With THE REV MYRA BLYTH. Stereo
Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FIMGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
In the last of five programmes, Bernard Rutherford talks to Dr Jonathan Miller and Dr David Owen
Geoff Watts visits the Public Health Laboratory Service.
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
from St Malachy's College, Belfast
A Reconciling People Song of the Ephesians (Marchionda); Psalm 1
(Gelineau); Pater Sancte (Taize)
Phil Smith offers an idiosyncratic insight into the pains and precious few pleasures involved in setting up your own business. 4: Recipe for Success BBC Manchester
Presented by John Howard For Fact Sheet No 5 write to:
You and Yours, BBC, Room 726 Broadcasting House London WIA 1AA
Last in the present series
Presented by Sir Robin Day
1.55 Listening Corner Today: Bopper and the Roadworks by JANET SORENSEN (R)
2.5 The Song Tree
5: Rock "n' Roll River Written by BARRY GIBSON. Stereo
2.20 Living Language War Poems Poetry chosen and presented by ADRIAN MITCHELL With JONATHAN PRYCE PETER MARINKER. ELIZABETH PROUD Stereo
2.40 Newscast A current affairs series for schools and colleges Presented by LIBBY FAWBERT
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Can a 4-year-old be racially prejudiced? How early do children notice racial differences? And what can be done to provide a positive, healthy, multi-racial environment for pre-school infants?
YASMN ALIBHAI reports. Serial:
Three Scottish Short Stories by NAOMI MITCHISON abridged by JANET QUIGLEY Read by Jennifer Piercey 1: The Sea Horse
'It was after the sea horse was killed that things began to go badly. It is not just that the laird was killed as well as the horse. That was not the whole of it.' (Music: Carpenter's Adventures in a Perambulator)
Old Alliances by TREVOR ROYLE with and After years as a successful tea-planter in Assam,
Andrew Proctor retires in high hopes to his native Scotland, to the life of a landed gentleman. But it is 1936: a difficult time to come home.
Directed by PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland. Stereo
Hunter Davies talks to the travel writer Jonathan Raban about his widely acclaimed first novel, Foreign Land. And Anne Catchpole finds out whether the poems and songs of Rabindranath Tagore are as widely read and well-loved by Bengalis in Britain as they are in India.
Producer ANGELA HIND
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
(Revised broadcast of yesterday's programme at ft 45pm)
Presented by Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
With CLJVE ROSLIN including Financial Report
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions?
Introduced by John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBristol
Send your letters to: Any Answers?
BBC. BristolBS82LR
Guarded by birds, the gaunt rock that is Skellig Michael is the last piece of Ireland before the open Atlantic. On this holiest of all holy Irish places can still be seen the beehive cells of the ninth-century monks. The monks are long gone, and the mystery and magic of this uninhabited place now lies in its atmosphere. Frank Delaney , with two friends, took the boat to Skellig. Stereo (R)
Britain's ills are often attributed to an inability to adapt to change. But is change possible if the country's leading institutions remain set in their ways?
A critical look at six pillars of society, outwardly powerful, but facing the insecurity of being misunderstood by a sceptical public.
3: The Inland Revenue Nick Clarke looks at an institution vital to government, unloved by the public, and in the throes of organisational change. Despite the attractions of better pay and perks offered by commerce and industry, he finds a hard core of dedicated civil servants.
Producer HARRY SCHNEIDER
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 11.0am)
A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families, with countrywide news and views on all matters of concern to them.
Presented by John Mills Living with MS
Joy Flouch has a job and her own flat and is determined not to give in to this disease. This evening she talks frankly about her lifestyle, and hopes her attitude will encourage others. Correspondence and enquiries to: BBC, Broadcasting House London W1A 4WW Phone [number removed](10.0am-5.0pm)
Christopher Bigsby presents tonight's edition which includes interviews, news and reviews of books, film, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Producer CARROLL MOORE
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4. 30pm)
But For Bunter (4)
Presented by Richard Kershaw
National and international news, background, analysis and comment
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
followed by an interlude
Radio History: 14-16 A Protestant and a Catholic family in Northern Ireland Presented by MARGARET PERCY
