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 PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought far the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters
The Rt Hon David Owen , mp, presents his personal choice of poetry and prose with Peter Barkworth and Jane Asher
'I am never happier than when I'm out at sea and it gives me, like many others, peace and joy and happiness.' Producer ALEC REID BBC Bristol
Stereo ● HEAR THIS! page 17
Wallington
Professor Alan GemmeU 's tour of his favourite gardens takes him to Wallington Gardens in Northumberland.
CristabeUa by MARK BOURNE
Read by Robert Rietty
Intrigued by a venomous letter which lands on his editor's desk, a journalist sets off to find the truth about a famous painter and the girl he once loved. Producer MITCH RAPER
NEM, p 93; Bright the vision that delighted (BBC HB 269); Psalm 112; Ephesians 3, vv 14-21; Now thank we all our God (BBC HB 277). Stereo
written and compiled by HENRY DONALD
Muir described his marriage to Willa Anderson as the most fortunate event of his life. This is the story of that marriage. Narrator John Shedden Producer PATRICK RAYNER
(First broadcast on Radio Scotland) Stereo
Stoddart Down Under
How can you cram emus, kangaroos, swans and even lions, on to an Australian 50-cent piece?
Mike Stoddart flips a few coins in an attempt to explain. BBCBristol
Presented by John Howard
Nuclear Debate
Do you spend sleepless nights worrying about what will happen to you after yet another nuclear debate? Are you concerned that it will mean an end to all civilised behaviour?
Well, it probably will. with Anna Daptor who is Helen Atkinson Wood Mike Channel who is Angus Deayton
Martin Brown who is
Michael Fenton-Stevens Mike Flex who is Geoffrey Perkins
Nigel Pry who is Philip Pope
Song by PHILIP POPE , ANGUS DEAYTON and RICHARD CURTIS and performed by THE HEE BEE GEE BEES
Written by GEOFFREY PERKINS and ANGUS DEAYTON with additional material from
JON CANTER and JEREMY PASCALL Producer JAMIE RIX
Presented by Brian Widlake
Adelaide's Naughty Granny 5: Naughty Gardeners
Introduced from Birmingham by Marjorie Lofthouse Kaleidoscope
This youth company has acted at the Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent, and will be performing at the Edinburgh Festival.
PENNY SEARLEY eavesdrops on rehearsals with a group of young people - all talented, and all with a mental handicap. Producer ANN TENNANT BBC Birmingham
Joanna Godden (5)
The classic novels of adventure and romance by R. L. Stevenson dramatised in ten parts by Catherine L. Czerkawska
Balfour and Breck have witnessed the murder of the Red Fox and suspicion of complicity in the crime has fallen on them. They flee across the moors pursued by the redcoats.
BBC Scotland. Stereo
A series of five fairly likely stories written and read by Leonard Barras
2: A Poultice for a PoetBBC Manchester
Test the water with Cliff Michelmore and discover some events and sporting activities in, on or under water. There's a trip to a theatre on water, a report on the latest developments in boat design and equipment, and a diving holiday in Turkey.
Producer CAROLINE ELLIOT
Across the Limpopo abridged in ten parts by MARGARET ETALL written and read by MICHAEL NICHOLSON (10) Producer PAMELA HOWE BBCBristol
(Starting on Monday: Another Self by James Lees-Milne )
Presented by Susannah Simons and Robert Williams continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report
presents....
The Polytechnic of Death
Once again join Cliff Hanger in the dark and splendid library ... for the story must be told! As always a book is taken at random from the groaning shelves - the spine-chilling title The Polytechnic of Death. Written and performed by Peter McCarthy
Rebecca Stevens , Robin Driscoll and Tony Haase
Producer NICK SYMONS BBC Manchester
Stereo
Presented by Glyn Worsnip Producer SIMON ELMES
Judges, magistrates, barristers and others contribute to this topical weekly magazine.
Presented by Joshua Rozenberg Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF
The Rt Hon David Steel , mp
The Rt Hon John Smith , qc. mp Peter Maxwell Da vies Gerald Malone , mp from Kirkwall, Orkney Islands Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBristol
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
Sport and tax avoidance
14 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Top sports players who leave home to avoid paying taxes. Show more
by Alistair Cooke
Presented by Margaret Walters Producer THOMAS SUTCLIFFE
Young Gemini
Actor ALEC MCCOWEN reads the last of three extracts from his autobiographical account of his early life.
By Uneasy Stages . Stereo
Presented by Philip Short
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news. with Bill Wallis , David Tate and Sally Grace
Written by IAN BROWN
RICHARD QUICK. PAUL B. DAVIES JAMES HENDRIE , MARTIN BOOTH PETER SINCLAIR. STUART SILVER PETER HICKEY and others
Producer JENNIE CAMPBELL
followed by an interlude