with TERESA MCLEAN Stereo
Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters
Chris Dunkley airs your comments and pursues your complaints and queries about BBC programmes and policies. Send them to: Feedback,
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Producer JOHN EDWARDS
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
BBC correspondents report from around the world. Producer ADAM RAPHAEL
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 3. 0pm)
Semolino by H. A. VACHELL
Read by David March
The new waiter has only just started work, but already he's liked by everyone. One of his fans, in fact, presents a somewhat serious problem! Producer MITCH RAPER
NEM. p 118: Bright the vision (BBC HB 269); Psalm 96;
John 2, vv 12-22; Ye holy angels bright (BBC HB 286) Stereo
Guest in a Nest
Cuckoos aren't the only uninvited guests banqueting in a reluctant neighbour's hall.
Moorhens, starlings, ducks and a host of tropical tricksters have all been caught entering and breaking.
Clive Catchpole joins the squat Producer GEORGE MONBIOT BBC Bristol
Stale Cheese?
Is old best? Derek Cooper takes a fresh look at old favourites in England and Holland, and at a new venture in Scotland. Producer VANESSA HARRISON (Re-broadcast next Tuesday)
The second of two programmes. An entertainment of songs about and around the subject of parents and children, adults and childhood. Performers
Tim Brown , Janice Cramer Robert Cushman Brenda Longman and at the piano colin SELL with ALAN GRAHAME (percussion) and BRIAN BROCKLEHURST (double-bass)
Devised by ROBERT CUSHMAN and COLIN SELL
Producer JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE Stereo
Presented by Brian Widlake
1.55 Listening Corner Goes to Northern Ireland The Laughing Trumpet
2.5 Let's Join In with Soundbox Beauty and the Beast by ANGELA CARTER (R)
2.25 Listen and Read Radio Thin King Stories The Boat That Wouldn't Float by DEREK FARMER
2.40 Listen! Armada Rock by CHRISTOPHER RUSSELL 6: Suspicions (R)
Introduced from Birmingham by Marjorie Lofthouse
KAY ALEXANDER reports from the Foreign Exchange Dealing
Room of one of Birmingham's international banks, where mistakes can cost fortunes. A Week's Education or a Lifeline? PENNY SEARLE discovers that for some child patients, the hospital school is a vital link with normality.
Producer ANN TENNANT BBC Birmingham
Serial: Enquiry (9)
by THOMAS HARDY dramatised for radio in six parts by ELIZABETH NORTH with Michael Pennington as Jude Fawley
Elizabeth Garvie as Sue Bridehead
4: The Usual Tragedy of Love
Dashed down by Sue's marriage to Phillotson, Jude returns to Christminster and to the stonemason's trade. He becomes the butt of jokes in the local public houses for his drunken speechifying. Arabella, the wife of his disastrous first marriage, has returned from Australia, destitute and determined to reclaim him.... with the voices of RICHARD MORGAN. DAVID SHARP and HUBERT TUCKER
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol Stereo
This week Leonard Pearcey talks to Dr Malcolm Arnold about some of his compositions from 'The Tam O'Shanter
Overture' to 'The Bridge on the River Kwai March' and plays some of his music
Producer RICHARD WILLCOX Stereo. (R) Revised
Presented by Christopher Cook
Presented by Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons
continuedon VHFIFM5.50-5.55pm
With BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report
Clive Jacobs and the team monitor the movements in the world of travel and transport and examine the implications for you the customer.
This week Tom Boswell tests the Fiat Uno 45 Super Producer HELEN ROBSON
(Re-broadcast on Monday at 1. 40pm)
Extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days.
This week's selection by Simon Bates
Producer ANDREW PARFITT Stereo
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Makers of the law, legal practitioners and those who serve the administration of justice all contribute to this topical weekly magazine about issues thrown up in the Courts and by Parliament.
Presented by Joshua Rozenberg Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF (Re-broadcast next Sunday)
The Rt Hon Norman Tebbit , MP Chairman, Conservative Party The Rt Hon David Steel , mp, Leader, Liberal Party
The Rt Hon Gerald Kaufman , mp, Shadow Home Secretary and Ann Leslie , journalist tackle the issues raised by the audience in Bideford, Devon Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 10pm)
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
Reagan blunders over Marcos election
14 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Reagan statement about 'fraud on both sides' of Philippines election seen as huge blunder which could have left opposition to Marcos in a dangerous position. Show more
Robert Hewison presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer ANNE HINDS
(Re-broadcast nert Monday)
Lake Wobegon Days (5)
Presented by Richard Kershaw National and international news, background, analysis, and comment.
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with Bill Wallis , David Tate
Sally Grace and Jon Glover Written by MARTIN BOOTH ,
PAUL B. DAVIES . RICHARD QUICK , STUART SILVER , PETE SINCLAIR. IAN BROWN. DAVID COHEN ,
PETER HICKEY JOHN MORRISH , ALISON RENSHAW and others Producer HARRY THOMPSON Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 5.25pm)
followed by an interlude