With ANNE SEMPLE Stereo
Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0.8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport With ANDY SMITH
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
7: South Devon -the red bit
An opportunity for listeners to express their views and question the experts.
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit Lines open from 8.0am
by Alison White
Read by Daphne Oxenford
'Her life was planned out with little pleasures to look forward to throughout the week, and it had been like that for over 40 years. Routine was Mrs Binton's divine faith.'
BBC Manchester
nem, p 21; Awake, our souls, away, our fears (BBC HB 300); Psalm 22 (Gelineau); I Peter 1, vv 10-21; Soldiers of Christ arise (BBC HB 366). Stereo
by Lakviar Singh
Roly listens to his son's troubles at school and is reminded of his own childhood in the late 60s and early 70s, and his attempted friendship with Ama, an Indian schoolboy - 'the first coloured boy to come to our school'.
BBC Birmingham. Stereo
Creswell Crags
Where did swallows nest before buildings were erected? In search of an answer Derek Jones , in the company of ornithologist Cliff Davies and senior ranger Rogan Jenkinson , visits Creswell Crags , a narrow limestone gorge pitted with caves in which the remains of woolly rhinos, mammoths, cave hyenas and man were deposited 70,000 years ago.
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
John Waite with the latest news and advice for consumers.
A special edition of the nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Brains.
Chairman Robert Robinson
Peter Bates Brain of Britain 1984 (local government officer)
Richard Fife Brain of Britain 1985 (political agent)
The winner of last week's Brain of Britain 1986 Final
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS. Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 6.30pm)
Presented by Nick Worrall
Bradley the Bear (2)
The Long, the Short and the Scraggy
Behind every beard is a chin trying to make a statement.
Dilly Barlow finds out why men grow beards and what they may be trying to hide!
Producer JILL BURRIDGE
Serial: On the Other Side (7)
A play in the style of a Hollywood comedy/thriller of the 30s by Sarah Maxwell
Private investigator Dick George and his lovely ex-wife, Dora, are called upon by heiress Ruth-Ann Rogers for protection from gangsters intent upon wresting her fortune from her.
(Stereo)
(Harry Towb is a National Theatre Player)
A six-part series in which
Professor Keith Ward argues that belief in God is once more emerging as an intellectual force to be reckoned with. 4: Morality for Grown-ups?
Isn't Christianity too repressive and authoritarian to appeal to a sophisticated society? BBC Wales (R) revised
Presented by Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton
continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55 pm
With PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
A series of fivebiographies Written and presented by Hugh Sykes
4: Dorothy Parker
Three be the things I shall have till I die
Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.
During the 1920s the poet, short-story writer and critic
Dorothy Parker was considered to be the wittiest woman in New York. Forty years later she died alone in squalor and poverty. Her work survives the best of the Algonquin Hotel group of humorists, her quips as evergreen as the literary review which began:
'This book cannot be put down. It should be hurled with great force across the room.' Researcher MIKE WOOLF
Producer GAYNOR SHUTTE (R)
Steve Race looks at the bizarre side of life. 4: Eccentrics All BBCBristol
The education magazine
Presented by Margaret Percy Parents, teachers, pupils, educational pundits - all are contributors in this current series dealing with topical and contentious issues from the world of education. Producer SIMON MAJOR
(Re-broadcast next Saturday in 'Options')
Dearest Auntie Maud....
Two views of colonial life - half a century apart both from the same person, Muriel Shepherd. In the 1930s she enjoyed the lively expatriate social life of Java, which she described in letters home to her aunt.
Now, more than 50 years later, she reflects on those days in conversation with Robert Prizeman.
INGRID CRAIGIE reads from the letters.
Compiled by JEAN GRAHAM Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap. Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Listeners can phone on [number removed]. Lines open from 8.30 to 10.0pm Monday-Friday. Free quarterly bulletin from: In Touch, [address removed] (Send four
81 x 12 saes for a year's supply)
(The first of four 'In Touch specials Friday 12 noon)
The last of ten short stories from different parts of the world Like I Bin Cryin ' Sometimes by ANDREW LANSDOWN Western Australia
Read by Charlotte Strevens A girl of mixed blood isn't wanted by either the white or the aboriginal community. Producer JANE DAUNCEY
BBC Wales (First broadcast on BBC World Service)
Christopher Cook presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music, and exhibitions.
Producer JOHN POWELL
An Ulster Childhood 2: A Night Walk
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
National and international news, background, analysis and comment
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
followed by an interlude
