With THE REV JOHNSTON MCKAY Stereo
Presented by Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by DAVID SYMONDS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters
Six views on different aspects of being a man from guests in conversation with Anne Brown 3: Terry Waite
Talking man-to-man while walking a political tightrope can teach you the gentle art of patience quick as a flash. The
Church's special envoy reflects on the lessons people learn or ignore amid the horror of war. Producer LIZ JENSEN BBC Birmingham
Over Rhondda
Balloonist Anthony Smith takes historian Richard Keene for a breathtaking view of the South Wales coalfield - and a close encounter with a local rugby club!
Producer TIM GROUT-SMITH BBC Bristol
Producer ADAM RAPHAEL
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 3. 30pm)
Storm at Pandeli by JOHN G. MILLER
Read by John Westbrook
A holiday in Greece should be idyllic. But what is troubling the husband - and how is his fury tamed?
Producer MITCH RAPER
NEM, p 114; Stand up, stand up for Jesus (BBC HB 368); Confitebor tibi Domine; Acts 17, vv 22-33; Away with gloom, away with doubt (BBC HB 99) Stereo
Stoddart Down Under
It eats grass almost non-stop, drinks five gallons of water each day, and tramples the fragile tropical rainforest in the north of Australia. Mike Stoddart follows the fortunes of the introduced water buffalo. BBC Bristol
Eel Pie Island?
Young eels swim thousands of miles from their breeding ground in the Sargasso Sea to the rivers of Britain, only to be exported as a delicacy to Europe.
Derek Cooper hears from Mark Fielder about the changing place of the eel. Producer VANESSA HARRISON (Re-broadcast next Sunday)
A journey into space, to places where nobody has gone before - apart from about 87 astronauts. 43 monkeys and, of course, Star Trek, Blake's 7, 7, Doctor Who etc. Starring The Bodgers
MORAY HUNTER. JOHN STEELE
GORDON KENNEDY , PETE BAIKIE with Morwenna Banks and John Sparkes
Music by PETE BAIKIE
AND THE JIM BAIKIE BIG BAND Written by MORAY HUNTER and JOHN DOCHERTY with MORWENNA BANKS and JOHN SPARKES
Producer ALAN NIXON. Stereo
Presented by Brian Widlake
1.55 Listening Corner Let's Play it Again Presented by LOUIS ROBINSON Written and produced by MARY KALEMKERIAN (R)
2.5 Let's Join In Little Wild Rose by ANDREW LANG adapted by ANNE HOWSON Producer COLIN SMITH
2.25 Topic Songbook Producer PETER HUTCHUNGS Stereo (R)
2.30 Let's Make a Story! 1: On the Mountain Presented by LOUIS ROBINSON Written by RON JAMES Producer BRIAN SCOTT-HUGHES Stereo
2.40 New Series Listen! The new Decide-It- Yourself Cliffhanger serial Schools are invited to participate in creating a series drama Part 1 by VICKY IRELAND Producers DAN GARRETT and WARRILL GRINDROD. Stereo
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Introduced from Manchester by Judy Merry who meets the Yorkshire author Stan Barstow - 25 years on from A Kind of Loving.
Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
Serial: How Was It For You? (4) A Week in the Life
by HENRY FIELDING dramatised in four parts by JOHN SCOTNEY with 3: 'A very learned Part in which Parson Adams meets a wise Judge and a virtuous Clergyman'
Music by VIC GAMMON
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHUN BBC Bristol. Stereo
Roy Hudd laughs at the news with June Whitfield, Chris Emmett and THE HUDDLINERS. Stereo
Presented by Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons
continuedon VHFIFM5.50-5.55pm
With CLIVE ROSLIN including Financial Report
Presented by Clive Jacobs This week Tom Boswell tests a Greyhound bus. Producer IRENE MALUS
(Re-broadcast on May Day Holiday)
Extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days. This week's selection by Glyn Worsnip Producer SIMON ELMES Stereo
(Revised re-broadcast nert Sunday)
Nigel Rees examines what the papers have been on about this week.
Producer EMILY BUCHANAN
The Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke , qc. mp, Paymaster General
John Mortimer , qc, playwright General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley
Dick Taverne , qc, Chairman,
Public Policy Centre tackle the issues raised by the audience in Streatley on Thames, Berkshire.
Chairman John Timpson Producer ROBIN hicks BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 10pm)
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
Ukraine nuclear disaster
14 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Western Europe - in the direct line of contamination - clamours for more information about Ukraine nuclear power plant accident. Show more
by Alistair Cooke
(Re-broadcast on May Day Holiday)
Presented by Sheridan Morley Producer KATHRYN PORTER
(Re-broadcast on May Day Holiday)
Mr Wakefield 's Crusade by BERNICE RUBENS abridged in ten parts by JANE MAYS
Read by John Rowe (10) Producer CAROLINE RAPHAEL
(Starting on Monday: 'The Amateur Emigrant' by R. L. Stevenson )
Presented by Richard Kershaw
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with David Tate , Sally Grace Jon Glover and Jack Klaff Written by MARTIN BOOTH
PAUL B. DAVIES , RICHARD QUICK STUART SILVER, PETE SINCLAIR DAVID COHEN. PETER HICKEY STEVE PUNT. MIKE COLEMAN
ALISON RENSHAW , JOHN MORRISH and others
Producer JENNIE CAMPBELL. Stereo (Re-broadcast tomorrow at 5.25pm)
followed by an interlude
CSE English
12.30 The Short Story Collection by MARGARET GOLLMAN (R) and at 12.50 Introducing 'Nineteen-Eighty-Four by GEORGE ORWELL adapted by DAVID SELF Presented by ADRIAN LOVE (R)