With THE REV RALPH SMITH Stereo
Presented by Peter Hobday and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With SIMON ROSE
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With JOHN INVERDALE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
by RONALD KNOX MAWER Pennington Island
Read by Frank Duncan
An opportunity for listeners to express their views and question the experts.
Produced by the Woman s Hour unit Lines open from 8.0am
Reflections on life and politics abroad from the BBC's worldwide team of foreign correspondents.
Producer GUDRUN DALIROR
The Three Rosettes by SAM ROUGHTON ( Read by Neil Stacy
'Mr Martin-Smith?' the policeman asked. 'We're making routine visits to all the restaurants in our area....' Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
NEM, p 71; Holy. holy, holy (BBC HB 169); Psalm 119, vv 41-48; Colossians 3, vv 1-11; For all the saints (BBC HB 227) Stereo
Parents'Evening by DIANA GRIFFITHS with It is every teacher's nightmare: what happens when you can't remember anything about the child whose parents you are talking to?
Directed by TIM SUTER. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 9.0pm) (Brian Murphy is in 'When We Are Married at the Whitehall Theatre, London)
The waters stir and bubbles rise as frogs, toads, tadpoles and newts all appear at the first signs of spring warmth.
Keith Corbett and Trevor Beebee take Derek Jones to
Gilbert White country in search of all six species of our native amphibians.
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
Pattie Coldwell with the latest news and advice for consumers.
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain. First Round: London
Chairman Robert Robinson Paul Campion (piano buyer) Michael Plant (solicitor) Mary Ann Ebert
(development worker)
Ted Gatt (museum archivist) The programme includes Beat the Brains in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD edis. Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 6.30pm)
Presented by Sir Robin Day
A Week with Grandfather Archibald Tuesday (R)
Introduced by Sue MacGregor What did Jane really see in Rochester? Did Virginia Woolf have 'a room of her own'?
Can men and women ever write truly about each other? The American critic ELAINE SHOW ALTER, and ROSALIND COWARD , a lecturer in media studies, discuss the impact that feminism has had on the study of literature. Serial:
The Man of Property (2)
The Storytellers
The second of seven dramatised short stories Angel by JOHN ROBERT KING from a short story by ANTON CHEKHOV
Everybody says that Olive is an angel. She was an angel to her father and to both her husbands, and now that she is twice widowed she simply cannot stop caring for people.
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol. Stereo
Paul Heiney hosts an examination of an issue of the moment as it affects locations across the British Isles, in the first of 13 programmes using the skills and knowledge of the BBC Local Radio network.
Contributors examine topical subjects as they influence current events in their own locality, highlighting both regional differences and items of nationwide interest and concern. Editor TIM PITT
Producer DAVID BENNETT
0 INFO: page 77
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams
continued on VHFFM5.50-5.55pm
with BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
At the beginning of the 19th century, Jerusalem was an unimportant, squalid city; a backwater of the Ottoman
Empire. Within 50 years it had become an essential stop for upper-class Europeans on the Grand Tour.
Carole Rosen examines the reasons for the upsurge of religious and political interest in the Holy Land and selects extracts from the writings of those British travellers who went to see, for themselves. the land of the Bible. Readers
JOHN CHURCH. MICHAEL HADLEY.
PETER HOWELL. ANNE JAMESON and TESSA WORSLEY
Producer JOHN NEWBURY. Stereo (Re broadcast tomorrow at 4.5 pm)
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care. Producer JULIAN BROWN
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 10.0am)
Andalusia Land of Flamenco Trader Faulkner traces the history of Flamenco: a culture and philosophy of life which has its origins in the gypsy population of southern Spain. Producer ANNE HOWELLS
News. views and information for people with a visual handicap Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Listeners can phone with enquiries and comments on [number removed].
David Moreau recollects five attempts to come to grips with life.
4: The Cat that Loves Dogs Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol (R)
Presented by Paul Vaughan Producer SIMON BROUGHTON
The Battle of Pollock's Crossing (2)
Presenter Alexandei MacLeod
followed by an interlude VHF/FMjoinsat 12.10 am
