Shaps
Uncle Morty lives with the family. It's a mixed blessing, what with his overpowering sense of humour and his gift of the gab. And then there is the matter of Morty's left hand.... Producer MITCH RAPER
New Every Morning, page 58: Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty (BBC HB 169);
Almighty and everlasting God (Church Anthem Book 4);
Exodus 2, vv 18-25; Bright the vision that delighted (BBC HB 269) Stereo
The last of a series in which a current religious or moral topic is examined
4: Peace-Line People
Against a background of continuing conflict and violence, life for most people in Northern Ireland goes on as usual. Trevor Barnes reports from Belfast and follows the lives of two families, one
Catholic, one Protestant, living in the shadow of the peace-line barricades, and discovers what happens behind the headlines. Producer BEVERLEY MCAINSH Series editor JOHN NEWBURY (Revised repeat)
Paul Heiney presents the only national radio programme for consumers.
Editor KEN VASS
The World of Nature
This week: Insects and Spiders Frank Muir and Alfred Marks skip through the comic literature of the subject, making notes in the margin of jokes, quotes, newspaper clippings and recorded humour from
PETER COOK. JOHN CLEESE
WOODY ALLEN. MARTY FELDMAN
MICHAEL FLANDERS AND
DONALD SWANN.
A female spider Can't abider Husband
Till he's tucked
Insider (IVOR F.C.TREBY) Written by SIMON BRETT Producer RICHARD EDIS
Stereo
Presented by Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Listening Corner This week: Over the Sea and Far Away Presented by BEN BAZELL Storyteller SHIREEN SHAH Today's story: What Made Tiddalik Laugh by JOANNA TROUGHTON Script by JANET SORENSEN
2.5 Playtime Presented by iain LAUCHLAN and SHIREEN SHAH
2.20 Introducing Science Unit 211: A Star is Born
2.40 Astronomy Time, Space and Motion Presented by HEATHER COUPER
Introduced by Dilly Barlow Black Alternative:
ALISON JOSEPH reports on women volunteers who discovered a need for special care among the elderly black residents of one London borough. A voluntary scheme with help from the social services now provides a valuable back-up role. I Also Am of Ireland by FRANCES MOFFETT abridged in nine episodes by ELIZABETH BRADBURY
Read by FRANCES TOMELTY (4) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
A Coat of Varnish by RONALD MILLAR , suggested by the novel by c. p. SNOW
Stereo
... or profession such as parson, footman, gatekeeper or midwife? Our hero (Denis Owen ) hires a driver (ant), fights the soldier (beetle), gets the painted lady (butterfly), is married by the parson (bird) - and lives happily ever after in paradise (fish). Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
Women of Crime
A collection of five short stories 1: The Clinging Woman by RUTH RENDELL
Read by Joanne Pearce
The girl was hanging by her hands from the railings of a balcony....
Producer CAROLINE RAPHAEL
Presented by Gordon Clough and Bill Frost continuedon VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With DAVID HITCHINSON including Financial Report
Stereo
Would you know a bull from a bear? Is economics a science, or a form of witchcraft? Patrick Hannan takes a suspicious look at the world of financial wizardry, and is given advice by Dominick Harrod and Professor Ted Nevin With HOWELL EVANS and ANNEST WILIAM.
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
Presented by Peter Evans
A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
Last Friday in Jerusalem by SAM JACOBS
'You think the people responsible for this country aren't paranoid? Wouldn't you be? I mean, the whole goddam world keeps telling us that as long as we Jews behave how they have decided we should behave, they'll support us....' Israel, 1985 and plain speaking from Jerusalem-born Rivka to her English-born friend Eve....
Directed by PIERS PLOWRIGHT Stereo
Edward Blakeman presents portraits of some of the world's great flute players, illustrated with some of their recordings. Today: James Galway Producer ANDREW LYLE
(First broadcast on BBC World Service)
Presented by Paul Vaughan Producer THOMAS SUTCLIFFE
Weights and Measures by JOSEPH ROTH
Read by TOM WILKINSON (6)
Presented by Richard Kershaw
11.0 Headlines
Editor BLAIR THOMSON onVHFiFMuntilll.O
Patients' Guide to the NHS A series of eight programmes in which JENNl MILLS investigates how to make the best use of the National Health Service.
7: Care of the Mentally III (Repeal)
followed by an interlude
12.30-1.0 Hallo! Wie Geht's? Producer AL WOLFF
12.301: 1: Wohin in den Ferien? Written by CARL DUERING
12.45 2: Was haltst du von einer Jugendherbergstour? Wntten by DR BRIAN HILL
1.0 Graded Objectives: German 1: Wasmachstdugem? Written by ALAN BOXFORD Producer AL WOLFF