Presented from East Anglia by Les Cottington
With ENID MORGAN BBC Wales
Presented by Peter Hobday and Chris Lowe
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With SIMON ROSE
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
with Marshall Corwin
meanders down some meaningful culs-de-sac in the BBC Sound Archives. Producer ANNE HOWELLS
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 9.30pm)
A lively matching of wit and wisdom between personalities in the news this week.
Producer IAN STRACHAN. Stereo
Presented by Louise Botting
The programme with the latest news from the world of personal finance, covering investment, tax, pensions, insurance and a look at some particular money problems sent in by listeners
Details from: Money Box, Room 4099. BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
Princess with Long, Long Hair by USA TAYLOR
Read by Sandra Clark
Sheila has a birthday coming up and definite ideas about how to celebrate it. She wants her hair cut short. Sheila gets her way, but the outcome - to say the least - is unexpected. Producer MITCH RAPER
from St Paul 's Church, Birmingham with the Birmingham School of Music Chamber Choir
Directed by JOHN BISHOP
Ye servants of God (BBC hb 287); 0 God of Bethel (BBC HB 495);
He that is down need fear no fall (Bp 27); Colossians 1, w 3-6 (Phillips)
BBC Birmingham Stereo
Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners Presented by Kevin Crossley-Holland Readers BARBARA JEFFORD and ANDREW SACHS
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBCBristol
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR
Presented by Pattie Coldwell Editor KEN VASS
The nationwide general knowledge contest for schools Second Round
10: South and Home Counties Durrington High School,
Worthing v Upton Grammar School, Slough
Questionmasters
Tim Gudgin and Paddy Feeny Questions set by NIGEL RICHARDSON and DAVID SELF Producer GRAHAM FROST
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 6.30pm)
Presented by Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Listening Comer This week: Trains, Buses, Boats and Planes Presented by SYD RALPH Storyteller BRIAN CANT Today's story: The Train to Glasgow by WILMA HORSBRUGH Script by HELEN LLOYD
2.5 Playtime Up and Down Presenters TONI ARTHUR and DEV SAGOO (R) (Re-broadcast on Thurs at 10. 10am)
2.20 Introducing Science Unit 3, Programme 1 A World of Energy
2.40 Radio Shop A weekly review of educational material on sale (For information ring [number removed])
2.45 Radio Club TOMMY BOYD and the Radio Club team scour the country to find interesting items for all you Radio Club members. (Re-broadcast on Wed at 11.45 am)
Introduced by Gillian Reynolds Life Begins at 50: Joan Collins , Brigitte Bardot , Jane Fonda - they are all living proof that the older woman can be glamorous, seductive and appealing. Is the image of the middle-aged woman changing? And is it really fun to be 50? SEBASTIAN scott canvasses a range of opinions, from punk singer
VI SUBVERSA to actress BERYL REID. Serial: The Journal of Edwin Carp by RICHARD HAYDN abridged in 11 episodes by MONICA GREY
Read by Ian Lavender (1) '28 January: our lodger,
Mr Murke , has presented me with tickets for a theatrical presentation. We are all looking forward to a jolly evening, and our full quota of thrills. The play is called Ghosts.'
Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
(Music: Alban's Variations on a German Theme)
Ploughboy Monday by DAVID POWNALL
Stereo
Nigel Andrews presents today's edition which includes interviews, news and reviews of books, film, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presented by Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton
continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5 55
With BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
'I felt for the first time: I know what painting means... excitement, creation.... and I remember going out from that lesson and walking along the corridor in a daze. I knew I had got the bug bad!'
The Scottish artist Mary Armour, still painting at 83, talks to Sue Macgregor about her life and work.
BBC Manchester
Presented by Peter Evans
What is happening in science? A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories Producer DEBORAH COHEN
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
by MICHAEL WALL
Forty years after the city's devastation, Paul is filming in Hiroshima. Sachiko, the tourist guide who is the subject of his film, has a story to tell; but Paul isn't interested in 'stories'. Perhaps the city, which has undergone such change, will make him see things differently.
With NAOKO MORI, KENJIRO HORI
MIDORI MATSUMOTO and DAISUKE SHINODA
Directed by JEREMY MORTIMER (R) Stereo
Every year, on the Monday following his installation, the new Lord Mayor of London gives a banquet in honour of his predecessor.
Peter Jones describes the scene in Guildhall, London, before the new Lord Mayor,
Sir Allan Davis , proposes the toast to Her Majesty's Ministers. The Prime Minister,The Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher. mp, replies, giving what is recognised as a major speech on the country's position in international affairs.
Unrepentant Viciousness
'I have no taste for the real: one has to live that; let's not embark on a pursuit of the real in literature as well.'
Clive Barker , author of the six Books of Blood and The
Damnation Games, has been hailed as 'the first true voice of the next generation of horror writers'. He tells David Roper why he believes ghouls, gore and disembowellings are good for the soul.
Producer RICHARD DUNN
(Re-broadcaston Wednesday at
4.45pm)
Plain or Ringlets? by R S. SURTEES Read by John Franklyn-Robbins 6: Back to Mayfield
Presented by Richard Kershaw Editor BLAIR THOMSON
followed by an interlude
Lifetime: Coping with Pressure
12.30 Be at Ease with Yourself! and at 12.50 Think Well of Yourself! With MAUREEN CALVIN Producer PETER WARD
