A meditation for the beginning of a new day.
Presented by John Timpson and Chris Lowe
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by CLIVE rosun
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
and an eclectic selection of conversational curiosities. Producer VICTOR LEWIS SMITH Stereo
(Broadcaston Sunday at 2.0pm)
The Facts of Life by ROBERT NYE
Read by George Parsons
Grandmother said it was time that the boy 'knew'. At his age,
Grandfather had sailed to
Valparaiso! Mother said it was up to Daddy. So father and son went for a walk.
Conversation did not go exactly according to plan.
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
NEM, p 21; Blest are the pure in heart (BBC HB 318); Psalm 122;
Matthew 5, vv 17-24; 0 Jesu, king most wonderful (BP 68) Stereo
Dictionaries have changed a lot since Dr Johnson thought up witty definitions by himself. Nowadays a compiler is more likely to be at a computer terminal, drawing on huge data-banks of information about how words are used. This week
David Crystal talks to Timothy Benbow , the manager of the New Oxford English Dictionary, about new ways of making - and using - a dictionary.
Producer MICHAEL LAWTON 0 HEAR THIS! page 16
Pattie Coldwell reports on topical issues and how they could affect you and your family.
by Len Deighton
Dramatised in eight parts by Michael Bakewell
With Trevor Nichols as Boyd Stuart, David Garth as Sydney Ryden, Bruce Boa as Charles Stein, and featuring Bernard Hepton as Max Breslow
Secret Service agent Boyd returns to England to question Wever, an ex-German soldier who claims he helped load the 'Kaiseroda' treasure on to the train and into Hitler's mine. As Boyd leaves the Wever home it is blown apart.
Presented by Sir Robin Day
1.55 Listening Corner Presented by SUSANNA DAWSON and TIM MUNRO
2.5 Something to Think About Share and Share
2.15 The Song Tree Jesper and the 100 Hares (8)
2.35 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry): Forest Dragons by JOE DUNLOP
2.45 Nature Sand Dunes by BERNARD VENABLES
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: mariner, foreign correspondent, war reporter and world traveller Gavin Young
Exit Lady Masham by LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS abridged in eight parts by MADGE HART Read by PATRICIA HAYES (8)
(Music: Platti's Oboe Concerto)
Screaming Alice by CHRISTOPHER RUSSELL with Janet Burnell as 'Alice' Alice is a formidable lady, weighing as she does more than 10,000 tons and standing more than 60 feet tall! Eight decades have played havoc with her and the war-clouds of the 1930s are gathering fast overhead. But still she's going to give London the greatest spectacle it's seen for 300 years.
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON. Stereo
A personal selection of poems on the theme of Water
Compiled and presented by Lawrence Sail
5: Upon the Brimming Water Readers jill balcon and HUGH DICKSON
Producer SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol
Sea Views
3: A Descent into the Maelstrom by EDGAR ALLAN POE
Read by Michael Deacon
'A gigantic sea bore us up with it as it rose, up - up - into the sky.'
Presented by Susannah Simons and Bill Frost continued on VHF/FM 5.50-S.5S
With LAURIE MACMILLAN including Financial Report
A musical panel game in which John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the Chair Steve Race
Questions compiled by STEVE RACE Programme devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON Producer PETE ATKIN
Stereo
Presented by Larry Harris This week: The Bishops of Lewes and Jarrow who are twin brothers
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
Presented by Hugh Sykes
In the last of the present series The Hon William Waldegrave , mp, Under Secretary of State for the Environment, replies to questions sent in by listeners. Producer Mick WEBB
For information about local conservation groups, phone [number removed](England or Wales).
Lines open from 8.15-10.30 pm
3: Towards a National Music By 1905 the revival was under the effective leadership of Cecil Sharp , Ralph Vaughan
Williams, and Lucy Broadwood - a woman of considerable influence. She had introduced
Vaughan Williams to folk music and was now to involve the flamboyant Australian composer Percy Grainger.
With John Tarns , Percy Grainger Douglas Kennedy
Ursula Vaughan Williams
Ewan MacColl , Karl Dallas and Mattie Kaye. Written and presented by Jim Lloyd Producer GEOFFREY HEWITT BBC Birmingham. Stereo
Must We Meet Like This?
The EEC's machinery is, by common consent, clogged up. On Friday in Milan, European leaders meet to argue about ways of unclogging it and of moving the Community forward. What are the options? What kind of Europe may emerge? A discussion chaired by Ian Davidson
Producer DAVID MORTON
Presented by Natalie Wheen Producer JOHN BOUNDY
Foreign Affairs (3)
Presented by Richard Kershaw
11.0 Headlines on VHF/FM untill 11.0
View at the Top The last of six programmes with NICHOLAS KOCHAN This week: SIR PETER WALTERS of British Petroleum Producer GORDON HUTCHINGS
followed by an interlude
Gujarati Language Magazine
